ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. -- Bud Cauley has the same good vibes at Sea Island, even if the stakes are different this time. The McGladrey Classic is where Cauley did well enough to secure his PGA Tour card, joining an elite list of players who went from college to a full tour card without going to Q-school. Now hes after his first win, and Cauley took a big step Thursday by overpowering the course for an 8-under 62. It was his best score on the tour, and it gave him a share of the lead with Marco Dawson. Winning is about all thats left for Cauley, the 22-year-old who left Alabama after his junior season. He already has made over $1.7 million this year, and has moved up to No. 55 in the world. "Obviously, Ive thought about winning every tournament Ive teed up in this year," Cauley said. "Its been a long year, and although Ive played a lot this year, I havent won. Its still a goal of mine, but Im not thinking about that while Im out there, or putting any more pressure on myself this week. The season is kind of wining down. It would be great to win here." Dawson is in a more desperate position. The McGladrey Classic is the penultimate PGA Tour event on the schedule that counts toward the money list, and Dawson is at No. 216 with only $62,026 in 20 tournaments. The top 125 earn full cards for next year, so Dawson likely has to win to avoid a return to Q-school. His year has gone so badly that Dawson doesnt even look at the money list. "Im so far away from it that the only thing I can do is just try and play well," Dawson said. "And when I am playing well, just to keep it going instead of kind of messing it up like I have during the year." Two guys on the bubble -- Boo Weekley (No. 121) and Rod Pampling (No. 124) joined Greg Owen at 64. Ryder Cup captain Davis Love III, the tournament host, was in a group at 65 that included Sea Island neighbour Zach Johnson, David Toms and Camilo Villegas, who is No. 152 on the money list. Jim Furyk shot 66 in his first event since the Ryder Cup. Dawson had a chance to mess up even a great day. He twice had to take penalty strokes after errant tee shots on his last six holes and wound up losing only one shot. He took his lone bogey on the fourth hole, and then his tee shot on the par-5 seventh hit a tree and went into the water. Dawson took his drop, played 100 yards short of the green, hit wedge to 25 feet and holed the putt for par. Cauley didnt have too many issues like that. He didnt have a par putt longer than 4 feet, and the slight kid from Jacksonville, Fla., pounded one tee shot after another, setting up wedges into many of the greens. He ran off four birdies in a five-hole stretch on the back nine that carried him to a 29. "There were a couple of shorter holes where if you get in the fairway, you have wedges in your hand. And I really just hit good shots, drove the ball in the fairway and put wedges in my hand," he said. "Just hit good wedge shots and put the ball in the right spot on the green to leave myself pretty easy putts." For so many other players, there is nothing easy about this week. Weekley doesnt pay attention to details. Remember, this is the guy who once asked Paul Lawrie how he qualified for the British Open when it returned to Carnoustie -- where Lawrie made history with his wild, 10-shot comeback against Jean Van de Velde. Weekley, though, could tell you exactly where he is on the money list. He is aware that he has to play well in the last two weeks to make sure he has a full job next year, and he responded Thursday. Trying to lighten the mood on the course, he talked endlessly with his caddie about fishing. And it helps to be playing a coastal course off the Atlanta, for Weekley has won twice at Hilton Head, just up the coast in South Carolina. "Its been a long time coming," Weekley said. "I finally started making some putts, and Ive been hitting the ball good, pretty good the last two weeks, and finally today the putts showed up, so hoping I carry it on this week." Pampling can speak from experience. A year ago, he missed the cut in the final event at Disney and still wound up at No. 125 to keep his card. A year later, hes back in the same spot. For such an idyllic resort as Sea Island, theres an awful lot of stress inside the ropes. "It hasnt been a lot of fun the last few years," Pampling said. "Ive been playing good, but I havent score. And its all down to the putting. Nothing is going in." He made plenty of putts on the back nine, where he shot 30. That was soothing. The conditions never changed much during the day, and the course that usually is protected by wind was vulnerable. The lone defence was the greens, which are fast enough that even lag putts seem to run out 4 or 5 feet beyond the hole. More than half of the 132-man field -- 86 players -- broke par. Former U.S. Amateur champion Danny Lee was another reminder that this week isnt peaceful for everyone. Lee is No. 167, with time running out, so he was pleased with his start -- in the round and in the tournament. He already was 5 under through seven holes with an eagle at the par-5 seventh, though he didnt make up much ground from there. Even so, the 65 follows a strong week in California when he tied for 16th. "It feels like I got fire on my (behind) right now," Lee said. "Just want to maintain this because I want to play on the PGA Tour for a long, long time. Top 150 you still get into a few events, so thats what Im actually looking at right now. But after this round, it might turn around." Nike Air Max 90 Mujer España . Jorien ter Mors set an Olympic-record time of one minute 53.51 seconds to win her first Olympic gold medal. Ter Mors just missed a short track medal Saturday, finishing fourth in the 1,500m. A... 