LA QUINTA, calif. — The PGA Tour’s Humana Challenge suspended play midway through the third round Saturday after high winds caused damage on all three courses, toppling trees, blowing balls off the greens and knocking a scoreboard into a lake.
The tournament will resume third-round play this morning with Mark Wilson holding a three-stroke lead over Ben Crane.
Wilson is at 21-under par for the tournament after going 5-under through 15 holes at the La Quinta Country Club course, which had the most damage. Crane was 2-under through 12 holes at La Quinta.
• Dan Forsman had six back-nine birdies for a 7-under 65 and a two-stroke lead after the second round of the Champions Tour’s season-opening Mitsubishi Championship in Kaupulehu-Kona, Hawaii.
Forsman, a two-time winner on the 50-and-older tour, had a 12-under 132 total. Brad Bryant had the day’s low round, an 8-under 64, to match 2010 champion Tom Watson (65) and Jeff Sluman (66) at 10-under.
• Branden Grace of South Africa fell into a tie for the lead at the Volvo Golf Champions with Nicolas Colsaerts (69) of Belgium after shooting a 2-over 75 in a wet and windy third round in George, South Africa.
Cuche wins Hahnenkamm downhill
KITZBUEHEL, Austria — Didier Cuche of Switzerland used his last visit to the Hahnenkamm downhill to earn a record fifth victory on one of the World Cup’s most challenging courses.
Cuche, who announced his retirement at the end of the season two days ago, overtook Austrian great Franz Klammer, who won the Hahnenkamm downhill four times in the 1970s and 1980s. He beat Austrians Romed Baumann and Klaus Kroell by 0.24 and 0.30 seconds, respectively.
B Tessa Worley of France won a World Cup giant slalom in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, after first-run leader Elisabeth Goergl of Austria crashed at the bottom of the second run.
World Cup leader Lindsey Vonn finished fourth, just missing the podium by three-hundredths of a second despite a spectacular recovery to prevent a crash near the end of the race.
Knee injury will keep Krieger out of Olympics
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — U.S. women’s national soccer team defender Ali Krieger is likely to miss the London Olympics after injuring her right knee during a qualifying match.
An MRI revealed torn anterior cruciate and medial collateral ligaments. The team said she will require six to eight months of rehabilitation. Krieger was injured in the first half of the Americans’ 14-0 win over the Dominican Republic on Friday.
• Ricardo Clark headed home Jermaine Jones‘ corner kick in the seventh minute of stoppage time to give the United States men’s team to a 1-0 victory over Venezuela in a friendly in Glendale, Ariz.
Footnotes
Shani Davis won his first World Cup speedskating gold medal of the season (in the 1,000- meter race) at the long track event at the Utah Olympic Oval in Kearns, while Canada’s Christine Nesbitt stayed perfect in the 1,000 this season.
• Spain’s Alejandro Valverde won the fifth and longest stage of the Tour Down Under cycling race in Adelaide, Australia, to remain in position to race for the overall victory in his return from a two-year doping ban.
• Pitcher Daniel Bard and the Boston Red Sox reached agreement on a one-year contract worth $1,612,500 and avoided salary arbitration.
