GAINESVILLE, Va. – Tiger Woods showed a rare flash of anger on a mostly stress-free day when his second shot on the eighth hole failed to clear a massive fairway bunker. The best he could do was to squeeze it onto the front of the green.

The mistake on the par-5 hole set up the signature moment of a 5-under 66 on Friday in the Quicken Loans National that put Woods in contention for his first victory in nearly two years.

Woods sank the 36-foot birdie putt, which broke hard to the right and trickled over a crest and into the hole. He celebrated with a vintage fist pump and smile.

“If I keep hitting good putts, eventually they’re going to go in,” Woods said. “I made my share on my back nine and especially that bomb on eight. That was a bit lucky, but I’ll take it.”

Woods was tied for fifth, three shots behind Ryo Ishikawa, who was even par for the day before he birdied the last three holes at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club. Ishikawa had a 68 to reach 11 under, one shot ahead of Rickie Fowler, who also birdied the last three for a 65, and Kevin Chappell, who shot 68.

Woods is the host and a two-time winner of the Quicken Loans National, which is being played at RTJ for the first time.

His 66 was his best score in relation to par this year and only his seventh round in the 60s. In eight previous starts this year, he missed three cuts and withdrew once. His best finish is a tie for 17th at the Masters.

Two years ago, Woods was ranked No. 1. Since then, he has had back surgery and changed his swing. Earlier this year, he struggled to make solid contact on basic chip shots. His ranking has plummeted to 266th.

“I know what I’m doing out there. It’s just a matter of time before things start to click in,” Woods said. “People want the immediate fix, the one tip that’s going to work for the rest of their life. It doesn’t work that way.”

Woods started on the back nine and made three pars before a shockingly bad tee shot on the par-5 14th. He slammed his driver to the turf as the ball traveled only 161 yards and failed to reach the fairway. That led to his only bogey of the day.

“That kind of got me kick-started a little bit. Got me a little fired up,” Woods said.

On the next hole, he twirled his driver in satisfaction as the ball sailed down the middle of the fairway. He hit his approach to 3 feet for his first birdie of the day. From then on, he put on a flawless display of ball-striking.

Another long, accurate drive on the 18th led to a 10-footer for birdie. On the first hole, he laid back with a 3-wood before hitting 9-iron to 5 feet for another birdie.

On the par-3 fourth, playing at 223 yards, he attacked a difficult pin and made a 20-foot putt, raising his putter in the air as the ball dropped. He added a two-putt birdie on the par-5 fifth before his dramatics on 8.

While Woods is trying to salvage his season, Fowler is hoping to build on a career year. Fowler won The Players Championship in May and the Scottish Open in July, doubling his career victory total.

He struggled with his driver Friday but made up for it with putting. On the 18th, Fowler raised his putter and started walking before his 27-foot birdie putt went down, and then high-fived caddie Joe Skovron.

“Probably hit it worse today,” Fowler said. “I wouldn’t say I putted any better, just happened to get some that went in.”

Playing three groups behind Fowler, Ishikawa had made four birdies and four bogeys when he nearly made his second hole-in-one of the tournament, hitting a 9-iron to 2 inches on the short par-3 16th. He tapped in for birdie and followed that up with a 13-foot birdie putt on 17 and a 31-footer on 18.

“My goal for this weekend is like 15 under, 16 under,” Ishikawa said. “So I’m just here focused on that number.”

David Lingmerth, enjoying a breakout season thanks to his victory at the Memorial, made five birdies on his final nine holes for a 65. He was two shots back.

The cut was 2 under, and Billy Hurley III made it on the number. After his second-round 70, he was informed that his father, Willard Hurley Jr., had been located after disappearing for nearly two weeks.

Woods was part of a group of nine players at 8 under. They included Jimmy Walker, who followed an opening 71 with a 63, including a holed fairway bunker shot from 112 yards for eagle.

“I don’t hit a lot of fairways anyway. It’s not that big of a deal,” Walker said. “Bunkers out here are nice. I hit some good shots.”

Canadians Adam Hadwin and Nick Taylor currently sit T19 heading into Saturday’s round.

TURNBERRY, Scotland – If the first day of the Women’s British Open was all about Donald Trump, the second day belonged to Suzann Pettersen.

