Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, July 17, 1995 TAG: 9507180137
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WILLIAMSBURG LENGTH: Medium
Tryba was tied with Jim Gallagher Jr. and Blaine McCallister, one shot off the lead, when the day's play began. He took care of those five-time winners, then held off a challenge by Scott Simpson.
Tryba's 12-under 272 total on the River Course of the Kingsmill Golf Club was worth $198,000, more than twice his earnings total of $90,869 coming into the event.
His best previous finish was a tie for third in the 1993 Walt Disney World-Oldsmobile Classic, and his best this year - in a tour-high 23 events - was a tie for seventh at the Greater Greensboro Open in April.
Simpson's birdie on the par-3 17th coincided with Tryba's bogey on No.16 to close a three-stroke gap to one shot. But the one-time U.S. Open winner drove into the rough on the par-4 finishing hole and his par wasn't enough when Tryba hit to the center of the final green and two-putted for par.
Third-round leader Jim Carter (71), Scott Hoch (67) and Lennie Clements (68) finished tied for third, at 274. Curtis Strange and Marco Dawson shared sixth, at 275. Dawson shot a 63, the best round of the tournament by two shots.
What started out looking like a big race to the finish turned out to be a solo flight for Tryba. The 28-year-old got to 12-under with his fifth birdie of the day, at No.11, then nursed his advantage all the way to the clubhouse with safe play.
Carter, like Tryba a Nike Tour alumnus seeking his first PGA victory, fell out of the lead with a bogey on the second hole and kept falling. When he made a 15-foot eagle putt on No.15, he was six shots behind Tryba. A chip-in birdie at No.17 boosted him into the tie for third.
Strange, the hometown favorite who roused the crowd with a 65 on Saturday, birdied four of his first seven holes to tie Tryba for the lead. But Strange's putting stroke soon betrayed him and he wound up with a 68.
Gallagher, the 1993 champion and leading money-winner in the field, struggled all day and shot 74 to finish in an eight-way tie for 11th. McCallister was worse, shooting a 75 to share 19th.
The most serious surge came from Dawson, another non-winner, who started the day nine shots off the lead.
Starting on the back nine, Dawson birdied his first four holes and six of his first seven. His 6-under 29 at the turn matched the best nine-hole score on the tour this year.
by CNB