This week: PGA Tour's Travelers Championship, Thursday through Sunday, TPC River Highlands, Cromwell, Conn.

First-round score: 4-under-par 66.

Position: Stanley is tied for 17th, five strokes behind leader Kenny Perry (61).

Recap: A pretty sparkling professional debut for the Gig Harbor resident, and Bellarmine Prep graduate – five birdies and one bogey. He finished strong, too, bombing a 314-yard drive to set up a 5-foot birdie putt on the par-4 seventh – his 16th hole. Then, he sank a 23-footer for birdie after an approach shot from a fairway bunker. He averaged 301 yards per drive Thursday, sixth-longest in a strong field.

Tee time Friday: 5:45 a.m. PDT off the first tee.

This week: PGA Tour's Travelers Championship, Thursday through Sunday, TPC River Highlands, Cromwell, Conn.

First-round score: 4-under-par 66.

Position: Moore is tied for 17th, five strokes behind leader Kenny Perry (61).

Recap: The back nine at TPC River Highlands has lots of scoring opportunities, and Moore, the Puyallup product, found them with four birdies (Nos. 12, 13, 15 and 17). He got home in two shots on the par-5 13th, and two-putted from 36 feet for a birdie. He nearly drove the green on the 296-yard, par-4 15th, and chipped up to within 17 inches for a tap-in birdie. And he chipped in for his final birdie on the par-4 18th. The 66 is Moore's best opening-round score of the season.

Tee time Friday: 4:11 a.m. PDT off the 10th tee.

This week: PGA Tour's Travelers Championship, Thursday through Sunday, TPC River Highlands, Cromwell, Conn.

First-round score: 6-over-par 76.

Position: Kelly is tied for 152nd, 15 strokes behind leader Kenny Perry (61).

Recap: A poor start only compounded a difficult day for the Tacoma native. He had a bogey-double bogey start on Nos. 1 and 2, and was 5-over through five holes. Kelly did have back-to-back birdies on the eighth and ninth holes, the last coming after a 95-yard pitch shot that settled 61/2 feet from the cup.

Tee time Friday: 10:55 a.m. PDT off the 10th tee.

This week: Nationwide Tour's Players Cup, Thursday through Sunday, Pete Dye Golf Club, Bridgeport, W.Va.

First-round score: Even-par 72.

Position: Putnam is tied for 69th, six strokes behind leader Brad Fritsch, of Canada (66).

Recap: Putnam, the Tacoma native, notched his tour-leading 12th eagle of the season on the par-5 first hole (his 10th) to get to 3-under, which was his high-water point Thursday. He gave it back with a double bogey on the par-4 ninth.

Tee time Friday: 4:33 a.m. PDT. off the first tee.

Pamela Burneski, of Surrey, B.C., and a member of Homestead Farms Golf Resort in Bellingham, sits with a comfortable three-stroke lead going into the final round of the Washington State women's amateur championships at Oakbrook Country and Golf Club in Lakewood.

Burneski shot a 3-over-par 75 Wednesday, and leads at 5-over 149.

Alone in second place is first round leader, Cathy Kim of Bellevue, who carded a 79, including a 41 on the front nine, but rallied with three birdies coming in.

Seattle's Leslie Folsom also played her way into the final pairing group after rounds of 78 and 77.

Defending champion Stephanie Corey, of Seattle, and a member of the Gonzaga women's squad, sits in eighth place after opening rounds of 80 and 81.

Renton's Stefan Richardson, a sophomore on the University of Idaho men's golf team, is making his familiar surroundings in the Palouse stand up at the 83rd Washington State men's amateur championship.

Richardson fired a 3-under-par 69 to take a one stroke lead over Kenmore's Derek Berg after two rounds at Palouse Ridge Golf Club. Richardson is at 7-under 137 for the tournament.

Berg shot the day's best round, a 67 that included seven birdies to grab second place alone at 138.

Olympia's Jarred Bossio, the reigning Tacoma City Amateur championship who also plays for the Vandals, is at 140, as is Kennewick's Kevin Tucker.

Tacoma's Dane Looker, an NFL receiver, shot a second-round 71 to make the cut at 147, tying for 30th.

The field of 144 has been cut to the top 63 amateur golfers in Washington for the final two rounds. 7-over par 151 was the cut line for the championship.