The Norwegian took a two-stroke lead into the weekend after being one of just two players to break 70 in a soggy second round at Turnberry that left many in the 144-woman field scurrying for shelter and bemoaning the un-summerlike conditions.

Out at 6.41 a.m. Friday in the second group, Pettersen shot a 3-under 69 for a score that only looked better and better as a grueling day on the wind-beaten Ailsa links wore on. Maria McBride of Sweden was the only player to beat Pettersen’s score with a bogey-free 66 but was still way off the pace after an opening-round 79.

“I was in 100 percent control of the ball, the flight, the spin, everything you need to do in conditions like this,” said the sixth-ranked Pettersen, who called it one of the best rounds of her career. “It felt like I was pulling off every shot I was standing over.”

Pettersen’s 7-under 137 put her two shots clear of a quartet tied for second that included Lydia Ko, who shot a 73 in some of the worst conditions in the afternoon, when the winds swirled and gusted up to 25 mph.

“I was eating my sandwich – my bread was getting wet in the rain,” said the 18-year-old Ko, who wore four layers of clothes, hand warmers and ear muffs at times during her round.

And Pettersen’s 69?

“Pretty amazing,” Ko said.

Teresa Lu (71) of Taiwan and South Korean pair So Yeon Ryu (72) and Jin-Young Ko (70) were also on 5 under with Ko, who is trying to become the youngest winner of a major.

Top-ranked Inbee Park, seeking to complete the career sweep of the majors, shot a 73 to sit five strokes off Pettersen. Michelle Wie withdrew after aggravating a left ankle injury when she slipped to the ground as she walked off the 13th tee.

Defending champion Mo Martin shot an 80 and missed the cut, which was at 5 over, as did Morgan Pressel, Paula Creamer and U.S. Solheim Cup captain Juli Inkster.

Golf reclaimed center stage after the Donald Trump Show on Thursday. The American presidential contender, who owns Turnberry, had made the opening round of the year’s fourth major a mere sideshow by landing in his private helicopter during play and grabbing the attention of the media by continuing his election campaigning in the plush hotel overlooking the course.

The Republican was less conspicuous on Friday, although his cell phone went off as he watched Martin tee off at No. 1.

Instead, it was Pettersen who hogged the spotlight.

On a day when more than a quarter of the field shot 80 or higher, Pettersen tamed a course she described as a “beast.” She hit an 8-iron to three inches on No. 2 for the first of four birdies in her round, and emerged from holes 12-18 – playing into the wind – 1 under par.

Pettersen is oozing confidence right now. A switch of coach at the start of the year, from David Leadbetter to Butch Harmon, has led to a minor change in her swing and major change in her mentality.

“I always thought playing through the Olympics (in 2016) would be a good goal for me,” Pettersen said. “But now, feeling and seeing what I can do differently and how easy I can do stuff, it definitely has changed my perspective of my own career.

“I have a lot of goals left out there that I want to achieve.”

First-round leader Hyo-Joo Kim dropped seven shots in her last eight holes for a 78, to slip to 1 under.

McBride’s score in a round that finished in the gloom was scarcely believable, given what had happened to the rest of the field.

“It’s one of the worst rounds I’ve played, conditions-wise,” said the Swedish player. “It’s probably the best round ever in my golfing career.”

Canada’s Brooke Henderson and Alena Sharp make the cut to the weekend. Henderson signed for a round of 3-over 75 and sits 4-over for the tournament. Sharp sits at 5-over after a second-round 77.

BLAINE, Minn. – The past couple of years have not been happy homecomings for Tom Lehman.

Things are off to a much better start this time.

The local favorite shot an 8-under 64 on Friday to take a three-stroke lead in the Champions Tour’s 3M Championship.

Lehman had two birdies and an eagle in an early three-hole stretch, added a birdie on the par-4 ninth and closed with three more birdies at the TPC Twin Cities, the course he helped Arnold Palmer design.

The 64 was Lehman’s lowest score since November 2012.

“It’s nice to play a round of golf with no bogeys,” he said. “The last month, every round it seemed to get off to a good start or feel pretty good and then I suffer from too many mistakes.”

Lehman finished 29th two years ago while fighting the flu and dropped to 47th last year while battling pneumonia. He said he would’ve withdrawn had the tournament not been this one.

“It’s no fun to come here and play poorly,” he said.

