BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Japanese-born New Zealander Kazuma Kobori finished his round with four consecutive birdies for an 8-under 63 Friday to take a one-stroke lead into the third round of the Australian PGA Championship.
Kobori, who won the 2019 New Zealand PGA Championship, had a two-round total of 10-under 132 at Royal Queensland. He had a hole-in-one during his first round.
Australian Brett Rankin, who shot 69 Friday, was among a group tied for second. Rankin completed his first round earlier in the day due to a thunderstorm suspension on Thursday.
Sebastian Garcia of Spain, who led Rankin by one stroke after the first round, had a 72 Friday and was three strokes behind.
Marco Penge, who won three times on the European tour this year and is the tournament’s highest-ranked player at No. 30, shot 65 Friday and was also three strokes off the lead.
Former British Open champion and LIV Tour regular Cameron Smith shot 75 and missed a seventh straight cut.
“I don’t know, I just don’t know. I was so confused," Smith, who was playing in his home state of Queensland, said. “I was feeling good, really confident and just couldn’t get anything going."
The tournament is co-sanctioned by the PGA Tour of Australia and the European tour, which is starting its 2025-26 season just two weeks after Rory McIlroy won the Race to Dubai title.
McIlroy will highlight the field in next week's Australian Open at Royal Melbourne beginning Dec. 4.
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Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland poses Race to Dubai trophy in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
TRONDHEIM, Norway (AP) — Olympic cross country skiing champion Jessie Diggins of the United States earned her 30th World Cup victory by winning a 20-kilometer skiathlon on Saturday.
The 34-year-old Diggins has won three Olympic medals, including the first cross country Olympic gold medal for the United States with teammate Kikkan Randall in 2018. She is planning to retire at the end of the 2025-26 season.
The Minnesota native started her final season last week in Ruka, Finland.
She’ll compete in the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics in February and end her career at the Stifel Lake Placid Finals in Lake Placid, New York, from March 19-22.
Diggins first made the national team in 2011. She won her first individual World Cup race in 2016. Her upcoming Olympic trip will be her fourth.
Diggins has won three FIS crystal globes and has seven world championship medals.
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United States' Jessie Diggins, center, winner of a women's cross-country 20km Skiathlon Classic/Free celebrates with second-placed Norway's Heidi Weng, left, and third-placed Sweden's Ebba Andersson during the Cross-Country skiing World Cup, in Trondheim, Norway, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025. (Geir Olsen/NTB Scanpix via AP)
United States' Jessie Diggins competes in a women's cross-country 20km Skiathlon Classic/Free during the Cross-Country skiing World Cup races in Trondheim, Norway, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025. (Geir Olsen/NTB Scanpix via AP)
United States' Jessie Diggins crosses the finish line to win a women's cross-country 20km Skiathlon Classic/Free during the Cross-Country skiing World Cup races in Trondheim, Norway, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025. (Geir Olsen/NTB Scanpix via AP)
United States' Jessie Diggins celebrates winning a women's cross-country 20km Skiathlon Classic/Free during the Cross-Country skiing World Cup races in Trondheim, Norway, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025. (Geir Olsen/NTB Scanpix via AP)
