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Former UT golfer wins
coveted British Open
TROON, Scotland (AP) — Jesper Parnevik knew the
score this time. And it told him that Justin Leonard was
the British Open champion.
Leonard, the only contender to mount a charge on
Sunday at Royal Troon, closed with a 65 to win the 126th
Open championship at 12-under-par 272.
Parnevik, who had as much as a four-stroke advan
tage on the final day, lost the lead for good when
Leonard, playing in the group ahead of him, made a
birdie on No. 17.
“I came up to 17 and watched his birdie and the air
kind of went out of my sails for good,” Parnevik said.
Parnevik followed with a bogey on No. 17 to fall two
behind and the tournament was over.
It was his second crushing disappointment in the
British Open. He lost the 1994 championship just 10
miles down the coast at Turnberry when he failed to
look at the scoreboard on the final hole and gambled
when he did not need to.
“This one hurts a lot more than Turnberry,” Parnevik
said. “I think the pressure was too much. It was a strug
gle all day.”
As Parnevik walked up the 18th fairway to a thun
derous ovation from the packed bleachers, the in
escapable truth was written in the black letters on the
Photograph: Associated Press
Justin Leonard kisses his trophy after he won the
126th British Open Sunday.
giant yellow scoreboard: He was second once;
Leonard’s closing round was one of thebestint 0
jor championship history, ranking with the67by
Faldo in the 1996 Masters, the 64 by Greg Normanini
1993 British Open and the 63 by Jolinny Miller in
1973 U.S. Open.
All of them shot scores no one else could comens
on the final day. So did Leonard. Of the 16 players
started the day under par, Leonard was theonlyonsj
shoot a round in the 60s.
“Just to be able to come through with thetoum
ment on the line, that’s the kind of confidenceII'
able to take away from here,” Leonard said.
Only Jim Barnes in 1925 was able to come from!
strokes back on the final day to win the British Ope
Later, as Leonard brushed back tears when heJ!
awarded the silver claret jug that goes to the winner:
scoreboard carried the message: “Well done, JustinSi
you at Royal Birkdale in 1998.”
Leonard, the fifth consecutive American to
Troon, starting with Arnold Palmer in 1962,wasapii
ture of calm on the course.
“Because all day I was behind, and most of the
behind by two or three strokes,” Leonard said. “I
wanted to go out aggressively and avoid makingaca
pie of mistakes on the back nine.”
He followed that plan perfectly.
Needing only to two-putt on the final hole, Leonai
stroked his 30-footer gently toward the hole andp;
out a big sigh and rolled his eyes as it nestled withinlaj
in distance.
“That last putt I was just praying that I could two-puit
Leonard said. “It was surprising how calm I stayed.''
A final bogey on No. 18 put Parnevik at 275, tiedraC
Darren Clarke of Northern Ireland. Jim Furyb
fourth with a 279 and Padraig Harrington of Ireland!
ished at 280.
Tiger Woods stumbled once again, making a tripl
bogey on the par-3 eighth hole in shooting a 74 to! [j
ish 12 strokes back.
Woods, who started the day eight stroke behiii
made a bit of a run with two early birdies, butlostaif
hope when he made a triple bogey 6 on the 126-j
Postage Stamp hole when it took him two shots togt
out of the bunker.
Big numbers did Woods in at RoyalTroon. HehadM
triple bogeys and a quadruple bogey in the tournamed
Leonard won with a hot putter that helped himgeisii 1
birdies on the front nine to get back in the hunt. He then;
closed with a series of great putts to blow past Parnevi
“Making those putts on 15,16 and 17,” Leonardsaii
searching for words to describe the feeling. "TheMe
just opened up for me today.”
Leonard made a 12-footer to save par on the
“That was the tournament right there,” Leonard sail
He followed it with a 15-footer for birdie on thenai
hole and then the 35-foot birdie putt on No. 17.
Leonard has bright future ahea<
TROON, Scotland (AP) — The
night before the final of the 1992
U.S. Amateur,
Jim Litke
AP
Commentary
Nancy Leonard
hemmed a new
pair of pants for
her son and
tried to imagine
how a break
through win would change his life.
Imagine what the future holds
for Justin Leonard now.
Someone asked the 25-year-old
Texan to do that moments after he
coolly finished off Royal Troon’s
tough final holes to become the
British Open champion. Leonard is
no wild-and-crazy guy, but the pic
ture he kept coming back to was the
party his friends were throwing at
the Royal Oaks club in,Dallas that
very moment without him.
“The men’s locker room will be
crazy,” he said. “I hope somebody
videotaped it for me.”
After a moment’s reflection,
though, Leonard was not so sure
he actually wanted to watch it.
This is the same guy who had a
hard time living down his selection
by Cosmpolitan magazine last
year as one of the world’s 25 most
eligible bachelors.
