GOLF\O'Meara builds 4-shot lead with irons, putter.Byline: Ron Strak Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Mark O'Meara's experiences at the Mercedes Championships have been nothing but memorable. Now he has a chance to add a title to his La Costa
The La Costa Resort and Spa Resort and Spa scrapbook A Macintosh disk file that holds frequently used text and graphics objects, such as a company letterhead. Contrast with "clipboard," which is reserved memory that holds data only for the current session. . Banging iron after iron at the pin and rolling in putt after putt, O'Meara was nearly perfect Saturday, shooting a bogey-free 66 for a three-round total of 13-under-par 203, four strokes better than Nick Faldo Nicholas "Nick" Alexander Faldo MBE (born 18 July 1957) is an English golfer on the European Tour, and one of Europe's most successful players of all time. Over his career, he has won three Open Championship titles and three US Masters titles. He was ranked the World No. . Another stroke back at 208 were Corey Pavin Corey Allen Pavin (born November 16, 1959) is an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour. Pavin was born in Oxnard, California. He attended UCLA and turned professional in 1982. , Jim Gallagher
O'Meara, who first saw the La Costa course when he worked as a spotter for ABC-TV on the 17th hole in the early 1970s, played it as if he knew it inside-out. "I hit a lot of really good iron shots and I made some putts," said O'Meara, who hit 16 of 18 greens and needed only 28 putts. Of the two greens he missed, both shots landed on the fringe On The Fringe is a popular Pakistani television show on Indus Music. It is hosted and scripted by the eccentric television host and music critic, Fasi Zaka and directed by Zeeshan Pervez. . And on one of those - No. 11 - he rolled it in for a birdie. Success at La Costa is not new for O'Meara. He has qualified for the winners-only tournament five previous times and finished in the top-10 all five times. While four strokes is a sizable lead, last year John Huston took a four-stroke lead into the final round and shot a 77 to finish ninth. "A four- or five-shot lead with 18 to play is certainly not insurmountable. It's not even close to insurmountable," said Pavin, who shot a 70, of the distance he has to make up on O'Meara. Faldo agreed. "I have a little work to do," he said after shooting a 68. "But I'll try to birdie every hole. Simple as that." O'Meara started the day a stroke behind Janzen and moved into a tie when Janzen, his playing partner, bogeyed the fifth hole. O'Meara then birdied four of the next six. "I was putting some distance between me and the other guys," O'Meara said about his run. "But I still have to play a solid round of golf tomorrow to win the golf tournament. I'm realistic. I know what can happen in golf. I still have to shoot under par tomorrow." Once O'Meara took the lead, he simply sprinted away from the field. He got to 9 under par with a 10-foot birdie putt on the sixth hole, rolled in a 22-footer on No. 8, an 8-footer on No. 10 and a 30-footer from off the fringe on the next hole. |
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