Golf Roundup : Randolph Leader by 4 After 64

Sam Randolph, the 1985 U.S. Amateur champion seeking his first PGA Tour victory, charged past veterans Lee Trevino and Curtis Strange and took a four-stroke lead in Saturday’s third round of the $500,000 Bank of Boston golf tournament at Sutton, Mass.

Trailing Trevino by two strokes and Strange by one when the round began, Randolph, 23, a former USC star from Santa Barbara, made seven birdies without a bogey for a seven-under-par 64 and a 54-hole total of 199.

Playing in a threesome just ahead of Trevino and Strange, Randolph took the lead with five birdies for a 31 on the front nine. He added two more birdies for the 64 to go along with previous rounds of 67 and 68.

Trevino dropped out of a share of the lead with a bogey on the eighth green and, after making the turn, bogeyed three holes in a role. He finished with a 72 and a total of 205.

Strange, the year’s top money winner with record earnings of $697,000, had one birdie on the front nine, took a bogey on the 10th green and managed just one birdie the rest of the way for a 70 and a 204.

Defending champion Gene Sauers, Australian Wayne Grady and little-known Canadian Ray Stewart were tied for second place at 203.

Gary Player shot a five-under-par 67 in light rain to take a two-shot lead over Bob Charles after two rounds of the rain-shortened World Seniors Invitational at Charlotte, N.C.

Player, who had a 68 in Thursday’s first round, had a nine-under-par total of 135. Charles, who matched Player’s 67, was at 137, while first-round leader Chi Chi Rodriguez was next at 138 after a 71 on the 6,826-yard Quail Hollow Country Club course.

Player started the day one shot behind Rodriguez but had three birdies on the front nine. He made his only bogey on No. 12 but finished with birdies on three of the last five holes to take the lead.

Patti Rizzo shot a three-under-par 69 to take a one-shot lead over Jane Geddes heading into the final round of the $225,000 Cellular One-Ping tournament at Portland, Ore.

Rizzo was at seven-under-par 137. Chris Johnson, who led after the first round, had a 73 to drop three shots behind Rizzo.

Rizzo trailed Jan Stephenson for most of the day, until Stephenson bogeyed No. 16 and double-bogeyed No. 17. Rizzo parred No. 16 and sank a 30-foot downhill putt for a birdie on No. 17. Stephenson was tied for third with Nancy Lopez, Elaine Crosby and Hollis Stacy at 139.

West Germany’s Bernhard Langer, despite a one-over-par 73 in the wind and rain, managed to hang onto a one-stroke lead after three rounds of the $350,000 European Open at Walton Heath, England.

Langer had a 54-hole total of 210. South Africa’s John Bland, who had a 70, and Briton’s Gordon Brand Jr., who chipped in on the 18th hole for a 72, were tied for second place.