Golf

WORLD MATCHPLAY CHAMPIONSHIP
(Wentworth, England)

36-hole first round: 5-Darren Clarke (Britain) level with Nick Faldo (Britain) after 36 holes, match resuming overnight (NZ time), 8-Padraig Harrington (Ireland) bt Bob May (US) 6 and 5, Retief Goosen (S Africa) bt 7-Thomas Bjorn (Denmark) 5 and 4, 6-Sergio Garcia (Spain) bt Adam Scott (Australia) 2 and 1.

Second round draw: Harrington v 1-Colin Montgomerie (Britain), Clarke or Faldo v 4-Vijay Singh (Fiji), Garcia v 3-Lee Westwood (Britain), Goosen v 2-Ernie Els (S Africa).

MICHELOB CHAMPIONSHIP
(Williamsburg, Virginia)

US unless specified.-

66: Cameron Beckman, Robert Damron, J P Hayes, Sean Murphy, Steve Pate

67: Billy Andrade, Keith Clearwater, Frank Lickliter, Perry Moss, Kevin Sutherland

68: Woody Austin, Michael Bradley, Jason Buha, Tom Byrum, Jason Caron, John Cook, Scott Dunlap, Robin Freeman, Kelly Gibson, Bradley Hughes (Australia), John Huston, Blaine McCallister, David Sutherland, David Toms, Richard Zokol (Canada)

Also.-

70: Grant Waite (NZ)

72:Frank Nobilo (NZ)

JUNIOR BOYS INTERPROVINCIAL
(Lochiel, Hamilton)

Final points: Auckland 13 1, Waikato 11 (51 1/2 games) 2, BoP 11 (39) 3, North Harbour 9 4, Manawatu-Wanganui 6 5, Northland 3 6, Hawkes Bay 2 7, Taranaki 1 8.