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PORT ST. LUCIE, Florida: Daniel Chopra, Fredrik
Jacobson and Shigeki Maruyama were tied for the lead in the Ginn
Classic on Sunday when the final round was halted by darkness.
The trio will have to return on
Monday morning to battle for the title in the $4.5-million event,
which was thrown off schedule by heavy rains earlier in the week.
Sweden’s Chopra and Jacobson
and Japan’s Maruyama were all at 18-under par, Maruyama and
Jacobson through 16 holes and Chopra through 15.
Dicky Pride was in the clubhouse
on 16-under 267, after a nine-under 64 in the fourth round.
Chopra, seeking his first US tour
win, moved as low as 19-under through eight holes—when he led
Maruyama by three strokes.
But he had given back two shots
on the back nine when play was stopped.
“It was a tough back nine,”
Chopra said. “I missed a putt on the tenth hole. I didn’t feel
very comfortable after that. It was all a bit of a struggle. And I
got some horrible lies in the rough. I got a couple of weak drives
and managed to get up and down on the greens to keep myself where
I’m at.”
Chopra had to play seven holes
early Sunday to complete his third round, and he went into the final
round with a two-stroke edge.
 --AFP
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