Penalized Wallace Rallies, Wins at Martinsville

Golf

Mike Springer earned his first tour victory by closing with a par 72 to win the Greater Greensboro (N.C.) Open.

Springer, who earned $270,000, became the first to lead from start to finish since Tom Weiskopf in 1975.

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Larry Gilbert closed with a three-under 67 to win the Reunion Pro-Am in Dallas, his first victory in two years on the Senior PGA Tour.

Gilbert won $75,000.

Sailing

Steady winds produced one of the fastest of the 47 Newport-Ensenada International Yacht Races, with all official finishers crossing the line before midnight Saturday. A few other boats among the 401 starters dropped out.

John Haupt III’s 42-foot wooden-hulled At Ease finished at 11:42 p.m. Saturday, some 27 hours after Dennis Conner’s 60-foot catamaran Stars & Stripes, which broke its own record in 8 hours 29 minutes.

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Yamaha, a Whitbread 60 with a New Zealand-Japanese crew, was the first yacht to reach Fort Lauderdale, winning the fifth leg of the Whitbread Round The World Race stop.

Charlie “Choo Choo” Justice, 69, an All-American running back for North Carolina during the 1940s, remained in serious but stable condition at a hospital in Raleigh, N.C., after suffering heart problems Saturday during the opening of the North Carolina Museum of History.