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2D DES MOINES SUNDAY REGISTER Jul) 20, 1986 RFGISTFR PHOTO BY DAVID PETFRSON Nakajima takes scenic route to spectacular par Waterloo Open lead to golfer 't i'i i i i i ,1 i -V rMawBBf.iiHfi Continued from Page One that the final round will begin without a player at par or below. "It was survival out there. You just want to get in the clubhouse without hurting yourself," Norman said after ducking from beneath his dripping umbrella long enough to drop a 3-foot bogey putt on the 18th hole. Nakajima performed a marvelous escape act on the 12th hole coming from behind a monument, chipping and putting with a magic touch to shoot 71. "An unbelievable round," he said.

"Quite an accomplishment," agreed Norman. The 5-foot 4-inch Woosnam was able to match par 70 in winds gusting to 35 miles per hour and in rain that ranged from drizzle to downpour. Brand fought his way to a 75. "Given that weather conditions remain the same, it will be very difficult for anyone to make a move," said Norman. If he is right, that eliminates the hopes of any Americans, none of whom could make an appreciable move even though Norman played his third round 11 shots higher than the record-matching 63 he had Friday.

From Woosnam and Brand, it was three strokes back to Gary Koch, the leading American, tied for fifth and six shots off the lead. Also at 217 were Spanish veteran Jose-Maria Cani-zares and Nick Faldo of England. Koch had a 72, Canizares a 73 and Faldo struggled to a 76. U.S. Open champion Ray Floyd was another stroke back at 218 after a 73 and admitted he "is out of the championship." He was tied with Australian David Graham, Sam Torrance of Scotland and Bernhard Langer of West Germany.

Plenty Of Company Graham got his 70 before the worst of the weather slashed in from the Firth of Clyde. Torrance shot a 71. Langer spent most of the day in knee-deep rough and walked away with a 76. But he had plenty of company in his miseries. Nicklaus also had a 76 and was at 227.

Lee Trevino was at 226 after a 75. Tom Watson, who won the second of his five British Open titles here nine years ago, had a 77 for a 225 total. PGA champion Hubert Green shot an 81 and was at 231. Any hopes Sandy Lyle may have had of a successful defense ended on the wet, clinging rough on the 17th hole. He played five shots out of it before stomping away with a 7.

"That was the killer," said Lyle, a Scot who had a 70 and a 221 total. Seve Ballesteros of Spain, the pre-tournament favorite, was at 224 after a 73. Norman, already the holder of a single-season money-winning record in the United States, on two separate occasions had leads of five strokes and appeared poised to run away and hide from the field. After making birdies on four of his first eight holes, things began to come unglued in the wind and the wet, that had Norman and everyone else climbing in and out of rain gear and peeking uncertainly from beneath the dripping edges of umbrellas. "It was no fun out there," said Norman, who said his hands slipped on the rain-slickened grips of clubs at least twice.

"You try to line up a putt, and you can't see because the rain is coming down horizontal and gets in your eyes," he said. The weather caused problems on other shots, too, he said, because "you have a tendency, 9 out of 10 times you'll do it, in the rain and wind, to pull the trigger before you're ready to go." Those things began to happen. He drove into the rough and bo-geyed the ninth, then played the back in a fat 40. He had five bogeys on the back, each time after a tee shot went astray. "I don't feel like I played bad enough for a 74," he said.

But that's what he got. Nakajima, on the other hand, made the most of his opportunities and converted potential disaster into valuable pars on a number of occasions. Despite various adventures, he was even par for the day until he chipped in for birdie on the ninth. He one-putted for par on the 10th, then scored one of the game's more spectacular pars on the 12th. Monument To Airmen Nakajima got his second shot behind the mound that supports a monument to the airmen of the two World Wars who flew their planes from runways that now are fairways.

The mound which separated him from the green, he said through an interpreter, was about 30 feet high. He was in rough, on a slope. And he popped a wedge shot up and over the mound, to the putting surface and then calmly rapped in a 15-foot putt for par-4. Curt Byrum blasts from a trap at the seventh hole In the third round of the Hardee's Golf Classic Saturday. Byrum finished with a 64 and will take a two-shot lead into today's final round.

Peoples sinks wedge shot from 117 yards for eagle our women share top spot for final round DANVERS, MASS. (AP) Pat Bradley, rookie Deb Richard and hopefuls Cindy Hill and Val Skinner moved into a tie for the lead Saturday as scores soared in the third round of the 1275,000 LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic. Bradley, bidding for her first victory in seven visits to a hometown course, struggled to a 2-over par 74 for a 54 hole score of 5-under 211, in windy, overcast weather at Tara Ferncroft's par-72 course. Bradley entered the weekend as the Tour's leading money winner with $314,497. Richard, runner-up for the NCAA championship on Cape Cod last year while at the University of Florida, took a 73 for 211.

