Golf Roundup : Langer Wins $300,000 in Sun City

West Germany’s Bernhard Langer won $300,000 Sunday with a two-stroke victory in the Sun City Million Dollar Challenge at Sun City, South Africa.

Langer, who won five tournaments this year, including the Masters, finished with a one-under-par 71 to give him 278, 10-under par for the 72-hole event featuring an elite 10-man field.

Lanny Wadkins, the overnight co-leader with Langer, never got going and struggled to a 73 for a total of 280 and second place. Mark O’Meara shot a 69, his best round of the tournament, to take third place, a stroke back.

Seve Ballesteros, the Spaniard who had won the event the past two years, shot a blistering 67, including 31 on the front nine, that brought him within four strokes of Langer for fourth place. But Ballesteros missed a short putt on the 15th that would have put him even with Langer. A double-bogey on the 17th ended his chances.

Langer, while not quite as sharp as on the first three days when he had rounds of 69, 70 and 69, still was consistent and was three strokes up by the time he birdied the 16th. Although he dropped a shot on the 18th when he fired into the crowd, by then he was uncatchable.

Lee Trevino, the co-leader after the first round, stumbled to a 74 for a 283 total and fifth place, a stroke ahead of Taiwan’s T. C. Chen, who finished with a 1-over par 73.

Australian David Graham’s final round of 69 brought him seventh place with a 285 total, while South Africa’s Denis Watson shot a 75 for 288, even par. Hubert Green also improved again with a 69 after a disastrous opening 76 to end up at 289 for ninth place, and Scotland’s Sandy Lyle closed with a 73 for 291 in last place, still worth $50,000.

At Largo, Fla., Larry and Laurie Rinker shot a six-under-par 66 to become the first brother-sister team to win the $600,000 J.C. Penney Mixed Team tournament.

The Rinkers finished the 72-hole event over the Bardmoor Country Club course with a 21-under-par 267, two strokes better than Craig Stadler and Lori Garbacz. They split a first prize of $120,000.

Stadler and Garbacz, runners-up for the second straight year, shot a 65 to come in at 269. Curtis Strange and Nancy Lopez, the 1980 winners, were alone in third at 66-270.

The Rinkers posted six birdies and no bogeys in their final round.

At Christchurch, New Zealand, Corey Pavin won his second consecutive New Zealand Open after the final round was almost washed out by a downpour.

Pavin took the $9,000 first prize with an even-par 73 for an aggregate of 277, winning by four strokes over Australian Jeff Senior, who had a 71 for a four-round total of 281.

But Pavin, entering the final round by five shots, almost wilted when the course was soaked and tournament officials ordered a restart after an hour.

Pavin, reluctant to restart, took 50 minutes with his partners to play the par-5 ninth as the greens were constantly mopped.

His lead was trimmed to one stroke as Senior, playing with him, mounted a challenge. But Pavin rallied with birdies at 13 and at 14 and went on to win comfortably.

He became the first player to win successive New Zealand opens since former British Open champion Kel Nagle of Australia did it in 1968 and 1969.

Anne Sander, the three-time national amateur champion from Seattle, won the California Women’s Amateur Championship on her first try by beating Patricia Cornett, 3 and 2, on the Pebble Beach Links at Pebble Beach.

Sander, 48, won the U.S. Women’s Amateur title in 1958, 1961 and 1963, and she won the British title in 1980. Cornett, a 31-year-old Army doctor who lives in Greenbrae, won the California tournament in 1975 and 1983, and Sunday was the second time she has lost in the final.