GOLF ROUNDUP : Down by 2 Holes, Woods Repeats in Junior Amateur

Tiger Woods rallied from two holes down with five to play Saturday to defeat Mark Wilson and become the first golfer to win a second U.S. Junior Amateur Championship title.

Woods, 16, of Cypress birdied the par-five 16th hole at Wollaston Golf Club in Milton, Mass., to tie the match and won on the 18th hole with a bogey five.

“It was tougher this year than last,” said Woods, who broke down in tears and hugged his father after winning.

“I was down two a lot longer” than last year, he said. “And I’m sorry to say, I was pretty damn nervous. You can’t believe how much tension is out there. I guess after I won, it just all came out.”

Woods is one of only five juniors to reach the final a second time in the championship’s 45-year history. The last was Michael Brannan, who won in 1971 and was runner-up in 1973.

Woods, the medalist in qualifying stroke play at 68-75-143, had easy victories along the way and never trailed in any of his six matches until the final.

Donnie Hammond shot an error-free 68 in 30 m.p.h. gusts to take a one-shot lead after the third round of the Greater Hartford Open.

The winds, coming after Friday’s heavy rains, prevented anyone from making a strong run at the Tournament Players Club at River Highlands course. Only nine of the 79 golfers broke par 70. Eleven others were even on the round.

Hammond’s three-day total of 204 left him at six under par, a score that has led the tournament after each day’s play.

Second-round leader Gil Morgan fell into a tie for second at five under with Bob Estes.

George Archer, the two-time defending champion, shot a bogey-free five-under 67 and took a two-stroke lead after two rounds of the $450,000 Northville Long Island Classic.

Archer was at 137, two strokes better than first-round leader Jim Albus, who shot a 72 over the 6,655-yard Meadow Brook Club at Jericho, N.Y.

Larry Laoretti also shot 72 and was at 140.

Dottie Mochrie shot a three-under 69 to pull into a share of the lead with Sherri Steinhauer after three rounds of the LPGA’s Bay State Classic at Canton, Mass.

Mochrie and Steinhauer, the second-round co-leader who shot 70 on Saturday, managed to break par despite battling wind gusts to 38 m.p.h. They completed 54 holes at 208, eight under par.