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4 1 )pv1'1 Thar lone Observer I i 21 -'1f 0: t- 4 Saturday June 22 1991 SECTION Si Holland Rose 2 of 3 Gamecocks finalists 0 RON GREEN There are two other possible finalists Kansas assistant coach Jerry Green and George Karl coach of the Albany Patroorts of the Continental Basketball Association Green said Friday he had not been told 'ne was a finalist and Karl could not be reached Apparently no one has been offeredi the job yet but that could happen anytirrie in the next several days one source said Rose Green and Karl met with 'South Carolina athletic director King Dixon and several other search committee members Wednesday or Thursday in Chicago as did Minnesota assistant coach Al Brown Brown is considered a long shot for the job Holland 49 had a 418-216 coaching By STAN OLSON Staff Writer Davidson athletic director Terry Holland was in Columbia Friday night to talk with South Carolina officials about the school's vacant basketball coaching position And a source said South Carolina had reduced its number of candidates for the job to three Among them are Holland and former UNCC coach Lee Rose Holland had said he was not interested in the job in the past but a source close to the process said Holland a former Virginia coach had been contacted by South Carolina officials recently Holland could not be reached for comment Friday night was 150-108 from 1979 to 1988 Karl 40 starred at North Carolina and played five years with San Antonio He was CBA coach of the year last season after leading Albany to a 50-6 record Karl also coached the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Golden State Warriors and recently signed a two-year contract to coach Real Madrid of the Spanish Professional League South Carolina's search has lasted since May 14 when the school fired George Felton The search committee returned to Columbia Friday afternoon but members would not comment on the Chicago trip or when the committee would meet again record in five seasons at Davidson and 16 at Virginia His Virginia teams twice reached the Final Four and he's taken teams to 10 NCAA and four NIT tournaments Holland has been at Davidson for just one year but orchestrated the Wildcats' return to the Southern Conference Rose 53 is director of player personnel for the Milwaukee Bucks He took two college teams UNCC in 1977 and Purdue in 1980 to the Final Four He then coached six years at South Florida but left in 1986 to become an NBA assistant Green 47 has been Roy Williams' top assistant at Kansas for three years Kansas lost to Duke in the 1991 NCAA final Green was head coach at UNC-Asheville where he Shoot a 59? It's tougher than you think SI It t1 Arnie's in the hunt I0-" i ---f1 i -'--t-e-e i i- 1 4- 3- 'i: 1 1 1: 4 -4 vs 1 -s 4- tr: li-----k-s' -k 4 if-' "(i-''' 1'' 4' '''si 1'-- 2 4 t--'' -1 2'-' 4' -4-? --r ---2 1 f1 71'1' '41 42 --NA -1--t 0" -3 1 "I i'l 'i'-'''' '2 A i '4'' 1 t' -10-' 4 7- -7 2-: 'i 44 1'4rIk 'i ifitviOr 11 1 4 1 vs: ok A 1 ono There is $1 million waiting out there for someone with a golf swing like an angels' chorus a putting touch like a mother's kiss and the nerves of a tombstone Eighteen holes is all it takes a 59 or better on the PGA or Senior PGA Tour and Hilton 'Wt Hotels will pay you 500 grand and contribute another 500 to charity tr So how tough can that be a 59? How tough is it to win the lottery paint a masterpiece find hidden treasure? That's about how hard it has been thus far Al Geiberger did it on June 10 1977 in Memphis He was the first and last And of course that was before the million dollar prize was offered There have been six 60's in "PGA tournaments over the ages but when David Frost shot one of them two years ago there hadn't been one since 1957 But you sense that another breakthrough may be near Shimmering figures like 62's and 63's are a dime a dozen on the regular tour nowadays and there have been three 62's on the senior circuit already this year The first-round leader board at the PaineWebber Senior Invitational at Piper Glen Friday glistened with birdies and this is one of the stronger courses on the Tour