GOLF ROUNDUP : Calcavecchia Changes His Luck With a 66, Wins by Two

Mark Calcavecchia had gone three years without winning on the PGA Tour, but his luck changed dramatically Sunday with a two-stroke victory in the BellSouth Classic.

He shot a six-under-par 66 at the Atlanta Country Club for a 72-hole total of 17-under 271.

“I just kept firing at it, and today the right things happened,” said Calcavecchia, who earned $234,000 for his seventh tour victory. “This is a big confidence booster.”

Jim Gallagher Jr., the third-round co-leader, finished at 273 after shooting a final-round 70.

Calcavecchia said that when he made the turn four shots behind Gallagher he thought he would need to shoot a 31 on the back side to have a chance.

“Lo and behold, I shot 31,” he said. “It was amazing.”

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Bob Murphy won the PaineWebber Invitational, shooting a three-under 69 for a tournament record-tying total of 13-under 203 in the senior event on the TPC Piper Glen Course at Charlotte, N.C.

He was two strokes ahead of Raymond Floyd, who undermined his own strong start with a wobbly finish on the last five holes.

“I felt very much in control this week,” said Murphy, who earned $120,000. “I felt like I putted the ball well enough to just shoot very low.”

Don Bies shot 203 in 1992, as did Lee Trevino last year.

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Michelle McGann, who had earned more than $1 million without winning a tournament in seven years of LPGA play, ended the dry spell with a victory in the $525,000 Sara Lee tournament at Nashville, Tenn.

She finished one stroke ahead of defending champion Laura Davies, Kelly Robbins and Dottie Mochrie, closing with a four-under 68 for a 202 total, and earned $78,750.

That left Alice Ritzman as the tour’s only player who has won more than $1 million without a victory.

“Why I didn’t win the last seven years, who knows?,” said McGann, who joined the tour in 1988. “Why I win this week, Lord only knows.”

Davies shot a 70, Robbins a 68 and Mochrie a 65, the same as Betsy King, who became the first LPGA player to top $5 million in career earnings.