SENIORS Hatalsky is Southern champion

A closing round of 67 clinched the 2002 rookie of the year's second Champions Tour title.
COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) -- Morris Hatalsky made a 4-foot par putt on the last hole to win his second Champions Tour title, beating Allen Doyle by a stroke Sunday at the Columbus Southern Open.
Hatalsky closed with a 3-under 67 at Green Island Country Club and finished at 12-under 198. Doyle was second at 11-under 199 after a 67.
Hatalsky, the 2002 Champions Tour rookie of the year, made birdies at Nos. 4 and 7 on the front nine, and added a birdie at the 10th before stringing together eight straight pars.
Didn't make bogey
Hatalsky did not make a bogey in the 54-hole event and has played 79 holes in par or better.
Hatalsky, who won the Uniting Fore Care Classic in 2002, is the 13th winner in as many Champion Tour events this year.
Doyle, a six-time Georgia Amateur champion who lives 35 miles away in LaGrange, Ga., made a birdie at No. 13 to move within a stroke of Hatalsky.
But he missed birdie putts at the 15th and 16th. His birdie attempt at the 18th missed by inches to the left of the hole.
Bruce Fleisher birdied seven of the last 13 holes, closing with an 8-under 62 and finishing at 10 under. He was tied for third with Dana Quigley (67), Des Smyth (68) and Doug Tewell (68).
Jim Thorpe, who shared the second-round lead with Hatalsky, made bogey at Nos. 2, 3 and 5 and finished in a tie for 19th after a 74.