LA QUINTA, Calif. – It’s going to be a rich Sunday morning for someone at the Skins Game.

Aussie Adam Scott won $50,000 and two skins on the second hole Saturday, then he and the more-famous members of the foursome -Tiger Woods, Annika Sorenstam and Fred Couples – left $250,000 out on the golf course during the next seven holes of the made-for-TV tournament.

That means the first hole on Sunday – when it could be cold and windy at Trilogy Golf Club – will be worth eight skins and $300,000. The four will be playing for a total of $950,000 in the final nine holes.

Sorenstam struggled most of the first eight holes in her second Merrill Lynch Skins Game before making the shot that kept Scott from sweeping the first-day skins.

Scott birdied the par-5, 500-yard ninth, meaning someone had to tie him for the $250,000 to carry over to Sunday. It wasn’t going to be Couples, who drove into the rough and then two-putted for par.

Woods missed a 6-foot birdie putt – nothing new for him during the round – before Sorenstam sank a 4-footer to halve the hole.

Woods walked over and hugged Sorenstam, who holed a memorable bunker shot on No. 9 last year to win $175,000.

Scott’s two skins were the fewest won on the first day in the 22-year tournament history. The 24-year-old Skins Game rookie made a 40-foot putt on the par-4, 415-yard second hole to win two skins and $50,000.

Pampling leads by a stroke at Australian Open

SYDNEY, Australia – Australia’s Rod Pampling got off to a rough start and finished with a 3-over-par 74, leaving him one stroke ahead of countryman Richard Green entering the last round of the centennial Australian Open.

Pampling began the third round with a four-stroke lead over Australia’s Kurt Barnes after consecutive 67s. Then he dropped three strokes on the first five holes.

Dodd up by three strokes at China Open

SHANGHAI, China – Stephen Dodd of Wales positioned himself for his first European Tour victory, shooting a 2-under-par 70 for a three-stroke lead after three rounds of the China Open.

Dodd overcame a triple bogey and was at 8-under 208 at the first event of the 2005 PGA European Tour schedule.

Jimenez on top at Korea Championship

JEJU, South Korea – European Ryder Cup player Miguel Angel Jimenez shot a 3-under 69 in windy conditions Saturday to take the third-round lead in the Shinhan Korea Golf Championship, the first PGA Tour-sanctioned Challenge Season event in Asia.

Jimenez, coming off a four-victory season on the European tour, had a 2-under 214 total on the Jungmun course. A day after 40-mph wind sent scores soaring, the Spanish star had six birdies and three bogeys in gusts to 25 mph and temperatures in the 50s.

American Arron Oberholser, who matched the best round Friday with a 73, was a stroke behind Jimenez after a 70. South Korea’s Kevin Na (72) and American Brian Bateman (73) were two shots back at even par.

Irish star Padraig Harrington had a 76 to drop five strokes behind at 3 over.

South Korea’s Yang Eun-yong, the second-round leader at 3 under, shot an 80 to fall to 5 over, and K.J. Choi, the only South Korean player to win on the PGA Tour, was 15 over after a 78.

The winner will receive $1 million from the $3.55 million purse.

AP-ES-11-27-04 0336EST