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Monday, AiigusI 2, 1993 THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER SportsB7 TENNIS You don't have to live here -s. to play here. Wetherington offers a great variety of home choices nbut residence here is not a requirement for goll membership. This is No. 16, Arthur Hills' signature hole ill VV that combines trees, hills, vullevs.

water The Associated Press and sand. Your golf membership provides full Yeager loses chance for Challenger BY TEDDY GREENSTEIN The Cincinnati Enquirer Jason Yeager's bid for a spot in the ATP Challenger tournament fell one match short Sunday when he lost to Johan DeBeer, 6-3, 6-3. DeBeer, ranked 492nd in the world, received a berth in the 32-player Challenger tournament, which begins today at Jack Nick-laus Sports Center. "I could hit with him, but my legs weren't there," said Yeager, 21, who played third singles at the University of Kentucky last season. "The bottom line is if I was in better shape, I would have had a better chance." Although Yeager won two matches Saturday against top-500 players, he didn't receive any ATP points that would have improved his ranking of 1,143.

"It's really a shame that all I get for those wins is a pat on the back," he said. "But I can't complain I was thrilled to win a couple of matches." Yeager, exhausted from playing three matches in two days, joked that "even if I had won, I would've needed about a week to recover." Three others advanced to the Challenger Sunday: Swede Peter Lundgren, Georgia resident Doug Flach and Canadian Daniel Nestor. The doubles Challenger tournament also begins today. Jeff and Marty Wolf face the fourth-seeded team of Richard Schmidt and Tobias Svantesson at approximately 4 p.m. on the Stadium court.

Mikael Pernfors became the fifth player to win in his first Canadian Open appearance, following Bjorn Borg (1979), Boris Becker (1986), Michael Chang (1990) and Andrei Chesnokov (1991). Pernfors' comeback for real Enquirer news services MONTREAL Mikael Pernfors of Sweden continued a remarkable comeback with a 2-6, 6-2, 7-5 victory over Todd Martin in the $1.65 million Player's International Canadian Open tennis tournament Sunday. Pernfors, a top-10 player in 1986 who lapsed into obscurity with achilles tendon problems, got his first victory since 1988. Paul Flory, Thriftway ATP tournament director, told The Enquirer on Sunday that he would give "serious consideration" to giving Pernfors a wild card for next week's tournament. Pernfors, 30, the lowest-ranked player ever to reach the Canadian Open final at No.

95, earned $235,000 more than he had won since undergoing surgery on his injured foot in April, 1990. Martin, 22, from Lansing, also lost a final in Washington last week. Martin appeared to wilt in the 85-degree heat after overpowering Pernfors in the opening set on the hardcourts at Jarry Stadium. Pernfors kept Martin off balance with high topspin shots mixed with cleaver lobs and drop shots the standard Swedish game of his generation, which included Mats Wilander, Joachim Nystrom and family country club privileges, including tennis, swimming, club events and a strong junior golf program. Golf membership initiation is a limited number of junior memberships are available.

Call for membership details. 755-1111. Martinez won six of the last seven games to close out the match in just over one hour. Grossi upsets Rittner SAN MARINO Marzia Grossi of Italy, ranked 156th in the world, stunned toprseeded Barbara Rittner of Germany, 3-6, 7-5, 6-1, in the $100,000 San Marino Open. Costa outlasts Gustafsson HILVERSUM, Netherlands Carlos Costa dropped just six games against Magnus Gustafsson to win the $278,000 Dutch Open clay court championship.

Costa, ranked 42nd in the world, won in 85 minutes, 6-1, 6-2, 6-3. Gustafsson, ranked 26th, was suffering a recurrence of an arm injury. Neither finalist was seeded. Anders Jarryd. Pernfors had dropped to a career-low ranking of 1,001 in 1991 and had only rebounded to No.

237 by the end of last season. Martinez zings Zina STRATTON MOUNTAIN, Vt. Top-seeded Conchita Martinez overcame a host of physical ailments to win the U.S. Women's Hard Court Championships, 6-3, 6-2, over an outmatched Zina Garrison Jackson. Martinez, ranked sixth in the world, didn't lose a set all week and dropped just 18 games in five matches.

