HAVRE DE GRACE, Md. - Natalie Gulbis closed with five straight birdies, including an 18-foot putt on the ninth hole for a 5-under 67 Thursday. She shared the lead with Laura Davies and Laura Diaz in the LPGA Championship.

Annika Sorenstam shot a bogey-free 68, breaking her own LPGA Tour record with her 12th consecutive round in the 60s.

BETHESDA, Md. - Matt Gogel shot a course-record 8-under 63 to take a three-stroke lead in the suspended first round of the Booz Allen Classic Thursday.Lee Westwood, Brett Wetterich, Fredrik Jacobson and Kevin Stadler were tied for second. Stadler was the only one of the four yet to complete the round, having finished 14 holes when play was stopped for the day because of lightning.Gogel broke the record of 64 on Congressional's Blue Course set by Tommy Jacobs in the 1964 U.S. Open and matched by George Burns, Bobby Clampett and Fred Couples when the Booz Allen, then known as the Kemper Open, was played there annually in the 1980s.

MONT VENTOUX, France - Lance Armstrong finished fourth on one of cycling's revered climbs, beaten in a stage of the Dauphine Libere by a key rival as he prepares for next month's bid for a seventh straight Tour de France title.Armstrong had finished third Wednesday in a time trial, a discipline considered his best event.