Theres the golfing wilderness and then theres where Newcastle battler James Nitties has emerged from to snare the Australian Open halfway lead at Royal Sydney.Ive been everywhere. Its been a pretty rough last three years, Nitties said after producing a spectacular homeward-nine 29 in a seven-under-par 65 on Friday to burst from the pack with the equal-low round.I lost my Web.com card last year, which I was on the for the last five years, the world No.732 said.Spent four years doing mini-tours and qualifiers in America so I suppose you could say Ive been spending a lot of money.So much money the 34-year-old had to sell up in the US, then give up his apartment in Dallas to his girlfriend so he could return home to stay with his mum and play pro-ams to keep his competitive juices flowing.Youve been on the PGA Tour and you competed on the Web, Nitties said of the drive to keep going.My game hasnt really changed much but youre staying in hotels which have cockroaches running around.Its fine when youre a junior and when you just turn pro. Its exciting.As you get older and you experience more, its a real battle.(But) for me its just a way to compete. Its not a fun feeling but a lot of people have middle-class jobs and they have to work 60 hours a week.If I can just work really hard for four hours and get something out of it, it really changes the perspective that you have.Nitties is nine under for the championship and one stroke ahead of New Zealander Ryan Fox, who recorded a second-straight 68.US-based Lismore product Rhein Gibson had enjoyed the clubhouse lead all afternoon until Fox birdied the last hole, then Nitties leapfrogged the son of All Blacks legend Grant Fox with an even more impressive finishing flurry.Adam Scott is lurking ominously three shots back in a five-way share of fourth place after carding a seven-birdie, one-eagle 65 in the perfect morning scoring conditions to match Nitties career round.The former world No.1 has company at six under with first-round co-leader Curtis Luck, the steely 20-year-old amateur who recovered from four dropped shots mid-round to shoot a respectable 71.In-form veteran Rod Pampling (67), big-hitting Todd Sinnott (68) and exciting 20-year-old Lucas Herbert (71) are also at six under.Two-time major champion Jordan Spieth is well poised a further shot back after a round of 70 undermined by a double bogey on the par-four 15th hole.Really, it was just the putter that needs improvement. Im still in it feeling like Ive been brainless on the greens, Spieth said.Normally (its) a stronghold of mine, so I can take that as confidence because I believe that itll be there once the weekend comes around. Vapormax Off White Acheter . Now that hes hitting streaking teammates with pin-point passes for easy layups, Love is asserting himself as one of the true superstars in the league. Vapormax Nere Pas Cher . Brazilian national coach Luiz Felipe Scolari has confirmed that the veteran goalkeeper is set to join Toronto on loan, saying it will help him be ready for the World Cup. http://www.vapormaxsolde.fr/basket-vapormax-femme-grossiste.html . Patrice Bergeron and Daniel Paille scored 20 seconds apart a few minutes after Stamkos was taken off the ice on a stretcher with a broken right leg, and the Bruins beat the Lightning 3-0 on Monday afternoon. Vapormax Homme France . Speaking to the Chicago Tribune at baseballs Winter Meetings in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, Boras called the former home of the Expos a "tremendous environment" for baseball. Vapormax Plus Pas Cher Chaussur . -- The St. Johns IceCaps weathered a wild first period with the help of goaltender Jussi Olkinuora, before finding offensive inroads in the second.Mason, OH (Sports Network) - Former world No. 1 Victoria Azarenka was an easy third-round winner at the $2.37 million Western & Southern Open, a hardcourt U.S. Open tune-up. The second-seeded Belarusian star, the reigning Australian Open champion and U.S. Open runner-up, handled Slovak and recent Washington, D.C., titlist Magdalena Rybarikova, 6-3, 6-4, at the Lindner Family Tennis Center. In a rematch of last years Cincinnati final on Thursday, fifth-seeded and defending champ Li Na beat ninth-seeded German Angelique Kerber, once again, this time by a 6-4, 6-4 margin. Meanwhile, a Day-4 upset came when 12th-seeded Roberta Vinci toppled her goood friend and doubles partner Sara Errani, this weeks sixth seed, by a 6-4, 6-3 score.dddddddddddd Vinci is now 2-1 versus her higher-ranked compatriot this year and 4-5 lifetime. Vinci upset Errani in a final in Palermo in their native Italy just last month. Former top-ranked Serb Jelena Jankovic, seeded 14th, cut down 14th-seeded American Sloane Stephens, 3-6, 7-5, 7-5. The 2009 Cincy champ and 2011 runner- up Jankovic will face Vinci on Friday. This weeks champion will earn $426,000. The tournament is part of the U.S. Open Series, or the North American hardcourt events that lead up to the U.S. Open, which will commence August 26. ' ' '