Burns Shoots 70, Takes 2-Shot Lead Over Bean, Ogrin

George Burns shot a two-under-par 70 to take a two-stroke lead in the third round of the $500,000 St. Jude Memphis golf tournament Saturday.

But he’d rather have someone other than Andy Bean as one of the runners-up.

Burns said that Bean, longest driver on the PGA Tour, has an edge on the 7,300-yard Colonial Country Club course.

“With Ol’ Andrew, I’ll probably have to be six under Sunday to stay with him,” Burns said. “But if I start making some putts, I’ll be hard to catch.”

Burns played the front nine three under but was one over on the back nine to wind up the day with a 206 total.

Tied with Bean for second place at 208 was David Ogrin. Bean had a 69 and Ogrin a 72.

Bill Sander, who began the day tied with Burns and Bean, lost ground with a double-bogey at the 13th hole and wound up at 73, tied at 209 with Russ Cochran, who had a 71.

Gibby Gilbert (70), Tony Sills (70) and John Mahaffey (73) were at 210, and Larry Mize (69), Richard Zokol (74), Bob Tway (73), Johnny Miller (72) and Bill Kratzert (71) were at 211.

At Stateline, Nev., Miller Barber fired a one-under-par 71 to grab the lead in the U.S. Senior Open with a 54-hole total of 214.

Barber moved ahead of Walter Zembriski, who tumbled out of the lead with a 78 for a 219, dropping him to third in the 72-hole tournament at the Edgewood Tahoe course.

Roberto DeVicenzo of Argentina, who shot a 75 for a 217, moved into second. Fourth was Gay Brewer, who shot a 76 for a 220.

Arnold Palmer, with a 76, was in a three-way tie for seventh with Billy Casper (77) and Jim Ferree (72) at 224.

Betsy King, who had shared the first-day lead in the LPGA’s $250,000 Lady Keystone Open at Hershey, Pa., increased her margin to three strokes with a three-under-par 69, giving her a 36-hole total of 138.

Bunched in a five-way tie for second at 141 were the co-leader in the first round, Juli Inkster, along with Nancy Lopez, Sandra Spuzich, Sarah LeVeque and Cindy Mackey.

LeVeque had the day’s best round, a 68 that included an eagle on the 495-yard seventh hole. Inkster was two over par on the front side but got birdies at Nos. 16 and 17 to salvage a par round after her opening 69.

Lopez lost a chance to be alone in second place when she bogeyed the final hole and had to settle for a 70.

Spuzich had a hole-in-one on the 160-yard No. 5 to highlight her round of 70. The ace came shortly after Barbara Pendergast got the first hole-in-one in the tourney’s 11-year history, on the 180-yard eighth hole.

Mackey’s 69 was her best round of the season.

In Monaco, Robert Lee of Britain fired a one-under-par 68 and clung to the lead halfway through the $150,000 Monte Carlo Open.

The 23-year-old Lee, with a 36-hole total of 129, held a two-stroke advantage over Japanese star Isao Aoki and Australian Peter Senior, both of whom posted 68s over the 5,656-yard, par-69 Mont Agel course.