Yim leads LPGA event; Webb remains in hunt

Karrie Webb followed her win in the first major of the year with a second straight 5-under 67 Friday, leaving the resurgent Australian star two strokes off the lead in the Florida's Natural Charity Championship.

Sung Ah Yim charged to the top with a 64 at Eagle's Landing Country Club south of Atlanta, pushing her 36-hole total to a 12-under 132. Two fellow South Koreans were right on her heels -- 20-year-old Jee Young Lee (65) was 11 under, and Hee-Won Han (64) was tied with Webb at 134.

Defending tournament champion Annika Sorenstam was right in the thick of things with a 69 that left her three strokes back. But she's unlikely to run away from the field as she did in 2005, when she coasted to a 10-stroke victory.

Webb, the only player other than Sorenstam to be ranked No. 1 in the world over the last 11 years, is coming off a thrilling victory in the Kraft Nabisco Championship. She holed out a wedge from 116 yards to get into a playoff, then beat Lorena Ochoa.

PGA Tour

Stuart Appleby took a one-stroke lead over Greg Owen in the suspended second round of the Shell Houston Open, finishing 16 bogey-free holes in 5 under to push his two-day total to 11 under in Humble, Texas.

Appleby, the first-round leader, started on the back nine and moved to 11 under with a birdie on No. 6. The Australian was one of 44 players who have to return to the course early today to finish the round.

A predawn storm dumped five-eighths of an inch of rain at The Tournament Course at Redstone, delaying the start of the second round 2 1/2 hours.

Owen teed off late in the afternoon and the Englishman birdied five of his last seven holes for a 65, the lowest score of the tournament.

South Africa's Trevor Immelman was 8 under after a 67.

Champions Tour

Jay Haas shot a 6-under 66 in windy conditions on The Club at Savannah Harbor to take the first-round lead in the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf in Savannah, Ga.

Haas, who missed the cut last weekend in the PGA Tour's Verizon Heritage, had a two-stroke lead over Mark McNulty, Tom Wargo, Jerry Pate and Gil Morgan.

-- From wire reports