He set the record in becoming the oldest 54-hole leader in a major championship ( broken the following year by Tom Watson, also in the Open ) and earned an automatic bid to the 2009 Masters.

Montoya had a solid race at Monaco, inheriting second place 14. 5 seconds behind championship leader Fernando Alonso after Räikkönen and Mark Webber went out with engine problems on lap 50.

Three games into his sophomore season, he became Pitt's all-time leader in career rushing yards, surpassing the old record of 1, 957 yards set by Marshall Goldberg, who helped Pitt to a national championship in 1937.

He had an even better year in 1968 as he was considered the quiet leader of the 1968 World Series championship squad, posting career highs with 25 home runs and 84 RBI, fifth and sixth in the American League respectively.

The reason the team gave for removing the car from the race was a blown engine, however Bonnett was teamed with points leader Dale Earnhardt, and the car was retired to assist Earnhardt in winning the season's championship.

He became the leading contender for the series ' championship after a bad slump knocked points leader Davey Hamilton out of first place.

The next week, Stewart led 173 laps en route to winning the AAA Texas 500 at Texas Motor Speedway, bringing him to within three points of championship points leader Carl Edwards with two races to go in the 2011 season.

With Bremner acting as leader and mentor on the pitch, Leeds entered their halcyon period at the end of the 1960s, winning the League Cup and Fairs Cup in 1968 and the League championship in 1969.

This appeared to be contradicated by a statement from Mohammed Qadhafi, chairman of the Libyan Olympic Committee ( FIDE is affiliated with the IOC ) and son of Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi, that " We Libyans did not and will not invite the Zionist enemy to this championship.

That season, he was the Grays ' leader in home runs ( six, and one in the championship series ) and runs batted in ( 59 ), and second in extra base hits ( 37 ).

The Heat returned to the finals in 2012 against the Oklahoma City Thunder, in a series that had 3-time NBA MVP LeBron James and 3-time NBA scoring leader Kevin Durant, neither of whom had won a championship at the time.

Brooks win allowed him to close to within four points of championship leader, Australian Cooper racer Jack Brabham.

Championship points leader Australian Jack Brabham finished third in works entered Cooper T51, expanding his points lead, but not sufficiently to prevent a championship showdown with Moss and Ferrari driver Tony Brooks at the United States Grand Prix.

While series points leader Jack Brabham stopped with an oil leak in his Brabham BT19 on lap seven, he secured his third world championship, and the unique achievement of becoming world champion in a car of his own make, when his only remaining points rival John Surtees stopped with a fuel leak in his Cooper T81 24 laps later.

The win put Lauda into the lead of the championship for the first time in 1975, passing previous leader Emerson Fittipaldi.

Young Tony Brise was showing little respect for his elders, overtaking Mark Donohue and Ronnie Peterson and then challenging championship leader Emerson Fittipaldi.

The Austrian championship leader was finding overtaking a very difficult prospect indeed.

The race was won by world championship points leader, Austrian driver Niki Lauda driving a Ferrari 312T.

46 seconds further back in third position was world championship points leader, Niki Lauda driving a Ferrari 312T.

Eight laps before Andretti's retirement Chris Amon crashed his Ensign N176 after a suspension failure, allowing championship leader Niki Lauda to move into the position that became third in his Ferrari 312T2.

The Ligiers climbed into the podium positions as championship leader Alan Jones retired his Williams FW07B.

Arnoux became the new championship points leader, five points up on Jones and nine ahead of Piquet.

Piquet won by 28 seconds over championship points leader, Australian driver Alan Jones driving a Williams FW07B.

De Angelis joyfully celebrated his maiden win, while Rosberg had boosted his championship chances despite missing out on his maiden win by such an agonizingly small margin, moving ahead of John Watson into second place in the championship, which was effectively the lead as the official championship leader Didier Pironi was out for the rest of the season with leg injuries.

Mr. Brown, well-known, English-born inventor, prior to founding VecTrol was at various times section leader in radio research at Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd. ; ;

However, due to concerns over the previous Cuban leader Fulgencio Batista the company had started foreign branches a few years prior to the revolution ; the Company moved the ownership of the Company's trademarks, assets and proprietary formulas out of the country to the Bahamas prior to the revolution as well as constructing plants in Puerto Rico and Mexico after the prohibition era to save in import taxes for rum being imported to the US.

