Sporting Digest: Golf

CHRIS HALL, the British club professional champion, was the odd man out at Pals, Spain, in a four-man play-off for the three remaining vacancies at the PGA European Tour qualifying school. Hall, Bulwell Forest's PGA Cup player, drove into the trees at the first extra hole and took a double-bogey, allowing fellow Englishman Mark Parker (bogey), France's Quentin Dabson (bogey) and Sweden's Daniel Chopra (par) to progress from the final pre-qualifying competition. The quartet had finished the regulation 54 holes tied on a two-over-par score of 221.

LAS VEGAS MEN'S INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENT Leading second-round scores (US unless stated): 132 B Lohr 64 68; K Clearwater 67 65; B McCallister 67 65; G Morgan 64 68. 133 C Stadler 67 66; D Love 67 66; P Azinger 66 67. 134 P Mickelson 65 69. 135 E Dougherty 70 65; J Huston 69 66; R Zokol (Can) 68 67; J C Anderson 72 63; M Allen 71 64; M Springer 67 68; B Glasson 69 66; J Flannery 68 67; K Green 69 66.

BRIDGESTON MEN'S OPEN (Chiba) Leading second-round scores (Japanese unless stated): 137 I Shirahama 68 69. 138 K Murota 70 68; K Tomori 70 68; M Shiota 70 68; H Meshiai 68 70. 139 M Kuramoto 71 68; R Kawagishi 70 69; N Ozaki 69 70; Chen Tze-chung (Tai) 68 71; H Sato 68 71. GB: 154 P Hoad 76 78 (missed cut).