GOLF : Non-Winner Standly Shoots 66 to Take Lead by One at Kapalua

Mike Standly, who has not won a tournament in his first two years on the PGA Tour, moved into the lead Friday at the halfway point of the Kapalua International after a second-round 66 in Hawaii.

Standly’s two-day total of nine-under-par 135 left him one shot ahead of Steve Pate, Davis Love III and defending champion Mike Hulbert.

The Kapalua International is sanctioned by the PGA Tour but is not an official tour event. Prize money (a winner’s purse of $115,000) does not count as official earnings.

“I approach all of them the same way,” Standly said. “You’ve got to have fun in all of the tournaments and play good.”

Gibby Gilbert and Larry Laoretti shot a five-under-par 67 as the United States won three of four matches from a Japanese team on the opening day of the Du Pont Cup matches for seniors at Kitaura, Japan.

George Archer and Dale Douglass defeated Seiichi Kanai and Hisashi Suzumura, 68-71, and Mike Hill and Miller Barber defeated Shigeru Uchida and Hiroshi Ishii, 69-71. Japan’s Ryosuke Ohta and Ichiro Teramoto defeated Jim Colbert and Lee Trevino, 66-71.