Sherri Steinhauer shot a 6-under 66 on Friday to top the LPGA State Farm Classic leaderboard for the second straight day, while defending champion Annika Sorenstam had a 65 to pull within three strokes. Steinhauer, who earned a spot on her fourth U.S. Solheim Cup team this year, had seven birdies and just one bogey Friday to get to 11-under 133 at the halfway point of the four-day tournament at Panther Creek Country Club. Christina Kim was two strokes back after a 66.

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Gay Brewer, the 1967 Masters champion who won 11 times on the PGA Tour, died Friday at his home after a fight with lung cancer. He was 75. Brewer, who retired from the Champions Tour in 2000, had been battling cancer since October, fiancee Alma Jo McGuire said. "It was incurable," she said. "It was easier on him and the family that it didn't go any longer than it did." Brewer won the 1967 Masters for his lone major title a year after he lost an 18-hole playoff to Jack Nicklaus.

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While Tiger struggled, Camilo Villegas shined in the Deutsche Bank 1st round, firing an 8-under 63 to take a 2-shot lead.

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Thomas Levet birdied the last hole for a 5-under-par 68 to tie Simon Wakefield for the second-round lead in the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles Thursday. Wakefield battled through a blustery wind in the morning to shoot a 69. On 9-under totals of 137, they were one stroke ahead of first-round leader Marc Warren, who shot a level-par 73 despite birdies on the first two holes.

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The PGA Tour is nearing completion on a comprehensive drug policy, and commissioner Tim Finchem said Thursday that testing could start as early as next year.

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Marc Warren made eight birdies for an 8-under 65 Thursday to take the lead in the first round of the Johnnie Walker Championship. Last year's European Tour rookie of the year leads Nicolas Colsaerts by a stroke on the 7,320-yard Centenary Course at Gleneagles. The Belgian tied for second two years ago but lost his playing card last year. Colin Montgomerie opened with a 4-under 69, and defending champion Paul Casey shot a 71, two better than Darren Clarke (73).

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Nobody better rip Tiger for skipping the playoff opener. Tom LaMarre says they should know better by now.

The FedEx Cup is nowhere near as important as the majors, but after one tourney, it appears to be a good system.

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Ernie Els withdrew from the Deutsche Bank Championship on Tuesday for family reasons. The fourth-ranked South African is returning to his home near London where his children will be preparing for their return to school, Els said in a statement released by his management company, ISM. Els plans to return next week for the third event of the FedEx Cup in Illinois and will remain in the United States for the PGA Tour Championship in Atlanta the following week.