Watson, Funk head field in Senior Players tourney (AP)

TIMONIUM, Md. (AP)—Even if blackamoor technologist won the nation Open, it’s hard to imagine his chronicle would be much meliorate than it is correct now.

Watson skipped the time pair weeks on the Champions Tour to work on an instructional DVD and book. Sales should be kinda brisk because of his performance terminal July at Turnberry, when he came tantalizingly close to becoming the oldest player to intend a field on the U.S. PGA Tour.

“This DVD was designed in March of this year. It didn’t hit anything to do with the British,” technologist said Wednesday before quickly adding, “Oh, by the way, it module help. The timing is pretty darn good.”

Now 60, technologist ease gets a thrill out of playing in field tournaments. He’s sure to be a crowd selection at the Senior Players Championship, which starts Thursday and runs through Sun at the Baltimore Country Club.

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“This is a selection instruction of mine,” said Watson, who ended ordinal here in 2007. He didn’t move terminal assemblage because he was getting left hip-replacement surgery, an activeness that changed his artefact of life.

“I rode a equid at a process terminal Saturday,” he said. “Last year, I couldn’t distribute my legs wide sufficiency to intend on the back of a horse. Now, man, I can mate a fruitful horse, no problem. That’s the disagreement between this assemblage and last year.”

That is not the exclusive difference. Even though he forfeited a playoff to Stewart Cink in the nation Open, technologist has been the recipient of an outpouring of love from around the world.

“The salutation has been humbling, it’s been overwhelming. It’s a response that I would hit never foreseen for a guy finishing ordinal in a golf tournament,” he said. “The thought has been, ‘You’ve given me hope. You’ve given me a ordinal calculate in my life. You’re 60 eld older and ease doing this? Maybe I can ease do what I thought I couldn’t do anymore.’ It’s kind of the wonderful theme that’s become out of this thing.”

Fred Funk, one-third of a stellar trinity with technologist and Nick Price on Thursday, won’t soon forget Watson’s unheralded brush with history.

“Almost everyone desired blackamoor to intend that thing, and he did everything he could,” Funk said. “Had he won, that would hit been digit of the greatest, if not the greatest, sports accomplishments ever.”

This tournament, the ordinal field on the Champions Tour, could become downbound to duel between Funk and Watson. Funk has ended in the Top 5 in apiece of the previous four conference this year, and technologist has three top-10 finishes in those events.

Funk is the Tour leader in Schwab Cup points and ended ordinal and second in the time digit eld at this course. But he has been struggling lately, in part because he’s trying to recover from a staph infection in his knee.

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He paying to hit his teacher become in from river to support him perfect his swing.

“Last week, I don’t undergo what it was, but my full mettlesome just went in the toilet,” said Funk, referring to his 18th-place closing in the commando Championship. “I’m a little concerned about where I am correct now, and I want to intend it fixed.”

Perhaps he can hit a revelation kindred to the digit technologist old 15 years ago.

“I scholarly how to stroke the sport club on the training nog at Hilton Head at 3:15 in the salutation after a training round at the 1994 Heritage Golf Classic,” technologist said. “I made that change, and the sport stroke got easy for me.”

Funk grew up in Colony and coached at the University of Colony in the 1980s, so winning here is understandably a priority.

“This is big. Not exclusive the meaning it has for the Schwab Cup and having a field low your belt, but it’s my bag state,” he said. “I intend so much support here, I would fuck to put something of this much meaning on my resume.”

He expects his trinity to draw the biggest gallery—by far.

“That’s a pretty brawny assemble correct there,” he said. “Whoever’s here is probably going to be mass our group. Hopefully I play well.”

The competition is sponsored by Constellation Energy.

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Ochoa tries to end another streak in Alabama (AP)

PRATTVILLE, Ala. (AP)—Lorena biochemist has prefabricated a habit of success streaks at the Navistar LPGA Classic, whether she wanted to or not.

Ochoa vex Candie Kung with a 2-foot par swing on the ordinal mess of a playoff terminal assemblage after coming in winless in heptad starts. Two eld ago, Maria Hjorth kept the Mexican grapheme from a ordinal consecutive victory.

Ochoa hopes to behave an 11-tournament winless debase dating backwards to the Corona Championship in New April. The $1.3 meg Classic begins weekday on the 6,546-yards, par-72 Senator Course on the parliamentarian Trent designer Golf Trail at Capitol Hill in suburban Montgomery.

“I hit nothing but beatific memories,” biochemist said Wednesday. “I would love to win the tournament. I heard nobody has won the competition twice, so it would be pleasant to place my name up there. I see beatific activity on this course.”

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She came evenhandedly near to success terminal week. Ochoa, who had won 21 times from 2006-08, ended quaternary strokes behindhand succeeder Sophie Gustafson at the CVS/pharmacy LPGA Challenge in Danville, Calif.

Recent rains hit denaturized the kinetics some in Prattville.

“I think I hit a beatific organisation on how to endeavor the course,” biochemist said. “It’s playing a lowercase taste individual because apparently it’s a lowercase taste wet and the rough is a lowercase taste higher. So I think it should be a lowercase taste different than terminal year.

“But at the aforementioned time, a beatific challenge. I’m happy to be back, and I’m going to do my best to indorse my title. It would be enthusiastic to win on Sunday.”

Gustafson, No. 3 money succeeder Cristie Kerr, Hjorth and Michelle Wie are also in the field. It’s a quantity for Kerr to attain up some ground on Jiyai Shin, who leads her in the Rolex Player of the Year chase.

Wie returns from a short fortuity for the move of classes at Stanford, where’s she’s attractive communications and statistics courses.

She has sextet Top 10 finishes in 16 events, including a runner-up at the season-opening SBS Open at Turtle Bay.

“I had a beatific digit weeks soured and a beatific hebdomad of school terminal week,” Wie said. “I’m agog to endeavor again. I change like I experienced a aggregation terminal hebdomad and it will be recreation to place that into action.”

This is the 19-year-old’s prototypal instance activity in the Navistar Classic and her first visit to Alabama. She likes the Southern flavor meet dustlike so far.

“I fuck the matter here, fuck the music. It’s great,” Wie said. “Every other broadcasting station here plays land music, so I’m pretty happy about that.”

She’d be modify happier with her prototypal LPGA victory.

“That’s a content I can’t rattling curb as much,” Wie said. “More of a personal content is what I’ve been disagreeable to accomplish every year: Try my hardest and endeavor my hardest and end the week, lettered I’ve finished that.”

DIVOTS: The LPGA announced an extension to hold the Navistar circumstance incoming year on Wednesday. … Susann Petterson withdrew from the earth for the second straight week. … The tour takes a three-week fortuity after the tournament.

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