Monday, November 9,1987/The Battalion/Page 11
"Strange leads U.S. squad to World golf title
INAGI, Japan (AP) — The
United States team, helped by a key
victory by Curtis Strange, beat Eu
rope 10-2 Sunday for the title in the
$950,000 World Championship of
Golf.
The Americans won Five matches
while losing only one. Each of the six
U.S. players received $60,000, while
the Europeans got $35,000 apiece.
Australia-New Zealand beat Japan
9-3 and finished third among teams
representing the four Professional
Golf Association tours.
Europe and the United States had
advanced to the Final by collecting
the most points in three days of
round robin play. The Europeans
had 24 points, the United States 20,
Australia-New Zealand 18 and Ja
pan 10. Each match victory was
worth two points and a tie counted
one point.
The Americans took a 6-2 lead af
ter four matches Sunday. Sandy Lyle
beat America’s Mark Calcavecchia
70-72, but the Americans won three
matches: Payne Stewart defeating
Ian Woosnam 70-72, Lanny Wad-
kins beating Bernhard Langer 70-71
and Scott Simpson defeating Nick
Faldo 68-72.
Then, Europe’s Ken Brown led
Strange, the U.S. PGA tour’s leading
money winner, by one shot after the
17th hole, threatening to cut the
U.S. lead to 6-4.
On the difficult 224-yard, par-3
18th hole, Strange rolled in a 13-foot
birdie putt for a 70, while Brown
missed a 3-foot par putt and finished
at 71.
That gave the Americans an 8-2
lead and the victory.
In the final match, U.S. captain
Tom Kite and Jose-Maria Olazabal
were tied after 15 holes, but Olaza
bal hit his second shot out of bounds
for a double-bogey on the par-4,
16th hole and ended with a 71 while
Kite shot a 69.
“We played well the entire tourna
ment,” Kite said.
“About 10 years ago, the United
States was No. 1 in the world, but
there is no superior tour team at
present,” he said, noting that the
U.S. had lost to Europe in the recent
Ryder Cup competition.
Langer, the European captain,
said, “I was disappointed today, as
we made some mistakes. We won
only one match, but the rest of the
matches were all close. I think there
is no big gap among Americans and
Europeans.”
Kite, Stewart and Lyle won all
four of their matches over the four
days.
“I learned a lot in the tournament
here last year,” Stewart said. “It
helped me this year.”
Kite had the lowest four-round to
tal of 272, with rounds of 68-69-66-
69 over the 7,017-yard, par-72 Yo-
miuri Country Club course.
Revenge a factor for Seahawks against Jets
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP)
- The Seattle Seahawks have vivid
Memories of what the New York Jets
1 |id to them last year.
I A 38-7 rout by the Jets in the
Kingdome served as an incentive for
the Seahawks as they prepared for
Monday night’s game against slump
ing New York.
“It was an embarrassment,” Sea-
. nawks Coach Chuck Knox said. “I
. 'fton’t believe you have to mention it,
_ but I think it behooves an intelligent
fcerson to profit from history.”
I History had been kind to the Sea-
■ oftawks against the Jets. Seattle won
e Bhe first seven games the teams
fftlayed, including a 20-for-26, two-
Bouchdown passing performance by
luiiil
quarterback Dave Krieg in his first
NFL start in 1981.
But the Jets have won the last two
matchups. Last year, the Jets
amassed 553 yards, the most against
a Knox team in his 15 years as an
NFL coach.
“They beat us good last year, but
we can’t dwell on that,” defensive
end Jeff Bryant said. “We’ve just got
to execute our game plan.”
The Seahawks, 5-2, were one
game behind San Diego in the AFC
West going into this weekend’s
games, and have won their two post-
strike games. The Jets, 3-4, have lost
two straight and lacked intensity last
week in losing 19-14 to Indianapolis.
“We haven’t been as emotional as
in the past, but that’s not an excuse,”
quarterback Ken O’Brien said. “The
reason we lost is too many mistakes.
If we cut down on them, we’ll be
fine.”
Those mistakes — turnovers, pe
nalties, sacks — are the natural de
velopment of a lackluster effort,
Coach Joe Walton said.
“You have to play hard to win in
this league,” he said. “All of those
things that go wrong stem from not
playing hard. If we line up like we’re
going to work at Madison Avenue, 9-
to-5, we aren’t going to win a lot of
games.”
The Jets say they’re not thinking
about last year.
“I put the past in the past,” de
fensive back Carl Howard said. “A
game is not won on what you did last
year or the last game, but what you
do today. You can’t go by last year at
all.”
Last year, the Jets were in the
midst of a 10-1 start when they beat
the Seahawks. Seattle was mired in a
four-game slide at the time.
“We remember them coming in
and embarrassing us,” said defensive
end Jacob Green, who has four sacks
this season and is anxious to face a
Jets’ offensive line which has surren
dered 23 sacks in the four games
with regulars. “They played like a
team that made no mistakes. It hurt
us.”
SMU's 1987homecoming
lackluster without football
DALLAS (AP) — Last year’s
homecoming at Southern Meth
odist was a happy occasion.
In November 1986, the school
trumpeted its 75th anniversary
with newly elected Gov. Bill
Clements leading the traditional
parade. The school seemed to be
marching beyond its past football
scandals.
Then, days after the game,
news broke of a booster slush
fund to pay players.
Shortly after the NCAA sus
pended football at SMU, Clem
ents, the former head of the insti-
tution’s governing board,
announced he knew of the illegal
payments.
So this year, alumni returned
to watch the Mustangs play soccer
and to visit an alma mater trying
to reagain its respectability.
Most people at the school were
trying to make the best of it, in
cluding new university President
A. Kenneth Pye, this year’s pa
rade marshal.
“I have not met an alumnus
who was not thrilled to be back,”
said Pye, appointed after a re
vamping of the school’s govern
ance system in the wake of the
scandal. “But most people would
rather be playing football.”
Saturday’s festivities began
with a colorFul parade of floats
playing up the homecoming
theme of “Memories and Mo
mentum.”
“We’ve cleared our highest
hurdle. Now we’re ready to take
the lead,” proclaimed one tissue-
paper creation sponsored by a so
rority and fraternity.
Throughout the day’s events,
scant mention was made of the
sport that has brought SMU one
of the worst reputations in college
athletics.
School officials touted the up
coming basketball season. “Here’s
an update from Moody Coliseum
— in the basketball scrimmage,
SMU is winning,” the parade’s
emcee said.
Ownby Field, the Mustangs’
former football practice field, was
the site of its first homecoming
game since 1948, and the painted
yardage markers were still visible
next to the boundaries used for
soccer.
Reactions to this year’s home
coming centerpiece were mixed.
“This is my first game. It’s ex
citing,” alumna Ann Reynolds
said. “They work hard out there.”
At halftime, a nattily dressed
Mustangs’ band marched and ser
enaded the homecoming queen.
But things weren’t quite the
same. The stadium announcer of
ten interrupted his commentary
to explain the rules of soccer, and
the cheerleaders’ yells of “Get
that ball and go” couldn’t keep
pace with the action.
“This is pathetic. I miss foot
ball,” Mike Devaney, a 1978 grad
uate, said. “Still, this is better than
a Rice football game, better than
a Rice-University of Houston
game.”
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