European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 9, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday september 9, 1936 the stars and stripes Page 25 Littler Palmer Lead . To win App Texo Gene Littler Tana to i Points Potomac my. Up Arnold Palmer and Gene Littler fired 2-under Par 69s sunday to Lead the . Learn to an easy 68&-3iw Victory Over an inter National squad in the first annual pea senior Chrysler cup tournament. The final round at the tournament players club of Avenal was typical of the tournament. The . Team earned 24 Points to just 12 or the International squad. The United states had posted a virtually insurmountable 44w-i9v1 Lead after the tint three Days. Palmer and Littler each earned 1ft Points for the american in the final round while teammate Chi Chi Rodriguez picked up Xvi for his 1-under 70 Over the 6.377-Yard course outside Washington . Don january added three Points for Hii i Over 72, and Billy Casper one Hal for i j 2-Ovcr Par. New calander Bob Charles finished with a 1-under 70 in give the International team 5rt Points. While South african Gary player and australian Bruce Crampton each shot Lover 72s for three Points apiece and Canadian Al balding added half a Point for his 2-Over-Par. Only the top eight scorers earned paints for their player on the winning team received $50,000, while each losing player earned 125,000. For sharing sunday s top score. Palmer and Lite scr each earned the use of a luxury automobile for one year. I thought we d have our hands full with he International Cam Palmer the . Icam Captain said. But we played extremely Welt. Frankly the inter National team just did t play As Well As had expected player Captain of the International squad agreed. When the top foreign players play so Well on the senior tour you Don t expect them to play like we pc played this week he said. Still 1 think this is an exciting concept mixing match play and medal play. 1 think this tournament will get big Ger As years Arnold it liner. Shoots 69 Okamoto had right English in Victory Portland Ore a Japan s Ayako Okamoto does t have much Confidence in her English but she s perfectly fluent in the game of Golf. Okamoto red a final round hinder Par 66 sunday to run away with the j200.000 cellular one Ping Golf championship by six strokes. She wanted to use an interpreter when she was interviewed following her Victory but she was coaxed into speaking in English for most of the session. I hit the Ball Good this week and my putting was Okte said. I Tike this kind of Golf course very much. I like the big Trees and the fairways and the fast Okamoto 35. Finished the 54-Hole Competition at 9-under-Nar 207 on the Sun drenched Par-72, 6,260-Yard co Lumbia Edgewater country club course. Her 66 tied the tournament record set by . Smith in Friday s first three Day total was the lowest score by two strokes in the tournament s nine year history. She bad seven birdies and one bogey sunday. The Victory was her second of the yearn the ladies professional Golf association tour and the seventh of her Lyga career. Although she has played in Lyga events for five years this is Only her third full season on the tour. Defending Champion Nancy Lopez trying in vain for the Victory that would Clinch her a spot in the Lyga Hall of Fame faded at the finish to wind up in a lie for second with Colleen Walker at 3 Undcr-par2l3. Dale egg Ling and Jane Craft or tied Tor fourth at 2-under-Par 214. Smith the new calander who led the tournament after the first and second rounds finished in a tie with Mary Mur Phy at i under Par 215 Okamoto Winner of the elizabethan Dan classic in Miami on feb. 3, began the Day at three under Par two shot behind Smith. She charged into the Lead for goo with birdies on three of the first four holes beginning with a 60-foot putt on the first Hole. The Hiroshima bom Okamoto who now lives in Tokyo had Only three putts All for birdies on the first tour holes. Site chipped in from 30 feet for Par on the Par-4 third Hole. The japanese Star who added a Birdie on the Par-5 seventh sizzled to a 4 under Par 32 on the lint nine holes then lengthened her advantage Over her near est challenger from one to three stroke with Back to Back birdies on the Par-4 11 in and Parsi 2th. She suffered a Bee sting on the i oth Hole. Bee stings Are Lucky for me she said. "1 birdied the next a bogey on the Par-3 13th dropped Okomoto s Lead to two strokes. But after her second shot banked off a