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Avet's da in the sun
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Jansonewins Open
as contenders fade
and I was choking, so I didn't want to
have to two-putt from 30 or 40 feet," he
said.
The ball stopped rolling six feet away
from the pin, and when he knocked the
putt home for birdie, the Michigan
Open and its $3,000 first-prize money
were his.
Wolverine linkster John Morse, who
won the Big Ten individual champion-
ship in May, remained in the picture
with two rounds of 73, but his 77 on
Saturday left him back in the pack. His
fourth-round 74 gave him a 72-hole total
of 297.
Throughout the tournament, many of,
the competitors complained about the
condition of the course, especially the
slow, rain-soaked greens and the dif-
ficulty of pin placements. But as one
might expect, the champ was satisfied.
"Thesetgreens are as hard as any in
the stste to putt, regardless of whether
they're slow, as they were this year, or
not," Janson said. "I like to play a golf
course where par is an excellent score,
so I'll have to congratulate the Tour-
nament Committee on that."
Just as the Tournament Committee
congratulated Lynn Janson, Michigan's
top golfer, at least temporarily.
By MARK MIHANOVIC
In the hot sun at the University Golf
Course Sunday, Lynn Janson tightened
his grip on the state's golfing leadership
by shooting a 72 to hold off Steve
Groves' challenge and win the $21,000
Michigan Open by two strokes.
It was consistency that spelled vic-
tory for the tall, smooth-swinging Com-
stock Park resident, who is the head pro
at Green Ridge Country Club in Grand
Rapids and the 1979 Michigan PGA
Player of the Year. Janson's rounds of
70-70-71-72gave him a tournament total
of one-under-par 283: Groves (from Or-
chard Lake), playing along with Janson
and Bill Grooms, also notched a 72 over
the last 18 holes for a four-round tally of
285.
AFTER GOLFING his way out of
contention on Saturday with a score- of
76, Belmont's Buddy'Whitten stormed
back Sunday with a 67 (tying Rock-
ford's Thom Rosely'for the best round
of the tournament) and finished three
strokes behind Janson at two-over-par
286.
Grooms, from Detroit, began the
final round only one stroke behind the
leader,'Janson, but a bogey on No. 11
(normally the second hole), a double
bogey at 12, and another bogey at 13
sent him on his way to a 77 and out of
title contention.
He finished in a tie for fourth at 289
with 20-year-old Marc Dingman, who
won honors as the Open's top amateur.
A junior-to-be at Eastern Michigan,
Dingman used an almost-flawless put-
ting game to take the lead after two
rounds, but he played the final 36 holes
to the tune of 76-74 and faded from the
top.
GROVES HAD a chance to win all the
way through Sunday's last hole. On the
par-three, 250-yard 12th, he landed his
tee shot four feet from the cup. After he
made the birdie putt and Janson
scrambled for a par, Groves was just
two strokes down.
He then barely missed birdie putts on
13 and 14 of seven and 15 feet, respec-
tively, which he described afterward as
the key to the match.
"I felt 12, 13, and 14 were the key
points," Groves said. "I felt that when!I
made the birdie at 12, I had a chance.
But I didn't feel good over the putter at
all today, and as a result, I had a lot of
putt that were short. Lynn knew that
allhe had to do was hit the middle of the
green and make par.
JANSON AND Groves matched pars
on 15 and 16, and they hit their respec-
tive second shots at 17 to within inches
of each other about 30 feet from the
hole. Groves hit his putt dead center but
a little strong, and it bounced off the
SCORES
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St. Louis 5, Los Angeles 2
back of the cup and out, forcing him to
settle for par. He picked up a stroke
anyway, though, as Janson missed a
three-footer and bogeyed.
But Janson came back and clinched
the win with a brilliant second shot at
the 445-yard, par-four 18th. "I had just
three-putted 17 because I was nervous
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DOWN TO THE WIRE goes Lynn Janson-but the veteran pro has the experience of many tournaments to carry him
safely through the pressure cooker and into the winner's circle of the 1988 Michigan Open held at the University Golf
Course. Janson, who is shown studying a long putt on the 17th hole of the final round, shot an even-par 72 and took advant-
age of younger players' mistakes to win the title.
SPOR TS OF THE DAILY:
Pactorek hitting patri otic HRs
Michigan's Jim Paciorek blasted a two-run homer and Although Heritage was the first across the finish line, it
went three-for-four this weekend to help the United States will not necessarily be the overall winner once final times are
Collegiate All-Star team coast to a 10-2 victory over the determined under a complicated handicap formula.
Korean national team and give the Americans a 3-2 advan- Heritage and Brassy were among only 21 of the 300 boats
tage in the best-of-seven series being held in Seoul, South entered in the 259-mile race up Lake Huron to pass the mid-
Korea. way point Sunday night at Cove Island.
Paciorek has been hot with the bat the last two games of * * * *
the series. He has had five hits in his last seven at-bats, and is Twins' Cub bage badly injured
six-for-17 through the entire series for an .352 average. BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP)-Minnesota Twins third
In the fourth game, which the United States won 3-2, baseman Mike Cubbage suffered a broken nose and facial
Paciorek scored the game-winning run in the first inning, lacerations last night when he was struck by a ground ball in
Paciorek has started in rightfield every game. the first game of a doubleheader with the Baltimore Orioles.
* * * * Cubbage was carried off the field on a stretcher after he
Heritage wins Mackinac regatta was struck on the right side of his face by a ground ball off the
MACKINAC ISLAND (UPI)-The scratch boat Heritage bat of Len Sakata.
was the first to cross the finish line yesterday in the storm- Doctors at Fairview Southdale Hospital said Cuhage's
tossed 56th annual Port Huron to Mackinac Island yacht eye was not damaged, hut he had cuts shove the right eye and
race.on the right side of his nose.
The 63-foot Morgan sloop, owned by D.L. Wildman of The injury occurred with one out in the third inning and
Chicgo, crossed the finish line at 12:20.01 p.m. EDT. Bassry the Orioles leading 5-1. With the bases loaded, Sakata sent a
apparently was a close second in the prestigious race, spon- one-hop smash to thiard. The ball struck Cubbage in the face
sored by the Bayview Yacht Club of Detroit. and shattered his eyeglasses.
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