After World War II and until 1975, the U. S. Navy defined a " frigate " as a type of surface warship larger than a destroyer and smaller than a cruiser ; in other navies, such a ship generally was referred to as a destroyer leader — hence the U. S. Navy's use of " DL " for " frigate " prior to 1975 — while " frigates " in other navies were smaller than destroyers and more like what the U. S. Navy termed a " destroyer escort ", " ocean escort ", or " DE ".

Following his resignation as Prime Minister, Major briefly became Leader of the Opposition, and Shadow Foreign Secretary ( as Sir Malcolm Rifkind, who was Foreign Secretary prior to the election, had lost his seat ), and remained in this post until the election of William Hague as leader of the Conservative Party in June 1997.

According to the books Exodus, Numbers and Joshua, he became the leader of the Israelite tribes after the death of Moses ; his name was Hoshe ' a the son of Nun, of the tribe of Ephraim, but Moses called him Yehoshu ' a ( Joshua ) () the name by which he is commonly known ; and he was born in Egypt prior to the Exodus, and was probably the same age as Caleb, with whom he is occasionally associated.

He joined the Bolsheviks immediately prior to the 1917 October Revolution, and eventually became a leader within the Party.

In 2001, elections incorporated more safeguards against voter fraud but opposition candidate ( and former leader ) Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidallah was nevertheless arrested prior to election day on charges of planning a coup, released the same day, and rearrested after the election.

Just prior to his death, Hideyoshi hoped to set up a system stable enough to survive until his son grew old enough to become the next leader.

Clay, the party's most prominent congressional leader, was chosen on the first ballot despite having lost two prior presidential elections: in 1824 to John Quincy Adams as a Democrat-Republican, then in 1832 to Andrew Jackson as a National Republican.

Peres succeeded Rabin as party leader prior to the 1977 elections when Rabin stepped down in the wake of a foreign currency scandal involving his wife.

The phrase " leader of the new school ", coined in hip hop by Chuck D in 1988, and presumably given further currency by the group with the exact name Leaders of the New School ( who were named by Chuck D prior to signing with Elektra in 1989 ), remains popular.

Only a general who kills the leader of the opposing army prior to a battle may be honored with taking a spolia opima.

Much of Spokane's park land was acquired by the city prior to World War I, establishing the city early on as a leader among Western cities in the development of a city-wide park system.

It was clearly a historical battle, being described by Gildas, who does not mention the name of the Britons ' leader ( he does, however, mention Aurelius Ambrosius as a great scourge of the Saxons immediately prior.

Jim Duffy ( born 12 April 1966 ) is an Irish historian, political commentator, and served as a policy advisor to then Irish leader of the Opposition, Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny prior to the 2011 general election.

The origins of the name prior to that are uncertain ; theories are that it signified a river among early Britons, or was descended from the word " Coc ", or leader.

* Andreas Karlstadt-another leader of the Protestant Reformation who in 1516 ( prior to Luther's list ) wrote a series of 151 theses.

Just prior to his execution, Hill had written to Bill Haywood, an IWW leader, saying, " Goodbye Bill.

In spite of the allegations prior to Jones ' departure to Jonestown, the leader was still respected by some for setting up a racially mixed church which helped the disadvantaged ; 68 percent of Jonestown's residents were black.

Because the authority is centralized around one leader, the death of the charismatic leader would constitute the destruction of the government unless prior arrangements were made.

In January 2009, prior to the February 2009 Israeli elections, the then election front-runner and leader of Israel's right-wing Likud party, Benjamin Netanyahu, informed Middle East envoy Tony Blair that he would continue the policy of the Israeli governments of Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert by allowing " natural " growth of settlements in the West Bank, in contravention of the Road Map, but not building new ones

His eyesight restored, Sir Edmund battled against Robin ( who was attempting to rescue Danny Temple ), while Kobra ( the prior leader of the cult ) attempted to regain control of the Kobra cult.