Kraft & Edwards share opening lead

Greg Kraft and Joel Edwards both shot six-under-par 65s to share the lead after the opening round of the Air Canada Championship at Northview Golf and Country Club.

Brent Geiberger and Chris Riley were in joint third place one shot adrift, with a dozen players on 67 in a tournament that features only four competitors from the U.S. PGA Tour's top 30.

Included in the group on four-under were David Gossett, 22, who won his first tour event last month at the John Deere Classic, and Sweden's Jesper Parnevik, whose only hope of making the European Ryder Cup team is to be chosen as a wild card by captain Sam Torrance on Sunday.

Defending champion Rory Sabbatini of South Africa, who won his only tour title at this event last year, also carded an opening 67.

Kraft's 65 consisted of eight birdies and bogeys at the first and 10th holes, and was his lowest round since his 65 at the Touchstone Energy Tucson Open last January.

The 37-year-old from Florida is 112th on the money list with $349,808 and has only made two cuts in his last nine events.

Edwards, who is 99th on the money list with $393,843, made seven birdies and only one bogey.

The 39-year-old Texan carried on where he left off last week when he finished tied for 19th at the Reno-Tahoe Open, only his fourth top 20 finish of the year.

Canada's Mike Weir, the winner of the Air Canada event two years ago, struggled to an opening 73.

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