Lehman, Weibring share Tradition lead
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08/19/2010 - Sunriver, OR (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Tom Lehman birdied the 18th hole Thursday to join D.A. Weibring atop the leaderboard after the first round of the Tradition.
Lehman and Weibring posted five-under 67s to share a one-stroke lead over five players at the season's fourth major.
U.S. Ryder Cup captain Corey Pavin is one of those players that carded a 68 Thursday. He stands alongside Fulton Allem, 2008 champion Fred Funk, Bob Gilder and two-time champion Gil Morgan at the Crosswater Club at Sunriver Resort.
Lehman parred his first five holes before making birdie on the par-five sixth. After two more pars, he birdied the ninth to turn in minus-two.
The 2006 U.S. Ryder Cup captain caught fire on the back nine. He converted three straight birdie efforts from the 12th to join Weibring atop the leaderboard at minus-five.
Lehman, who was playing in the final group, stumbled to a bogey on the 16th to fall one back. He remained there thanks to a clutch par putt at No. 17. At the last, Lehman rolled in a 20-footer for birdie and a share of the lead.
"I drove the ball beautifully and rolled the ball well," Lehman said in a television interview after his round. "The course is here for the taking. The fairways are pretty soft, the greens are pretty soft, the speed is just about right and the weather is ideal."
Weibring was among the leaders most of the round. He birdied the third from about 15 feet out, then ran off three straight birdies from the fifth to grab a share of the lead at minus-four.
The five-time winner on the Champions Tour parred six consecutive holes from the eighth.
Weibring fell out of the lead when he faltered to a bogey on the 14th. He fought back late in his round. Weibring birdied the final two holes to be the first player in at five-under.
"I got off to a pretty good start. I had a couple pretty good chances at birdie early, but didn't get them in at one and two," Weibring said. "You don't normally plan on making birdie at 17 and 18. The momentum from shooting four-under on the front nine carried me into that back nine."
There is a logjam of 13 players tied for eighth place at three-under 69. Among that group is Mark Calcavecchia, Hale Irwin and Bernhard Langer, who has won the last two Champions Tour majors.
Langer played the front nine in even-par with two bogeys and a pair of birdies. On the back nine, he birdied the 10th, 15th, and 16th to finish two back.
The German is trying to join Gary Player as the only two men in Champions Tour history to win three straight major championships. Player did so in 1987-88 when he won the last two majors in '87 and the first one in '88.
If Irwin can rally for the win, he would join Jack Nicklaus as the only two men to win four different majors on the Champions Tour.
NOTES: Lehman owns the first-round lead for the first time in an individual event on the Champions Tour...He did lead the 2009 Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf after one round, and he went on to victory that week with Langer, his playing partner...Weibring shares the first-round lead for the fifth time in his Champions Tour career...He also shared the lead at this event in 2005 and finished fifth that week...Paul Azinger was disqualified before the event because he missed Tuesday's pro-am.
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The 2009 AP NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year odds have been released and Denver Broncos' running back Knowshon Moreno has been made the opening favorite.
Moreno was selected in the first round of April's NFL draft and is expected to carry the rushing load for the Broncos this season. And with Jay Cutler now in Chicago, Moreno might be expected to be Denver's entire offense.
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Freeman needs to beat out Byron Leftwich to become the starting quarterback of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers but if he does, he has a lot or raw talent and could use the weapons around him (i.e. Kellen Winslow Jr. and Antonio Bryant) to be very successful in his first season.
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2009 AP NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year Odds to Win
Ramses Barden (NYG) 40/1
Andre Brown (NYG) 20/1
Donald Brown (IND) 5/1
Kenny Britt (TEN) 20/1
Glenn Coffee (SFO) 30/1
Chase Coffman (CIN) 50/1
Michael Crabtree (SFO) 5/1
Josh Freeman (TB) 14/1
Shonn Green (NYJ) 14/1
Percy Harvin (MIN) 10/1
Darrius Heyward-Bay (OAK) 18/1
Juaquan Iglesias (CHI) 30/1
Cornelius Ingram (PHI) 50/1
Rashad Jennings (JAC) 30/1
Johnny Knox (CHI) 40/1
Jeremy Maclin (PHI) 18/1
Mohamed Massaquoi (CLE) 30/1
LeSean McCoy (PHI) 12/1
Knowshon Moreno (DEN) 5/2
Hakeem Nicks (NYG) 18/1
Brandon Pettigrew (DET) 30/1
Brian Robiskie (CLE) 20/1
Mark Sanchez (NYJ) 7/1
Matthew Stafford (DET) 8/1
Jason Smith (STL) 40/1
Mike Thomas (JAC) 25/1
Patrick Turner (MIA) 50/1
Mike Wallace (PIT) 50/1
Chris Wells (ARI) 7/2
Pat White (MIA) 30/1
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