24 January 2005	Monday	13 Zilhaj 1425

LA JOLLA, Jan 23: Tiger Woods caught US Ryder Cup captain Tom Lehman for a share of the lead at 14-under just before darkness halted play on Saturday in the third round of the 4.5 million-dollar Buick Invitational.

After Friday's second round was suspended by darkness after a lengthy fog delay, weather again was a factor Saturday. On Friday Woods was on the 18th tee when play was halted for the day. He started his day Saturday by making his fourth birdie in his last five holes for a nine-under 63.

Then came another fog delay, after which he birdied the first two holes of the third round. After play was halted for the day, Woods putted out for par on 14, his fifth hole, while Lehman chose to finish the 14th.

Lehman lost the lead he had held through 38 hles with a bogey on his third hole, the 12th. While Lehman's 19 birdies in the first two rounds seemed to signal a chance that he could end his victory drought, Lehman said such thinking would be counterproductive.

LEADING SECOND-ROUND SCORES:

129 - Tom Lehman 62-67

132 - Peter Lonard (AUS) 67-65, Tiger Woods 69-63

134 - Dudley Hart 65-69, Kevin Sutherland 68-66

135 - Luke Donald (GBR) 68-67, Pat Perez 66-69

136 - Aaron Baddeley (AUS) 66-70, Ernie Els (RSA) 65-71, Tom Gillis 68-68, Scott Hend (AUS) 72-64, Arron Oberholser 64-72

137 - Brian Davis 69-68, Bill Haas 71-66, Scott McCarron 72-65

138 - Fredrik Jacobson (SWE) 69-69, Bernhard Langer (GER) 69-69

139 - Daniel Chopra (SWE) 73-66, Sergio Garcia (SPA) 69-70, Phil Mickelson 72-67

140 - K.J. Choi (KOR) 67-73, Phillip Price (GBR) 71-69, Vijay Singh (FIJ) 71-69, Toru Taniguchi (JPN) 74-66

141 - Paul Gow (AUS) 72-69, Brendan Jones (AUS) 70-71, Shigeki Maruyama (JPN) 69-72, Carl Pettersson (SWE) 66-75

142 - Alexander Cejka (GER) 71-71, Ryuji Imada (JPN) 68-74, Michael Long (NZL) 69-73, Kevin Na (KOR) 75-67, Charlie Wi (KOR) 72-70

CLARK WINS SECOND TITLE

DURBAN: Local favourite Tim Clark won the South African Open for the second time in three years on Sunday when he carded a final round 66 for a total of 15-under-par 273.

LEADING SCORES:

273 Tim Clark 68 71 68 66

279 Gregory Havret (France) 69 69 72 69, Charl Schwartzel 68 72 71 68

280 Nick Dougherty (Britain) 73 73 68 66, James Kingston 71 70 72 67, Darren Clarke (Britain) 72 74 67 67, Graeme Storm (Britain) 71 68 69 72

281 Gregory Bourdy (France) 75 70 68 68, David Howell (Britain) 73 70 67 71, Titch Moore 65 70 72 74, Tjaart van der Walt 66 71 70 74

282 Des Terblanche 68 72 73 69, Paul Eales (Britain) 74 69 70 69, Louis Oosthuizen 69 69 73 71, Hendrik Buhrmann 70 67 70 75

283 Marten Olander (Sweden) 72 73 71 67, Werner Geyer 71 72 71 69

284 Hennie Otto 71 72 71 70, Jaco van Zyl 70 70 72 72, Lee Slattery (Britain) 73 68 71 72, Bruce Vaughan (U.S.) 65 73 73 73, Neil Cheetham (Britain) 70 70 70 74, Bobby Lincoln 71 70 69 74. -Agencies