The 56-year-old Lehman is from Alexandria and played at the University of Minnesota. He won the last of his eight Champions Tour titles last year in the Encompass Championship.

Scott Dunlap had seven straight birdies in his 67. Grant Waite and P.H. Horgan III also shot 67.

Marco Dawson, the Senior British Open winner last week, was another stroke back at 68 along with Bernhard Langer, Scott Hoch, Kirk Triplett and Jeff Sluman.

This is the ninth straight year the 3M Championship’s first-round leader has shot at least 7 under. The tournament winning score has been at least 15 under in each of the past eight years, including three winning totals of better than 20 under.

“We know it’s a birdie-fest out there,” Lehman said.

Starting on the back nine, Dunlap began bogey-birdie and remained at even par until a birdie on the par-3 17th hole. After a birdie at No. 18, Dunlap birdied five straight holes on the front side. He bogeyed two of the final four holes.

The tour record for consecutive birdies is eight, accomplished four times.

“It was a nice stretch where I was beating the wind for a while,” Dunlap said.

The wind got stronger as the nearly cloud-free day went along, occasionally gusting upwards of 25 mph.

Waite said there were times when he played two, and sometimes, three clubs more or less than he normally would depending if he was hitting into or with the wind. Lehman said there were a lot of times where it was best not to be aggressive and to simply aim at a safe spot.

Waite, who has one top-10 in 11 previous tour starts this year, birdied four of five holes on the front side, and played the final nine holes in 1 under. He missed a 25-foot birdie putt on the final hole by about an inch.

“If the wind dies down, you’re to have to shoot a 64 sort of thing (to win),” Dunlap said.

Horgan, a Tuesday qualifier, was 2 under through nine, and twice had back-back birdies during his final nine before a bogey at No. 17. He has finished 50th or worse in three of his four tour starts this year, including missing the cut last week in the Senior British Open.

TORONTO – After a successful Writing & Awards Day at Toronto Golf Club, the Golf Journalists Association of Canada (GJAC) donated $1,000 to Ronald McDonald House Charities Canada (RMHCC) July 26 at Glen Abbey Golf Club during the RBC Canadian Open.

Grant Fraser, President of GJAC, along with Cathy Loblaw, President and CEO of RMHCC, were in attendance, along with three families who have enjoyed the support of the Ronald McDonald House.

Ronald McDonald himself was there as well.

“On behalf of the members of the Golf Journalists Association of Canada (GJAC), I am pleased to make this donation to Ronald McDonald House Charities Canada (RMHCC),” said GJAC president Grant Fraser. “On Monday of RBC Canadian Open week we held our annual GJAC Awards Day and used this opportunity to raise funds for this wonderful charity which supports children and their families during difficult times. Our members are pleased to have made this connection to RMHCC and know this donation will be put to great use.”

RMHCC, founded in 1982, has been the official charity partner of the RBC Canadian Open for the last three years.

“Golf holds a special place for all of us at Ronald McDonald House. Each of our 14 houses across the country hosts their own golf tournament to raise funds for families who are staying with us while their child is being treated at a nearby hospital. And, the RBC Canadian Open is really the pinnacle of that golf expression,” said Cathy Loblaw, the Executive Director of RMHCC. “What the golf journalists have done today to really feel that support in a personal and meaningful way. Every donation makes such a powerful difference for us.”

The 2016 GJAC Writing Awards & Golf Day will be hosted the Mississaugua Golf and Country Club.

SANTO DA SERRA, Madeira Islands – Sam Walker of England and Pontus Widegren of Sweden both shot a 6-under 66 Friday to sit tied for the lead after the second round of the Madeira Islands Open.

Walker had an eagle and four birdies while Widegren had to overcome two bogeys by making an eagle and five birdies for an 11-under total of 133.

They were a shot ahead of first-round leader Antonio Hortal of Spain, who shot a 71, while last-year’s runner up Scott Henry of Scotland was among four players another stroke behind.

The 37-year-old Walker said the windy conditions on the island course were tough, “but if you played with the wind a little bit you’d create some chances.”

Walker is bidding for his first European Tour win but said “this is Madeira, it’s never easy here.”

ABERDEEN, Scotland – The inaugural Paul Lawrie Match Play lost its top-seeded player and the tournament host at the last-32 stage on Friday.

