Browne fought off to shoot a 65 and create a two-shot lead over Mark O'Meara through Saturday's third round of the U.S. Senior Open at
Browne, never a winner in his three years of competition since turning 50, set the tournament record for lowest score through 54 holes. After a record-tying 64 followed by a 69, he's at 15-under 198.
O'Meara had a 66 in a head-to-head duel. Playing in the same pairing, he pulled even with Browne with a birdie at the ninth hole but Browne had five birdies on the difficult back nine.
A 2-hour, 45-minute rain delay in the morning prevented the last seven threesomes from finishing the second round. Play was suspended by darkness, with those left on the course to return early Saturday morning.
Among the other household names within six shots of the lead were John Huston, Larry Nelson, Jeff Sluman, Jay Haas, Nick Price, Steve Pate, Tom Kite, Bernhard Langer and Russ Cochran, the winner of last week's Senior British Open.
Heading into the final round, it's apparently a two-man race. Six shots off the pace at 9-under 204 are Jeff Sluman ,Peter Senior ,Joey Sindelar and Mark Calcavecchia
Hale Irwin shot his age and was at 7-under 206 with
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