Austin Takes Buick Open

Woody Austin, who has gone from part-time bank teller to PGA Tour regular in the less than a year, parred the second hole of a playoff with Mike Brisky to win the Buick Open in Grand Blanc, Mich.

Austin closed with a 5-under-par 67 and Brisky, who was 10th in the qualifying tournament, shot a 68 for 18-under 270 totals on the Warwick Hills Golf & Country Club course.

Dottie Mochrie birdied the ninth hole to break a tie with Kelly Robbins and went on to win the LPGA McCall’s Classic in Stratton Mountain, Vt., by three strokes with a 12-under par 204.

Robin Walton of Clarkston, Wash. recorded a three-day total of 216 to earn $2,758. Walton finished one stroke ahead of Tracy Hanson of Rathdrum, Idaho. Hanson earned $1,926 with a 217.

Patick Lee of Oxford, Miss., beat Robert Floyd, the 19-year-old son of Senior PGA Tour star Raymond Floyd, 2 and 1 in the final of the 93rd Western Amateur in Benton Harbor, Mich.

Bob Murphy tied a Seniors Tour record with his second straight 63 and won the VFW Seniors Championship in Belton, Mo. by one shot over defending champion Jim Colbert.

Steady Jesper Parnevik fired another bogey-free round of 5-under-par 67 while cruising to a five-shot victory in the $1 million Scandinavian Masters in Barseback, Sweden.

Former professional golfer and club designer Toney Penna died at the Hearland Health Care Center in Palm Beach Gardens. He was 87.

Penna played on the professional golf tour for 32 years and won six tournaments before leaving the tour in 1954.