Hill had the best score of the day among the leaders in the 72-hole tournament. However, her 71 helped by birdies on the 16th and 17th greens was good enough for only a tie. Skinner, who had a second-round 66 that left her just three strokes behind, equaled par 72 for her 211. The four grabbed a share of the leads Ok-Hee Ku, a 29-year rookie from Korea, slumped to a 76 after a pair of 68s enabled her to lead a U.S. tournament for the first time.

Ku, playing with Bradley and Richard, lost sole ownership of the lead when she hit into water and took a double bogey 6 on the first hole, of the day. She managed to hold a share of the lead until a bogey 4 on the 16th green dropped her one shot behind at 212 with 18 holes remaining. Newly crowned U.S, Open champion Jane Geddes remained in contention with a 72 for 213. That left her in a tie with Penny Pulz, 74; Cathy Morse, 73, and Katby Baker, 73. Jane Blalock fired a 70 for 214.

Bracketed at 215 were Joan Joyce, who had the day's best round of 67; 1983 Boston Five winner Patti Rizzo, Marlene Floyd and Alice Ritzman. Then at par 216 were Muffin Spencer-Devlin and Vicki Tabor. Only seven players managed to break par and just eight managed to match regulation in the third round of the tournament worth $41,250 to today's winner. In the first two rounds there were 59 subpar scores and 24 others at par. Ferree takes Senior's lead GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

(AP) Bruce Crampton and Gene Littler made loud charges, but Jim Ferree quietly took the lead in the second round of the $251,000 PGA Senior Tour's Greater Grand Rapids Open Saturday. Ferree of Export, shot a 66 to take a one-shot lead over Crampton, Littler and first round leader Charlie Owens. Crampton started his round with birdies on four of the first five holes on the par-71, Elks Country Club course to drop to seven-under-par for the tournament. Littler overcame bogey problems on the front nine with birdies on five of the first six holes on the back to tie Crampton with a two-day total of 135. Ferree, using a 48-inch, three-pound Slim Jim putter designed by Owens, fashioned a five-under-par round of 66 including birdies on holes 16 and 17 to take a one stroke lead going into today's final round.

Mayfair wins title in Public Links golf CLEMMONS, N.C. (AP) Bill Mayfair, 19, a junior at Arizona State, defeated defending champion Jim So-rensoq, 3 and 2, on Saturday to win the 61st U.S. Amateur Public Links golf championship at Tanglewood Park Golf Course. With 10 birdies, Mayfair was four shots under par for 34 holes in the 100-degree heat. Mayfair sealed the triumph with a 33-foot birdie putt on the 34th hole.

Persistence and hard work from Uinnesot WATERLOO, IA. (AP) Tom Lehman of Alexandria, didn't have time to warm up Saturday, but it didn't seem to hurt his game as he shot a 9-under-par 63 for a two-shot lead entering today's final round of the Waterloo Open golf tournament at Byrnes Park. That score doesn't give him much of an advantage over the small, tightly bunched field that will be shooting for a first prize of $5,000. Just 77 golfers entered the professional meet, the smallest field in several years, but 49 of them equaled par and 25 shot 69 or better. "A 67 might be enough to win, but I doubt It," said Lehman, a three-year player on the PGA Tour who was about $2,000 short of keeping his card last year.

"Some of the guys that shot 67 today can go out and shoot 62 or so." Lehman had an eagle on his sixth hole and along with a birdie on No. 12 he finished his first nine at 5-under 32. He chalked up four more birdies on the front side for a 4-under 31 and his 63. Right behind Lehman are three golfers at 7-under 65. Defending champion John Benda, 1982 champion Bill Sakas and Tom Gray are at that spot.

Lined up at 66 are Ken Juhn of Miami, Mark Rohde of Marshalltown, Dave Schiller of New York, Mike Tschetter of Sioux Falls, S.D., and Chad Willis of Columbus, Ohio. Among those at 67 are 1983 champion Mike Bender of Waterloo and Ken Schall of Des Moines. Joe Hawkins, the assistant pro at Pheasant Ridge in Cedar Falls, is in a group of four players at 4-under 68. yhe tournament concludes with the low amateurs from two days of play at Gates Park joining the pros for a final 18 holes. The winning pro gets $5,000 with $3,000 going to the runner-up.

