21.   Former Natal amateur champion Warren Schutte also hammered home six birdies in the first half of his round.

22.   Garcia, the European amateur champion, finished on level par in the Spanish Open two months ago.

23.   Garcia, the British amateur champion, last Sunday became the first European to win the Masters amateur category in Augusta, Georgia.

24.   He is a former world amateur champion who is especially good in mountainous stages.

25.   It was just the third knockout for the light-hitting German, a former European amateur champion making his ninth IBF title defense.

26.   Juarez, a world amateur featherweight champion, will box Pascali Adorno of Puerto Rico.

27.   Macho Junior is a U.S. amateur boxing champion.

28.   Park is a former U.S. amateur champion who has Tiger-like length that enables her to overpower courses.

29.   Payne Stewart, who has won two majors, and former U.S. amateur champion Justin Leonard are another stroke back.

30.   The cyclists stayed grouped together most of the afternoon, with the lone prolonged breakaway by world amateur champion Danny Nelissen of the Netherlands.