McCord, Canizares Share Lead

Gary McCord is going to skip work to play golf. And he’s not going to get in trouble.

McCord, better known as a TV golf analyst than an occasional player on the Champions Tour, grabbed a share of the lead at the Senior Players Championship at Dearborn, Mich., on Friday with an eight-under-par 64, giving him a 10-under 134 after two rounds.

After finishing, he was caught by Jose Maria Canizares, whose 66 also put him at 10 under at one of the senior tour’s five majors.

McCord does not play regularly because of his job at CBS, which will broadcast the final two rounds. McCord will be a player-analyst, at least today, when he’s in the final group.

“I’ll just do interviews on the golf course, or something,” he said. “I don’t know what we’ll do. We’ll figure it out.”

First-round leader Gil Morgan followed up his 65 with a two-under 70 and was at nine under, tied for second place with Dana Quigley and Mark James.

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Jose Coceres waited out a lengthy rain delay and played into fading daylight while taking a one-shot lead before play was suspended in the second round of the John Deere Classic at Silvis, Ill.

The 40-year-old Argentine was two under through 11 holes for the round and 11 under overall when play was halted because of lightning. About half of the field was to return and finish this morning before the start of the third round.

Vaughn Taylor (69) was one off the lead at 132. Vijay Singh shot a 67 to move to six-under 136.

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Meg Mallon was resilient -- overcoming a shot that struck a tree branch and led to one of her two bogeys -- in a two-under 70 that kept her in the lead after the second round of the Canadian Women’s Open at Niagara Falls.

Mallon was at nine-under 135, a stroke ahead of Lorena Ochoa, who had a second-round 67.

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Gregory Havret made an eagle and three birdies over the final six holes for a seven-under 64, giving the 27-year-old Frenchman a one-shot lead at the Scottish Open at Luss.

Masters champion Phil Mickelson shot an even-par 71 to finish at one-over 143 and miss the cut.

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Fred Couples withdrew from next week’s British Open because of a back injury, becoming the fifth U.S. player in the last week to pull out of golf’s oldest championship.

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Angela Park of Torrance shot a record-breaking final round of 64 at the Rolex Tournament of Champions, but it wasn’t enough to catch Morgan Pressel of Boca Raton, Fla, who won her sixth American Junior Golf Assn. title by three strokes at Sunriver, Ore. Jamie Lovemark of Rancho Santa Fe shot a final-round 69 to finish at 276 to win the boys’ division.