European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 9, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Mudd victorious in St. Jude classic tuesday August 9,1988 the stars and stripes Page 25 Memphis Tenn. A Jodie Mudd survived a bogey-5 on the 433-Yard 17th Hole to Post a 2-under-Par 70 sunday to win the $953,842 St. Jude classic by one stroke Over Peter Jacob sen and Nick Price. Things just seemed to go my Way al week Long said Mudd who became the seventh first time Winner on the pea tour this year. I be been waiting for one of these weeks and i was just Lucky to finish one shot ahead of everybody else he said. A pair of Long Birdie putts on n9s. 10 and 11 helped Mudd to the first Victor of his seven year professional career but he needed a Par-5 at the 548-Yard 18thsunday to wrap up the win. With Jacobsen and Price in at 14-under 274, Mudd took a 2-stroke Lead to the 17th tee where the 1980 and 1981public links Champion ran into trouble. He put his second shot into a Sand trap to the left of the Green pitched onto the fringe and then two putted for Only his second bogey of the tournament. At no. 18, Mudd Laid up Short on his second shot then pitched to the open area of the Green about 35 feet from the pin. His first putt rolled about three fee past the Hole and the three time Georgia Southern All american rolled the Ball into the cup for a Par and the win. On my first putt i did t realize it was that fast. It had a Chance to go in. I just had too much Speed Mudd said. Coming Back i had an Uphill straight in putt. There s no other putt you d rather have for a win than Mudd had rounds of 68, 68 and 67 to go with sunday s 70 for his 273 total on the Par-72, 7,282-Yard colonial country club course. He earned a first place Check for $171,692. Mudd who has finished second sixties in his career entered the final round at 13-under 203 and held a 1-stroke Edge Over Tim Simpson. When Mudd made the turn at 14-under, beheld a one stroke Lead Over Rummells and Jacobsen. Jacobsen went to 11 under with a Bir die at no. 10 and shaved another stroke off Par at the 218-Yard 12th. He moved to 13 under with a Birdie at the 433-Yard 17th and later missed a 20-foot Birdie putt from the fringe of the 18th Green to finish his round at 6-under 66. Starting the Day i thought 14-Underwas going to win it Jacobsen said. Jody is going to be a player to be con tended with for a Long time after today. I know when i got my first win at the 1980 Buick open it got me Over the Price made a run at the leaders on the front nine going to 11-under at the turn with a 33, but he bogeyed the 10th Hole to fall Back into the pack. Price then put on a late flurry with birdies on the Lith 12th, 16th and 18th holes to tie Jacobsen for second place. I had a Chance today but i ran into alot of Tough holes. I had my chances for eagles on nos. 16 and 18, but i did Thebes i can do Price said. This was Jodie s Rummells who was two strokes of the Lead at the Start of sunday s round fell four shots behind with a bogey at the 464-Yard 13th. Jodie Mudd. First tour Victory Mudd Simpson and Rummells al were in or tied for the Lead at one Point during the front nine. A Birdie by Simpson at the Par-5 first Hole put him even with Mudd while Rummells birdied the first and the Par-4second Hole to make it a three Way tie at 13 under. Simpson fell a shot out of the Lea with a bogey at the fourth and then went two strokes Down As Mudd and rum Mells had Birdie 2s at the fifth Hole to move to 14-under. Rummells relinquished his share of the Lead at no. 6, taking a bogey-5 while Mudd negotiated the 388-Yard Hole in Par. Nause snags 1 St Lyga win High Point . A Martha Nause ended 10 years of tour frustration sunday winning her first tournament by scoring 14 Points under a new format and holding on to a one Point Triumph Over Judy Dickinson and Debbie Massey in the $400,000 Pat Bradley International Lyga tournament. Nause a Sheboygan wis., native had a second place in 1981 As her Best finish. The first place Money of $62,500 nearly equated the $69,412 she won on the tour last year. I refused to believe that i was t going to do it someday said Nause who added that the last Victory she could recall was the Wisconsin Junior championship at age 17. I knew that i had the ability. I be beaten everybody at least once so i knew that i could do it again put it All together she said. The 33-year-old Nause posted birdies at the second and sixth holes. Until she made the turn she was in a tie for first with Ayako Okamoto and Mary Beth Zimmerman who also carded two Bir Dies apiece on the front nine. But Zim Merman faded with a bogey and two double bogeys on her last five holes. Okamoto simply could t come up with the fifth Birdie. Nause birdied two of the first three holes on the Back nine and added another Birdie at 15 to take control. But her two putt from three feet on the 18th Hole gave her a bogey to make the race to the end close. The tournament was the first on the Lyga tour to be played under a modified stableford scoring system. In the system a Birdie is Worth three Points an Eagle is Worth five and a double Eagle Worth eight. Par scores no Points a bogey loses one Point and a double