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SPORTS
United States wins inaugural Presidents Cup
Tuesday • September 2i :
Late rally by international team provides golf event credibility, exciting finish
GAINESVILLE, Va. (AP) —
With one magnificent swing of
the club, Fred Couples locked
up the Presidents Cup for the
United States and provided the
new event with some much-cov
eted credibility.
Couples’ late heroics and the
play of the international team
gave the sponsoring PGA Tour
exactly what it wanted for its
inaugural Presidents Cup: riv
eting golf drama.
The Tour, which hastily
brought this event into being
earlier this year, wanted “to
have the best first significant
event in history,” Commissioner
Tim Finchem said.
It was solved — and saved
from any suggestion of script
ing — by the shot from Couples
that gave the Americans an un
beatable 17-9 lead in the 32-
match series.
From a fairway bunker on the
left, Couples hit a 147-yard 9-
iron shot to the middle of the
green, caught the slope he knew
was there and watched the ball
curl within tap-in distance.
The shot provided the U.S.
with the clinching 17th point.
At one time, the Americans —
who had a had a 12-8 lead going
to the last day’s play — led in 9
of the 12 matches.
But after playing captain Hale
Irwin, Jay Haas and Jim Gal
lagher won the first three match
es, and Jeff Maggert added anoth
er point, the apparently easy vic
tory quickly turned difficult.
Holding a 16-9 lead and need
ing only one more point to clinch
the cup, the Americans came up
empty for almost an hour as the
international team began a rally.
Four of those matches went to
sudden death playoff, all of which
were in progress when Couples’
great shot finally won it.
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win every tough game it plays
year after year. However, the
team would look more attrac
tive to pollsters if it came back
the week after a loss to beat
another ranked opponent. De
moralizing an inferior team to
the tune of 73-0 after a loss
doesn’t turn many heads.
Games against ranked oppo
nents would also serve to bet
ter prepare A&M for a tough
bowl opponent.
The losses A&M has suf
fered in the past three Cotton
Bowls might not have stung so
badly if there had not been so
much pressure to win the “big
game.” Add more marquee
match-ups to the schedule, and
there isn’t nearly as much em
phasis placed on one individual
game. A&M can concentrate
more on beating its bowl oppo
nent rather than trying to im
press some Yankee journalists.
In two years, A&M heads to
the prestigious Big 12, and
upon arrival comes a more re
alistic shot at the national
championship. The Aggies will
have more television exposure
playing stronger conference
foes. Consequently, this will
impress voters and potential
blue-chip recruits as well.
But A&M’s hopes still hinge
on a halfway decent non-con
ference schedule. So its up to
the braintrust in the athletic
department to help the pro
gram out and fine some gen
uine competition.
Once the Aggies show they
can beat the best, they can
stop pretending and start con
tending.
Gerulaitis, who left the
main tour in 1985, worked a
week ago for CBS at the U.S.
Open as a studio analyst. He
also played in the men’s 35
and over doubles event during
the tournament.
“That’s a very big loss for
tennis because of Vitas’ per
sonality and his play,” tennis
star Michael Chang said. “He
was very easy going. All the
players were able to joke
around with him. He was very
easy to talk to.”
Chang spoke Sunday night
after losing an exhibition match
to John McEnroe in Berkeley,
Calif. McEnroe, who knew of
the death before taking the
court, left immediately after
playing and issued a statement
through the ATP Tour.
“I won this match for my
buddy Vitas and I’m too dis
traught to talk about it,” he
said.
A New Yorker with shaggy
blond hair, Gerulaitis enjoyed
some of his best moments j
U.S. Open, a tournameu
far from his birthplace in
lyn or his home on Long Is
He lost the finals of the;
U.S. Open and the 1980f)
Open. In one of his
matches, Gerulaitis ral!
beat Roscoe Tanner:
semifinals of the 19?S|
Open after trailing by ti
and down a service break
He won the Italian^
1977 and 1979. In l!’]
Tuesday
T,: .T:
lost in the Wimbledon
nals, falling to BjornBo;
a five-set tiebreaker, (if
the 1975 Wimbledon dc
title with Sandy Mayer.
In 1979, he won four
naments and five of siij
Cup matches to helpthei
ed States retain the tit,
played on the U.S. teal
1977-80.
Gerulaitis, No. U
world in 1984, won 21k
titles and nine doubles t:
pionships and had career
ings of more than S2.7 mil
Gerlaitis is survived
sister, Ruta, and Jiis moll
Alodonna.
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