KAPOLEI — Colleen Walker and Rosie Jones put an exclamation point on Hawai 'i's introduction to Legends Tour golf yesterday.

Walker drained a 22-foot birdie putt on the final hole —before one of the few galleries at Kapolei Golf Course — to take the lead away from Jones for the first time all day.

Walker's 6-under 66 is a shot better than Jones going into today's final round. No one else broke 70.

Barb Mucha and Kathryn Young-Robyn, who got in as first alternate, are four shots back. Hall of Famer Pat Bradley, 58, shares fifth with Nancy Scranton at 71.

Former Rainbow Wahine Cindy Rarick played the back nine in 2-under to finish at even-par 72, hitting her approach to kick-in range on two of the last four holes. She didn't know as late as Friday if she could play, after injuring her left arm lifting and labeling 300 cases of wine at a friend's winery.

Rarick is tied for seventh with, among others, Kris Tschetter, making her Legends debut.

That Walker, 53, and Jones, 49, can still go so low is not a surprise. They had 22 LPGA wins between them before heading into the twilight of the 45-older tour.

The fact that they could accomplish it after the morning's dead, clammy calm was replaced by gusty south winds was eye-opening. Walker had only played here once before, when the Hawaiian Ladies Open moved to Kapolei in 1996. She shot 80-77 and missed the cut.

Jones dropped birdie putts on Nos. 2-3-4 to seize the advantage early and played the front in 32. She got to 6-under on the 15th hole, but her only bad swing of the day, off the tee on the par-3 16th, led to bogey.

Walker caught her with a long birdie putt on that same hole and passed her by putting it in the heart again on the final hole.

"It's fun to get back into the hunt, fun to get the opportunity," said Walker, who has nine Top 10's including a win in 15 Legends starts. "You relish that. You relish the competition."

She has had other priorities the past 13 years with son Tyler. Walker has watched lots of baseball the past few years. This summer, at 13, he spontaneously switched to golf.

"So I've watched a lot of golf," Walker said. "That's been fun because he's made me practice. I've played a lot more because of that."

The last time Jones played in Hawai 'i was the SBS Open at Turtle Bay in 2005. She was in Michelle Wie's group the final day. Wie, then 15, fired a 70 and finished second behind Jennifer Rosales. Jones had a 75 for seventh.

Maybe not coincidentally, that was Jones' last year on the LPGA. She has two wins in six Legends starts and is immersed in an atmosphere that fits her outgoing personality.

"We love the opportunity to play, to stay competitive," Jones said. "It's really unfortunate than when we reach a certain age that we don't feel like we can still play on the regular tour, that our body can withstand that sort of stress anymore. But we still have that desire to be competitive and the Legends Tour gives us that opportunity."

In its 10th season, the tour has more than 100 members with more than 600 LPGA wins. It includes nine World Golf and LPGA Hall of Famers; three — Bradley, Amy Alcott and Sandra Haynie — are here.

Players use carts, with caddies running to keep up, and finish in less than 4 hours.

The $350,000 tournament, which has a 35-player field, tees off at 9 a.m. today. Walker and Jones go out last at 11:16 a.m. The winner gets $50,000. Admission is free.