bogey costs a golfer three Points. Char is player in playoff Medinah 111. A third round co leaders Bob Charles and defending Champion Gary player finished a Day Long Duel Over Medinah s unyielding no. 3 course dead even sunday and set up an 18-Hole playoff for the . Senior open Golf championship. Both shot 1-Over 73 to total even Par 288, forcing monday s , the Best left handed player in the history of the game and the senior tour s leading Money Winner was 3 under Par after the last of his three Bir Dies at no. 14. He held a three stroke Lead walking to the 15th tee. But he bogeyed that Hole and the next two before he could Stop the slide with a Par at no. 18. Meanwhile the Stead player who carded one Birdie sunday along with two bogeys responded with the last four of his seven straight pars on the men had Birdie putts at the 18th, a Par-4 of 415 Yards. Player s was fro some 20 feet above the Hole after a 7-Iron from 180 Yards. Charles was pin High from about 16 feet after an 8-Iron from almost the same distance. But neither cashed in pitting the two foreign born golfers Charles is a native of new zealand player of South Africa against one another in a 12 15 p.m., Edt playoff monday for the$65,000 first place purse awarded the Winner of the Over-50 . National Bruce Crampton who began the Day at 1-Over 217, shot even Par 72 and settled for third place at 289. Another stroke Back were Orville Moody and australian Peter Thomson who both finished 1-Over sunday for 290 to Chi Rodriguez electrified a huge gallery with a Brilliant 5-under 67 on of Only four sub Par rounds sunday on the 6,881-Yard layout that was re mod eled for this championship. That catapulted Rodriguez from 8-Over at the Start of sunday s round to a 3-Over-Par total of 291 and into a tie for sixth place with South african Harold Henning. Henning shot even Par 72 Geiberger and Lou Graham who won the 1975 . Open at Medinah were next at 4-Over 292. Geiberger shot 73, while Graham skyrocketed to 76.Charles and player began the final round tied at 215 the Only players under Par. Boz did t Tell the half of it co author claims by Patrick Casey Oklahoma City a the co author of Brian Bosworth s controversial autobiography say the former Oklahoma linebacker was t gunning for the University with claims of alumni freebies another improprieties during his Days at the school. I think Bosworth is unafraid of anything said Rick Reilly a staff writer at sports illustrated who co authored the Boz confessions of a modern if he want to take Down of he could have Doneit a thousand different ways. He could have told a thousand stories. The ones he told were just a Little bit of the Story. He never named Switzer or Reilly said in a Telephone interview from his Colo Rado residence that Bosworth s claims about improprieties at Oklahoma weren t taken out of context but for everything that is perceived As bad there Are five funny or Good things about his Days at any youngster who reads the Book will want to go to Oklahoma Reilly said. He talks about the fun times. How great it was to play for a Reilly says Bosworth did t do to Oklahoma what he could have done and said the second year Seattle sea Hawks linebacker told me some stuff off the record that we did t put in the in the autobiography to be released sept. 4, bos Worth said he respected him Switzer for a lot of things and also wrote that the Oklahoma coach just turns his Back to what his players did off the Field. He never wanted to know How it was that i was living in a Nice $500-a-month Condo watching a big screen to driving a jeep and a Corvette and always operating with $2,000 in my checking account bos Worth he had Money Bosworth claimed that while under suspension for steroid use i flew Downto the Orange bowl after Christmas Switzer took care of my ticket but i still Don t know Bosworth declined to specify How he accomplished the High Standard of living while at Oklahoma but wrote everybody in Oklahoma wants to feel like they re contributing to your cause. 89 if they want to pickup your dinner Check and feel big time who was i to Stop them if somebody wanted to pay for you clothes when you brought them up to the Register and if that made them feel Good Okay by Reilly said Oklahoma coach Barry Switzer in noway organized the alumni handouts Bosworth claims he and other players received but said the alumni according to Bosworth want to be a part of it and Switzer does t go out of his Way to Stop it that s for the Book Bosworth also claims players free based cocaine on game Days. One player fired a machine gun from the Balcony of the Oklahoma athletic dorm. Steroids were As commonplace As aspirin. That were there were Mcaa violations ranging from extra recruiting visits to a free plane ticket. Bosworth does t say there was anything wrong with what he did Reilly said. If anything he says that was the Way it should be. He figured the school made about $10 million and the Mcaa does t allow players to have jobs or earn any Money. He says it s slave labor and let s Call us what we Are which Are Semi profession al athletes and get the Mcaa out of it. Everybody is taking and the alumni Are giving so let s just admit that and Call it what it
