HIGHLAND PARK (AP) — Illinois men's golf coach Mike Small shot 7-under 65 to share a one-stroke lead with Kenny Perry after the first round of the Constellation Senior Players Championship on Thursday.
The 52-year-old Small, seeking his first Champions Tour victory after leading the Illini to their 11th straight NCAA Championship appearance this past spring, birdied three of the four par 5s on the par-72 layout. He tallied eight birdies and dropped only one shot — a bogey on the par-3 eighth — in the fourth of five majors on the senior tour schedule.
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