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Mel Reid isn’t your typical LPGA rookie. The 29-year-old Englishwoman is a six-time Ladies European Tour winner who showed American audiences what a special player she can be on a big stage before she joined the LPGA this year. That’s what has frustrated her making the transition to the United States, until Friday’s breakout round at the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship. Through a sluggish start to her American tour debut this season, Reid has been eager to make a run into contention and build some momentum to make her third European Solheim Cup team. The Americans will meet the Euros again in Des Moines, Iowa, Aug. 18-20. With a 6-under-par 65 Friday, Reid move into contention at Pinnacle Country

Associated Press Golf now has a modern set of rules for the Royal & Ancient game, an extensive overhaul that took six years and is aimed at making the rules easier to understand. The R&A and USGA announced the final version of modernized rules Monday. They take effect Jan. 1. “This was out of recognition that, in trying to make the rules more fair, they became too complicated,” said Thomas Pagel, the USGA’s senior director of rules and amateur status. “With 30-plus years of tinkering, they got complicated, and that wasn’t good for the game.” Among the changes will be how to take penalty drops — from knee-high starting next year, instead of from shoulder height. There no longer will be penalties

Tiger Woods enters the day well off the lead, but he’ll try to make a move on Day 3 of the Wells Fargo Championship.