Golf Roundup : Inkster, Purtzer Win but Miss a Record

Juli Inkster and Tom Purtzer, winners of the $650,000 J.C. Penney mixed team tournament, got everything they were after Sunday except the record score they chased for 72 holes.

Purtzer rolled a short putt for par past the cup on the 18th green at Largo, Fla., to miss the 72-hole record of 24-under-par 264 set by Jan Stephenson and Fred Couples in 1983.

“I took a short nap on 18,” Purtzer said. “I just hit a bad putt. There’s no other way to describe it. I think I rushed it a little bit.”

Inkster and Purtzer finished with a final round of 69 for a four-day total of 23-under-par 265. The victory was worth $130,000.

The winners birdied four of the first 10 holes, then had seven straight pars before closing with their only bogey.

“We played really smart out there,” Inkster said. “We had some makeable putts that we missed, but they were tough. . . . We worked hard for our pars.”

Val Skinner and Mike Hulbert closed with a 65 to finish second with a four-day score of 267. They earned $38,000 apiece.

Nancy Lopez and Curtis Strange shot 66 to tie for third place at 270 with Sally Little and Mike Sullivan, who had a 67.

Mark McNulty of South Africa birdied the first two holes on his way to a four-under-par 68 to win the $300,000 first prize in the Sun City Million Dollar Challenge by three strokes at Sun City, South Africa.

McNulty, who began the day two shots behind Britain’s Howard Clark and Bernhard Langer of West Germany, finished at six-under-par 282. He is the first South African to win the tournament.

Lanny Wadkins, the only American in the nine-man field, shot a 70 and finished at 285 to win the $150,000 second prize.

Langer never recovered from a double-bogey 7 on the second hole and shot a 74 for a 286 total and the third-place check of $105,000. Clark, who held at least a share of the lead since the first day, ballooned to 76 and finished sixth at 288.

Cindy Scholefield of Malibu sank birdie putts on the 15th and 16th holes to defeat Amanda Nealy of Grants Pass, Ore., 3 and 2, and win the 20th California Women’s Amateur Championship at Pebble Beach.

Scholefield, 26, an assistant golf coach at UCLA, made putts from 15 and 40 feet on the final two holes to clinch the victory.

Nealy, an 18-year-old high school senior and the Oregon junior champion, gained two shots and trailed by only one after a par on the 11th hole, while Scholefield was making a bogey, and a birdie 2 on the 12th. Both players parred 13 and 14 before Scholefield holed the two long putts to end the match.