Charlie Wi Hold

Charlie Wi Hold, If Charlie Wi can hold on to the three-stroke lead he has heading into Sunday’s finale of the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, he’ll break the two-tourney streak of final-round meltdowns by front-runners and do something he’s never done on the PGA Tour: win.

The 40-year-old from South Korea by way of California owns eight professional victories but has yet to notch one on U.S. soil. To sock away that maiden PGA title, Wi will have to block out the bad-luck collapses by Kyle Stanley and Spencer Levin at the Farmers Insurance Open and Phoenix Open, respectively; keep a trio of superstars at bay; and overcome his own self-doubts.

“I’m sure I’ll be fighting my demons all day and it’s how I handle myself tomorrow,” Wi told reporters after Saturday’s flawless 3-under 69 at Spyglass Hill put him at 15-under for the week — just four shots ahead of Tiger Woods and six better than Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson. “It’s not what other players are doing. It’s how I handle myself tomorrow that is going to determine the outcome of the tournament.”

Marion Jones

Marion Jones:Ex-sprinter Marion Jones plans switch to basketball Jones made a tearful statement outside New York’s federal court in 2007

Disgraced sprinter Marion Jones is in basketball training with a view to playing in the women’s NBA.

Jones left prison in September last year after serving a six-month sentence for lying about steroid use and involvement in a drugs fraud case.

Reports state that the 34-year-old has been working on her skills in San Antonio since October.

“It would be an interesting journey if I decided to do this,” Jones told the New York Times.

“It would give me an opportunity to share my message to young people on a bigger platform, it would give me an opportunity to get a second chance.”

How can I use my experience, my story, to help people and in the process hop on this journey of trying to make a team?

Marion Jones

Jones played college basketball at North Carolina, where she was the starting point guard on their national championship team in 1994.

She also told the New York Times that she hopes to play in Europe this winter and in the WNBA next season.

“It’s important for people to know that it’s possible to make a mistake in your life, but it’s what you do after the mistake that people are going to remember you by,” she added.

“Are you going to make whatever negatives that happened in your life a positive? Are you going to disappear? That has certainly never been in my horizon.

“How can I use my experience, my story, to help people and in the process hop on this journey of trying to make a team?”

San Antonio Silver Stars coach Dan Hughes says he has not yet been told by his assistants whether Jones has the ability to play in the WNBA, but praised her for trying.

“I deal with people where they are right now,” he said. “If she’s interested in playing, great for her. The past is the past.”

In October 2007, Jones admitted lying to investigators that she took the banned anabolic steroid tetrahydrogestrinone (THG) before the Games.

The United States athlete pleaded guilty to two charges of perjury and admitted to using the drug between September 2000 to July 2001.

Jones also pleaded guilty to lying to federal investigators in 2003 about a separate cheque fraud case involving her former boyfriend, sprinter Tim Montgomery.

She was sentenced in January 2008 by a federal judge in New York and went to prison on 7 March last year.

Jones was stripped of the five medals she won at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and retired from athletics after being given two-year ban by the International Association of Athletics Federations.