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Bean & Gilder tie for lead

Andy Bean shot a 7-under-par 65 Saturday and was tied for the lead with Bob Gilder after three rounds at the Farmers Charity Classic.

Bean and Gilder, who shot a 4-under 68, are tied at 10-under 134. First-round leader Sammy Rachels (73), Jim Thorpe (70), Tom Purtzer (69), Stewart Ginn (71) and Vicente Fernandez (71) are tied for third at Egypt Valley Country Club.

Hale Irwin, coming off his 40th Champions Tour victory at the Senior PGA Championship last week, is one of six players tied for eighth place, four shots off the lead.

Bean went birdie-eagle-birdie from Nos. 12-14, moving into contention for his first victory on the Champions Tour.

"If I can just go out and play a solid round like I did, I'm going to be satisfied because I think I'm going to do well," Bean said.

"I'm in more of a comfort area when I go out and play. My deal is that I haven't been playing the par 5s well. That's what I have to do to help myself."

An 11-time winner on the PGA TOUR, the 51-year-old Bean last won at the 1986 Byron Nelson Golf Classic. He'll be in the final pairing Sunday for the first time since 1991.

"I've been playing real well, but I just haven't been scoring," he said. "A lot of it is confidence, there's no doubt about that."

Gilder closed Friday's round with an eagle at the par-4 18th, and opened the second round with three birdies on the front nine. He added two birdies and a bogey on the back nine.

"I hit the ball at the hole most of the day," said Gilder, a seven-time Champions Tour winner. "They had some pins that were a little tucked in corners. I had some easy putts that I did not hit very well. Right now, it's a little bit of a mystery to me."

Rachels, coming off a 64 on Friday, started the second round with a double-bogey. He also had bogeys at Nos. 5 and 7 before recovering with birdies at Nos. 8, 14 and 17.

Irwin had six birdies and one bogey in his round of 5 under, and Sam Torrance, who started the round one shot off the lead, had a 5-over 77.

 

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