GOLF ROUNDUP : Archer Falters, Falls Into Tie

Defending champion George Archer bogeyed the 18th hole for a three-way tie for the lead in the opening round of the $450,000 Raley’s Senior Gold Rush on Friday at Rancho Murieta, Calif.

Archer, Lee Trevino and Bruce Crampton tied at five-under-par 67 entering today’s second round on the 6,701-yard Rancho Murieta Country Club North Course, near Sacramento.

Homero Blancas made an eagle three on the 560-yard 15th hole en route to a 68. Ten players were at 69.

Archer is third in 1991 earnings on the Senior PGA Tour with $547,038. Trevino is fourth at $545,954.

In Friday’s round, Trevino briefly tied Archer when he moved to six-under with a 30-foot birdie putt on the par-five No. 15. Trevino dropped a stroke with a bogey on the following par-three when he hit his tee shot into some trees to the right of the green.

The Dunhill Cup golf tournament fell victim to an old Scottish scourge: the “haar.”

That’s what they call the dense fog that rolls in off the North Sea and blankets the eastern coast--sometimes for days at a time.

With visibility on the Old Course reduced to barely 30 yards, organizers of the $1.7-million team event were forced to postpone all four quarterfinal matches until today.

Phyllis Preuss of Colorado Springs, Colo., shot a 34 on the final nine to rally from a three-stroke deficit and win the U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur by one stroke at Southern Pines, N.C.

Preuss, 52, shot a 74 for a three-round total of 221, 11 over par, at the Pine Needles Resort.