The old guys are shooting the lights out Gary Player who has burned the grass off a few courses himself (he had two nine-hole scores of 29 and a 30 last year) said he thinks 59 will be shot again and it may not be some big-swinging 25-year-old on the regular tour who does it first "It wouldn't surprise me to see someone on the Seniors Tour 60 again before someone on the regular tour does it" said Player "The way guys are scoring out here now is amazing" Player once shot a 59 in the Brazilian Open "I followed that with a 70" he said "I looked at that 70 and said 'Geez that looks terrible' Arnold Palmer also thinks a 59 or better is just around the dogleg maybe on the seniors circuit but he said "I don't think it's going to become anything that happens with regularity I think what we're seeing now is what we're going to see" He's had some 61's and 62's and flirted with some 59's but '''''The King confesses "I got scared' (And in case we thought he himself couldn't still shoot some thing wonderful Arnie went out into the hot Friday afternoon and thrilled us with a 67 to stand one shot off the lead in the Paine Webber) Geiberger thinks his 59 will be hard to equal because of what happened to Palmer getting scared will happen to anyone else "They're (the players) almost too conscious of what the record is" he said "There's so much attention given to the possibility now and there's all that money There's a lot of pressure when you get way down under par" It's a long way from 62 to 59 said Geiberger Fellow pro Jim Colbert heard that and said "It's not even close It sounds like it is but it's not" When Geiberger shot his 59 he set it up with two early birdies then a streak of four birdies an eagle and two more birdies That left him 10 under with six holes to play He birdied three of the six Including the last the swi put and Shc Hol or and gra 59? ter) hid hov Gel in last betl wa5 PG but the' bee bre mei are tou bee cult the non teno of tl Tou the the self of 2 thin ma3 25-3 wh( on 'bre on Pla3 out Bra witt that terr A or leg but goit hap wha we' and scao him thin into thril sho Wet yvill wha ting one too is" atte now The you It said Coll not but set i ther eagl left I play tncli DICK VAN HALSEMAStaff Arnold Palmer acknowledges the cheers from the gallery as he walks up the fairway toward the 18th green in Friday's first round of the PaineWebber Invitational Hill's 66 leads charging Palmer by one ri The leaders cut in his competitive golf because of his poor play But after two good pro-am rounds and Friday's fun electrified by a 60-yard wedge shot for an eagle-three Palmer's game was alive again He led briefly late in the day until Hill strung together birdies on the three closing holes to overtake him group at three-under-par 69 that included Orville Moody Al Geiberger Bob Wynn and Bob Brue Playing in the group directly behind Palmer Hill was aware of what was happening He could see and hear the galleries cheering Palmer as he attacked the course he designed But Hill one of the steadiest players on the Senior Tour didn't let Palmer's lead last more than 10 minutes Hill the fourth-leading money winner on the tour this year finished off an eight-birdie afternoon with three in a row coming in He By RON GREEN Jr Raleigh Bureau The lead belonged to Mike Hill but the hearts belonged to Arnold Palmer on Friday at the Tournament Players Club at Piper Glen Hill birdied the last three holes in the simmering heat to shoot a six-under-par 66 and knock Palmer Out of the first-round lead at the PaineWebber Invitational seniors golf tournament Palmer head cocked and pants hitched too Piper Glen by storm as he continued his sudden resurgence in his part-time hometown by shooting a five-under-par 67 Three days ago Palmer was contemplatin a 34-32 --66 34-33 --67 34-34 --68 34-34 --68 34-35 --69 35-34 --69 35-34 --69 35-34 --69 36-33 --69 Mike Hill Arnold Palmer Doug Dalziel Bruce Crampton Bob Brue Bob Wynn Al Geiberger Orville Moody Chi Chi Rodriguez "If I shoot 67 or better I'm not concerned about the lead at all" said Palmer who hasn't led a PGA Seniors Tour event since 1989 Defending champion Bruce Crampton