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ST. PETERSBURG TIMES MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1977 5C 1 Slymp-stoppDng win for Weiskopf MALE MODELING (For Men el All Aoei) BARBIZON SCHOOL IS FORMING CLASSES NOW FOR INFORMATION PMONI 821-0440 Scores, 2-C Associated "reaa golf 'v fo.f$ WITH THIS COUPON jP Vacation Specials! OIL, LUBE FILTER 5Qts. 10W40OH Complete lubrication Install New Oil Filter $688 1 CHARLOTTE, N.C. Tom Weiskopf relied on his experience to hold off a couple of non-winners and break a two-year victory drought with a two-stroke triumph Sunday in the Kemper Open Golf Tournament. "1 had the experience," the veteran Weiskopf said after hit twn-under-par 70 defeated George Burnt and Bill Rogers.

"I knew they hadn't won. The hardest victory you'll ever win is your first one. I figured if I'd just hang in there, maybe make some putts, make a couple of birdies, I'd have a pretty good chance to win." He did. AND THEN HE dropped a little bombshell. The victory, his third in the Kemper and 12th on the American tour, put him in position to claim a spot on the American Ryder Cup team.

He moved into the 12th place on the point list from which 12 players will be chosen to play Britain's best this fall. But Weiskopf won't play. "I will not play if I make the team," he said. "I wrote the PGA a year ago saying I had made some plans for those dates and for them to take my name off the list. They still haven't done it.

"It's not a knock at the PGA or the Ryder Cup or anything like that," he said. "I've made plans to go hunting with some friends of mine and hunting is very important to me." Turning back to his challengers in this tournament, Burns and Rogers, Weiskopf said, "They're young. They'll win." HE WON THIS one with a 277 total, 11 under par on the Quail Hollow Country Club course. Weiskopf, a richly talented but sometimes temperamental man, collected from the total purse of $250,000 for his third Kemper triumph. It didn't come easily.

He started the hot, humid, hazy day in a tie for the lead with non-winners George Burns and Bill Rogers and had to birdie the par-five ninth to retain a share of the lead at the turn. Five others were within three strokes in a closely bunched pack. WEISKOPF TOOK command and went ahead to stay with another birdie four on the 10th hole. Rogers began to fade and the husky Burns remained Weiskopfs only major challenger. Tom put him away on the 15th, another par five.

Weiskopf, scrambling, hit a tree and one-putted from six feet for a par. But Burns had trouble getting out of a fairway bunker, got in deep rough, eventually found himself on the fringe in four, missed his long putt and made bogey six. That put Weiskopf three ahead with three holes to play and he was smiling happily, comfortable over the run to the clubhouse. Weiskopf, who pushed his winnings for the year to $94,588, bogeyed the 18th from a bunker, but it really didn't matter. BURNS HAD TO hole a 10-foot par-saving putt on the 18th to salvage a tie for second with the chipper Rogers at 279.

Burns, who now has been second twice this year and has yet to win, and Rogers, who recorded his best finish ever, each had a 72. Doug Tewell, another non-winner, dropped a long birdie putt on the last hole to tie former U.S. Open champion Lou Graham at 280. Each shot a oar 72. Arnold Palmer, who recently purchased a home on the course, had one of his best tournaments of the year with a closing 69 and a 284 total.

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Petersburg, now golf coach at Georgia Southern in Statesburo, Jackie Debbs of St. Petersburg, who plays out of Tarpon Springs; Hank Davis Jr. of Cove Cay Golf and Tennis Club, and Mike Souchak, pro at Innisbrook Resort at Golf Club in Tarpon Springs. Best scorers in today's sectionals move on to Tulsa, where the U.S. Open will be staged June 16-19 at Southern Hills, TheKellyi.

They're good and tough, i Arnold Palmer and two other former U.S. Open winners are among 128 golfers competing today at Charlotte, N.C. in a 36-hole qualifying round for 40 spots in the U.S. Open. This is the first time since 1969 Palmer has had to qualify for the prestigious tournament.

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