Resurgent England wins Dunhill Cup

Press, 6 October 1987, Page 44

Resurgent England wins Dunhill Cup

WPMteMer St Andrews, ScOiaad fagtafe, atmost dead to its semMM a&rifet A&tttaiia, produced its fest got of tfe week to defeat Scoaewd, 24, yesterday Mto wto toe miflfcw dofUr &n*iU Cap ffatl&w gOf tferssmsst st St Andrews, The Brffle* Open cfemtoon. Wck Valdo, sha s st& under-ptf 66 while his teammate Gordon 1 towt — the ordy now-Kyder Cup ptwyer hi the fl*rt — d*J evew better wfttt s 64 to gJ*e rtewi wo toriee by three and five sfets respectively over Sondy Lyte MM StoW lOttMfe. They each shot 99, Gordon tmd fun, won the third mutch for Scottimd by 6tVl9 over Kowttfd Clark. Earlier, Cwtis Strange produced a course record of 62, 19 wider par, as he helped the United States take third place with a 2-1 triumph over Australia, the defending champion and top seed. Stranges found feat the previous record of 69 tor the Old Course, set fust two days earlier by the Australian, Podger Gavis, lhe previous day Faldo and Clark both came from four down with four to play to their matches against Davis and Peter Senior as England handed Australia its first defeat in this event in toe three years if has been played, ''when you get out of Jail like we did yesterday, it Inspires you," Faldo, England's captain, said after It took the title, "Yesterday we had a scrape, today we played superbly to win, ''we said last night '*« can do It', We saved our best golf for today" The three English players each took 1100,000 tor their success. The Scots each took 150,000, Faldo, who played a prim* ary role to Europe's Ryder Cup triumph over the United States to Ohio a week earlier, could not resist mentioning that achievement, “Five of us came back from beating America and, together, we have beaten everyone else around the world “ a real feather to our cups,” tie said. Faldo, whose British Open triumph at Mulrfleld this year came two years after Lyle won that title at Royal St oeorge’s, never looked back against his old adversary after a two-shot swing at the sixth, where Lyle drove Into a

foalter and btw«d witfto Fsftto birdiied fr«# efgMfeetGordsw X BraatTs superb «4 Mci&ded six birdie* and as eagte three at the ttiyard fm, wfeere he made U to Die green with two wood* swsd MaK a ISm putt Brand scarcely pet a foot wrong M day. H» oety error aw at the ifeirteeMfe where fee bartered fete drive. Bat he w4 out and then Noted a fivetron shot from 175 m, "There was a gammer of Hope for me then, btct when fee Doled fltat Mot, tsat was M," TonMce Mid. "We were ail under 19 and yet'we feave been beneaT Mid TwrotKe, Scwflaod's capteiit i to (fee third piaee piay-off. Strange's 92 gave tom vfdtwy fey eigfet shots over Greg tioman, the big first defeat to 12 Dtmtott dtp matchett, Marts GTdeara beat Peter Senior by one stroke wfto a 11 wfeito Darts got Australia's point wften fete 70 gave Dim a one-shot victory over Mark O'Meara, Strange's superb round earned Mm one of the punt coveted records to golf. The leading i&»7 United Stales money winner, who has shot 61 twice competitively, had Sat 27 putts and made 10 rdles, IneludifljK six in a row from the seventh. Strange, who has record earnings of $714,047 on the United States tour this year, said, "I was as nervous over the last two holes as if 1 was coming down the stretch with a chance to win a tournament, “Walking up the eighteenth fairway, 1 saw the old clubhouse and thought of all the great players who have won championships here, "Golf has been played here for over 500 years and I'm the first one to score a 02,“ Results,— Final day of the Dunhill Cup Nations golf championship on Sunday (prefix number denotes seedln«): Final.— 4-England beat 3Scotland, 2-1 (English names first); Nick Faldo 66, Sandy Lyle 69; Gordon J, Brand 04, Sam Torrance 69; .Howard Clark 73, Gordon Brand Jun. 06. Third place play-off.— 2United States beat 1-Aus-tralia, 2-1 (U.S. names first): Mark O'Meara 71, Peter Senior 72; D. A. Weibring 71, Rodger Davis 70; Curtis Strange 62, Greg Norman 70.