Sunday, October 20,
2002
DiMarco
remains on top by 2 after roller-coaster day
Associated Press
LAKE BUENA VISTA,
Fla. Chris DiMarco didnt have to spend any time at
the Magic Kingdom to feel like he was on a roller coaster Saturday.
DiMarco went from
a two-stroke lead to a two-stroke deficit at the Disney World
Golf Classic before finishing the third round in the same position
he started in the lead after a 3-under 69, only with plenty
of company.
Despite missing a
5-foot birdie putt on the final hole, DiMarco was at 20-under
196 and had a two-stroke lead over Skip Kendall, Scott Hoch and
Bob Burns.
Ill be
a little more aggressive tomorrow, DiMarco said. I
dont know why I wasnt today after shooting a 64 and
a 63.
There was no reason
to hold back. On another ideal day for scoring, the Magnolia course
was as vulnerable as ever, with the average score 69.6.
Kendall made eight
birdies over his first 13 holes and briefly had a two-stroke lead
until hitting into a bunker for a bogey on No. 15, and three-putting
from 30 feet on 17.
He wound up with
a 66 and will be in the final group today, which is only fitting.
DiMarco was ready
to quit golf seven years ago when Kendall taught him the claw
putting grip. DiMarco has gone on to three PGA Tour victories,
while Kendall is still trying to win his first in 260 starts.
Hoch made his only
bogey on 18 and had a 69, while Burns had a 67.
Tiger Woods had a
5-under 67, a pedestrian round considering the conditions.
You need to
shoot at least 65 to try to keep pace or move up the board,
Woods said. If you shoot 68, youre probably going
to stay your ground, if not get passed. You need to try to shoot
3-under par. Right now, par is about 68.
Still, with DiMarco
failing to run away from the field, Woods will return today with
an outside chance of winning Disney for the third time. At 14-under
202, he was among 19 players within six shots of the lead.
That might be a lot
of ground to make up at most tournaments, but not at Disney. Two
years ago, Woods appeared to be in a final-round duel with Steve
Flesch when Duffy Waldorf closed with a 62 to make up six strokes
and beat them both.
Woods says hes
not that far off, and he might be right.
At Magnolia Golf
Course Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
Yardage: 7,200; Par:
72
Chris DiMarco 64-63-69196
Skip Kendall 67-65-66198
Bob Burns 63-68-67198
Scott Hoch 64-65-69198
Joel Edwards 67-65-67199
Tim Herron 67-66-67200
Hidemichi Tanaka
63-67-70200
John Rollins 66-71-64201
Robert Damron 68-66-67201
Chad Campbell 64-70-67201
Tim Clark 65-68-68201
Stuart Appleby 65-67-69201
David Toms 69-68-65202
Michael Long 67-69-66202
Tiger Woods 66-69-67202
Dennis Paulson 67-68-67202
Billy Mayfair 70-65-67202
Esteban Toledo 66-69-67202
Carlos Franco 66-68-68202
Brian Gay 66-66-70202
Jim Furyk 70-66-67203
Charles Howell III
66-69-68203
Craig Barlow 71-64-68203
Tom Pernice, Jr.
67-67-69203
K.J. Choi 66-68-69203
Scott Verplank 69-65-69203
Jeff Sluman 63-70-70203
Rich Beem 69-68-67204
Dan Forsman 69-68-67204
Len Mattiace 68-69-67204
Bob Tway 71-65-68204
Shaun Micheel 71-64-69204
David Peoples 67-68-69204
Kirk Triplett 68-66-70204
John Cook 67-67-70204
Bob May 67-71-67205
Per-Ulrik Johansson
68-69-68205
Craig Parry 69-67-69205
Bernhard Langer 66-68-71205
Rod Pampling 68-65-72205
Mark Brooks 67-65-73205
Davis Love III 71-67-68206
Frank Lickliter II
69-68-69206
Joey Sindelar 71-66-69206
Peter Lonard 64-73-69206
Jay Don Blake 66-70-70206
Jay Haas 68-67-71206
Luke Donald 67-68-71206
Tom Lehman 69-68-70207
Loren Roberts 67-70-70207
Kent Jones 69-68-70207
Bart Bryant 70-67-70207
Ian Leggatt 68-69-70207
Kenny Perry 72-64-71207
Jerry Kelly 69-67-71207
Russ Cochran 67-68-72207
Joe Durant 64-71-72207
Robin Freeman 71-67-70208
Jim Carter 71-66-71208
Garrett Willis 69-67-72208
Matt Kuchar 68-68-72208
Glen Hnatiuk 70-68-71209
Kevin Sutherland
69-69-71209
Briny Baird 70-67-72209
Greg Kraft 67-70-72209
Olin Browne 68-68-73209
Brett Quigley 71-67-72210
Pete Jordan 72-66-72210
Scott McCarron 66-72-72210
Hal Sutton 67-71-73211
John Riegger 69-69-73211
Neal Lancaster 70-68-73211
Brent Geiberger 68-70-75213
Paul Claxton 66-71-76213
SBC Championship
SAN ANTONIO
Dana Quigley shot a bogey-free 7-under-par 64 on Saturday to take
a one-stroke lead over Argentinas Vicente Fernandez after
the second round of the SBC Championship.
Quigley, seeking
his second victory of the year and seventh in six seasons on the
Senior PGA Tour, had a 10-under 132 total on the Oak Hills Country
Club course.
