GOLF ROUNDUP : Trevino, Nicklaus Square Off at Senior Open

It is a dream pairing. Lee Trevino and Jack Nicklaus will be the last twosome off the tee at Oakland Hills in Birmingham, Mich., today with the U.S. Senior Open title at stake.

“Great. Absolutely great,” Trevino said after he had taken the lead Saturday with a two-under-par 68 and a 54-hole total of par 210.

Nicklaus, who scrambled his way into that pairing with a 70 that left him one behind at 211, was a little more apprehensive.

“It’s still anybody’s golf tournament, not just my golf tournament or Trevino’s,” Nicklaus said. “There must be six or seven others who can still win it.”

Chi Chi Rodriguez and J.C. Snead are also at 211. Rodriguez matched par 70 in the third round, and Snead relinquished the lead with a 71. It was another two shots back to Mike Hill, Don Bies and Al Geiberger.

Walter Zembriski made the biggest move with a 66.

Rick Fehr played unspectacularly but well enough to shoot a four-under-par 66 that edged him one shot ahead of Corey Pavin in the Greater Hartford Open at Cromwell, Conn.

Pavin, the 36-hole leader, and five others were within two strokes of Fehr, who had five birdies en route to a 54-hole score of 201, nine under par for the 6,820-yard Tournament Players Club at River Highlands course.

Pavin pitched in a bunker shot from 60 feet away on the 18th hole to salvage par for the day and remain at eight-under.

Kay Cockerill and Caroline Keggi share the lead of a $400,000 LPGA tournament at Canton, Mass. Cockerill and Keggi both birdied the 18th hole to finish at three-under 69 for the day and nine-under 207 for the tournament.

U.S. Open champion Payne Stewart shot a course-record 62, taking a six-stroke lead after three rounds of the $840,100 Dutch Open at Noordwijk, Netherlands. Stewart is at 19-under 197.

Stewart had 11 birdies and one bogey to pass German Bernhard Langer, who had a 63 in the first round. Langer shot a 69 Saturday and is at 203 for the tournament.

Tiger Woods of Cypress advanced to the finals of the USGA Junior Amateur championships at Orlando, Fla., by defeating Tom Biershank of Inman, S.C., 2 up, in the quarterfinals and Kevin Mihailoff of Naples, Fla., 5 and 4, in the semifinals.