Posted at 12:59 p.m., Thursday, August 17, 2006
Wilson shoots 74 in PGA Championship
Advertiser Staff
Former Kaneohe resident Dean Wilson shot a 2-over-par 74 Thursday in the opening round of the PGA Championship, the last of the four major PGA tournaments this year.Wilson had one birdie and three bogeys over the 7,561-yard Medinah Country Club in Medinah, Ill.
Wilson, 36, a Castle High School alum coming off his first PGA Tour victory last week at The International, birdied the par-5 14th. He bogeyed the par-5 fifth and 10th holes and the par-4 16th hole.
Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, golf's No. 1 and No. 2 players, each shot 3-under 69s.
U.S. Open winner Geoff Ogilvy, who was paired with Woods and Mickelson, also shot 69.
The three represent this year's major tournament winners with Mickelson, the Masters champion; Ogilvy, the U.S. Open winner, and Woods, the British Open champion.
Lucas Glover and Chris Riley both shot 6-under 66s and share the lead among players who have finished the first round.
