Nick Price of Zimbabwe had four birdies in the final six holes for a 5-under-par 67 and took a 3-shot lead Friday at the halfway stage of the Million Dollar Golf Challenge.
Former world No. 1 Nick Faldo took a horrendous 45 on the front nine and Ernie Els said the Gary Player Country Club course was set up too tough, but Price, who was able to conquer the layout, had a 36-hole total of 6-under 138.Sharing second at 141 were Americans Tom Lehman and Corey Pavin and Germany's Bernhard Langer. Lehman carded a 70, Pavin a 72 and Langer a 69.
Next at 142 was Scotland's Sam Torrance after a 73, with Els at par 144 after a second successive 72.
Price showed the form of 1993 when he won the Million Dollar event with a record low 264.
He played the front nine in par 36, bogeying the first, recovering with a birdie at the second, then collecting seven pars in a row.
But he sizzled on the back nine with a 31, including birdies at the 10th, 13th, 15th, 17th and 18th.
At Tarpon Springs, Fla., Laura Davies and Mark McCumber say they make a perfect match on the golf course. It showed Friday with a 6-under-par 67 in the modified alternate stroke play second round of the JCPenney Mixed-Team Classic.
"I've got an aggressive mindset," McCumber said. "And we're both on the same wavelength. If two players have conflicting styles it can cause some uneasiness. But I just kind of giggle when she pulls out the driver. I think it's neat."
Davies and McCumber are 14 under for the two rounds at the Innisbrook Resort Copperhead Course, one stroke in front of Val Skinner and Jay Delsing, who also had a 67 Friday.
Five teams were tied for third, another stroke back. Of that group, Carin Hjalmarsson and Doug Martin had the best round Friday, a 64, while Vicki Goetze and Steve Stricker and Barb Thomas and Steve Jones had 65s.
The third round of the $1.3 million, 72-hole event will be a best-ball format. The winning team will share $320,000.
Davies and McCumber had seven birdies in the second round.
At Sydney, Australia, former tennis player Jean-Louis Guepy shot the best tournament score in Australia in three years Friday, a 10-under-par 63, in the second round of the Greg Norman Holden Classic on Friday.
Guepy, a 28-year-old from New Caledonia in the South Pacific, had a 133 total for 36 holes and moved one shot behind leader Australian Craig Parry, who fired a 67.
New Zealanders Michael Campbell and Frank Nobilo were two strokes off the pace.
American Brad Faxon shot a 70 Friday and was six strokes behind Parry, while Greg Norman was seven off the pace, even after a 67.
British Open champion John Daly shot a 71 and survived the cut by one shot. It took a curling 4-yard par putt on the 18th to get him through.
At Inagi, Japan, Jumbo Ozaki had an eagle and two birdies over the last five holes Friday and fired a 5-under-par 67 Friday to move one-shot into the lead after two rounds of the Golf Nippon Series.
Ozaki, who started the second round one shot behind Shigeki Maruyama, had a 36-hole total of 133.