Golf Roundup : Playoff Win Caps Remarkable Day for Burns and Levi

Wayne Levi made a 38-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole Sunday, enabling Levi and George Burns to defeat defending champions Mike Hulbert and Bob Tway for the $600,000 PGA Chrysler team championship at West Palm Beach, Fla.

Starting the final round 7 strokes off the lead, Levi and Burns shot a 13-under-par 59 to finish the 4-day event at 252, 36 under par, only to have Hulbert and Tway tie them. They shot a 63, highlighted by what Hulbert called a 100-foot birdie putt on the final hole that put them in the playoff.

The ball rolled up over a ridge, breaking slightly and eventually dropping gently into the hole.

“It was a day you dream about,” said Burns who suffered through a bad year and a shoulder operation. “You’ve got to give Wayne credit.”

Said Levi: “I had an awful feeling in my stomach when I watched on TV and saw Hulbert sink that putt at the 18th.”

Levi produced 8 of his team’s 11 birds and an eagle 3 at the 521-yard 10th hole, hitting a 2-iron 225 feet to leave a 3-foot putt.

Ben Crenshaw sank a par-saving 4-foot putt on the final hole, clinching a U.S. victory in the World Cup tournament at Melbourne, Australia.

Crenshaw and teammate Mark McCumber gave the United States its 17th Cup victory, finishing 16 under par over the 6,985-yard, par-72 Royal Melbourne course.

Crenshaw also won the individual title with a 275, a stroke better than Japan’s Jet Ozaki.

The Japanese brother team of Jet and Jumbo Ozaki moved past Australia on the last hole for second at 15-under. Australia’s Peter Senior and Roger Mackay were another shot back.

South Africa’s Harold Henning shot a 2-under-par 70 to win the $225,000 Manu Lani Seniors Challenge at Waikoloa on the island of Hawaii by 4 strokes over Bob Erickson.

Henning’s winning 54-hole total was 202, 14 under par, in collecting the first prize of $45,000. Erickson had a final round 68--206.

Don January, Billy Casper, Al Geiberger and Dave Hill finished at 207 to tied for third. January shot a 70, Casper a 68, Geiberger a 69 and Hill a 71.