* PETER Butler, the world class winner of 23 tournaments, turned back
the clock at Huddersfield Golf Club, Yorkshire, yesterday when he took
the lead in the Lawrence Batley Seniors with a 65, only one stroke
outside the course record.
With one round to play 61-year-old Butler is five under par on 135 and
has a two-stroke lead over Ireland's Michael Murphy. Hotly pursuing
those two on 139 are a trio consisting of Scottish Ryder Cup player
George Will, Welsh Ryder Cup player and former captain Brian Huggett,
and England's Hedley Muscroft.
Butler had 10 single putts yesterday, and at the seventeenth holed
from a bunker for a 2, the fifth of his six birdies. Although he was in
sand five times he did not drop a shot, finishing his round with an
18-foot putt for a birdie 4.
Murphy, who started at the tenth, dropped a stroke when he
three-putted the short thirteenth. He made an eagle 3 at the third,
where he sank a 20-yard putt, but finished with successive bogeys. Will,
also starting at the tenth, ended his round by sinking a 60-foot putt
for a birdie 3 at the ninth.
''That's the longest I've holed for ages,'' grinned Will, who had
dropped a shot at his second hole before hitting back with an eagle at
the 491-yard sixth.
The major blemish in his round came at the sixteenth, where an awkward
stance in a bunker prevented him from getting close to the hole, and
caused him to three-putt for a double bogey 6.
John Hamilton lamented a 77 which put him on to 150, and Jim McAlister
took 76, largely the result of errant tee-shots. Leading scores (British
unless stated):
135 -- P Butler 70, 65.
137 -- M Murphy (Ireland) 66, 71.
139 -- G Will 70, 69; B Huggett 69, 70; H Muscroft 70, 69.
140 -- D Butler 72, 68; N Drew 70, 70.
142 -- D Snell 69, 73; T Horton 72, 70; R Thatcher (USA) 70, 72; A
Proctor (USA) 72, 70.
Other scores included: 150 -- J Hamilton 73, 77. 156 -- J McAlister
80, 76.
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