No. 1-seeded James Morrison was beaten 2 and 1 by Johan Carlsson, who will play fellow Swede Robert Karlsson in the last 16.

Paul Lawrie, the 1999 British Open champion, will spend the rest of the event in the sponsor’s pavilion after losing by 1 hole to Scottish compatriot Chris Doak.

Doak next will play David Howell, who had a 6-and-4 victory over David Drysdale in the most comprehensive win of the second round.

CALGARY – Victoria, British Columbia’s Cory Renfrew shot a 6-under 64 on Friday at The Links of GlenEagles to take the 36-hole lead at the Mackenzie Tour – PGA TOUR Canada’s ATB Financial Classic.

The 29-year old birdied his final two holes to reach 11-under par through two rounds, one stroke ahead of Santee, California’s Daniel Miernicki, Tucson, Arizona’s Jonathan Khan and Antibes, France’s Julien Brun

“I just kind of stayed patient all day. We were just having fun out there. I just kept hitting good shots and seeing putts go in, so I’m looking forward to the weekend,” said Renfrew, who already owns a Mackenzie Tour win in Alberta at the 2012 Syncrude Boreal Open presented by AECON in addition to 10 career top-10s. Renfrew finished T4 at the ATB Financial Classic last year.

Teeing off on the back nine, the University of British Columbia grad opened with seven straight pars, then made three birdies in a row on holes 17, 18 and 1 to kickstart his round.

“That kind of got me going, and I just felt comfortable after that. I drove the green on 17, which was nice, and just kind of rolled from there,” said Renfrew, currently 41^st on the 2015 Order of Merit.

Earlier, Khan fired an 8-under 62 to match the GlenEagles course record, while Miernicki and Brun carded rounds of 66 and 67, respectively, to reach 10-under.

“I made some long putts early and I think that got the putter going. It was kind of spread out. It felt like every three holes I made birdie, and it was good,” said Khan, who posted eight birdies and was without a bogey.

The 26-year old, who has conditional status on the Mackenzie Tour and is making just his third start of the season, said he relished the opportunity to get a start this week in Calgary and was ready to take advantage.

“I was able to go back and practice and stay ready,” said Khan, who found out on Sunday he got into the field. “I’ve just been kind of working on the game and preparing myself mentally. You never know if you’re in or you’re out, so you just try to prepare for a tournament.”

Letzig, the winner earlier this year at the SIGA Dakota Dunes Open presented by SaskTel, was two shots back in his first start since a three-week break to be at home for the birth of his second child, daughter Raleigh Caraline, along with 2012 ATB Financial Classic champion Michael Gligic or Burlington, Ontario and Olympia, Washington’s Cameron Peck.

Low scores on moving day have left four players tied atop the leaderboard of the 2015 Canadian Women’s Amateur Championship at Riverside Country Club in Saskatoon, Sask.

Following a postponed first round, the third day of competition began with the conclusion of the second round. The subsequent third round of play finished with Eun-Jeong Seong, Lucia Gutierrez, Bethany Wu and Mariel Galdiano deadlocked for first at 2-under.

Seong climbed the leaderboard by 15 spots after carding a competitive course record of 6-under 66. Playing in her second round of the day, the 15-year-old strung together five birdies over her last seven holes to finish the back nine at 5-under par 30. Seong opened the tournament with rounds of 76 and even-par 72. The product of Korea ranks No. 18 on the World Amateur Golf rankings after capturing the 2015 U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship in Tulsa, Okla.

Lucia Gutierrez played two strong rounds Thursday to move into contention. In her first round of the day, the Peruvian shot a bogey-free 4-under and followed with a third-round 71 to earn a share of the lead.

“I had a pretty simple plan, hit fairways, greens, and it doesn’t matter where on the green you are. I tell myself wherever you are, you can make a two-putt. I’m hitting the ball very well, so I’m very confident whenever I stand over the ball,” said the 19-year-old.

Gutierrez credits her Pan American Games experience – a tie for seventh – with her recent play and boost in confidence. “It really prepared me for this especially, and for all the tournaments I have coming up. It definitely got me in the groove of playing very competitive golf. It was great practice. I got to play against some of the best in the entire continent,” Gutierrez explained.

The No. 5-ranked Bethany Wu of Diamond Bar, Calif., added rounds of 72 and 69 on Thursday to advance two spots. Wu’s third round 3-under performance consisted of five birdies, highlighted by a pair across holes 11 and 12.

