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LAKE BUENA VISTA (Florida), Oct 26: Fiji’s Vijay Singh shot a three-under-par 69 on Saturday to move into a four-way tie for the lead at the Funai Classic at Disney World with Scott Verplank, Stewart Cink and John Rollins.
The world number three is aiming to unseat Tiger Woods as PGA Player of the Year and leading tour money winner.
Singh held the solo lead after 36 holes and shares the 54-hole pace but Verplank and Cink each shot six-under 66s and Rollins fired a 67 to create the logjam at 18-under 198.
David Peoples (69) is at 16-under 200, followed by Davis Love III (69) and Rocco Mediate (69) at 15 under.
Leading third round scores:
198 — Scott Verplank 66, 66, 66; Stewart Cink 67, 65, 66; John Rollins 66, 65, 67; Vijay Singh (Fiji) 64, 65, 69.
200 — David Peoples 65, 66, 69.
201 — Davis Love III 67, 65, 69; Rocco Mediate 65, 67, 69.
202 — Geoff Ogilvy (Australia) 66, 70, 66; Fred Couples 68, 66, 68; Retief Goosen (South Africa) 70, 64, 68; Bob Estes 67, 63, 72.
203 — Hidemichi Tanaka (Japan) 69, 66, 68; Bob Tway 67, 65, 71.
204 — Briny Baird 72, 62, 70; Tiger Woods 66, 67, 71; Brent Schwarzrock 67, 65, 72.
205 — Deane Pappas (South Africa) 66, 73, 66; Tom Pernice Jr 71, 67, 67; Nick Price (Zimbabwe) 70, 68, 67; Duffy Waldorf 68, 67, 70; John Huston 64, 71, 70; Tom Carter 67, 67, 71.
Gonzalez VICTORIOUS
MADRID: Argentine Ricardo Gonzalez recorded his second European Tour victory when he came from six shots behind to snatch the Madrid Open on Sunday by a stroke.
A closing six-under-par 65 took the 34-year-old to a 14-under-par total of 270, a stroke better than Irishman Padraig Harrington, Swede Marten Olander, Australian Nick O’Hern and long-time leader Paul Casey of Britain.
Gonzalez charged into contention with four successive birdies from the fourth after an early bogey and sealed his win — his other success came at the 2001 European Masters — with four birdies in five holes from the 11th.
Leading scores:
270 - Ricardo Gonzalez (Argentina) 69 70 66 65
271 - Paul Casey 63 65 71 72, Padraig Harrington (Ireland) 65 73 68 65, Marten Orlander (Sweden) 69 65 70 67, Nick O’Hern (Australia) 67 67 69 68
273 - Matthew Blackey 70 70 68 65, Sergio Garcia (Spain) 64 71 71 67, Peter Fowler (Australia) 67 66 70 70, Paul Lawrie 69 64 70 70
274 - Adam Scott (Australia) 72 69 68 65, a-Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano (Spain) 67 70 70 67, Pierre Fulke (Sweden) 71 65 70 68
275 - Jose Maria Olazabal (Spain) 70 68 70 67, Patrik Sjoland (Sweden) 69 70 69 67
276 - Alistair Forsyth 70 71 69 66, Anders Hansen (Denmark) 71 67 70 68, Jarrod Moseley (Australia) 70 69 68 69, Greg Owen 72 66 71 67, Niclas Fasth (Sweden) 71 71 69 65
277 - Brian Davis 70 68 70 69, Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spain) 70 67 71 69, Robert Karlsson (Sweden) 65 67 74 71, Maarten Lafeber (Netherlands) 67 67 69 72, Thomas Levet (France) 66 71 72 68, Andrew Coltart 69 68 68 72—Reuters
