WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP GOLF Chand, Singh put Fiji in lead

The United States team of Phil Mickelson and David Toms is seven strokes back.
PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico (AP) -- Dinesh Chand used to caddie for Vijay Singh, and now they're trying to win a world championship together.
Chand and the 2000 Masters champion shot a 10-under-par 62 Friday to give Fiji the lead at the World Cup. Singh and Chand are 19-under through two rounds of the two-man event.
Chand, who plays on the Japanese Tour, made birdie putts of 8, 10 and 5 feet on the final three holes to give Fiji a one-shot lead over first round leader Canada and defending champion South Africa.
Others
Canada's team of Mike Weir and Ian Leggatt shot 67 on Friday, while South Africans Rory Sabbatini and Tim Clark shot 64 in the alternating shot format. The teams return to best ball play today.
The top-seeded American team of Phil Mickelson and David Toms managed only an even-par 36 on the front side and avoided sliding farther down on the standings by making five birdies on the back nine. They still trailed Fiji by seven shots.
"We're a good ways back, but we're not an uncatchable ways back," said Mickelson, who continues to struggle with the Bermuda greens. "Tomorrow will be a big day for us. We need to shoot 13, 14-under-par and we'll be able to make up some good ground."
Winning results
Singh and Chand had 11 birdies and one bogey. Singh, the No. 7 ranked player in the world, said his lesser known partner carried the day.
"I think his golf game is a lot better than people think it is," Singh said. "I think he's going to be a good player in the future."
Chand's play this week indicates he's well on his way. He certainly isn't lacking in confidence.
"I try to play better than Vijay every time I play with him, which I have for the last two days," he said. "I'm a good putter."
South Africa won last year's event in Japan with the team of Ernie Els and Retief Goosen, and Sabbatini and Clark kept their country's bid for a repeat in good shape.
"I'm sure because Ernie and Retief aren't here, people were expecting us not to do so well," Sabbatini said. "Hey, we are not the top 10 players in the world here, but Tim and I have been playing golf together since we were 8 years old. We know each other's game."
Mickelson, at No.2, and Toms, at No. 5, are two of the world's best but their slow start left the U.S team in a tie for 13th place in the 24-team field with Argentina and Myanmar, the latter country also known as Burma and hardly a household name in international golf competition.
Mickelson and Toms birdied Nos. 10 through 13 -- all on putts by Toms. Mickelson's only birdie putt was at the par-4 16th, where he knocked in a 20-footer from the fringe.
The Americans could have been closer, but Mickelson missed a 5-footer for birdie at No. 14 and lipped out another birdie putt at 15.