Pearl City, Haiwaii native Mariel Galdiano, 17, led the field after round one and is now back on top after carding a third-round 70. The No. 29-ranked player in the world rebounded from an early morning second-round 75 with a 2-under par performance on Thursday afternoon that included three birdies.

Not far behind the quartet are Cindy Ha (Demarest, N.J.), Lauren Greenlief (Reston, Va.) and Lakareber Abe (Angleton, Texas) who sit tied for fifth at even par.

Leading the way for the Canadian contingent is Team Canada National Amateur Squad member Jennifer Ha of Calgary owns a share of twelfth at 3-over par for the tournament. Teammate Maddie Szeryk is T15 at 4-over following a third-round 70.

Team Alberta emerged as the Inter-Provincial Women’s Champions. Counting towards the competition on the day were the team’s two best second-round scores– Jennifer Ha’s 1-under 71 and Team Canada Development Squad member Jaclyn Lee’s 1-over 73. The final member of the team, Sabrine Garrison, notched a 78. The trio of Calgarians finished 8-over 296 to capture the two-round competition.

Taylor Kim (Surrey, B.C.), Michelle Kim (Surrey, B.C.) and Gloria Usu Choi (Langley, B.C.) of Team British Columbia finished as runners-up with a two-day total of 303. Team Ontario rounded out the Top-3 with Brittany Marchand of Orangeville, Ont., Thornhill, Ont., native Elizabeth Tong and Grace St-Germain of Ottawa combining for 305.

Seventy-one players who shot 15-over par or better through the opening two rounds advanced to the third round of play. Round four tees off Friday at 7:30 a.m. CST. Tee times and full results are available here.

GAINESVILLE, Va. – Tiger Woods took a conservative 3-wood off the first hole at the Quicken Loans National when many players were hitting driver. No matter – he still pull-hooked it into the gallery, hit his second shot into a greenside bunker and lipped out a 5-footer for par before slamming his putter against his bag.

On the third hole, he missed the green well left and had to get up-and-down for bogey. A three-putt on No. 4 left him 3 over.

It was his final bogey of the day.

Woods got a fortunate deflection off a marshal left of the green on the par-5 fifth. He apologized, handed out an autographed glove and made his first birdie. Then he ran off five birdies in six holes around the turn for a 3-under 68. That left him five shots behind leaders Retief Goosen and Ryo Ishikawa at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club.

Woods said it was the first time since the Masters in April that he’s turned a bad round into a good one.

“That’s what scoring is all about,” Woods said. “I made a lot of key putts today. I ran them by the hole but I made all the comebacks, and overall I felt like I hit the ball well enough to turn it around. It was nice to actually turn it around.”

Woods is the host of the Quicken Loans National, which he won in 2009 and 2012 at Congressional in Maryland. The last of his 79 PGA Tour victories was nearly two years ago, and he has plummeted to 266th in the world.

Woods got up-and-down from a greenside bunker for birdie on the par-5 eighth. He made a 9-footer on 10 and a 7-footer on 11. He hit his approach to tap-in range on 12, the most difficult hole on the course, and ended the run with a 12-footer on 13. He two-putted for par on the final five holes.

The 68 was only his sixth round under 70 this year. He has had three scores of 80 or higher and has missed three cuts and withdrawn once in eight events.

In soft conditions with little wind, Woods’ 68 was only good for a tie for 27th. Players were allowed to lift, clean and place their golf balls on the rain-softened fairways, and 81 of them managed to break par.

“We got the fresh greens tomorrow,” said Woods, who played in the afternoon after a 95-minute rain delay. “Hopefully, go out there and post a low one.”

RTJ is welcoming a regular PGA Tour event for the first time after hosting four Presidents Cups, most recently in 2005, and experience seemed to help. Goosen, who played in two of those events, had a bogey-free 63. Presidents Cup veterans Ernie Els and Justin Leonard were one shot back, along with Kevin Chappell.

Goosen, a 46-year-old two-time major champion, is finally feeling healthy after major back surgery in 2012. Always stoic on the course, he still has plenty of passion for the game, which he showed by qualifying for both the U.S. Open and the British Open.

