Appleby Takes Halfway Lead in Sun City
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SUN CITY, South Africa  - Australia's Stuart  Appleby carded a second round 69 to move to five-under par 139  and a one-stroke lead at the Sun City Golf Challenge on Friday.
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For the second time in three months, Stuart Appleby was the golfer to beat. And at the AT&T National yesterday, just like at the Masters, he failed to capitalize.
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SUN CITY, South Africa -- Australia&#39;s Stuart Appleby bogeyed the final two holes to slip back to a four-way tie for the lead after the first round of the Nedbank Golf Challenge on Thursday.
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Leave it to Lorena Ochoa to find the sunny side of a tropical depression. Ochoa shot a 2-under 70 to maintain her three-shot lead at the Ginn Tribute on Saturday, though three bogeys over the final six holes in drenching rains cost her a much larger advantage heading into the final round.
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Veteran Jay Haas edged closer to his first PGA Tour win for more than 10 years on Friday with a four-under-par 66 for the halfway lead at the Tour Championship.
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Retief Goosen kept his head when all about him others were losing theirs to win the 2004 Nedbank Golf Challenge by six shots over the Gary Player Country Club course at Sun City on Sunday.
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Sergio Garcia&#39;s reign as champion at Sun City looks all but over after just 27 holes at the Nedbank Golf Challenge, last year&#39;s winner turning at three-over-par after Friday&#39;s first nine, leaving him six-over for the tournament, and 10 shots off the lead
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NORTON, Massachusetts  - Australian Robert Allenby   drained a hole-in-one on his way to a share of the lead at the   halfway point of the Deutsche Bank Championship on Saturday.
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Opening day on the PGA Tour was filled with oddities, starting with Nick Watney leading the Mercedes-Benz Championship on Thursday with a 5-under 68 that featured no bogeys and a mixture of sunshine and rain.
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Rich Barcelo shot an 8-under 64 on Thursday in chilly conditions at PGA West to take a three-stroke lead over Australia's Paul Gow after the second round of the PGA Tour's 108-hole final qualifying tournament.
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SUN CITY, South Africa  - Briton Lee Westwood  closed in on his first title of 2004 when he claimed the  third-round lead in the Sun City Golf Challenge Saturday.
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Sun City - Ernie Els confessed to being nervous, Retief Goosen has got a cold, Lee Westwood&#39;s golf ball got stuck in a bush and Stuart Appleby struggled with his yardages.
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SUN CITY, South Africa -- South Africa&#39;s Retief Goosen claimed his first Sun City Golf Challenge title Sunday at the Gary Player Country Club.
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A trip home to see his coach reaped early dividends for Darren Fichardt as the South African took a share of the lead in the storm-interrupted Mallorca Classic on Friday.
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Enough with the preliminaries. Bring on Gonzaga. Deposed starter Ryan Appleby scored a career-high 24 points and heralded freshman Spencer Hawes added a season-high 21 in No. 13 Washington's 87-72 victory over Southern Utah on Monday night in what Huskies coach Lorenzo Romar said was his young team's best game yet.
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American Mark Wilson hit back-to-back birdies to join Australia's Robert Allenby at the top of the leaderboard midway through third round play at the Honda Classic in Palm Beach Gardens on Saturday.
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Robert Allenby finished his round around lunchtime, and left PGA National thinking he'd be within two or three shots of the lead by day's end.