“I hit a lot of good shots and kept the ball in play, and I had a chip-in (at No.
“I had a great front nine,” said Claxton, who once played on the Nationwide Tour with Alker. The 54-year-old Claxton, one of 39 club professionals in the field from Richmond Hill, Georgia, started with birdies on his first three holes and added two more for a front-nine 32 and then added two more birdies on the back nine.
More rain and cooler temperatures are expected for Friday’s round. A total of 56 golfers in the 156-player field shot rounds of one-under 70 or better on a cloudy day with temperatures in the 70s after an overnight rain softened the course. Like the previous four Senior PGA Championships played at Harbor Shores, this season’s second major for the 50-and-older crowd is shaping into a low scoring affair.
