PITTSBURGH, June 29 (UPI) -- Defending champion Fred Couples rode a 7-under-par 63 Friday to the lead of the Senior Players Championship in Pittsburgh.
Couples, who won the 2011 Senior Players Champions in a playoff, tied the 18-hole tournament record Friday and beat the 36-hole record by two strokes. He had eight birdies and one bogey in his 63 and is at 11-under 129 for a one-stroke lead over Joe Daley, who was 6-under Friday.