“I keep thinking how big my club
bill is going to be,” he said, “after every
thing is broken and all the champagne
that’s going to be poured.”
Typical Leonard.
He is way too modest. He gets
asked about breaking through to
the highest level of his profession
and all he can talk about is the guys
he plays a regular Nassau with bust
ing a couple of lockers.
But there is no missing this
point: In the same way a win at the
U.S. Amateur earned Leonard a
spot near the front of the emerging
class of great young players, win
ning a major confirms it. A break
through win like the British Open
separates him from the crowd
packed with potential and names
like Phil Mickelson, David Duval
and Jim Furyk. Most important, it
establishes him as a legitimate rival
for the two best players his genera
tion has so far produced — 21 -year-
old Masters champion Tiger Woods
and 27-year-old U.S. Open champi
on Ernie Els.
“I don’t feel like I play harder or
practice harder because of those
two. But maybe going in there to
day, having seen Tiger and Ernie do
it, I thought it was OK to go out and
win a tournament like this even be
ing the age I am.
“Maybe,” Leonard said, “that was
in the back of my mind somewhere.”
If so, it was apparently back there
for some time. Not so you would
know it by watching him swing.
Leonard has one of those horri
bly flat, “hit-the-ball-before-it-
moves” maneuvers made necessary
by the high winds in Texas and
made famous by the movie Tin Cup.
And he can be very touchy about
defending it.
“The reason you don’t see every
body swing this way,” Leonard said
earlier this weekend, when a British
reporter asked about his “unique”
swing, “is because no one else out
there is 5-foot-9,157 pounds, with a
10-C shoe and thinks exactly the
way I do.”
The swing may LOOK like it was
slapped together on the practice
range five minutes before his tee
time. But Leonard has been work
ing on it his entire life. His sister,
Kelly, has proof. She often tells sto
ries about how he fashioned par-5
holes at the beach and played them
with sticks while the other kids were
building sand castles. And how, the
moment their parents walked out
the door, he would start chipping
his way across the house, using the
dining room, a few steps up, as an
elevated green.
All that practicing paid off Sun
day. Leonard started the day in third
place, trailing leader - Jesper
Parnevik by five strokes and Darren
Clarke by three. He ran off six
birdies in the eight holes onto
front to get himself into thelourna-
ment and made three pullsa(/Vos.
15-17 to win it. But the really tough
part was in the middle. ^
The back nine at RoyalTroonbe-
gins with four par-4s 01438,463,431
and 465 yards, and the short-hitting
Leonard is as traditional about his J
equipment as anybody gets. Hi
grew up playing with persimmoi c)|
woods and forged blade irons £
came out on tour that way.
But after getting beat up by to A
winds of the British Isles in thid la l
previous Open tries (missed W IJS |
cuts; tied for 58th), he switched! iCe L
a metal-headed, graphite-shato
driver. It made a difference,but! Ins j
was nol what helped him nan
gate t he hardest stretch of boll
on the course.
“The longer hitters can carrytl u
bunkers or bounce overthemi "
me, they’re still kind of in play,"! u
said. “But I never thought there« q
too much golf course. I thoughts m
week long that the guys who wots
do well would be the ones with if re |
strongest mental outlook.”
Top finishers, monies won and \
scores
• Justin Leonard,
$418,875 69-66-72-65 272
4 Darren Clarke,
$251,325 67-66-71-71 275
9 Jesper Parnevik,
$251,325 70-66-66-73 275
• Jim Furyk,
$150,795 67-72-70-70 279-5
IK) Stephen Ames,
$ 104 7 1 9 7 4 6 9 6 6 71 280 -iflb:
9 Padraig Harrington,
$104,719 75-69-69-67 280
• Pete O'Malley,
$68,137 73 70-70-68 281
• Eduardo Romero,
$68,137 74-68-67-72 281
• Fred Couples,
$68,137 69-68-70-74 281
9 Robert Allenby,
$40,715 76-68-66-72 . 282
Lions reach deal with Sanders
UNIVERSITY CENTER, Mich. (AP) — Barry
Sanders agreed to a five-year contract with the De
troit Lions on Sunday and will report to camp on
Monday, the team announced.
The team did not disclose the financial terms of the
contract, but said it includes an option for a sixth year.
Sanders had reportedly been close to signing a contract
that would pay him on average between $5.3 million
and $5.5 million per season, making him the league’s
highest-paid running back!
“This was obviously a complicated deal, and we
glad we could iron out the final details,” saidCf#
Schmidt, the Lions executive vice president and ^
operating officer. “Barry’s been an important pla) f!
for this team for the past eight seasons. And withto
deal, we’re delighted that Lions fans will have the of
portunity to watch Barry for years to come.” T lri
Sanders won the NFL rushing title last season vP
1,553 yards, becoming the first back in leaguehistorfl,
rush for 1,500 yards or better in three straight season*