Fernandez shot a
67, holing a 6-foot putt on the par-3 18th for his third birdie
in four holes. Australias Rodger Davis was two strokes back
after his second straight 67.
Quigley had four
birdies on the front nine, reached 9 under with birdies on Nos.
10 and 11, and finished with an 8-foot birdie putt on No. 18.
Davis was 5 under
for the day and 9 under overall after 17 holes. But on the 198-yard
18th, his ball ricocheted twice off the bleachers behind the green.
He got a lucky bounce, however, and ended up in the middle of
a bunker.
At Oak Hills Country
Club
San Antonio, Texas
Yardage: 6,661; Par:
72
Dana Quigley 68-64132
Vicente Fernandez
66-67133
Rodger Davis 67-67134
Gil Morgan 69-66135
Tom Watson 69-66135
Fuzzy Zoeller 69-67136
Tom Kite 70-67137
Bruce Fleisher 69-68137
George Archer 64-73137
Bob Gilder 71-67138
Bruce Lietzke 70-68138
Mike Hill 68-70138
Lanny Wadkins 71-68139
Jim Dent 71-68139
Don Pooley 71-68139
Andy North 71-68139
Dave Eichelberger
70-69139
Jim Holtgrieve 69-70139
Dick Mast 69-70139
Bruce Summerhays
68-71139
Ben Crenshaw 70-70140
John Jacobs 70-70140
Jim Thorpe 72-68140
Gary McCord 73-67140
Dale Douglass 70-70140
Ted Goin 71-70141
Rafael Navarro 71-70141
John Schroeder 72-69141
Doug Tewell 69-72141
Terry Mauney 75-66141
Stewart Ginn 68-73141
Mike McCullough 71-71142
John Mahaffey 71-71142
Jim Albus 71-71142
Wayne Levi 71-71142
Morris Hatalsky 72-70142
Allen Doyle 70-72142
Tom Jenkins 70-72142
Larry Nelson 70-72142
Jose Maria Canizares
69-73142
John Bland 68-74142
Tom Purtzer 69-73142
Gibby Gilbert 70-73143
Kermit Zarley 72-71143
Howard Twitty 70-73143
Hugh Baiocchi 72-71143
Mike Smith 74-69143
Ray Floyd 70-73143
Graham Marsh 75-68143
Hubert Green 71-73144
Mark McCumber 71-73144
Hale Irwin 72-72144
Bobby Wadkins 69-75144
Butch Sheehan 74-70144
Walter Hall 75-69144
Jim Ahern 71-74145
Sammy Rachels 72-73145
John Harris 72-73145
Walter Morgan 70-75145
Steven Veriato 75-70145
Rex Caldwell 74-72146
Leonard Thompson
75-71146
Bob Charles 72-75147
Terry Dill 73-74147
Miller Barber 73-74147
David Graham 74-73147
Dave Stockton 75-72147
Gary Player 75-72147
James Barker 72-76148
Lee Trevino 73-75148
James Mason 76-72148
J.C. Snead 77-72149
Rocky Thompson 79-70149
Chi Chi Rodriguez
72-78150
Charles Coody 76-74150
Bob Eastwood 76-75151
Bob Murphy 77-74151
Bill Rogers 78-75153
World Match Play
Championship
VIRGINIA WATER, England
Ernie Els will face Sergio Garcia in the World Match Play
final after both advanced Saturday.
Els beat Vijay Singh
3 and 2 and Sergio Garcia beat Michael Campbell 2 and 1 with the
help of an eagle on the 17th hole.
Today will be the
fifth World Match Play final for Els, who won three in a row from
1994-96.
The two finalists
are good friends, and Garcia recently bought Els house in
Orlando, Fla., when Els moved into a different place on the same
street.
It should be
good fun. Hes a great player and a good friend of mine,
Garcia said. But both of us will be trying as hard as we
can.
Pars were enough
for Els to win the first three holes as Singh bogeyed them all.
Els went four ahead
at the short 5th, but Singh won three of the next 10 holes to
get back to one down. Then he drove into trees at the tough 16th
hole and double-bogeyed at the 17th.
Singhs wild
second shot at the 19th struck a woman spectator on the head
she was not injured and he fell five behind after five
holes of the afternoon. He got three of them back, two when Els
bogeyed on the 29th and 30th holes, but Els wrapped up the match
on the 34th green.
Campbell won the
first two holes and the 6th against Garcia, but the Spaniard battled
back to be level at the break.
At the 26th, Garcias
drive finished in a spectators coat, but the man dropped
it out and there was no penalty.
Campbell beat Nick
Faldo in a record-setting match and Ian Woosnam on Friday, and
fatigue caught up with him against Garcia in the afternoon.
Bad drives on the
30th hole and at the next cost him both holes. Campbell surrendered
to Garcias eagle chip at the 35th while he faced an 18-foot
eagle chance.
It felt good
to make the chip and not let him putt, Garcia said. In
36-hole matches, unless you go five or six down, you can always
come back.
At Wentworth Club,
West Course
Semifinals
Sergio Garcia (4),
Spain, def. Michael Campbell (8), New Zealand, 2 and 1.
Ernie Els (2), South
Africa, def. Vijay Singh (6), Fiji, 3 and 2.
Buy.com Hibernia
Southern
The third round of
the Buy.com Hibernia Southern tournament has been canceled due
to rain. The tournament will conclude today as a 54-hole event.
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