Gloom May Turn to Doom at La Jolla

When darkness finally fell on Torrey Pines on Saturday with the third round of the Buick Invitational still unfinished, Steve Pate, Kevin Sutherland, Scott Simpson and Bob Tway were tied for the lead at 11 under par.

They will try again today to finish the suspended round and get in the final round. But even as darkness lowered on the course in La Jolla, storm clouds were rolling in and the threat of another El Nino storm loomed.

Simpson will pick up play with three holes left in the third round. Tway will go back out to the 10th hole, Pate and Sutherland will resume play at No. 9.

Six players, including Davis Love III, were one stroke off the lead and five were at nine under, including Tiger Woods, who has six holes left to play in the third round.

For the tournament to be official, the field must complete 54 holes.

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Jim Albus, trying to win his first title since 1995, shot a two-under 70 and took a four-stroke lead over Raymond Floyd after two rounds of the Senior LG Championship at Naples, Fla.

As cold, cutting winds blew across Bay Colony Golf Club in gusts of more than 30 mph, only 14 players were able to break par and 55 were over par--eight of them in the 80s.

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Greg Norman broke the course record with an eight-under 64 to close to within one stroke of the leader, Jose Maria Olazabal, after three rounds of the Greg Norman International in Sydney, Australia.

Norman trailed Olazabal by seven shots when the round began.

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Ernie Els regained the lead from fellow South African David Frost in the South African Open at Durban by shooting a four-under 68 for a 54-hole total of 204.

Frost, who started the day with a two-stroke lead, shot a 71.