GOLF ROUNDUP : Forsman, Magee, Fehr Tied

Dan Forsman and Andrew Magee birdied the 15th hole at the TPC of Scottsdale to catch up with Rick Fehr for leadership in the Phoenix Open on Saturday.

All three completed the third round 11 under par, at 202.

Fehr and Magee, the second-round leaders, shot 69s, and Forsman had a four-under-par 67 on a day when tricky pin placements kept scores relatively high.

Magee won at Tucson last week and could become the first golfer since Johnny Miller in 1975 to win the Tucson and Phoenix events in the same season.

Bob Burns, a rookie who missed the cut in the Hawaiian Open but tied for ninth last week at Tucson, was the only other player to reach 11 under. He three-putted from 45 feet on No. 18, taking his second bogey after a six-birdie round, and fell back into a group at 203 with Billy Andrade and Bob Estes.

Bill Glasson fired his third consecutive 68 and was all alone at 204.

Improved weather brought a record crowd of 114,200 to the 6,992-yard stadium course. The PGA does not keep such statistics, but Saturday’s figure, based on a vehicle count and a multiplier of 2.5, may have been the largest in tour history.

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Lee Trevino, laughing, joking and making big-money putts, won four skins and $80,000 on the first day of the Senior Skins Game at Mauna Lani, Hawaii.

Arnold Palmer, who dominated the event the last two years, won three skins worth $45,000 on the first nine holes of the 18-hole event. Jack Nicklaus won the opening hole for $15,000, and Raymond Floyd was shut out on the first day.

The money builds today, when $310,000 of the $450,000 purse is at stake. The $25,000 for Saturday’s final hole carries over because Trevino and Floyd halved No. 9 with birdies.

There was at least one birdie on every hole but one Saturday.

Trevino’s biggest skin came on No. 8, where he earned $50,000 with a four-foot putt.