GOLF ROUNDUP : Sindelar Sits Precariously Atop the Memorial Field

Joey Sindelar takes a three-shot lead and a certain amount of curiosity into today’s final round of the $1.3-million Memorial tournament at Dublin, Ohio.

“It’ll be interesting to see how my nerves handle it,” Sindelar said Saturday after taking command of the tournament with birdies on four of his last five holes.

“It’s been a long time for me,” said Sindelar, in a slump for almost four years. “I might shoot 62 or I might shoot 77.”

Sindelar, on a slide since winning two tournaments and more than $800,000 in 1988, shot a five-under-par 67 on Jack Nicklaus’ storm-ravaged Muirfield Village Golf Club. He completed three rounds in 201, 15 under par and three strokes ahead of Jeff Maggert and Mark Brooks.

J.C. Snead and Lee Trevino share the lead after two rounds of the PaineWebber Invitational seniors tournament at Charlotte, N.C.

Snead opened with two consecutive birdies and finished with a five-under-par 67 for a two-round total of eight-under 136. Trevino rallied with a four-under-par 32 on the back side for a 69.

Gene Littler birdied eight holes to match Snead’s 67 and is in a group of six, one shot behind.

Brandie Burton shot a course-record eight-under-par 63 to share the lead with Japan’s Ayako Okamoto after two rounds of the LPGA McDonald’s Classic at Wilmington, Del.

Burton, 20, had eight birdies on the rain-soaked 6,389-yard DuPont Country Club course, shooting a 32-31 for a two-round total of six-under-par 136.

She erased the course record of 64, set in last year’s first round by Tammie Green.

Judy Dickinson and Deb Richard were tied for second, two shots behind.

Phil Mickelson won his third NCAA title with a final round two-over-par 74 at The Championship Course of the University of New Mexico.

Mickelson of Arizona State finished at 271, 17 under par for 72 holes, winning by seven strokes over Arizona’s Harry Rudolph and tying the tournament record set by John Inman of North Carolina in 1984. Mickelson joined Ben Crenshaw, who played for Texas in the early ‘70s, as the only three-time winners of the tournament.

Arizona won its first national title at 1,129, seven shots better than Arizona State’s 1,136.