Sonoma, Calif. ? Gil Morgan is totally focused on preserving his Champions Tour winning streak. Jay Haas’ mind is wandering to Alabama – and Loren Roberts is just grateful to win a few mind games with the course at the Charles Schwab Cup Championship.

Morgan shot a steady 3-under 69 Friday, while Roberts had a wild ride to the same score as they matched Lonnie Nielsen atop the board at Sonoma Golf Club after the second round of the tour’s season-ending event.

Morgan, Roberts and Nielsen are at 6-under 138 – but with 20 players within four strokes of the lead, all of the lucrative prizes up for grabs this weekend still are quite available.

“I’m surprised somebody hasn’t broken loose,” said Roberts, who made three birdies in his final six holes to offset consecutive bogeys early on the back nine. “That’s the way both days have been. You get started, and then fall off and have to regroup. … It’s a really good golf course that you have to think your way around.”

Haas joined Tom Watson, Craig Stadler and Jerry Pate among six golfers just one stroke behind the leaders after what’s expected to be the only drizzly day on Sonoma’s unforgiving rough and clever layouts.

“Nobody seems to be getting too far away, so I like my position,” said Haas, 3 under for the day.

Haas is more worried about his son, Bill, who entered the weekend 21st on the Nationwide Tour’s money list – with the top 21 finishers getting PGA Tour cards.

Bill Haas was in seventh place Friday in Prattville, Ala., just five strokes off the lead – and his old man stayed updated with phone calls from his wife, verbal updates from his caddy and a bunch of text messages, though his 13-year-old son had to help with those.

“We talked last night, and I’m just trying to keep it light,” Jay Haas said. “He obviously knows. I don’t have to tell him what it means. It’s a tough course, (but) I think it’s right up his alley.”

Morgan, the Oklahoma optometrist, is one of the most consistent, successful players in the senior tour’s history, winning 23 events – including one in each of his first nine years on the Champions Tour. Though he’s sixth on the money list with three second-place finishes, he hasn’t won yet in 2005.

“It’s got to end at some point in time,” Morgan said of his streak, second only to Hale Irwin’s current streak of 11 years. “I might as well get ready for it one way or another.”

Morgan seems cool about it, but said the streak has been on his mind “since the first event” of the year.

Nielsen, the first-round leader who never has won on the Champions Tour, made three straight bogeys on the front nine, followed by two birdies in the final three – including a 51-foot birdie putt at 18 for an even 72.

Bruce Fleisher and Ireland’s Des Smyth also are just one stroke off the lead. Dana Quigley, the Champions Tour’s money leader and the top man in the season-long Schwab Cup points competition, double-bogeyed the 16th to fall to 4 under for the tournament.

Montgomerie nears title

Sotogrande, Spain – Colin Montgomerie moved closer to his eighth European Tour money title and took the outright lead in the Volvo Masters with a 5-under 66 Friday.

U.S. Open champion Michael Campbell, the only player who can spoil Montgomerie’s Order of Merit title bid, carded a 69. Montgomerie was 9 under at 133, eight shots ahead of the New Zealander.

Campbell must rally in the final 36 holes to keep Montgomerie from topping the money list for the first time since the Scot won the last of his seven straight titles in 1999.

Ian Poulter of England, who shared the first-round lead with Montgomerie and played with him Friday, carded a 68. He was two shots off the lead, tied with Sergio Garcia of Spain, who had a 67.

Montgomerie made a fast start by collecting birdies on three of the first four holes. He birdied three more holes on the back nine but bogeyed the 10th and 18th, where he missed a par putt of 4 feet.

“I played great tee to green but I had a few silly holes,” Campbell said. “Monty is up there doing his stuff again, but I can’t control what he does. I can just control my own destiny.”

Lee leads LPGA event

Jeju, South Korea – South Korean Jee Young Lee shot a 7-under 65 on Friday to take a two-stroke lead over compatriot Jeong Jang and Swede Carin Koch after the first round of the LPGA Tour’s CJ Nine Bridges Classic.

Annika Sorenstam shot a 75, bogeying four of her first 14 holes – two of them par 5s – before making her lone birdie on No. 15.