Streeter Lecka(Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)Sorry, Bernhard Langer. There's a new ageless wonder in the game.
Davis Love III turned in a bogey-free 64 during the first-round of the Wyndham Championship, one of the best performances from the morning wave. Love, who turned 53 in April, hit every green in regulation and averaged 300 yards off the tee to sit three strokes behind Matt Every.
“I've been playing a lot,” Love said. “Played six out of seven weeks and other than that big long golf course in Charlotte, I felt pretty good about my game.”
Perhaps it's not too surprising that Love posted such a sterling effort. Two years ago, Love won the event at Sedgefield CC, becoming the third-oldest player to win a PGA Tour event, and oldest in the Champions Tour era.
“When I go to Hilton Head or The Players, Ponte Vedra or come here I get good feelings about it,” Love said. “Tend to play well at the same places over and over again. I like old, solid golf courses. This re..

FacebookPinterestChris KeaneKristoffer Ventura is shown here in the first round of match play of the U.S. Amateur on Wednesday. Ventura on Thursday defeated medalist Hayden Wood. (Copyright USGA/Chris Keane)

Medalist Hayden Wood of Edmond, Okla., made enough birdies, but too many bogeys and was eliminated in the round of 32 at the U.S. Amateur on Thursday morning.
Wood, son of former PGA Tour player Willie Wood, was defeated by his Oklahoma State teammate, Kristoffer Ventura of Norway, 3 & 2, at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades.
Ventura, 22, went out to a 3-up lead through seven holes, winning two holes on Wood bogeys. He maintained a lead of at least 2 up through the rest of the match and closed out Wood with his fourth two of the day, at the par-3 16th hole.
Wood made seven birdies and had six threes and two twos on his card, but both of his twos were matched by Ventura, who also won the par-4 10th hole with an eagle two.
Ventura will meet Connor Syme of Scotland in the rou..