Colandro chasing title

Press, 9 December 1982, Page 40

Colandro chasing title

PA Tauranga Connecticut's Mike Colandro lines' up for today's fiftyseventh annual N.Z. P.G.A. golf championship after an impressive fightback in the final round of last week-end's Air N.Z. Shell Open. Spectators at Titirangi admired Colandro’s scoring to finish five strokes behind the winner. Terry Gale, after his double-bogey and his quad-ruple-bogey early in the round. “But I’ve done that sort of thing before." said the 29-

year-old American. “I've been playing with Bob Charles and I have learnt from him that if you are in trouble you try and make a bogey, not drop two or three more shots,” he said. Colandro is one of 73 starters in the P.G.A. tournament, which was dropped from the Australasian Order of Merit table after prize money was reduced from last year’s $45,000 to $25,000. But it has received a boost with the unexpected arrival of the Australians, Jack Newton and Billy Dunk, join-

ing other big names such as Kel Nagle and Guy Wolstenholme. It is likely, though, that the biggest galleries will be those following the New Zealanders, Bob Charles, John Lister and Simon Owen, who have shared seven N.Z. P.G.A. titles between them. The field also includes the Canadians, Jerry Anderson (third last year), Scott Knapp,. Ken Tarling and Stephen Andersen-Chapman, and the Americans. Art Russell, Barry Murphy, Stephen Stull and Ed Fisher.