Woods shrugs off shaky start to lead in Japan

The LPGA Tour pushed back the resumption of its schedule until the middle of June and found slots for three tournaments that have been postponed. Commissioner Mike Whan keeps looking at the calendar at a dwindling number of dates and trying to figure out how it will fall into place, missing one key piece of information brought on by the spread of the new coronavirus. “Not knowing when our restart button gets pushed,� Whan said Friday.

Justin Thomas was off to a strong start at the Open Championship, but it didn’t take long for his game to desert him on a waterlogged Friday afternoon. After opening with a 67, Thomas sat just two strokes adrift of the 18-hole lead. With rain pouring down on Royal Birkdale, he had to have been expecting a bit of regression during the second round, but nothing could have prepared him for what was coming.