Sport in short: Golf

MILLION DOLLAR CHALLENGE (Sun City, SA) Third-round scores: 207 D Frost (SA) 70 69 68. 211 J Cook (US) 73 68 70. 216 B Langer (Ger) 73 69 74; E Els (SA) 70 69 77. 217 F Couples (US) 74 70 73. 218 J-M Olazabal (Sp) 72 73 73. 223 I Woosnam (Wal) 75 73 75. 225 C Parry (Aus) 74 75 76. N Faldo (GB) and N Price (Zim) disqualified.

JOHNNIE WALKER CLASSIC (Melbourne) Leading third-round scores (Aus unless stated): 203 R Allenby 66 68 69. 207 P Senior 72 71 64. 208 T Price 71 67 70; V Singh (Fiji) 71 67 70. 209 L Wastle 70 68 71. 211 R Davis 70 74 67; Kyi Hla Han (Bur) 71 71 69. 212 D Silva (Por) 71 72 69; A Magee (US) 70 71 71. 213 S Owen (NZ) 71 71 71; F Nobilo (NZ) 69 73 71; J Spence (GB) 71 70 72; M Harwood 69 68 76. 214 S Ginn 73 72 69; M Zilko 72 72 70; A Painter 73 69 72; J Van De Velde (Fr) 74 68 72; M Long (NZ) 67 74 73; C Montgomerie (GB) 66 73 75; W Grady 69 70 75; M Allen 70 66 78. 215 D Iwasaki-Smith 72 71 72; L Parsons 72 71 72; M Colandro (US) 74 68 73; D Mijovic (Can) 70 70 75; W Riley 73 66 76. GB: 217 M MacKenzie 74 71 72; M Gates 74 69 74. 219 S Richardson 74 68 77. 220 G Evans 71 75 74.

GOLF JAPAN SERIES (Nishinomiya) Leading third-round scores (Japan unless stated): 208 T M Chen (Tai) 72 70 66. 209 N Ozaki 67 70 72. 210 T Hamilton (US) 70 73 67. 212 T C Chen (Tai) 72 70 70. 213 T Watanabe 69 73 71. 214 H Inoue 72 71 71. 215 D Ishii (US) 68 72 75. 217 N Yuhara 74 71 72. 218 K Murota 72 71 75.

J C PENNEY CLASSIC (Tarpon Springs, Fla) Leading second-round scores (US unless stated): 129 D Mochrie and D Forsman 66 63. 132 L Rinker-Graham and L Rinker 63 69: B Daniel and DLove III 67 65. 133 D Massey and M McCumber 67 66. 135 B Burton and B Mayfair 68 67: A Alcott and D Waldorf 67 68; J Crafter and T Schulz 66 69; T Green and D Hammond 69 66. 136 A Benz and J Huston 67 69; P Bradley and B Glasson 67 69. Selected: 144 P Wright (GB) and B Bryant 70 74.