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"It seems like the whole year has been tinkering," Verlander said.When that victorious Chelsea side walked off the pitch at the Britannia Stadium on December 22, no one could have dare imagine what was to unfold across the Barclays Premier League over the course of the next 10 days as a crestfallen Chelsea team exited White Hart Lane Thursday signifying the conclusion of the BPL festive season. From the sheer joy for Manchester City as they climbed to the summit, through to the absolute pain for Liverpool as Steven Gerrard announced he would be taking his Anfield bow at seasons end, this has been anything but a holiday for the league which keeps on giving. In this era of constant change, which demands instant success, surprisingly we went into the Boxing Day fixtures with the same cast of managers we had begun the season with. To put this into a clearer perspective, the last time this happened, you have to go all the way back to the 1995-96 season when on January 2, Derby County fired their manager. This time, the axe finally fell off course on Neil Warnock whose Crystal Palace had only managed three victories in the 16 matches the 66-year old Englishman was in charge. The club had seen more than they could take following a Boxing Day reversal at Selhurst Park. No surprise for the London bookies, who had installed Warnock as favourite for the chop. The only surprise was his appointment at Palace in the first place. Warnocks CV includes guiding two of his previous clubs to the horrors of BPL relegation. Victors in southeast London Boxing Day, Southampton rediscovered their BPL mojo over the holidays and to me, were the best performing club over this defining period. The club had gone into the Palace match in a tailspin, managing only a single win in six matches. All that early season guile and promise where Southampton were an unbridled joy to watch as they cemented a position in the top four, had all but vanished come early November. The Saints went marching on over the holidays as they destroyed Palace, were fully deserving of a point against Chelsea and then, on New Years Day, dismantled a rejuvenated Arsenal and in doing so, rightfully restored their position amongst the BPL elite. The two Manchester clubs had gone into the holidays as the two best teams in the league. Following the festive folly, the red half enter the New Year with more questions than answers. Whereas their noisy neighbours reminded us once again why they, unlike no other club in recent seasons, know how to ride the roller coaster ways of the BPL. The current champions were given up as genuine title contenders in November, as a rampant Chelsea opened up a seemingly insurmountable eight-point gap at the top. The only thing that separates the two clubs now is name only. If that scenario of identical records was to present itself at seasons end, it would result in a one-off match to decide the destination of the title. Not sure thats what league CEO Peter Scudamore envisioned when, just a few seasons back, discussing plans for adding that so termed, 39th game of the season. What though can we make of Chelseas Holiday Horribulus? From Invincibles to Invisibles quicker than Mourinho can blame the referees as his over-active mind invents conspiracy theories and anti-Chelsea campaigns are the root and cause that Chelseas procession to the title is in tatters after the thoroughly deserved walloping they took against Tottenham Thursday. Following this weekends traditional BPL break for the FA Cup third round, all the headlines leading into Newcastles visit to Stamford Bridge January 10th will all be about a highly improbable season double. If that comes too be, we can well imagine Mourinho will lay fault with the fixture scheduler.dddddddddddd Chelsea have been perfect to date at Stamford Bridge, its their lack of success away from home that has been their undoing. May 24 is when we will really discover how vital Frank Lampards New Years Day winner was, let alone how valuable his late equalizer against his old club was back in late September. Fridays hilarious quote from Arsene Wenger that he hasnt yet counted out his club from being title contenders from a position of 13 points back almost tops the classic bon mots from Louis Van Gaal following Manchester Uniteds scoreless draw at White Hart Lane on December 28. The Dutchman described the second half against Spurs as a struggle for life, his way of criticizing the league for scheduling matches 48 hours apart, something UEFA and FIFA would not ever allow he reminded us. Welcome to England, Louis. If LVG is struggling to understand why his team that had ￡150m [$275m] lavished on it in the summer only managed to collect five of the nine holiday points on offer, which included a mighty fortunate draw with Stoke Thursday, I suggest the greatest thing to happen to Manchester since the Smiths texts his opposite number at Burnley, Sean Dyche. The budget for Manchester Uniteds Christmas Party likely dwarfed the entire transfer budget handed to Dyche last spring following Burnleys promotion. Yet, here was a team that followed up Boxing Days underserved home reversal against Liverpool with that now famous fight back at the Etihad some 48 hours after trudging off the Turf Moor pitch. Down by two goals to a rampant Manchester City at halftime, through sheer will and determination, Burnley not only salvaged a point, it was they in the closing minutes who seemed the team more likely to find the winner. The only conclusion to be drawn is that 48 hours in Manchester must have flown by in a New York minute for Van Gaal. Which leads us rather aptly into one of the biggest headlines over the festive season, the confirmation on New Years Eve that Frank Lampards stay at the Etihad was extended through the end of the season; even longer perhaps if Manuel Pellegrini gets his way which is sure to ruffle more stateside feathers. This, though, pails into complete insignificance with the news on Liverpools website less than 24 hours later of Steven Gerrards Anfield departure come seasons end. As much disagreement and debate abounds on who has been the best foreigner in history to grace the English Premier League, there is no doubt on who is the greatest ever player in league history not to win a title. At least on two occasions, the native Liverpudlian spurned highly lucrative offers to leave a club he joined as a youth player in 1987 in search of adding more trophies to his personal collection. Steven Gerrards real place and impact at and for Liverpool will only truly be known years after he finally hangs up his BPL boots, which will happen May 24 when Liverpool visit Stoke. Most poignantly, 24 hours later, the five-time European Champions celebrate the 10th anniversary of Istanbul - one of the most remarkable of improbable achievements in the entire 150-year history of the beautiful game. Surely no one, not even the self-ordained Special 1, would begrudge Gerrard or his club a place at this seasons FA Cup Final on May 30 and in doing so, allow the curtain to drop on Gerrards Liverpool career at the venue of so many triumphs for his club through their history. Wembley Stadium truly is Liverpools second home. Noel.Butler@BellMedia.ca @TheSoccerNoel on Twitter cheap jerseys wholesale jerseys ' ' '