GOLF

Molder birdies his way to one-stroke lead at Texas

Bryce Molder birdied six of his last nine holes for a 6-under 64 and a one-stroke lead Thursday after the first round of the Dean & Deluca Invitational at Colonial in Fort Worth, Texas.

Molder was in the first group of the day off the 10th tee, and was on the 16th green when play was stopped for 1:15 because of rain and lightning. He completed his seventh of nine consecutive pars when play resumed, then had all of those birdies on the front nine.

Patrick Reed, Anirban Lahiri and Webb Simpson shot 65.

Colonial member Ryan Palmer was among four players tied for fifth at 66. Jordan Spieth, the world’s No. 2 ranked player, had a 67 even after missing the first six fairways.

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EUROPEAN TOUR: Masters champion Danny Willett, the only member of the world’s top 20 competing in the tournament, got off to another fast start on the European Tour, shooting a 6-under 66 to land a stroke behind a trio of leaders after the first round of the BMW PGA Championship at Virginia Water, England.

CHAMPIONSHIP TOUR: Rocco Mediate played the first 13 holes in 9 under and closed with five pars for a 62 to match the Senior PGA Championship and Harbor Shore records at Benton Harbor, Michigan.

LPGA: Christina Kim took advantage of favorable conditions at Ann Arbor, Michigan, shooting an 8-under 64 to top the leaderboard in the inaugural Volvik Championship.

Second-ranked Inbee Park’s lingering thumb injury led her to withdraw from the tournament.

U.S. AMATEURS: Hailee Cooper, 16, and Kaitlyn Papp, 17, won the U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship at Streamsong Resort, outlasting 13-year-olds Angelina Kim and Brianna Navarrosa with a par on the first extra hole at Bowling Green, Florida.

FOOTBALL

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NFL: The Baltimore Ravens have forfeited one week of offseason practices for violating the labor agreement on such workouts.

The NFL also fined Coach John Harbaugh $137,000, while the team was fined $343,000 under current collective bargaining agreement guidelines.

When the Ravens had rookies and first-year players don pads at a minicamp, it was a violation of the CBA rules.

Commissioner Roger Goodell reaffirmed the league’s commitment to concussion research in a letter to the 32 team owners.

In the wake of a congressional study that concluded that NFL officials tried to strong-arm the National Institutes of Health into taking away a project from a researcher the NFL feared was biased, Goodell called for “continued and robust support of independent medical research.”

SOCCER

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U.S. WOMEN: A federal judge heard arguments on whether the world champion U.S. women’s soccer team has the right to strike for improved conditions and wages before this year’s Summer Olympics in Brazil, with her pending decision potentially carrying far-reaching consequences for American soccer.

ENGLAND: Manchester United is not commenting on a report that Jose Mourinho has signed a contract to become the club’s new manager.

British broadcaster Sky Sports said that Mourinho has been appointed by United. The club hasn’t announced the deal.

Louis van Gaal was fired as United manager on Monday.

TENNIS

OLYMPICS: Russia has included Maria Sharapova on its preliminary team for the Olympic tennis tournament in August despite her provisional suspension for failing a drug test.

CYCLING

GIRO D’ITALIA: Matteo Trentin used a late counterattack and some crafty teamwork to win the longest stage at Pinerola, Italy, while Steven Kruijswijk held on to a comfortable overall lead with only two challenging legs to go.


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