By Anne M. Peterson
Associated Press
Sunday, February 7, 1999; 7:12 p.m. EST

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. – Based on a tiebreaker formula, pro Frank Lickliter and investment banker Robert MacDonnell were declared winners of the Pro-Am division at Pebble Beach.

The team finished with a 22-under 194 after three rounds.

Craig Stadler and singer Glenn Frey, and the pairing of Neal Lancaster and financial consultant Bob Scott also shot 194s, but the tiebreaker formula gave priority to Lickliter's team because he had the best 54-hole score of the three pros with 207.

The final round of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am was called off Sunday because the greens were flooded by heavy rain.

Twenty-five amateurs had made the cut for the final round, including baseball players Orel Hershiser and Ken Griffey, Jr., and singer Glen Campbell. Sally Krueger of San Francisco, one of two women entered in the event, also made the cut.

Krueger and her husband, who serves as her caddie, tried to wait out the rain for a time in the contestant's room. She had made it to the fifth tee Sunday before play was suspended.

"They squeegeed the fourth hole for us,'' she said.

Actors Bill Murray and Samuel L. Jackson, crowd favorites at this year's tournament, and Andy Garcia, who won the pro-am division with pro Paul Stankowski in 1997, did not make the cut.

Actor Jack Lemmon missed the cut for about the 25th time.

"We'll be back next year,'' pro partner Peter Jacobsen said.

Cy Young Award-winner Roger Clemens, who also failed to make the cut, hit the only hole-in-one of the event on Saturday on the No. 17 hole at Poppy Hills. It was the first time he had played the course and the wet and windy conditions were not in his favor.

"I was pumped,'' he said. "On a day like this you're just grinding it out. I got so excited it made my heart sink into my stomach.''

The Die Hards
Crowds were sparse for the final round of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am on Sunday, with only true-blue golf fans braving the wind and rain.

"I don't think the heavy stuff is going to come down for awhile,'' fan Wayne Miller said, mimicking a line from the movie "Caddyshack'' as rain dripped off the bill of his baseball cap.

Play was suspended at 9:30 a.m. PST. Scoreboards on the scenic coastal course flashed: "Play has been temporarily suspended! Thank you, PGA Tour.''

Fans huddled under trees, tents and umbrellas. The corporate tents on the No. 3 hole were filled, as were the posh shops at The Lodge at Pebble Beach. Workers in a groundskeeper's shack drank sodas as golf carts loaded with squeegees and green blowers waited nearby.

CBS employee Vinnie Fugett's umbrella blew inside-out in a gust of wind and he was soaked.

"Do I look good or what?'' Fugett said as he passed in a golf cart with his irreparable umbrella. "This was actually a full-blown umbrella at one time.''

About an hour later, it appeared play would resume. Marshals massed at the first tee.

"Let's go! Let's go! We're going to play!'' Marshal Craig Van Keafer shouted to his co-workers on the first tee.

But play was not started. The rain was falling more heavily than before, and the No. 14 and No. 15 holes were swamped. Sand traps along the course were more like quicksand.

At 2 p.m., the final round was finally called off, and Payne Stewart, the leader after 54-holes, was declared the winner.

"That's the second year in a row!'' said one fan, who waited in the rain for nearly five hours for tournament officials to announce their decision. "Next year I'm staying home and watching it from the couch.''

Divots
R.J. Harper, the director for golf at Pebble Beach, said the tournament's jinx over the past several years is uncharacteristic. Usually, the course shuts down only three or four days a year to rain. "It looks like it rains here all the time – but it doesn't,'' he said. ... Tournament runner-up Frank Lickliter, who shot a 207 after three rounds, said he would have played if given the choice. "I feel like I'm kind of a mudder and I think the rain and the wind would have probably been to my advantage today.''