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Posted on: Friday, October 2, 2009

Wie two shots back in Navistar


Associated Press

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Michelle Wie fired an opening 6-under 66 in the Navistar LPGA Classic.

JAMIE MARTIN | Associated Press

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PRATTVILLE, Ala. — Scotland's Janice Moodie shot a bogey-free 8-under-par 64 yesterday to take a one-stroke lead over 14-year-old Alexis Thompson in the Navistar LPGA Classic, with Michelle Wie and top-ranked Lorena Ochoa two strokes back.

Moodie, a two-time winner on the LPGA Tour, played her final nine holes — the front nine on The Senator course at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail's Capitol Hill complex, in 6-under 30. She birdied her final four holes and six of her last seven.

"All of a sudden I'm hitting driver, wedge, wedge, wedge," Moodie said. "I thought, you know, I better capitalize on this one, and I did."

Thompson had eight birdies and a bogey.

"Everything was working for me," said Thompson, a ninth-grader from Coral Springs, Fla. "My ball striking was good."

Wie eagled the par-5 fifth — hitting a 3-wood to 6 feet — and had five birdies and a bogey on the links-style course.

"It's a fun golf course. It's interesting," said Wie, a Punahou School alum and Stanford student. "It's really nothing like we played all year. You have to put it in the fairway and get on the greens and make the putt."