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GREENSBORO, N.C. — Most of golfs top
money winners have skipped the Greater Greens
boro Open to prepare for next week’s Masters and
that’s just fine with Craig Stadler.
Stadler opens play in today’s first round w'ith a
hot hand and the absence of players like Tom
Watson, Jerry Pate and Tom Kite leaves him as a
favorite in this tournament he won in 1980.
“I’m hitting the ball pretty good now and I’ve
been playing good week in and week out,” said
Stadler, the tour’s third leading money winner
and the top money winner in the GGO field.
Aside from Stadler, only two of the top 10
money winners are playing the Greensboro stop.
Scott Simpson, who finished second in Hawaii and
tied for second in the Tournament Players Cham
pionship, is in the field along with Wayne Levi,
who won at Hawaii.
Ray Floyd, a native of nearby Fayetteville is in
the field, along with Lee Trevino, and Gary Play
er, making his 25th straight GGO appearance.
The 6,984-yard Forest Oaks layout, in contrast
to the short layout with its tiny greens at Hilton
Head where last week’s tournament was played, is
an open course with large undulating greens that
favors the long hitter.
“I feel like it’s going to be nice to change
greens,” said defending champion Larry Nelson,
who won the tournament in one of the year’s most
incredible finishes on the tour.
Last year, Nelson’s victory was overshadowed
by the way he did it, sinking a 20-foot sand shot for
a birdie on the final hole of regulation that tied
him with his good friend Mark Hayes and set up a
playoff Nelson won on the second hole of sudden
death.
“I’m kinda anxious to get back to the 18th hole
to see just how deep that bunker is,” said Nelson.
“It gets deeper and deeper when you tell the
story.”
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RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif —
Nancy Lopez-Melton has lost
nearly 30 pounds in the last six
months but has gained a ton of
confidence.
She took her renewed confi
dence into today’s opening
round of the $300,000 LPGA
tournament, sponsored by Di
nah Shore and Nabisco, at the
Mission Hills Country Club that
offers $45,000 to the winner.
“I’m getting confident
again,” Lopez-Melton said
Wednesday after playing in a
pro-am.
“At first I was coming into the
ball too fast because I was quick
er since losing all the weight,”
she said.
Hills are perfect.”
Last year she fired a tourna
ment record 8-under-par 64 in
the final round at Mission Hills
to win by two strokes over
Carolyn Hill and earn $37,500.
“I had a chance to win but
couldn’t make any putts the last
day. The greens were so long,
slow and grainy, I made only
one birdie and three-putted
twice. But the greens at Mission
“I really want to win again,”
said Lopez-Melton. She is cur
rently second on the 1982
money list with $66,993. The
field features 87 players, includ-
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CLEARWATER, Fla. — Earl
Weaver really gave Rich Dauer a
fair amount of criticism earlier
in the spring.
That excitable little gray
haired man with the sandpaper
voice was giving this poor fright
ened young fellow an awful time
in the Baltimore Orioles’ camp.
“Hey, Dauer,” he hollered at
him, “you still haven’t had a hit
yet this spring and (Vic) Rodri-
, guez already has.”
* That was Earl Weaver, the
needier.
Rodriguez is a 20-year-old
rookie. He plays second base,
the same position as Dauer, and
can handle third base too. He hit
.306 with Charlotte in the South
ern League last year and has a
fine future ahead of him, but the
Orioles cut him last week for
reassignment. And here was
1 Weaver making it sound like
Rodriguez was creeping up
Dauer’s back.
Dauer wasn’t taking it,
1 though.
! He threw his glove down
i angrily.
“All you have to do is trade
me,” he hollered right back at
Weaver. “I’ll go.”
The Orioles’ manager
couldn’t help laughing.
Rich Dauer is the last fellow in
the world he’d ever think of
sending anywhere else. Weaver
thinks too much of him.
“He loves playing ball so
much, he doesn’t care if he
makes a nickel doing it,” Weaver
said after his second baseman
was out of earshot. “He has play
ed on one leg for me more than
once. He wants to be up there
with the winning run on second
and two out. He loves that. He’s
one of the best hit-and-run men
I ever had on this team. The
worst thing I can say about him
is he played in college. But he
played for a real good man
there, Rod Dedeaux at USC. I
told him if he hits .300, he can
call me ‘coach.’”
Dauer hasn’t hit .300 yet in
over five seasons he has been
with the Orioles, but he has done
so many other things for them,
that hardly anyone notices.
Last year, he led all regular
American League second base-
men in fielding, topped the
Orioles in doubles with 27, was
the third toughest hitter in the
league for pitchers to strike out
and Finished with a .263 average
after being up to .284 as late as
Aug. 28.
With veteran shortstop Mark
Belanger gone to the Dodgers,
Dauer will be the man in charge
of the infield. He’ll have to learn
how to call the plays, and how to
direct traffic the way Belanger
did on the cutoffs and relays.
“When I was a rookie, I
thought I knew enough to take
charge, but I really didn’t,”
Dauer admitted. “I’ve learned
that a lot of people are smarter
than me. I think I know enough
though now, so I can take
charge.”
Dauer isn’t fast at all. He’s
slow afoot. Yet he has excellent
reflexes and he’s quick.
Compared to other second
basemen in the league, the
Orioles’ 29-year-old San Ber
nardino, Calif., native doesn’t
move as swiftly as any of them,
but somehow you can always
count on him being in from
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Shan McDonald pitched a six-
hitter that would have been a
shutout except for one un
earned Arizona State run.
Her teammates backed her
up with a four-run second in
ning, and eight hits in the game.
With one out in the top of the
second, Patti Holthaus reached
first base on a Sun Devil error,
and catcher Gay McNutt fol
lowed with a double to put run
ners on second and third.
Shannon Murray, the first
baseman, loaded the bases with a
bunt. The next batter, Melody
Pritchard, picked up an RBI
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scored Holthaus.
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