Two share fop spot in Lake Greek meet Tht Rnltfer'i lewa Hwi Strvtc STORM LAKE, IA. Murray Hart of Spencer and Devin Dahlgren of Al-toona each shot 69 Saturday to tie for the lead after the first round at the Lake Creek Amateur golf tournament. The championship flight was set at scores of 76 or better. The top 32 golfers will compete today in the 36-hole final round. Secret to golf: Continued from Page One Championship ($21,600) and a tie for 16th at the Panasonic Las Vegas Invi tational Six Consecutive Birdies His second-round 65 in the Tourna ment Players Championship included six consecutive birdies, which equals the longest streak on tour this year.

On the down side is his play in recent weeks. He has won just $3,266 since the first of May. The slide started when he jammed his thumb hitting a shot during the final round at Las Vegas and couldn't play for several weeks. The leader in the clubhouse for Rookie of the Year honors at the time of the injury, Rummells has fallen into second place behind Davis Love III. Rummells hopes to make up some ground this week on Love, who has earned more than $78,000.

Heading into today's final round here, Rummells is 1 under par after shooting 68-69-72. "My thumb is fine now," said Rum mells, who has made the cut in 11 of 20 tournaments and averaged 72.9 strokes in 60 rounds of competition. "I'm disappointed in my play of the last couple months. I'm still a little rusty and my timing has been off, but I should be back in the groove in a couple of weeks." No Excuses Ladehoff has remained healthy, but he has also been inconsistent. "The only injuries I've had are mental," joked Ladehoff.

"I've got no excuses, just bad golf." Ladehoff missed the Hardee cut, the 15th time that has happened in 22 tournaments this year. stroke average is 73.1 in 59 rounds of competition. After missing the cut in his initial five tournaments, Ladehoff's first tour check of $5,825 came after a tie for 20th at the Doral-Eastern Open. Two weeks later he tied for third at the USFG Classic in New Orleans and won $24,000. Two tournaments later his earn ings for the five-week period had increased to more than $35,000 and he started dreaming of six figures.

But he has made just three of 13 cuts and added $4,204.50 to his earnings since then. "If you don't hit the ball well you're not going to make it, because the players out here are just too good," Ladehoff said. "I've not been hitting the ball well. "You've got to be able to tee it up and shoot the low numbers. If a guy could shoot 69 every day he'd have no worries.

The thing that's great about the tour is that no one is judging your score. If you're playing well no one can do anything to stop you." Financial Rewards Ladehoff has teed it up in 17 states 'til lv 1 4 1( but I've got to keep that out of my mind until the last putt is in the hole." Byrum, who dropped a 40-footer for birdie on the first hole and had no bogeys on the warm and breezy after-' noon, said he'll feel no added pressure even though his professional future is at stake. "I have a lot to gain and not that much to lose," he said. "After all, I would have been happy if I had come here, shot 5 under par and made a little money. I would have just headed back to South Dakota and played in a few tournaments out there." Wiebe and Byrum became friends after their paths crossed at numerous times in their careers.

When he was on the tour, I wasn't. Then I made it and he was in Asia," Wiebe said. "We played a lot of mini-tour events together. I ran into Curt Friday night and we talked about the frustration he felt over not making last year's qualifying school. "Well, this tournament could be his tour school.

It's a great story if he can make the tour this way." Wiebe was frustrated early in the round, missing four birdie putts of six feet or shorter in the first eight holes. He birdied No. 9 to make the turn in 34, then had four birdies and a bogey on the back side for a 32. Chipped In One of his birdies on the back nine, at No. 15, came when he chipped in from 25 feet.

"I had talked to my father Saturday morning and told him I was playing good, but I wasn't making any putts," Wiebe recalled. "He told me to hit the ball closer, then he told me to chip one in. When I did I let out a holler." Two of the day's most dramatic shots were turned in by Gilder and David Peoples. Gilder, who has won six tour events, eagled the par-4 first hole by holing a 7-iron from 164 yards out. He shot a 66.

David Peoples dropped a wedge shot from 117 yards away on the par-4 16th for an eagle en route to a 63. Peoples, who had to birdie two of the last four holes Friday to make the cut, needed just 23 putts in posting the lowest round of the day. Worrell claims Western golf title DURHAM, N.C. (AP) John Worrell of Douglas, won the Western Junior Amateur golf championship at Duke University Golf Club Saturday after beating qualifying medalist Steve Strieker and then Brad McMak-in. Worrell, 18, beat Strieker, of Ed-gerton, 4 and 3, and McMakin, 19, of Beaumont, Texas, 2 and 1.

