Chad Campbell shot a 4-under 68 on Friday to take a four-stroke lead after the third round of the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic.
Campbell, coming off a second-place tie last week in the Sony Open in Hawaii, had a 19-under 197 total in the 90-hole event. He had his first bogey of the tournament on his 17th hole of the day, No. 8 on the Arnold Palmer Course at PGA West in Palm Desert, Calif., to end a string of 60 consecutive holes without a bogey.
Scott Verplank (65) and John Senden (68) were tied for second. Phil Mickelson, the 2002 and 2004 winner who is making his first start of the year, had a 68 that left him six shots back at 13 under.
Tom Watson, Loren Roberts and Don Pooley matched the course record with 9-under 63s in calm conditions Friday to share the first-round lead in the Champions Tour's season-opening MasterCard Championship in Kaupulehu, Hawaii.
Annika Sorenstam and Liselotte Neumann shot a 7-under 65 in best-ball play to give the Swedes a share of the first-round lead with South Korea's Meena Lee and Bo Bae Song in the Women's World Cup in Sun City, South Africa.
Taiwan's Amy Hung and Yu-Ping Lin were two strokes back, and Americans Paula Creamer and Natalie Gulbis opened were fourth after a 68.
South Africa's Charl Schwartzel shot a 6-under 66 to take a one-stroke lead in the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Schwartzel had a 9-under 135 total. Denmark's Soren Hansen and Argentina's Ricardo Gonzalez (68) were tied for second, Vijay Singh (68) and Chris DiMarco (67) topped a group at 6 under, and Sergio Garcia (69) was 5 under. John Daly (75) missed the cut.
-- From wire reports
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