Avondale, La.
Lovemark had a 27-hole day at hot and humid TPC Louisiana, completing a 5-under 67 in the first round and adding a 66 in the second in the event that fell behind schedule Thursday with a long rain delay.
Vegas, from Venezuela, shot 64-69.
“Long day,” Vegas said. “I played 30½ holes today. I knew it was going to be an extremely long day.”
None of the players in the afternoon wave finished the round, with top-ranked Jason Day at 5 under and facing a 15-foot birdie putt on the par-5 11th when play resumes. The Australian is the first No. 1 player to play in the event since David Duval in 1999.
Brian Stuard, the overnight leader after a 64 on Thursday, was a stroke behind the leaders at 10 under with six holes left.
Harold Varner III was 8 under after a 67. He and Tiger Woods are the only players of black heritage with PGA Tour status this season.
At Irving, Texas, Gerina Piller made herself right at home in the LPGA Tour’s Volunteers of America Texas Shootout, shooting a 6-under 65 to take the lead in the suspended second round.
The long-hitting U.S. Solheim Cup player lives in Plano, about 20 miles from Las Colinas Country Club. She birdied three of the final five holes in her bogey-free round to reach 10-under 132.
Play was suspended because of rain just after 4 p.m. and called for the day because of lighting a little after 6 p.m. None of the afternoon starters were unable to finish. The field will be cut to the low 70 and ties after the completion of the round this morning, then trimmed again to the low 50 and ties after the third round.
South Korea’s Eun-Hee Ji was a stroke back at 9 under after a 66.
First-round leader Mi Jung Hur was 8 under with six holes left. The South Korean player lives in the area in McKinney.
Boston
John Casey, president of the Grand Prix of Boston, told The Boston Globe on Friday that the relationship between promoters and the city isn’t working.
The race was scheduled for the Labor Day weekend in the city’s Seaport District. Organizers had hoped to construct a temporary street course around the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.
Mayor Martin Walsh and organizers signed an agreement last May calling for annual races for up to five years.
Opponents argued the race would have negative impacts to the environment and neighborhood safety.
Casey said organizers are hoping to hold the race in a backup city in the Northeast. He said promoters have had contact with two other cities, one of which is in New England.
Anchorage, Alaska
The Iditarod Trail Committee Board said in a prepared statement that it “will not accept race applications from Travis Beals in 2017 and for an indefinite period of time thereafter.”
Beals faces misdemeanor assault and criminal mischief charges filed in state court in Palmer for a Dec. 21 incident in Willow, Alaska, a small community about 50 miles north of Anchorage where the annual 1,000-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to Nome begins.
Beals, who owns a kennel and dog sled tourism business in Seward, Alaska, didn’t return messages or a text Friday to The Associated Press. Beals finished 18th in this year’s 1,000-mile Iditarod race across Alaska. In an email to the AP, Beals’ public defender, Windy Hannaman, declined to comment since the case is not yet resolved.