The Woodlands, TX (Sports Network) - Tom Lehman, despite a bogey at the last,
fired a seven-under 65 on Friday to take the first-round lead of the Insperity
Championship.
Lehman, a five-time winner on the Champions Tour, and the 1996 British Open
champion, owns a one-stroke lead over Tom Jenkins and Fred Funk at The
Woodlands Country Club.
Bernhard Langer, John Cook, David Peoples, reigning U.S. Senior Open champion
Olin Browne, John Huston, David Eger, Loren Roberts, Rod Spittle and Brad
Bryant are knotted in fourth place at four-under 68.
Michael Allen, who has won the last two events on the Champions Tour schedule
and is the circuit's leading money winner, carded a three-under 69 on Friday
to share 13th.
Defending champion Brad Faxon, who won last year's weather-shortened event,
opened with a two-under 70.
MORE TO FOLLOW.
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