Loren Roberts News

Loren Roberts wasted little time working his way to the top the leaderboard in his first Champions Tour start in a month, shooting a 5-under 67 on Friday for a share of the first-round lead in the SAS Championship. Roberts, the tour leader with four victories and US$1,945,764 in earnings, had five birdies in his bogey-free round. Mitch Adcock also opened with a 67, and Tom Jenkins had a 68 on the Prestonwood Country Club course. An inch ...

ALOHA, Ore. (AP) _ Bobby Wadkins has been easier on himself this year. As a result, he's been playing better, not kicking himself as much, and, well, smiling more. ``Now you see why Tiger and those guys are always smiling,'' he said. ``It's easy to smile when you're playing well.'' Wadkins, Wayne Levi and defending champion Loren Roberts each had 67s for a one-stroke lead after the first round of ...

TURNBERRY, Scotland (AP) _ Loren Roberts, who won three tournaments to open the Champions Tour season, shot a 5-under 65 on Thursday for a share of the lead in the Senior British Open. He had the only bogey-free round of the day at Turnberry and shares the lead with Peter Jacobsen and Craig Stadler. ``I got off to a really good start to the year and ...

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) _ The pain in his hip reminded Tom Watson why they call this tournament the U.S. Senior Open. But a second straight 66 gave him a three-stroke lead over record-breaking Loren Roberts going into the final round of an event he would love to win for the thousands of fans who've been cheering him on all week. ``I've got family and friends, acquaintances from all over the ...

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) _ Loren Roberts shot an 8-under-par 62 in the third round of the U.S. Senior Open on Saturday, breaking the record for the lowest 18-hole score in a USGA championship. The 51-year-old Roberts had eight birdies and no bogeys on the narrow Prairie Dunes layout, which is playing at 6,646 yards and features rough that in some places is five ...

LUTZ, Fla. (AP) _ Loren Roberts opened his bid for a record fourth straight Champions Tour victory with a 2-under 69 on Friday in the Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am, leaving him four strokes behind leaders Mark McNulty and Bruce Lietzke. Roberts, attempting to match Chi Chi Rodriguez's 1987 tour record of four straight victories, won The ACE Group Classic last week in ...

NAPLES, Fla. (AP) _ Loren Roberts survived a battle on the final hole Sunday to win The ACE Group Classic, becoming the first golfer to open a Champions Tour season with three wins. Roberts parred the last 12 holes, and 60-year-old Hale Irwin put his approach shot in the water on the closing hole at The Club at TwinEagles. Playing ...

NAPLES, Fla. (AP) _ Loren Roberts will go for three in a row starting Friday at The ACE Group Classic. Roberts won the first two events on the Champions Tour in Hawaii, joining Don January and Larry Nelson in accomplishing the feat. No one has won three consecutive events to open a season. Roberts still can't believe that he won two ...

By Jaymes Song KAHUKU, Hawaii (AP) _ Loren Roberts completed a two-week Hawaiian sweep Sunday, holing a nine-foot eagle putt on the final hole for an even-par 72 and a two-stroke victory over Scott Simpson in the Turtle Bay Championship. The 50-year-old Roberts, the first Champions Tour player to win his first two starts of a season since Larry Nelson in 2001, finished his wire-to-wire win with a 12-under 204 ...

KAUPULEHU, Hawaii (AP) _ Loren Roberts made a 20-foot birdie putt on the final hole for a course-record 11-under-par 61 and a one-stroke victory over Don Pooley on Sunday in the Champions Tour's season-opening MasterCard Championship. Roberts, 50, had a 25-under-par, 191 total on the Hualalai course to shatter the Champions Tour record for relation to par in a 54-hole event and also finished with 26 birdies to break another ...