GOLF ROUNDUP : Rain Cancels Trevino’s Hopes for Win

Heavy rains washed away Lee Trevino’s chance of improving his position and made Don Bies the winner of the storm-shortened, two-round Kaanapali tournament Saturday.

“It probably doesn’t matter,” Trevino said after a series of squalls flooded Hawaii’s Royal Kaanapali course and forced cancellation of the final round of play. “I was six shots back. The way Don was playing, that was too much to make up.”

Bies, who won consecutive tournaments earlier this season, became a one-shot winner with a 132 total when the round was washed out.

Trevino, making his debut on the Seniors PGA Tour, wasn’t too disappointed because he didn’t feel he had a chance to win.

“I took myself out of it with that back nine Friday,” said Trevino, who fell out of contention with a pair of three-putt bogeys.

Trevino finished his first appearance on the Seniors Tour in a tie for seventh at six-under-par 138.

Dale Douglass was second at 133. Charles Coody and Tom Shaw were next at 135.

Although Bob Charles finished 47th, he broke his Seniors Tour money-winning record with $725,887.

Birdie putts wouldn’t drop for American Tim Simpson, but a par-72 enabled him to tie error-plagued South African David Frost after three rounds of the Million Dollar Challenge in Sun City, South Africa.

Frost and Simpson will go into today’s final round with 54-hole scores of 208.

The only other player with a shot at the $1-million first prize is American Scott Hoch. He was two shots back at 210 after a 71.

The runner-up will receive $300,000 and the last-place finisher gets $70,000.

Two Americans held fourth and fifth places--Chip Beck at 218 and Don Pooley at 220 after rounds of 76.

Defending champion Fulton Allem of South Africa had the best round of the day, a 70, which moved him to sixth place at 221.

Mike Hulbert and Bob Tway combined for an eight-under-par 64 to take a two-stroke lead after three rounds of the Chrysler PGA team championships at Wellington, Fla.

Tway and Hulburt are at 28-under-par 188 on the Cypress Course. Rick Fehr and Kent Kluba shot a 66 for a total of 190. Ted Schulz and David Ogrin are at 192.