Janzen, Funk, Frost, Bryant share lead 

at US Senior Tour event

FROM ESPN.COM
GLENVIEW, Illinois -- Lee Janzen likes what he's seen from his golf game lately even if it means not seeing much of his home.
Janzen birdied three straight holes Friday to close his front nine and went on to shoot a 7-under 65 at North Shore Country Club to share the first-round lead in the Champions Tour's Encompass Championship with Fred Funk, David Frost and Brad Bryant.
Janzen qualified in New York on June 8 for the U.S. Open, then followed up his two rounds at Chambers Bay near Seattle with a sixth-place finish at the Constellation Senior Players Championship outside Boston. 
He played the next week in the U.S. Senior Open in Sacramento and flew to Washington, and now he's in the Chicago area for another Champions Tour event.
"Fortunately, I feel like I've got a decent idea about what I'm doing with my golf swing, so I don't have this urgency to go to the golf course and hit a lot of balls," Janzen said.
Janzen started on the back nine Friday and birdied the 15th and 16th holes to get to 3 under. He missed the green on No. 17 but then chipped in for a birdie.
"I probably would have had a 6- to 8-footer for par coming back had it not gone in," Janzen said. "I came out of that hole smelling a lot better than it looked."
Janzen is still smarting from his failure to make the cut in the U.S. Open, which he blamed on two shots that led to a double and triple bogey.
"If I had just paid attention a little better on two irons shots and made a few putts, I feel like I would have had a chance to at least finish in the top 10," he said.
Funk began the season bothered by a sore elbow and sat at home for three months before returning.
"I'm trying to hit the ball better and I'm able to play," Funk said. "But I can't swing the way I want to swing.
"The doctors told me I've got a bunch of tendons hanging on by threads, they say, on both sides -- inside and outside. They said eventually it will just go away on its own ... maybe."
Both Funk and Bryant had stretches of four birdies in five holes on their back nine.
Funk's bogey-free round was his best to start a tournament since the Champion Tour's opening round of the 2014 season. He holed out from a greenside bunker at No. 5, his 14th hole.
"I played really solid today overall," Funk said. "I gave myself some chances, but I actually had a couple little breaks, too."
Bryant's score was his best in any Champions Tour event since 2012.
"I did not expect too much warming up today," he said. "I figured something out at the end of my warmup session, and on the golf course I hit it great. It came out of nowhere.
"It sort of felt like the old Brad today."

par 72

T1	Brad Bryant	65	.
T1	Fred Funk	65
T1	David Frost	65
T1	Lee Janzen	65
T5	Craig Stadler	66
T5	Mike Goodes	66
T5	Rod Spittle	66
T5	Jerry Smith	66
T9	Jeff Sluman	67
T9	Frank Esposito	67
T9	Rocco Mediate	67
T9	Esteban Toledo	67
T9	Woody Austin	67
T14	Corey Pavin	68
T14	Tom Byrum	68
T14	Fred Couples	68	.
T14	Jeff Maggert	68
T14	Stan Utley	68
T14	Ian Woosnam	68
T14	Brian Henninger	68
T14	Peter Senior	68
T22	Bart Bryant	69
T22	Gary Koch	69
T22	Russ Cochran	69
T22	Steve Elkington	69
T22	Duffy Waldorf	69
T22	Loren Roberts	69
T22	Steve Pate	69
T22	Scott Hoch	69
T22	Kenny Perry	69
T22	Greg Bruckner	69
T32	Grant Waite	70
T32	Tommy Armour III	70
T32	John Cook	70
T32	Wayne Levi	70
T32	John Huston	70
T32	Wes Short Jr.	70
T32	Michael Allen	70
T32	Kirk Triplett	70
T32	Olin Browne	70
T32	Guy Boros	70
T32	Kevin Sutherland	70
T43	Carlos Franco	71
T43	Jeff Freeman	71
T43	Jose Coceres	71
T43	Rick Gibson	71
T43	Gary Hallberg	71
T43	Bobby Wadkins	71
T43	Greg Kraft	71
T43	Tom Lehman	71
T43	Scott Dunlap	71
T43	Chien-Soon Lu	71
T53	Joel Edwards	72
T53	Roger Chapman	72
T53	Tom Pernice Jr.	72
T53	Marco Dawson	72
T53	John Riegger	72
T53	Jeff Coston	72
T53	Joey Sindelar	72
T53	Tom Purtzer	72
T61	Jay Haas	73
T61	Jay Don Blake	73
T61	Blaine McCallister	73
T61	Dan Forsman	73
T61	Larry Nelson	73
T61	Stephen Ames	73
T61	Bob Gilder	73
T61	Jeff Hart	73
T61	P.H. Horgan III	73
T61	Geoffrey Sisk	73
T71	Jim Rutledge	74
T71	Mark Wiebe	74
T71	Billy Andrade	74
T71	Lance Ten Broeck	74
T75	Larry Mize	75
T75	Gene Sauers	75
77	Bob Tway	76
T78	Steve Lowery	79
T78	Ken Green	79
T80	Nolan Henke	80
T80	John Alexander Jacobs	80