GOLF ROUNDUP : Crenshaw Putts His Way to a 69, Leads by One Stroke at Orlando

Ben Crenshaw turned his putting touch into a three-under-par 69 and a one-shot lead after the third round of the $1-million Nestle Invitational Saturday at Orlando, Fla.

Crenshaw moved in front of Davis Love III with three critical putts of about 15 feet each. One was for a par on the 15th, and the others for birdies on the 16th and 17th. The latter put Crenshaw, 41, in the lead.

“Three nice putts, three very nice putts at the end,” Crenshaw said after completing 54 holes over Arnold Palmer’s Bay Hill course in six-under 210.

Love, the leader at the tournament’s halfway point, could not maintain the pace he set over the first two rounds. His round of 71 included three birdies, an eagle, two bogeys and a double bogey from the water on the 11th.

Love’s eagle-3 on the 16th hole gave him a share of the lead, but he relinquished it with a bogey from a bunker on the 17th.

Patty Sheehan made up two strokes on Dawn Coe-Jones with the best round of the season--a tournament record-tying eight-under-par 65--to pull into a tie for the lead at 14-under 205 in the LPGA Standard Register Ping tournament at Phoenix. Coe-Jones twice birdied three consecutive holes on the front nine, then settled for nine consecutive pars while Sheehan charged.