GOLF ROUNDUP : Jimenez, Coody 1 Up on Rodriguez

Joe Jimenez and Chi Chi Rodriguez figure they’ve got Texan Charles Coody in a tough spot.

Jimenez and Coody share the lead going into today’s final round of the Sunwest Bank Senior Classic in Albuquerque, N.M., with Rodriguez, a shot back, completing the final threesome.

Coody fired a six-under-par 66 Saturday to move into a tie for the lead with Jimenez, who shot 67. Rodriguez, the first-round leader, had a 71.

“Remember the Alamo,” Rodriguez told Jimenez after the round. “Charlie has a problem. Tomorrow Joe and I are talking nothing but Spanish.”

Coody took the kidding in stride.

“I guess I better ask for an English-only rule,” he said.

Jimenez and Coody, the runner-up last year, are both at eight-under 136 after two rounds on the 6,722-yard Four Hills Country Club course.

Don Massengale is two shots back after a 68.

Amy Benz and Karen Davies each birdied two of the final three holes and tied for the lead after three rounds of the LPGA Stratton Mountain (Vt.) Classic.

Laura Hurlbut, who started the day with a two-stroke lead, double-bogeyed the 18th and fell one shot behind.

Benz and Davies, a first-year player from Wales, started tied at three-under and three strokes behind Hurlbut, and each overcame poor starts to shoot 70 for five-under 211.

Hurlbut was at six-under after 17 but hit a trap in front of the 18th green, took three putts from 30 feet away and shot a 74.

She was tied with Cindy Figg-Curier, the first-round leader, and Lynn Connelly.

Former NCAA champion Pat Hurst of San Jose State rolled in a two-foot birdie putt on the 17th hole to defeat French Amateur champion Delphine Bourson, 2-up, to advance to the championship of United States Women’s Amateur.

Hurst, 21, of San Leandro, Calif., will meet Stephanie Davis of Bainbridge Island, Wash., in today’s 36-hole championship on the rain-soaked North Course of the Canoe Brook Country Club in Summit, N.J.

Davis, of Stanford, closed out U.S. Curtis Cup member Karen Noble, 4-and-2, by sinking a three-foot birdie putt on the 16th hole.