Martinez, 5-0 lifetime against Garrison Jackson, had muscle spasms in her left shoulder that required a trainer's attention in the second set. After a massage, 1-75 at Tylersville Road, West Chester, Ohio Price is right in St. Jude Classic GOLF PJDWMa W1 yJfr 1- AllMonteros, i ''rSSSS? In StOCk llnslsA Limited Time Offer! although Mochrie was about 2 inches farther away and had to go first. She left her uphill putt from in front of the hole about 1 inch short and swept the club through the air in frustration. She tapped in for a par.

Berteotti, to the right of the cup, then rolled it in for the winner's share of $67,500. She jumped up several times and punched the air with both fists. Floyd matches record JERICHO, N.Y. Raymond Floyd sank a 30-foot birdie putt on the 17th hole for a 7-under-par 65, tying the tournament record, and won the Northville Long Island Classic by two strokes. Floyd, who won for the second time this year on the Senior PGA Tour and the fifth time in his career, had 8-under 208 for the three rounds.

He earned $82,500 and became the sixth golfer to top $6 million in career earnings. Floyd, who won 22 times on the regular tour, has made $6,012,997, including $542,009 this year. Tied for second at at 210 were Bob Betley, Bob Charles, Bruce Lehnhard, Harold Henning and Walt Zembriski, who led Dave Stockton by one shot at the start of the day but shot a 71. Betley and Charles finished with 67s, while Lehnhard and Henning finished with 68s. Baker bogey wins it KUNGSBACKA, Sweden Peter Baker of Britain beat Anders Forsbrand of Sweden with a par on the second playoff hole Sunday to win the $980,000 Scandinavian Masters tournament.

Forsbrand bogeyed the final hole, and Baker had a double-bogey 6, forcing the playoff. The Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. Nick Price, already the leading money-; -winner on the PGA Tour this year, on his fourth tournament of the I year Sunday when his final-round 6 gave him a three-shot victory in $1.1 million Federal Jude Classic. It was Price's third victory in as tour events as he won the Greater Hartford Open and West-l -em Open on consecutive weekends late June and early July. He also on the Tournament Players I -Championship in March.

No other I "golfer has more than two tour this year. i "I'm just playing well. I'm hit-; "ting the fairway. I'm hitting the rball on the green and I'm making There's not much more to than that," Price said after finishing with an 18-under-par 266 total after four trips around the TPC course at South-; "wind. Jeff Maggert and Rich Fehr fin- ished at 269, one shot better than Fuzzy Zoeller, who began the final round tied for the lead with Price but faded to a 70.

Price managed to win yet again and take the winner's check of $198,000 despite being on edge i throughout the tournament. His wife Sue is at home in Orlando, about to deliver their second He said when the tournament began Thursday, then again day when he moved into a first-place tie with Zoeller, that he would leave if his wife went into I labor. Berteotti wins long playoff CANTON, Mass. Missie Berteotti earned the first victory in I her eight years on the LPGA Tour when she beat defending champion -Dottie Mochrie on the fifth playoff Sunday at the Ping-Welch's Championship. The Big Opportunities are at Fidelity Investments is the largest privately held mutual fund company in the country and WE ARE GROWING! We have immediate openings for people looking for a job with challenges, rewards, recognition and room to grow.

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Berteotti made a 15-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole to finally subdue Mochrie, who had come from five strokes behind at the start of the final round to force the playoff. Berteotti, who began the day three strokes off the lead, and Mochrie both finished with 12-un-der-par 276 totals. Mochrie shot a 66 and Berteotti 68 at the par-72, Blue Hill Country Club course. "I wasn't getting impatient because they picked two tough holes for the playoff," Berteotti said. "I just said, 'I can stay here all On the final playoff hole, a par-5, both golfers left their third shots about 15 feet from the cup, PRODUCT SPECIALISTS PRODUCT TRAINEES Our Blue Ash office has immediate openings for professionals who are interested in the rewards of helping customers improve their investment decisions and educating and assisting customers with the product options available to them.

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