Californian at home in Canadian Open

Arron Oberholser put himself in position to try to add the biggest Canadian title of them all to his Ontario trophy collection.

The 31-year-old Californian, already a three-time winner in the province, shot a 2-under-par 68 in windy conditions Friday in the Canadian Open at Ancaster, Ontario, for a share of the second-round lead with Jesper Parnevik, Camilo Villegas and Jonathan Byrd.

“Ontario has been good to me. Canada has been good to me,” Oberholser said. “I enjoy playing up here. I enjoy the people. I enjoy the atmosphere.”

Oberholser, the Pebble Beach winner in February for his first PGA Tour title, won two Canadian Tour events in Ontario in 1999 and also took the Nationwide Tour’s 2002 Canadian PGA at DiamondBack in Richmond Hill.

“I spent two great years up here on the Canadian Tour learning how to play,” Oberholser said. “Drove the country twice. I’ve probably seen more of Canada than most Canadians. It was fantastic. I still regard those days as the most fun I’ve ever had playing golf. It was a great time.”

While the greens were still soft and receptive on the 90-year-old Hamilton Golf and Country Club course, gusting wind on the warm and sunny day made scoring far more difficult than it was in calm conditions Thursday.

“It was completely different. The wind was blowing really hard,” said Parnevik, who also had a 68 to join the leaders at 7 under. “This is a very tough course to start with. When you get wind like this, probably gusting 25 mph at times, when you’re in the trees, it’s tough to figure out which direction it is blowing.”

Oberholser, who shot a 65 on Thursday, made only two bogeys in the first 36 holes, both on the par-3 sixth. Friday, his tee shot on the uphill, 210-yard hole sailed left, hit a cart path and landed behind a grandstand. He got a drop 60 yards from the hole on a teeing area on the fourth hole, hit to 10 feet and just missed his par try.

LPGA

Annika Sorenstam shot a 7-under 64 to take the first-round lead in the John Q. Hammons Hotel Classic in Broken Arrow, Okla., an LPGA event she’s dominated in recent years.

Regularly sinking putts of 15 feet or more, Sorenstam had eight birdies and tied the course record for the 6,602-yard Cedar Ridge Country Club, set in the tournament’s opening round last year by Maria Hjorth.

Sorenstam, the tournament’s two-time defending champion, has a two-shot lead over Diana D’Alessio, who birdied her final hole to move to 5 under.

Wendy Ward of Edwall, Wash., opened with a 70 and Tracy Hanson of Rathdrum, Idaho, shot 72.

European Masters

Michelle Wie didn’t just fail to make the cut in her latest men’s tournament. She finished dead last.

Wie struggled to an 8-over 79 at the European Masters in Crans-sur-Sierre, Switzerland, missing the cut at a men’s event for the ninth time in 10 attempts.

The 16-year-old from Hawaii, who shot a 78 in Thursday’s first round, finished at 15-over 157 – last of the 152 players who completed 36 holes.

She was 22 shots off the lead shared by the trio of Andrew McLardy (65), Bradley Dredge (67) and Marcel Siem (67).

“I’m still in shock,” Wie said. “I didn’t know what sport I was playing out there.”