Golf Roundup : Big Names Missing From International Final

Andy Dillard made it. Jack Nicklaus didn’t.

Ken Green will play for $180,000 today. Bob Tway will not.

Dillard and Green are two of a dozen players who qualified for the richest day in American golf history Saturday--and only two of the PGA Tour’s top 25 money winners are in the field.

Tom Kite (No. 10 on the money list) and Bernhard Langer (No. 15) are the two big money-winners in today’s championship round of the inaugural International at Castle Rock, Colo., where 12 players will start out even battling over $700,000.

Joining Kite, Langer, Green and Dillard in the final were Joey Sindelar, Howard Twitty, Nick Price, J.C. Snead, Donnie Hammond, Bruce Lietzke, Kenny Knox and T.C. Chen.

They all recorded five points or more in the unique scoring system.

Nicklaus and Tway missed out on the climatic day, as did Tom Watson, Hal Sutton, John Mahaffey and Corey Pavin.

The International employs a point system in which a birdie is worth two points and an eagle five points. One point is deducted for a bogey and three for a double bogey or worse.

The second prize today will be worth $113,000, while the least amount of money to be won is $28,000.

Twitty had the day’s best total with 11 points, while Langer finished with 10. Price scored nine points and Sindelar had eight.

Betsy King, bidding for a second straight LPGA victory, sank a 45-foot eagle putt on the 16th hole to maintain a two-stroke lead after three rounds of the $240,000 World Championship of Women’s Golf at Buford, Ga.

King, who won the Henredon tournament last Sunday in a playoff, went to 16th hole tied for the lead with Mary Beth Zimmerman, who ran off a string of five straight front-nine birdies en route to a six-under-par 66.

King shot a 71 for a 54-hole total of 208. Zimmerman was at 210, and Chris Johnson, with a 68, and Jane Geddes, with a 71, were three shots back at 211.

The tournament has an exclusive field--the top 11 money winners on this year’s tour plus Nancy Lopez, last year’s leading money-winner.

Lopez, playing in only her second event since giving birth to her second daughter in late May, was fifth at 73-212.

Cindy Mackey shot a career-low 65 to take a four-stroke lead after three rounds of the $200,000 MasterCard International Pro-amateur at Elmford, N.Y.

Mackey, 10 under par at 206 after three rounds, is followed by Colleen Walker, who shot a 71 for a 210 total. The next closest pursuers to Mackey and Walker are at 218.

Britain’s Mark James birdied the last two holes for a 69 to move into a tie for the lead with fellow countryman Gordon Brand Jr. at 204 in the $270,000 Benson and Hedges International at Fulford, England.

Lee Trevino, who started one stroke back, shot a 73 and is at 206.

PGA Senior Tour rookie Bruce Crampton and tour career-money leader Don January shared the lead after two rounds of the $250,000 GTE Northwest tournament at Redmond, Wash.

January, coming off a month’s layoff, eagled the 18th hole for a five-under-par 67 and a 138 total, six under par.

Crampton, the first-round co-leader, regained a share of the lead with a birdie on the final hole for a 71.