opened with a solid 68 where he was joined by Doug Dalziel Fast-finishing Chi Chi Rodriguez headed a Please see Seniorspage 3C 1 rt Top qualifiers Injured Se les stuns field pulls out of Wimbledon Waltrip takes pole Bodine bounces back 41111 0 l'itott00 0 Bodine Waltrip Johnson and crew chief Tim Brewer were suspended by NASCAR when a slightly oversized engine was found in the teams Ford following The Winston all-star race May 19 at Charlotte Also topping 173 mph Friday in qualifying third through fifth were Ford drivers Mark Martin Davey Allison and Alan Kulwicki Winston Cup standings leader Dale Earnhardt and top challenger Ricky Rudd followed in Chevrolets Then came Ken Schrader Chevy Hut Stricklin Buick and Sterling Marlin Ford "We knew from the first practice that we had the potential to win another pole" said Waltrip 28 younger brother of three-time national champion Darrell Waltrip Associated Press WIMBLEDON England Top seed Monica Se les pulled out of the Wimbledon tennis championships Friday with an undis- closed injury px ending her t-4l'a ::1 chances of win- 743': ning the Grand '1': it'-: Slam this year Seles was r' 7 forced to with- draw "due to an injury caused by a minor acci- dent" her agent Seles said in a statement issued through the All-England Club "I am very disappointed to miss Wimbledon this year but look forward to returning in 1992" Seles 17 said in the statement 'ills has all come as a com pliete mystery to me" said Alan Mills the Wimbledon referee "I received the news only this afternoon It is very disappointing" Se les won the first two legs of the Grand Slam this year the Australian and French opens Wimbledon and the US Open are the other two Grand Slam events "I just hope she'll be healthy in time for the Open" Martina Navratilova said "She won the first two legs of the Grand Slam so that is out You don't get into that position very often I'm sure there's nobody that's more disappointed than her" The withdrawal means Steffi Graf who moves up one notch and replaces Se les as the top seed and Navratilova the only former champions in the field will be in opposite halves of the draw and could meet in the final By TOM HIGGINS Staff Writer BROOKLYN Mich It took Michael Waltrip 160 attempts to win his first NASCAR Winston Cup Series race pole that happening May 31 at Dover Del It took Waltrip only three more tries to achieve his second No 1 start which comes Sunday in the Miller 400 at Michigan International Speedway Waltrip driving a Pontiac paced time trials Friday at the 2-mile track with a lap of 174351 mph That was fast enough to prevent a comeback from a four-race suspension for rival team owner Junior Johnson who still realized a measure of satisfaction against NASCAR in seeing his driver Geoff Bodine get the other frorli-row spot at 173636 in a Ford Speed 174351 173636 173582 173264 173119 172298 172261 172212 172133 171928 Driver 1 Michael Waltrip 2 Geoff Bodine 3 Mark Martin 4 Davey Allison 5 Alan Kulwicki 6 Dale Earnhardt 7 Ricky Rudd 8 Ken Schrader 9 Hut Stricklin 10 Sterling Marlin He says to break 60 you need to "make like three eagles" and get a fast start If somebody does it he said they'll probably come to the last hole needing a birdie and hole a 6-iron for an eagle instead In other words not have a chance to choke Don Bies Charles Coody and Rocky Thompson have shot 62's in senior golf this year Don Masi' sengale shot 67-66-63 in the Nynex Commemorative a couple of weeks ago and didn't win Coody shot 66-62-65 Practically everybody on the Tour has had a 95 or 66 or several of them this year There's a senior out there on the Piper Glen fairways this week who has made Geiberger's 59 rook fat Homero Blancas once shot a 55 in an amateur ment on a short little course in 'Longview Tex Fiftyfive After shooting a 62 in the morning round He didn't get a million for that though He got a trophy to "I get it ho and instt a ch iR oc nsE senf Nyn fw Coo ever 95 1 year TI the I Who coo' shot men Lon sho( rour that Please see Polepage 5C SCOREBOARD INSIDE Southern League American League Toronto 8 Cleveland 4 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