“I’m lucky to be out here. Three, four years ago my career looked like it was at an end,” said Goosen, whose last victory was in 2009. “I’m just glad I’m still out there and playing. Yeah, I just wish I was 10 years younger again.”

Ishikawa, who started on the back nine, ran off six birdies in a row starting on the 14th hole. Then he made a hole-in-one on the 180-yard fourth, spinning an 8-iron 15 feet back into the cup for his first competitive ace in the United States.

At that point he was 8 under with five holes to go. He parred the last five.

“It took about two holes to make myself calm,” he said. “No. 5 was a par 5, like a birdie hole, but it was kind of difficult for me to make a par right there.”

Defending champion Justin Rose, the highest-ranked player in the field, was three shots back. So was Ollie Schneiderjans, making his second professional start.

Rickie Fowler also made an ace, kicking a 7-iron off the fringe and into the cup on the 184-yard ninth, his final hole of the day. He was four shots back after a 67 that could have been much better.

Fowler said his putter went cold after his victory at the Scottish Open, and on Thursday he missed four birdie putts from inside 15 feet in a five-hole stretch. Three of his four birdies were from inside 4 feet. Honoring a club golf tradition, he bought beer for the media to toast his hole-in-one.

“I hit a great shot. Get a little bit of a good kick. Hey, we’ll take it,” Fowler said. “Looking forward to getting back out tomorrow and see if we can get some putts to go.”

Canadian Adam Hadwin coming off a T7 finish at the RBC Canadian Open fires a 4-under 67 to sit T18 after today’s opening round, while Nick Taylor posts 68.

TURNBERRY, Scotland –Donald Trump’s show-stealing arrival at the Women’s British Open on Thursday upstaged another strong start to a major by South Korea’s Hyo-Joo Kim.

Kim was midway through compiling a 7-under 65 in the first round when Trump, the American presidential candidate, landed in a private helicopter to begin a two-day visit at the tournament at his Turnberry resort in western Scotland.

The on-course action was initially a sideshow for Trump, who seized the attention by inviting the media to his hotel near the course to continue his presidential campaign. The Republican celebrity billionaire eventually watched some golf, although the leaderboard was virtually locked in by then.

The fourth-ranked Kim, who shot a first-round 61 in winning the Evian Championship on her major championship debut last year, was leading by one stroke from Lydia Ko of New Zealand and Cristie Kerr of the United States.

Ko, whose 66 was her lowest score in a major, is looking to become the youngest winner of a major. She’ll be 18 years, three months, nine days on Sunday, seven months younger than Morgan Pressel when the American won the Kraft Nabisco Championship in 2007.

Top-ranked Inbee Park began her quest to complete a sweep of the majors by shooting 69 in what she described as “perfect conditions for golf,” with three of her five birdies coming in her last five holes.

Defending champion Mo Martin shot 70, and Michelle Wie, wearing a brace on her left ankle because of a bone spur, had a 76.

Australia’s Karrie Webb, the last champion at Turnberry in 2002, shot 80 and was joint 141st in the 144-woman field.

Trump’s grand arrival at 10:30 a.m. certainly didn’t go unnoticed by the early starters on the Ailsa Course. Ko, who went out in the second group after waking up at 3:30 a.m., was on the 16th hole when the real-estate mogul’s helicopter twice circled the Ayrshire links.

“I was like, `Man, that’s a really nice helicopter,'” Ko said. “I would love one.”

The world No. 2 already was 6 under par by then, with a run of four straight birdies from No. 2 giving her momentum. On No. 5, she gripped a 5-wood from 179 yards to inside 2 feet.

Ko is trying not to think about the history she could create this weekend.

“My goal is to have one major in my career,” Ko said, “but it doesn’t need to be now.”

Ko held the clubhouse lead for barely an hour before being overtaken by Kim, who rolled in five birdies and an eagle putt from 10 inches at the par-5 14th in her first round in a British Open.

This is only her fifth major championship – and she already has a victory as well as ninth and 11th-place finishes.

“I kept playing good today,” said Kim, who donned earmuffs to combat the early morning chill. She was one of three players in the field to be bogey-free in her first round.

Canada is represented in the field this week by Alena Sharp with an opening-round of even-par and Brooke Henderson with a score of 1-over 73.

The Trump circus is scheduled to leave Turnberry on Friday, allowing the players to take center stage at the fourth major of the year.