Beckman, Adams lead PGA; 16-year-old makes cut

Cameron Beckman arrived at the Byron Nelson Championship yesterday in jeopardy of missing the cut. He left in first place.

Beckman tied the TPC Four Seasons course record - and set a personal best - with a 61 in the second round in the PGA Tour event in Irving, Texas.

He's at 10-under 130, tied for the lead with rookie Blake Adams. First round co-leader Jason Day is alone at 131.

Adams, a 34-year-old rookie who spent the last 3 years on the Nationwide Tour, was part of a cluster at the top after the first round, piled up six birdies on his way to a 64.

The rest of the leaderboard includes 16-year-old Jordan Spieth, a local high school junior who became the sixth-youngest player ever to make the cut at a PGA event. He's at 3-under.

Spieth is the reigning U.S. Junior Amateur Champion and just last weekend won a state high school title.

"I feel like I played better than my score showed today," said Spieth, who already has accepted a sponsor's invitation to play the PGA event in Memphis, June 10-13.

Steve Elkington, 47, who got in when someone else withdrew Sunday, has shot consecutive 66s and is two strokes off the lead.

In other tournaments:

* Michelle Wie easily advanced to the round of 16 in the Sybase Match Play Championship in Gladstone, N.J., beating Hee Young Park, 5 and 4. Others advancing included Kraft Nabisco winner Yani Tseng, Karine Icher, Jiyai Shin and Morgan Pressel.

* Luke Donald shot a second straight 3-under 68 to take a one-shot lead after the second round of the BMW PGA Championship in Wentworth, England, the biggest PGA event in Europe. Ross Fisher, Danny Willett and James Kingston were a shot back.

* High school sophomore Grayson Murray, 16, made it to the weekend at the Rex Hospital Open in Raleigh N.C., with a 3-under 139, becoming the second-youngest player to make the cut at a Nationwide Tour event. John Riegger leads with a 12-under 130.

* Purdue held off Southern California to win its first NCAA women's team championship by one stroke, while Caroline Hedwall, of Oklahoma State, shot a 68 to win the individual title by four shots in Wilmington, N.C. *