European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 16, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Scars remain As 3rd round gets started a Birdie on the tenth Hole Friday. Chaska Minn. Up the 91st . Open will not be remembered for Payne stewarts knickers or holes in one by fuzzy Zoeller and John Inman. Nor will it be remembered for those golfing giants who failed to make the Cut a the red hot seve Ballesteros two time open Champion Curtis strange Good time Lee Trevino 1991 pea top Money Winner Paul Azinger tour double Winner Biily Andrade or the hard Luck australian Greg Norman. Instead the championship at the Snake bitten Golf course 25 Miles South of Minneapolis will be remembered for . Open lightning strike which killed a 27-year-old Man and sent five others to the Hospital on the tournaments first Day. That tragedy took the focus off the booming drives and into the booming skies which perhaps symbolically remained Cloudy and gloomy for most of the tournament. Australia s Ian Baker Finch shot 1-Over-Par 37 on the front nine saturday to get the third round started after a one hour rain delay. The leaders of the tournament did no to tee off until later in the Day. Stewart was the Halfway Leader at 7-under-Par 137. One shot Back at 138 were pea Money Leader Corey Pavin 1987 open Champ Scott Simpson and Phoenix open Winner Nolan Henke. Baker finches nine put at 4-Over-Par for the tournament 11 shots Back. The australian was the first player to tee off after a one hour rain delay and he played by himself. The rest of the 65-player Field played in twosome. Baker Finch was scheduled to tee off at 7 53 ., but the starting time was pushed Back to 8 53 Because of the rain and the threat of lightning. The rain abated before he teed off and forecasters predicted skies would dear and produce Good weather for the rest of the tournament which winds up sunday if there is no playoff. If there is a tie an 18-Hole playoff would be held monday. The stars and stripes Jung 16,1591 Page 24 tear skies woulds be just the thing for what was supposed to be the tournament of redemption for Hazeltine vindication for the first National championship played Here in 1970. That open the 70th, was plagued with Man made disasters and was etched forever in Golf lore for the ridicule piled up on the 7,149-Yard tract designed and built by Robert Trent Jones. But at Hazeltine a open ii a natural disaster made it memorable again for All the wrong reasons. Quot you try to prepare to do your very very Best Quot to Deal with every situation a said Reed Mckenzie Hazeltine a chairman. Quot everyone is aware of what might happen what might go wrong when there Are 40./j people on a Golf course. And when those things happen it affects everybody to be sure it affects us for not for our Sakes. It is for the Sakes of the people who were Hurt and for the Man who lost his life Quot said one of the marshals controlling the record crowds Here a Twenty years ago we were known As the cow pasture. Now we Are the killing Quot i worry every Lime we have lightning a said defending Champion Hale Irwin who remained in Contention with a 70 in saturday s third round and an even Par 216 total. Quot it is a very very scary situation. I suppose it is the attitude a its not going to happen to but on thursday you saw that it could sets world record in 100 by Cary is lent1c new York up Leroy Burrell Learned Man the Best and on Friday became the Best. Burrell established a world record time u 9.9u seconds in winning the Dkl meters at the . Outdoor Irack and Field champions . cwiip�e2 the n Ark of 9.92 second e it Ami med by ins teammate and memo bar Lewis at the 198s Seoul . Lewis. Burrells former a my an Coleii m i a fusion. Finished second in c time of w Quot i in just of crw ii enc j m every thing / a happened today Quot said Burrell who on . Levis As the world s top up inter Over the last two years. Quot i thank pm Euane. I Elbow att Aries and Carl for Nei Mij the be Trie athlete and competitor tout 1 air. Cum an Andre Cason in one Iron the mod ahead of Burrell out in. Over to it i. Mem arid l j the . Track and Field ban possible for . Athletes Page 21 rest of the was. Lewis appeared last out of the blocks but he came charging Down the Linal 25 meters. Quot la Grything went Well for me from the Burrell said. "1 drove off the blocks extremely Well and accelerated unlike i be Ever done Lewis a Jujj was real had out of the blocks. But i Felt like the rest of the 1 was As fast As Ever. After the record was announce j to the crowd at Downing stadium Burrell was surrounded and hugged by his teammates. Burrell and in wis were two of five members of the Santa Monica Trug club running in the Clit Man final. By i done it it Hiot teammates Quot Burrell said. Quot Ever since i ran a 9.94 at the 15>5 National championships in Houston. 1 Felt i could get the world Lewis was awarded the world record in 1989 after Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson was stripped of his 9.83 record Sec at the Seoul olympics John on. However tested positive for steroids and his oium Pic title and ail record were so taken away from . F Hope that p,.opic a focus on the athletes that Are clean Lewis . Quot Leroy a a great a r a clean Champion. The . , were concluding saturday places on the . Team that will compete at the world championships to he held Tokyo in August As Well As the pan american games later summer m Havana Cuba. In the 110-rr.et Vals Grecht or earned berths in the world Champier a Lee on i n , two of the most c .m.nar. A lets in track history now he teammates years after their heated of the 1970s and Early �?T80s. 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