Scott's 67 gives him lead by one stroke in Nelson

April 26, 2008

Adam Scott returned to Australia after the Masters. It was a short visit.

"I felt like I was still playing good, and I shouldn't waste that at home," he said.

So instead of staying home for a second week, Scott was a deadline entrant into the EDS Byron Nelson Championship in Irving, Texas, where yesterday he shot a second-round 67 to take the lead at 5-under-par 135.

That was good for a one-stroke lead over fellow Aussies Mark Hensby (67) and Mathew Goggin (69), and Scott McCarron (66), who missed all of last season recovering from right elbow surgery.

Scott began his round with four straight birdies. Though he managed only one more to go with two bogeys, that was enough to give the only one of the world's top 10 players at the Nelson sole possession of the lead.

The fairways at the redesigned TPC Four Seasons course firmed up, but wind still gusting more than 25 mph made scoring conditions tough again. The cut of 3-over 143 was the highest at the Nelson since 2000.

Trevor Immelman followed his opening 78 with a 75 to become the first Masters champion since Jose Maria Olazabal in 1994 to miss the cut his next tournament.

• LPGA Stanford International Pro-Am // Annika Sorenstam shot a 4-under 67 on the Soffer course in Aventura, Fla., drawing her within one shot of Young Kim at the midway point of the inaugural event at Turnberry Isle. Kim also shot a 67, matching her first-round score on Turnberry's Miller track.

• Champions Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf // Tom Watson and Andy North teamed to birdie the first seven holes en route to a better-ball 13-under 59 for a three-shot lead after the first round in Savannah, Ga.

Off the course

• Woods // Tiger Woods is no longer on crutches since surgery last week on his left knee, but he said in his monthly newsletter that he does not know when he will return. Woods had arthroscopic surgery April 15, two days after he finished second in the Masters.

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