GOLF HERITAGE TOURNAMENT : Stewart’s 66 Gleans Two-Shot Lead
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HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — Harbour Town Golf Links is fast becoming one of Payne Stewart’s favorite courses on the PGA Tour.
Stewart continued to play well at Harbour Town on Saturday by firing a five-under-par 66 for a two-stroke lead after three rounds of the Heritage tournament.
“I feel good on this golf course for reasons I don’t know,” he said.
Actually, there are at least two reasons: Stewart won the 1989 Heritage tournament and lost in sudden death to Tom Kite in the Nabisco Championships in October.
Stewart, who shot a record 16-under-par 268 to win last year, is at eight-under 205 going into today’s final round. But several players were well within striking distance, including 1988 champion Greg Norman, who had a hole in one Saturday on the 179-yard, par-three seventh hole with a seven-iron. It was the first ace in the Heritage since Kite had one in 1981.
Norman, who had a 67, was at 207, along with Masters champion Nick Faldo and Steve Jones. Faldo, the 1984 Heritage winner, shot a 70 and Jones had a 66, with six birdies and one bogey, to pull into contention.