Worrell and McMakin each won two holes on the front nine, shooting even par. Worrell took the first two holes on the back nine with pars, but McMakin evened it up with a par on the 12th and a birdie on the 13th. The turning point came at the 15th when Worrell chipped in from off the green, while McMakin missed a 20-foot birdie putt. Gunnarsson is upset HANKO, FINLAND (AP) Juan Antonio Rodriguez of Spain upset top-seeded Jan Gunnarsson of Sweden, 2-6, 6-1, 6-2, Saturday to win a $50,000 Challenger Series tennis event. 'f iff 'f I I 1 7 I -jn- UI.I1..U1.J Continued from Page One previous rounds of 73 and 63.

First-round leader Bob Lohr and second- round leader Russ Cochran joined Bob Gilder, Mark Brooks and Jeff Sluman in a tie at 7 under. Defending champion Dan Forsrnan had a 70 and is 3 under for the tournament. Dave Itummells of West Branch, struggled with a balky putter and shot a 2-over par 72. He enters today's final round at 1-under 209, 11 shots off the pace. Rummelbi was 4 under par with 10 holes remaining Saturday, but he missed short putt3 for par on the ninth and 18th holes and also boguyed the par-3 12th after his tee shot went over the green.

Putts Shave the Cup Rummells had four birdie putts shave the edge of the cup on the back nine. He was so disappointed with his performance that he signed his score-card, then walked straight to the putting green and worked on his stroke. Clark Burroughs, formerly of Waterloo, posted a 69 and is at 210. Burroughs, the 1985 NCAA champion, and Rummells are paired together for today's final round. A victory by Byrum would give him a two-year exemption to play on the PGA Tour.

If he fails to win, but places alone in second or third place, he would receive an exeir-ption for the rest of the current season. The PGA's all-exempt tour has a stipulation that says if a non-member wins as much PGA money as the 150th golfer on the earnings list from the previous year, he will receive a temporary exemption. Last year, Charles Boiling placed 150th on the earnings list with at $25,446. The $100,000 Hardee's purse pays $43,200 for second and $27,200 for sole possession of third. "I'm sure I'll be nervous because I've never led going ints the final round," said Byrum, a from Oneida, S.D.

"I know a victory would mean a two-year exemption, Dave Rummells Tournaments entered 19 Cuts made 1 0 Top 10 finishes 2 Stroke average 73.1 Earnings $60,464 Money list 82nd Figures through Anheuser-Busch Classic since the tour started in January, Rummells in 13. They've taken different roads in their search for financial rewards. Early last week Ladehoff stopped in Chicago to see his teacher, the famed Jimmy Ballard. Rummells is a self-taught player. He doesn't have a teacher, nor has he ever had a lesson.

"I just try to work things out on my own," said Rummells, Iowa's 1981 Amateur of the Year. "A lot of players are mechanical, but my whole game is based on feel and confidence." Ladehoff is sponsored on tour by Jim Golinvaux of Clinton. In exchange for a percentage of his earnings, Golinvaux pays for a good share of Ladehoff's tour expenses. Rummells is out on his own. He had some feelers before the season started, but his good finish at Hawaii gave him the financial stability to pay his own way.

Both say a year of tour life will cost about $40,000. Ladehoff, who is single, flies to each tour stop. Rummells has been joined by his wife, Ira, who will travel with him the rest of the year. They will crisscross the country in a recently purchased van. Ladehoff has no endorsements.

Rummells has two with Ping golf equipment and LaMode Du Golf clothing apparel. He has free access to products from both companies, and if he places high enough on the money list he will be eligible for a financial bonus. While on tour, Ladehoff and Rummells are storing information for fu Greg Ladehoff Tournaments entered 21 Cuts made 7 Top 10 finishes 1 Stroke average 73 Earnings $40,047 Money list 11 4th ture use favorite courses, best restaurants, reasonable hotels and the like. So Much To Learn "The veterans know the ropes, but guys like us are floundering around, wondering where to go," said Ladehoff. "There are a lot of things to learn besides how to play golf." Ladehoff also has come to the realization that tour life is big business for many established players.

"There are guys who consistently make $150,000 to $200,000 that you never hear anything about," said Ladehoff, "guys like Jay Haas, Wayne Levi and Doug Tewell. There's no baloney with them, no frills. They have a routine they follow every week. They tee it up, make their money and go home. They're businessmen out there, they treat the golf course like their office and they don't want to be bothered." Ladehoff would give anything to be in their shoes, but he realizes the only secret formula is persistence and hard work.

"It's tough to be patient when you first start," he said. "You want to get to $60,000 so you don't have to worry about keeping your card. But you can't go out and make things happen. All you can do is be prepared and hope things fall into place. You can't be in awe of the superstars.

If you mind your own business you can make it out here." Said Rummells, "In the next two or three years I hope to gradually make a little more money, feel comfortable near the lead and eventually win." plum i HiLi 1 rOUTBOARDS I W-1 (iBank Financing from tilC- rrZ i'i.