Ochoa weathers wind-blown opening round

Lorena Ochoa felt helpless as too many shots ballooned into relentless gusts that reached 36 mph Thursday, sending her to only her second round over par this year.

Stranger still was listening to her describe a 2-over 73 at the SemGroup Championship in Broken Arrow, Okla.

"I managed to finish with a good score," she said.

On a wind-blown day that yielded no more than five scores under par, Ochoa took some measure of satisfaction by not letting the leaders get too far away in her quest for a record-tying fifth consecutive victory on the LPGA Tour.

Hee Young Park held it together in Oklahoma's notorious wind with a 2-under 69, and Beth Bader also was 2 under as she finished up a tough day for everyone at Cedar Ridge.

Two other subpar rounds came from Ochoa's group -- Paula Creamer and defending champion Mi Hyun Kim, each with 70s.

Wachovia Championship: David Toms took the first-round lead in Charlotte, N.C., breaking out of a missed-cut, sore-back funk with a 5-under 67.

Playing in the morning when the greens were still soft from the drenching rain earlier in the week, Toms made 8 birdies, including a near ace at the 13th hole, to take a 1-shot lead over Phil Mickelson and Jason Bohn.

Mickelson, in his first tournament since the Masters, showed off his new, longer putter in shooting a 68.

Spanish Open: John Daly shot a 3-over 75 in his first tournament in Spain in 16 years, leaving him 10 strokes behind leader Martin Erlandsson in the Spanish Open in Seville.

Erlandsson, from Sweden, birdied the final three holes for a course-record 65. Spain's Jordi Garcia and Ignacio Garrido shot 66s on the Real Club de Golf de Sevilla.