Haeran Ryu and Yan Liu each shot bogey-free 7-under 65 to share the lead during the suspended first round of the Chevron Championship as top-ranked Nelly Korda struggled to a 77 on Thursday in her title defense.

The round was suspended late as a storm approached The Club at Carlton Woods in the Woodlands, Texas, with 24 players unable to finish.

Korda won the event last year for the last of her five straight LPGA Tour victories and had hoped to rediscover that dominant form in the season’s first major.

Ryu of South Korea birdied five of her first 10 holes to move in front and made her seventh birdie on her closing hole, the ninth.

Liu of China got going on her back nine with four birdies in a five-hole stretch.

Rory McIlroy, playing for the first time since winning the Masters, teamed with Shane Lowry to shoot an 8-under 64 in better-play in the Zurich Classic, leaving the Irish defending champs six shots behind leaders Isaiah Salinda and Kevin Vetlo.

PGA Tour rookies Salinda and Velo opened with a tournament-record 58 in the tour’s only team event in suburban New Orleans.

NFL

Longtime Seattle Seahawks receiver Tyler Lockett announced on social media that he is joining the Tennessee Titans. ESPN reported that Lockett agreed to a one-year deal with a base value of $4 million.

HORSE RACING

It’s time for another Smarty party.

Twenty-one years after Smarty Jones won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, the chestnut colt was elected to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

The Hall of Fame announced that he was the lone candidate in the contemporary category to appear on the majority of ballots, with 50% plus one vote required for election. It was his first year on the ballot.

Smarty Jones won eight of nine career starts and won the Eclipse Award for 3-year-old males in 2004.

That year he became the first undefeated Kentucky Derby winner since Seattle Slew with a 2 3/4-length victory. Two weeks later, Smarty Jones won the Preakness by a record 11 1/2 lengths to set up a Triple Crown bid.

But he was beaten by a length in the Belmont Stakes by 36-1 shot Birdstone.

Smarty Jones retired after the Belmont with career earnings of $7,613,155.

TENNIS

Home-crowd favorite Carlos Alcaraz withdrew from the Madrid Open because of muscle injuries, saying he didn’t want to risk making things worse before the French Open.

In competition, Iga Swiatek had the answers this time against teenage sensation Alexandra Eala.

Swiatek rallied to a 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 victory in the second round of the Madrid Open after a quarterfinal loss to the rising star from the Philippines last month in Miami.

Coco Gauff got off to a poor start but came back to defeat Dayana Yastremska 0-6, 6-2, 7-5 in a second-round match.

MOTORSPORTS

Spire Motorsports parted ways with championship-winning crew chief Rodney Childers after only nine races with the team.

Childers, one of the winningest active crew chiefs in the Cup Series, won the 2014 championship with Kevin Harvick at Stewart-Haas Racing. When that team closed at the end of last season, Childers moved to Spire to crew chief Justin Haley.

Through the first nine races of the season, Haley is 23rd in the Cup standings. His best finish this year is 10th at Homestead.