GOLF SENIOR TOURNAMENT : Trevino Gets the Title That He Wanted
Lee Trevino couldn’t beat Mike Hill Sunday, but he did beat the man he wanted--Greg Norman.
Hill’s birdie on the first hole of a three-way playoff gave him the Champion’s tournament in Dorado, Puerto Rico, but Trevino accomplished a rare feat in golf with the $95,000 he earned for second.
Playing on the PGA Senior Tour, which offered about $21 million in prize money, Trevino won golf’s money title with $1,190,518. Norman, playing on the PGA Tour, which offered about $46 million, won $1,165,477. “I did what I came to do,” Trevino said. “Naturally, I’d like to have won. But I have Greg (Norman).”
Hill, Dale Douglass and Trevino all completed the regulation 54 holes at 201, 15-under par. Douglass and Hill finished with 68s and Trevino closed with the seven-under par 65 he predicted he would have to have.
On the first extra hole, Trevino appeared to have the advantage, but Hill rapped his long put into the back of the cup for a birdie.
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