Irwin, Morgan Romp

Sun., Nov. 9, 1997

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Hale Irwin and Gil Morgan, 1-2 on the Senior PGA Tour all season, have turned the Tour Championship into their personal shootout.

Morgan’s second straight 66 put him at 15-under and two strokes in front of Irwin, who fired a 68 at the Dunes Golf & Beach Club in Myrtle Beach, S.C. No one else was within five shots of the two.

At Braselton, Ga., Mark Calcavecchia overcame a shaky start and a mild challenge by Lee Westwood to shoot a 1-under-par 71 for a six-stroke lead after three rounds of the Sarazen World Open.

Tiger Woods and Japan’s Shigeki Maruyama played the 534-yard, par-5 18th hole seven consecutive times, with Maruyama finally taking the last $200,000 at stake in the $600,000 skins competition in Hanno, Japan.

Woods finished last in the four-man event with $110,000. Mark O’Meara earned $170,000, and Nick Price took home $120,000.

At Kapalua, Hawaii, Davis Love III, who has 12 career victories on his resume, and David Toms, who won his first tournament a little over three months ago, birdied the final hole to continue to share the lead after three rounds with 200 totals.

Former Pullman resident Kirk Triplett is at 206.

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