Frost Takes Lead in S. Africa Tournament

South African David Frost fired a 6-under-par 66 today and took a three-stroke lead after the second round of golf’s most lucrative tournament, the Million Dollar Challenge.

Frost, winner of the World Series of Golf this year, ended the storm-interrupted round with a 36-hole score of 133, eleven strokes under par.

American Tim Simpson, with a 69 today, fell to second place, and Scott Hoch, with a 72, dropped six strokes off the pace to third place.

The three began the round tied for the lead at 67.

The purse for the four-day, 10-player event is $2.3 million, including $1 million for the winner. The last-place finisher will get $70,000.

Trailing Hoch were three more Americans: Chip Beck at 142 after a 70; Don Pooley at even-par 144 after a 71, and Scott Simpson at 147 after a 75.

Scotland’s Sandy Lyle shot 73 for a two-day total of 148; American Ken Green was at 149 after a 77; defending champion Fulton Allem of South Africa shot 75 for a 151 total, and American Andy Bean continued to struggle with a 74 to follow his opening-day 81.

Play on the back nine of the 7,665-yard course at the Sun City gambling-and-sports resort was halted for nearly an hour by a heavy thunderstorm.

Frost, with 33s on both the front and back nine, came within one shot of the course record held jointly by Seve Ballesteros of Spain and Fuzzy Zoeller.

Ballesteros won the Million Dollar event in 1983 and 1984. But he, like many other well-known players, decided to pass up the tournament as pressure mounted to support an international sports boycott protesting South Africa’s racial segregation policies.