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Couples/Calcavecchia
win Hyundai Team Matches
Fred Couples made a 10-foot birdie putt on the 17th hole for the winning margin
Sunday as he and Mark Calcavecchia won the PGA Tour portion of the $1.2 million
Hyundai Team Matches.
Couples carded five birdies to help beat defending champions Tom Lehman and
Duffy Waldorf 1-up.
In the Senior PGA Tour portion, Allen Doyle's 20-foot chip-in on the third
hole of a playoff lifted him and Dana Quigley to a 1-up victory over Tom Watson
and Andy North.
Watson made a hole-in-one.
Lorie Kane and Janice Moodie needed only 14 holes to defeat Grace Park and
Wendy Ward 5 and 4 in the LPGA Tour division.
Couples and Calcavecchia, who won the tournament in 1999, birdied the 6th,
7th and 8th holes to take a three-hole lead.
``We got off to a very good start,'' Couples said. ``But we knew they played
very well together.''
Waldorf sank a 60-foot putt for eagle on the 12th hole to cut the deficit to
1-up, and Lehman birdied the 13th to even the match. The teams halved the next
three holes before Couples' putt won the 17th.
Watson's hole-in-one was on the par-3, 170-yard 13th, to square the match.
North made a go-ahead birdie on the par-4 15th, but Doyle birdied the 16th to
even the match again.
``We dodged a real bullet when Tom made that hole-in-one,'' Doyle added. ``We
thought it would give them momentum but we hung in there, played tough and wound
up on the good side.''
Moodie, in her first appearance at the event, sank a 20-foot birdie putt on
the first hole to give her and Kane a lead they never relinquished. Moodie also
sank a 20-foot birdie putt on the par-4 11th hole.
``We jelled pretty well as a team,'' Moodie said. ``We kind of alternated making
birdies while the other made par.''
Winning players in all three events each won $100,000 and a new car.
The event was played at the par-70 Monarch Beach Golf Links. The PGA Tour played
the course at 6,582 yards, the Senior PGA Tour at 6,548, and the LPGA Tour at
6,094.
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