GOLF ROUNDUP : Magee Wins in Playoff With Record Score

Five days and 90 holes was not enough to produce a winner in the lowest-scoring tournament in PGA Tour history. Finally, Andrew Magee settled it with a par on the second playoff hole to defeat D.A. Weibring in the $1.5 million Las Vegas Invitational.

The victory came as something of an anticlimax in a tournament that saw only the second score of 59 ever on the pro tour, and a tour record for 90 holes and the lowest overall scoring ever.

Magee and Weibring each played the last 18 holes of regulation in six-under-par 66 and finished at 329, 31 under par.

Magee, who became the eighth double winner of the season, trailed by one stroke going to the par five 18th hole.

After Weibring had laid up his second shot, Magee boldly hit a three-iron over the water, about 25 feet behind the hole.

He missed the downhill putt, but tapped in for the birdie that tied it when Weibring parred the hole.

“I played the percentage shot, and he played the great shot,” Weibring said.

“I wanted to force him to play a great shot and he did,” Weibring said.

Both parred the first playoff hole, Magee with a save from a bunker.

On the second playoff hole, Weibring hit his second shot in a bunker, came out long and missed a 20-foot par putt.

Magee got up and down from the fringe for the victory, chipping to about three feet and dropping the putt for the winning par.

“I’m overwhelmed,” Magee said. “I can’t believe D.A. and I both shot 31 under par.”

The third victory of his career was worth $270,000 from the total purse of $1.5 million and pushed his season’s earnings to a career-high $711,281.

Chip Beck, who had that 59 on Friday, tied for third with Jim Gallagher and Ted Schulz at 331, 29 under par and matching the old tour record for 90 holes, set by Corey Pavin and Mark O’Meara earlier this season in the Bob Hope Classic.

PGA champion John Daly was well back at 69-339.

Sweden, better known for its tennis players, established itself as a force in world golf by winning the Dunhill Cup in a sudden-death playoff over South Africa.

Mats Lanner made an eight-foot birdie putt on the first extra hole to beat Gary Player in the third and decisive match of the $1.7 million team event on the Old Course at St. Andrews.

Earlier in the day, Lanner made a similar putt to beat Phillip Price on the fifth playoff hole, giving Sweden a 2-1 semifinal victory over Wales.

That match was suspended by darkness Saturday night.

“It’s hard to believe,” Lanner said. “It’s been such a long day. It was a great feeling to walk up to the first hole again, get my shot close and hole the putt.”

The heroics were left to Lanner after Sweden and South Africa split the first two matches. Anders Forsbrand, who also won in a playoff against Wales, beat John Bland 68-69, giving Sweden a 1-0 lead. South Africa’s David Frost evened the match with a 68-74 victory over Per-Ulrik Johansson.

The victory in the richest golf tournament ever held in Europe was worth $170,000 to each member of the Swedish team.

The South Africans each received $85,000.

Scotland defeated Wales 2-0 for third place.

Defending champion George Archer shot a four-under-par 68 to slip past a faltering Butch Baird and win the $450,000 Raley’s Senior Gold Rush at Rancho Murieta Country Club.

Archer’s 10-under-par 206 for 54 holes was two shots higher than his tournament record 204 last year on the 6,701-yard North Course.

The win earned him $67,500, boosting his 1991 earnings to $714,538, second behind Mike Hill.

South African Simon Hobday emerged from the pack to finish second, one stroke behind Archer, with a course record-tying seven-under 65.

Hobday, who did not play on the regular PGA Tour and is playing his first year on the Senior Tour, earned $39,000 with his 207 total.

Hill’s six-under 66 left him at 208, good for third place and $32,500.

Hill has now earned $713,203 this year.

Baird, who began the day tied for the lead with Lee Trevino, held a two-stroke lead over Archer with three holes to play before his game collapsed.

Sandy Lyle of Scotland shot a five-under-par 67 to score a three-stroke win in the International Open golf tournament, his first victory in three years.

Lyle finished with at 268, 20-under-par, over the par-72, 6,385-yard Eichenried course in Munich, Germany.

Tony Johnston of Zimbabwe also shot a 67 and finished second at 271, one stroke ahead of Australia’s Peter Fowler.