GOLF ROUNDUP : Funk Leads in Houston After Course-Record 62

Fred Funk, winless in four years on the PGA Tour, shot a course-record 10-under-par 62 Saturday for a one-shot lead over defending champion Fulton Allem in the third round of the Shell Houston Open at The Woodlands.

Funk’s 202 total is 14 under par. His round, which included six consecutive birdies, broke the record of 63 on the Tournament Players Course set in 1986 by Mike Sullivan.

Funk’s birdie streak tied a season high for the PGA Tour held by three players and most recently accomplished by Mark Calcavecchia at the Masters. Ed Fiori at the Phoenix Open and Gil Morgan at the Bob Hope Classic also made six in a row this year.

Funk started seven strokes off the 36-hole lead of Greg Twiggs, but he had four birdies on the front side and then really got hot beginning on the par-four 11th hole.

Funk hit a wedge to five feet and sank the putt to start the birdie run. He chipped in from 25 feet on No. 12 and made birdie putts of 20, 20, 12 and 25 feet on the next four holes.

Allem, who started the day four shots off the pace, shot a 66 for a 203.

Fred Couples and Davis Love III, the two hottest players on the tour, didn’t make a move. Couples shot a 71 and is 12 strokes back at 214. Love shot a 76 that left him at 217.

Orville Moody shot a six-under-par 66 to move into a first-place tie with Lee Trevino after two rounds of the $450,000 Seniors tournament at Las Vegas.

Trevino shot a 68 on the Desert Inn and Country Club course to share the lead with Moody at five-under 139.

Homero Blancas (71), Dale Douglass (71) and Larry Laoretti (73) are two strokes back.

Sweden’s Liselotte Neumann shot a five-under 67 and took a one-stroke lead over three other players at Tallahassee, Fla., heading into the final round of the $1.2-million Centel Classic, the richest tournament on the LPGA tour.

Neumann didn’t move into the lead until the final shot of the day, when Michelle Estill missed a two-foot putt.

Neumann is at 11-under 205 in the chase for the $180,000 winner’s purse.

Estill had led most of the day by at least two strokes, but bogeyed three of the final five holes.

Sandy Lyle of Scotland fired a seven-under-par 65 and broke out of a five-way tie for the lead in the Italian Open to take sole possession of first place with a 202 total at Monticello, Italy.

Mark O’Meara and Scotland’s Colin Montgomerie, who were part of the first-place logjam, fell to third with 205 totals. Each shot 68.