VERONA, N.Y. (AP) -- Craig Bowden and Ryan Helminen each shot 5-under 67 on Sunday at Turning Stone to share the first-round lead in the PGA Professional Championship.
The final top 20 will earn spots next month in the PGA Championship at Baltusrol in New Jersey.
Bowden, a 51-year-old PGA Life Member who played on the PGA Tour from 1996 through 2012, is fighting pain in his left shoulder. He had six birdies and a bogey on the Atunyote course
''I guess I just used magic ice,'' said Bowden, from Bloomington, Indiana. ''The shoulder has been troubling me for two months, and it really is tendinitis.