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BLAINE, Minn. -- Monday qualifier Glen Day shot a 7-under 65 in perfect conditions Friday to take the first-round lead in the PGA Tour Champions 3M Championship.Yes, I have a little more motivation as a Monday qualifier, Day said. I didnt play as well today as I did Monday. I had no expectations this week. I just wanted to get into the tournament.On Monday, he topped the five qualifiers with a 7-under 64 at nearby Victory Links.On Friday playing in the first group off the first tee at TPC Twin Cities, the 50-year-old Day had four straight late birdies in his bogey-free round.I made some putts and avoided mistakes, Day said. The greens are great. I was first out and they were perfect. Think first group out is an advantage.Jeff Maggert and Rod Spittle shot 66, and two-time champion Bernhard Langer was at 67 along with Colin Montgomerie, Miguel Angel Jimenez, Woody Austin, Kevin Sutherland, Carlos Franco, Scott Dunlap, Bart Bryant and Monday qualifier Jean-Francois Remesy.Langer closed with a 20-foot eagle putt. He has broken par in all 22 of his rounds in the event.Montgomerie had nine birdies and three bogeys.Nine birdies and three mistakes, Montgomerie said. We know this course isnt one of the most difficult. The fairways are quite generous and the greens are super. Youve got to holing putts. I was doing that today. Well see how it does the next two days.Day made a 30-foot birdie putt on the par-4 second and ran in a 10-footer on the par-5 third. He holed a 6-footer on par-4 11th and made four straight on Nos. 14-17, holing putts of 4, 25, 8 and 10 feet.There are a lot of birdie holes on the back nine, Day said. Its a horse race out here, especially on this course.Day won the 1999 MCI Classic for his lone PGA Tour title. On the senior tour, he tied for sixth in Mississippi in April and last month in Endicott, New York.Larry Nelson shot his age with a 68, the third time he was accomplished the feat. Nelson, a World Golf Hall of Famer, also bettered his age last year in the event with a second-round 66 at age 67.John Daly opened with a 72, and two-time defending champion Kenny Perry and local favorite Tom Lehman shot 73. Lehman teamed with Arnold Palmer to design TPC Twin Cities.Fred Funk withdrew after 12 holes because of a back injury.Johnny Damon Yankees Jersey Yogi Berra Jersey . It was the kind of score that might make everyone else wonder which course he was playing. Except that Graeme McDowell saw the whole thing. 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Young formally announced his retirement Friday after returning to Rangers Ballpark, his baseball home for all but the last of his 13 major league seasons.Tom Daley and Dan Goodfellow won Olympic bronze in the mens synchronised 10 metres platform final as Britains aquatics stars claimed another medal in Rio.After Adam Peatys gold and Jazz Carlins silver in the swimming pool on Sunday, Daley and Goodfellow added Olympic bronze on Monday.Chinas Chen Aisen and Lin Yue won gold with 496.98 points at Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre. David Boudia and Steel Johnson of the United States took silver with 457.11 points, while Daley and Goodfellow finished with 444.45 points.The British pair were diving last of the eight teams and there was a tense wait before the result was confirmed. Daley had his arm around Goodfellow and the pair tumbled into the water in delight as the result was declared.Daley was appearing in his third Olympics. He placed eighth in the event when aged 14 in Beijing in 2008, despite a bust-up with partner Blake Aldridge.Pete Waterfield and Daley combined to place fourth at the London 2012 Games, when the Plymouth diver won bronze in the individual 10m platform.The individual event begins on August 19 and 22-year-old Daley is targeting gold. He will be boosted by a surprise bronze alongside Goodfellow.Goodfellow, from Cambridge, had moved into Daleys London home for five weeks in the build-up to the Rio Games to try to solidify their partneership on and off the boards.ddddddddddddThe pair had won European silver in May, and it might have been gold had 19-year-old Goodfellow not erred in the final round.Daley was in buoyant mood on arrival in Rio following the squads Florida training camp. And he was even keen for some British weather in Rio.It was overcast and blustery, so the Plymouth diver got what he wished for in the outdoor venue. Diving last of the eight teams, Daley and Goodfellow were in medal contention throughout.The pair were third after the first three of six dives, but their fourth dive, a reverse three and a half somersaults with tuck scored 81.60 as they slipped to fifth.Their penultimate dive -- a forward four and a half somersaults with tuck -- scored the highest degree of difficulty in their repertoire at 3.7. But they delivered, scoring 92.13, to return to a provisional podium position, behind China and the United States, but ahead of Germany and Mexico.Just a back three and a half somersaults with pike was to come, with the Britons again diving last, would know exactly what they had to do. They needed more than 83.61 and scored 89.64 to leapfrog the German duo,three and a half somersaults with pike rseys[/url] ' ' '