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Friday, April 7, 1995
SPORTS
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Masters helped by rain
Senior Tour champ Nicklaus in second after round one
The Associated Press
AUGUSTA Ga. — The rain came.
The greens softened. And Augusta
National was there to be bad.
Player after player battered par as the scoreboard showed 4-under-par leading the Masters, then 5-under, and finally Phil Mickelson, defending champion Jose Maria Olazabal and David Frost at 6-under 66.
This was not the same hard, fast, fearsome course the players tried to tame in the practice rounds. And it showed.
Just a stroke behind after the first round was Jack Nicklaus, the sixi-time Masters winner who last week won on the Seniors Tour. He was tied with David Gillard of England.
Seven players were at 69, five more at 70 and seven at 71 on a soggy day in which par became a meaningless standard.
Knotted at 4-under were Mark O'Meara and Chip Beck.
"If the rain continues, I think the scoring will continue to go down," said Hale Irwin, one of those to shoot a 69. "The greens were pretty soft, very receptive.
"Shots that the last few days were pitching forward quite a ways now are coming to a quick stop, and in some cases even coming back," said Irwin, who felt the course was playing about two strokes easier because of the rain.
"It's a much different golf course than we saw the last three days," he said.
Golf's past and future crossed paths on the Augusta National Golf Club course.
Nicklaus holed a 5-iron for an eagle 2 on No. 5 and drew huge galleries and thunderous applause in the far reaches of Amen Corner.
On this rainy day, the brilliant beauty of the dogwoods and azaleas in bloom were almost obscured by a
Steven A. Long/The (Columbia S.C.) State KNIGHT-RIDDER
This oft-maligned and once-docile 405-yard par 4 is gathering a measure of respect and developing into a demanding close to a major tournament. More Masters will be lost than won on No. 18; Arnold Palmer's birdie in 1960 and Sandy Lyle's great escape from the fairway trap in 1988 are exceptions. The 18th's perception problem came from the wonders of the course's other holes on the back nine and the adventures they produce. It undoubtedly plays tougher today than the original. The green presents another problem. It is two-tiered, and leaving the approach on the wrong one is an invitation to disaster. Ben Hogan lost two Masters by three-putting the final green. How many times has Tom Kite failed on the 18th green? Remember Ed Sneed and Hubert Green staring in disbelief at putts that refused to drop? Price swears his first putt on No. 18 in his record-setting round of 63 "did a 450 around the cup and did not fall. The ball not only circled the cup once, it started around again before spinning out."
SOURCE: The (Columbia S.C.) State; research by ROB SPEAR
garden of colorful umbrellas as thousands of fans huddled, trying to stay dry.
They were more than warmed by the four-birdie, no-bogey 32 Nicklaus shot on the back nine.
Mickelson, just 24, showed the greatness predicted of him with a seven-birdie, no-boogey round.
U. S Open winner Ernie Els of South Africa, just 25 years old, shot a 32 on the back nine to save an even-par 72.
And Tiger Woods, the 19-year-old U.S. Amateur champion, gave a hint of what is to come for him with a solid 72.
Irwin, Scott Hoch, David Edwards,
Ian Wosohns of Wales, Wayne
Grady of Australia, Lee Janzen and Davis Love were at 69.
It was a very different Augusta National from the hard and fast layout the players tested during the practice rounds.
Craig Stadler, Jumbo Ozaki of Japan, Mark Calcaveccia, Ben Crenshaw and Paul Azinger were at 70. Jay Haas, Miguel Angel Jimenez of Spain, Dan Forsman, Bill Glasson, Payne Stewart and Raymond Floyd were at 71.
Tarkanian returns to college game
Beck got a good example of that on No. 17 when his 9-iron approach shot hit 15 feet past the hole, took one short hop and drew back a few feet. A day earlier that shot would have rolled 45 feet past the hole.
The Associated Press
FRESNO, Calif. — Jerry Tarkanian, back in coaching after a three-year absence, insists he has no hard feelings toward the NCAA.
Investigations into his program shadowed much of his 24-year career with Long Beach State and the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, where he won a national title in 1990.
With his hire at Fresno State on Wednesday, Tarkanian said his troubles with the NCAA over recruiting and eligibility were in the past.
"Everybody knows they were picking on me," he said. "But that's over with. It shouldn't have any effect on what I'm doing here."
Just to be sure, the three-year contract he signed with Fresno State included the requirement that Tarkanian obey NCAA regulations.
Fresno State and the person who had the final word on hiring Tarkanian, said the contract established the responsibility of the coach to adhere to NCAA regulations.
In addition, Welty said the athletic department will hire an NCAA compliance officer to guide coaches in all sports.
John Welty, president of
Alleged rules violations involving Tarkanian date back to 1977, when the NCAA suspended him for two years and placed UNLV on two-years probation. Tarkanian continued coaching and appealed the case to the U.S. Supreme Court, claiming the probation violated his right to due process.
But the nation's highest court ruled against him in 1988, saying the NCAA was a private agency and did not have to provide due process.
Tarkanian, who has the highest winning percentage in NCAA basketball history, replaced Gary Colson.
SPORTS
WATCH
Live, same-day and delayed national TV sports coverage for today.
All Nines GST
1:30 p.m.
ESPN — Women's tennis, Bausch & Lomb Championships, quarterfinal match, at Amelia Island, Fla.
USA—PGA Golf, The Masters Tournament, second round, at Augusta, Ga.
TNT — NBA Basketball,
Orlando at Detroit
7:30 p.m.
ESPN — Boxing, champion James Hughes (20-8-0) vs. Adrian Dain (1.3-0-1), for USBA weltweight championship, at Salem, N.H.
onship, at Salem, N.H.
9 p.m.
CBS — PGA Golf. The Masters Tournament, same-day highlights of second round, at Augusta, Ga.
PRIME—IHL Hockey, Minnesota at Las Vegas 10:35 p.m.
Women's hockey ready for gold
The Associated Press
SAN JOSE, Calif. — When Karen Kay was growing up in Massachusetts, she didn't have to look far to find her icvary call in life.
"That was the big Bobby Orr era," Kay said. "After watching the Bruins, I said to my parents, 'I want to do that.' They were open-minded and let me play."
were on a girl's team playing against boys," Kay said. "Now women are going to play in the Olympics."
Now 32, Kay is coach of the 1995 U.S. Women's National Team. She's guiding a group of women who — much like herself — have gone against the grain to play a traditionally male sport: ice hockey.
Women's ice hockey will debut as a medal sport at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. The U.S. Women's National Team wants to be there.
"When we started playing, we were the only girls on boys' teams. Then we
Kay and her players were in San Jose this past week to compete in the 1995 International Ice Hockey Federation Pacific Women's Hockey Championship with Japan, China and Canada.
Karyn Bye, a graduate student at Concordia University in Canada, played for the medal-winning U.S. teams in 1992 and 1994. The 23-year forward said the growing expo
sure of the sport was breaking down barriers.
"It's such a challenging game, both mentally and physically. It doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman," she said.
Women's hockey doesn't really resemble the NHL style of play most fans are familiar with.
"We're really geared more toward a European style of play — more finesse plays, more passing," Kay said. "We don't really equate to the NHL, and we really don't want to."
"Once the women's side gets to a certain level, there will be no need to play with men's teams," said Manon Rheaume, a goalie who became the first woman to play in the NHL.
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