Hilly por Tion of the Green and bounded near the pin Okamoto rolled Home a four foot Birdie putt on the Par-4, 379-Yard 17thto Clinch the Victory. She s Strong. She hits the Ball a Longway Lopez said of Okamoto. She s aggressive. I Don t think she holds Backoo much.1 Lopez playing in a threesome one Hole behind Okamoto had a bogey on the 17ih, then hit the Ball out of Bounds in route to a double bogey on the Isth to lengthen the margin of Victory. She missed numerous Short Birdie putts in her final was the fourth and final Lyga event for Lopez this year. She missed most of the tour because of the birth other second daughter in May. I m disappointed she said. I would have liked to have won this tournament because i was close then i could go Home knowing i be made the Hall of i figure there will be a better time and a belter Way Lopez said. "1 just have to be Okamoto s Triumph was worth$30,000, pushing her earnings this year to More than 1176,000. She entered the tournament tilth on the Lyga Money winning saturday swirling winds had both ered the players on the Tush tree lined course. But on sunday there was virtually no wind As the players wrapped up the tournament under sunny skies wit temperatures in the High 70s. Ayako Oksu Aoto. Final round 66 Fehr ties lowest pea score in . Win Endicott. . A Rick Fehr was one of the people who thought be would win on the. Pea tour he was right Fehr equated the lowest 72-Hole score on the Lour ibis season sunday As he won his first tournament the $400,000 . knew 1 had it in me i just had been tapping it Fehr. 24, sad after Tho Olinga 2-under-Par 69 and winning the 172,000first prize will 17-Uuder-Par 167 to beat Larry Mize by two strokes. Fehr temporarily threatened the tournament s record 26s, tet by Calvin Peel in 1982 Fehr moved to in under with six holes to play but he bogeyed is to end any chances of getting the record lots of people have been telling Mei m going to win one Fehr whose pre Vious Best finish was a lie for sixth at the Anheuser Busch classic said. But really up until now i Haven t played Well enough to win. 1 did t play perfect Here but this week i was scoring. By scoring i mean taking advantage of the opportunities making Mize who had a 68 sunday finished two strokes ahead of Howard twirly who had a final round 66, while Bobby Wadkins with sunday s Low round of 65,finished fourth another stroke Back. Peete and Bill Egbuson who had 66 and 67 sunday respectively were at 274 and Jay Haas who bad a final round 67, and Jack rentier 68 on sunday were at ?-1i. Fehr showing the touch that craned him the 1982 Western Amateur championship and Low Amateur position at the 1984 Mastera and us open tournaments made 22 birdies in the four rounds Over the 6,699-Yard in Joie Golf cub course and consistently came through with them when he had to. When you re on top everybody is fir ing at you and you re just trying to keep then away Fehr said. According to Fehr who entered the final round with a three stroke Lead the Pivotal Point came when Mize birdied the Par-3 fourth Hole and Fehr missed an eight foot Par putt Mize bad sliced Fehr s Lead to one stroke. Bui Fehr came Back on the next Bole dropping a Blind Pilch shot within three feel of the pin and made the Birdie putt the key was bouncing Back from the bogey Fehr said. That was the Point when things seemed to be turning around. I came Back to Birdie the fifth find stretch it out to two i said to myself now i be responded to his surge and at that Point i Felt like 1 was going to be Champ. Mize showed he want going to fade without a fight on the sixth Hole he Sank a Chip shot from the rough from 35 Yards. But once again Fehr matched it with Birdie of his own ill take my Hal off to him Mize said. He played a Good round. He played composed. He did t seem to Lei my birdies bother him and he came Back with his own s four stroke Lead was halved on the 1 ill Hole where for the third consecutive Day he suffered a bogey and Mize was t quite As aggressive on the Back nine Fehr said. Twas just trying to Moke Par. If he Mize makes birdies then i would have gone after it it was the third time this season Mize finished second. He finished one stroke be Hind John a Hafty at the tournament players championship and he lost in a six Hole playoff to Greg Norman at the Kemp on a Roll of seconds this year joked Mize who walked off Jib a 543,200 second prize. Television football new York giants to dal Las tuesday 850 pm taped
