Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, September 14, 1993                   TAG: 9309140031
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: STATE 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: PORTLAND, ORE.                                LENGTH: Medium

ANDREWS RALLIES TO 1ST LPGA WIN

"I know how tough those last three holes are," she said. "I thought, `Anything can happen.' "

And it did happen.

The Lynchburg native, now living in Pinehurst, N.C., took advantage of Tina Barrett's troubles Sunday to win the Ping-Cellular One Golf Championship by one stroke. It was her first LPGA Tour victory.

For the second straight year, Barrett barely missed a par putt on the final hole and failed to advance to a playoff in the $450,000 event.

"A game of inches," Barrett said. "It was never more true than today."

Andrews, 26, who was second twice this year and had four top-10 finishes in her previous seven tournaments, shot a 2-under-par 70 on the Columbia-Edgewater Country Club Course en route to a 54-hole score of 8-under 208. She earned $67,500.

Barrett, a former Longwood (Va.) College golfer who began the day tied for the lead with Betsy King and Brandie Burton at 8-under, had bogeys on three of the last five holes to finish tied for second with Missie McGeorge at 209. McGeorge, playing in the same group as Andrews, missed an 8-foot par putt on the 18th that would have forced a playoff.

Meg Mallon finished fourth at 210. King and Burton had big problems for the day. King had a double-bogey on the 17th hole and finished at 211. Burton lost a ball in a tree on one hole and hit a tree on another en route to a 77 that left her five shots off the lead.

Barrett went to 10-under with a birdie on the par-3 13th hole. Andrews had a bogey on the hole to fall to 6-under.

But Andrews birdied the 14th and 15th to go 8-under, while Barrett had bogeys on the 14th, 16th and 18th.

"When you least expect it, it comes," Andrews said of the title.

On the 18th, Andrews ran a 20-foot birdie attempt past the hole but made the 3-footer for par. Then she waited for Barrett, in the final group, to finish.

"I looked at my caddy and said I'd much rather be here than out there knowing you had to have a par for a playoff," Andrews said.

Andrews was second at the McCall's Classic and tied for second at the U.S. Women's Open this year.

"Now maybe people will quit asking me when it's going to be my time," she said.