Golf Roundup : 3 Players Share Lead at Memphis

Peter Jacobsen, Jodie Mudd and Tim Simpson shot 4-under-par 68s Friday for the second straight day and shared the 36-hole lead in the $750,0000 St. Jude golf tournament at Memphis, Tenn.

Their 8-under-par 136s moved them one stroke ahead of South African Nick Price, who was as hot as the weather with a 64, and first round co-leader Ed Fiori, who followed his opening 66 with a 71.

Larry Mize, the 1987 Masters champion, had a 68 and was tied at 138 with Tommy Armour III and Fulton Allem of South Africa, who shot 69s.

The other first-round co-leader, Doug Tewell, had a 73 and slipped three shots off the pace.

Former champion Billy Casper shot his second straight subpar round, a 1-under-par 71, to take a three-stroke lead in the second round of the U.S. Senior Open in suburban Chicago.

Casper, the only player to break par in each of the first two rounds on Medinah Country Club’s treacherous No. 3 course, was at 4-under-par 140.

South African Harold Henning and Lou Graham--the only other golfers under par after two trips around the 6,881-yard layout, which was remodeled for this championship--were next at 143.

Walt Zembriski, the former steelworker who matched Casper’s 69 Thursday, stumbled to a 75 and fell into a tie with defending champion Gary Player and Al Geiberger at 144.

Deb Richard had eight birdies and two bogeys to score 22 points and win the second day of the $400,000 Pat Bradley International LPGA tournament at High Point, N.C.

The tournament is being played under a modified Stableford scoring system, which awards points instead of counting strokes.

A birdie earns a golfer three points, an eagle five points, a double eagle eight points. On the minus side, bogeys cost a golfer one point and a double bogey three points.

Richard earned $8,000 for winning the round. Ayako Okamoto was second with 18 points and earned $3,000.

Three golfers--Sally Quinlan, Missy McGeorge and Juli Inkster--each had 15 points, while Pat Bradley, who completed the second round after learning that her father had suffered a heart attack, qualified for the third round with 12 points.

A 2-under-par 70 at Denver’s Bear Creek Golf Club completed a record performance by U.S. Amateur champion Billy Mayfair, who won his second straight Pacific Coast Amateur Championship.

Mayfair, of Phoenix, won by 15 strokes as he posted an 18-under-par 270 total for 72 holes, breaking the tournament record of 274 set by Curt Byrum at Provo, Utah, in 1979.

Dave Stockton Jr. of Mentone, Calif., a student at USC, shot a final-round 70 to finish second at 285, while Steve Rintoul of Elmira, Ore., was next with a 68 for a 286.