BOCA RATON, Florida (AP) — A lack of practice didn't hurt Jay Don Blake in his first Champions Tour appearance of the season, as he shot an 8-under 64 to lead after Friday's first round of the Allianz Championship.

Blake led by a stroke from Tom Lehman in the over-50 circuit's first full-field event.

"I'm still trying to knock the icicles off my body from living in Utah," said Blake, who has been busy remodeling his house. "It's been crazy with how bad the weather's been."

Blake didn't look rusty or frozen in shooting eight birdies in a bogey-free round on the Old Course at Broken Sound.

"I felt I kept my composure out there and executed the shots I needed to," said Blake, whose wife, Marci, is his caddy. "You have to make some putts to shoot a round of 64 and I felt like I putted really well."

Lehman had no complaints about his 65 coming off the PGA stop in Phoenix, where he played 54 holes in 29 hours because of bad weather.

"Bogey-free round — pretty stress-free," Lehman said. "There were a lot of good scores. The greens were perfect. The wind wasn't too strong. So if you hit good shots and a few good putts, you could definitely have a good round of golf.

"And I started my round out beautifully. I birdied the first three holes and kind of got the run going right off the bat."

Lehman was in position to tie Blake with a birdie on the par-5 18th, but he hit a short chip about 9 feet past the pin, then missed the putt and settled for a par.

"It was just disappointing to not make a four with such a good tee shot," he said. "Chip on 18 didn't come off the club face like I expected at all. It was a disappointing chip."

Scott Simpson, Peter Senior, Tom Jenkins and Jeff Sluman were tied for third at 6 under.

Simpson, Senior and Jenkins birdied 7 holes and bogeyed one, while Sluman had six birdies.

Defending champion Bernhard Langer shot a 68 to tie for 14th with seven other players. The German had five birdies to offset a bogey on the par-4 fourth.

Olin Browne hit the third hole-in-one in Allianz Championship history, using a 6-iron on the 176-yard eighth. He finished with a 69.

Jim Colbert, the winner of 20 senior titles and the 1995 and 1996 Player of the Year, became the ninth player in Champions Tour history to make his 500th start.

"I feel like I have more game now than I had the last few years," said Colbert, who shot a 75. "It's my hobby. I don't do anything else. And I feel like I'm still working at it."

KUALA LUMPUR: Kuala Lumpur Hockey Club (KLHC) moved closer to retaining their league title in the Premier Division of the Malaysia Hockey League (MHL) after thumping Yayasan Negri Sembilan (YNS) 7-2 at the Tun Razak Stadium here yesterday.

Mohamed Razie Rahim starred for KLHC with a hat-trick in the sixth, 16th and 24th minutes while Chua Boon Huat (3rd minute), Nabil Fiqri (20th), Tengku Ahmad Tajuddin (64th) and Ismail Abu (67th) chipped in with one a piece.

Razlee Amree scored a brace for YNS in the 29th and 50th minutes off penalty corner setpieces.

KLHC, on 31 points from 12 matches, have opened up a six-point lead at the top of the standings. With just four more matches to go, a win against Sapura today could well seal the title for them.

Tenaga Nasional clobbered Armed Forces-Airod 10-1 to move into second spot.

It was a significantly improved showing from the overall defending champions as they took their chances well to nail all three points.

Mohamed Amin Rahim, M. Kalisweran, Mahinder Singh and Mohamed Fairus Ramli netted a brace each while Mohamed Firhan and Mohamed Azammi added one each.

Mohamed Firdous Ismail scored the army's consolation goal in the very last minute.

Tenaga's win kept them in sight of leaders KLHC but, more importantly, it means they are on target to finish at least second in the standings.

Tenaga coach Nor Saiful Zaini said that this was the first time his men played as a cohesive unit.

"I am very happy with their performance. The army team may not be that strong but our performance was up to mark. It has certainly boosted our confidence ahead of the game against Maybank tomorrow (today)," he said.