Golf Roundup : McCullough Shares Lead After His Double-Bogey

Mike McCullough, two shots ahead of the field, double-bogeyed his final hole and dropped back into a three-way tie for the lead Saturday after three rounds of the $600,000 Canadian Open golf tournament at Oakville, Canada.

McCullough’s misfortune enabled Curtis Strange and Canadian Dick Zokol to share the top spot at 207 going into today’s final round.

“I’d really like to have that two-shot lead going into tomorrow,” McCullough said after he finished a round of four-under-par 68.

Zokol, attempting to become the first Canadian to win this national championship in 33 years, had a 69.

He was among the 78 players who were forced to return to the Glen Abbey Golf Club in the Ontario city at 7 a.m. EST after a series of thunderstorms halted play Friday.

Zokol staged a birdie-birdie-eagle finish for a 68 in his second round, took a share of the lead at that point, then regained a tie for the lead when McCullough’s second shot landed in the lake on his 18th hole.

Strange, a former Canadian Open winner, birdied his last hole to complete a 66, the best round of the day.

LPGA Tour rookie Nancy Taylor shot a one-over-par 73 to maintain a two-stroke lead through three rounds of the $225,000 Jamie Farr Toledo tournament over the 6,202-yard Glengarry Country Club course in Toledo, Ohio.

Taylor, who had never led an LPGA event before this week, held the lead for the third consecutive day. She stood at 210.

Two shots back were Jill Briles, Sherri Turner, Julie Cole and Cindy Hill. Cole matched the day’s low round with a Briles shot a 69, Hill a 72 and Turner a 73.

Bruce Crampton shot a two-under-par 70 at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., to grab a five-stroke lead in the second round of the $235,000 Greenbrier-American Express Championship.

Crampton had a total of 133. Don January shot a second-round 68 and was in a group with Kel Nagle (67), Orville Moody (71) and Bobby Nichols (70) at 138.

Crampton, the third-leading money winner on the PGA Seniors Tour with $188,300, will try for a winner’s purse of $34,000 today.

West German Bernhard Langer extended his lead to nine strokes after three rounds of the $320,000 Irish Open at Portmarnock, Ireland, by shooting a six-under-par 66.

Langer had six birdies and an eagle on the way to a 54-hole total of 201.

Australian Rodger Davis, who had a hole-in-one on the way to a 69, was at 210, a stroke ahead of Britain’s Sandy Lyle (71).