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Dates: Friday, June 1st through Sunday, June 3rd
Site: Springhouse Golf Club, Nashville, Tennessee
Course Architect: Larry Nelson (1990)
Par: 72
Yardage: 6,783
Hole-by-Hole: 1 - Par 5 530 yds 10 - Par 5 520 yds
2 - Par 4 420 yds 11 - Par 4 435 yds
3 - Par 3 162 yds 12 - Par 5 531 yds
4 - Par 4 391 yds 13 - Par 4 323 yds
5 - Par 4 435 yds 14 - Par 3 212 yds
6 - Par 5 535 yds 15 - Par 3 170 yds
7 - Par 4 415 yds 16 - Par 4 340 yds
8 - Par 3 175 yds 17 - Par 4 398 yds
9 - Par 4 360 yds 18 - Par 4 431 yds
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36 3,423 yds 36 3,360 yds
Annual: 8th
Defending Champion: Hale Irwin
Runner-Up: Gil Morgan
Tournament Record: 198 (Isao Aoki, 1998; Hale Irwin, 2000)
36-Hole Record: 128 (Isao Aoki, 1998)
Course Record: 62 (Dave Stockton, 1994; Isao Aoki, 1998)
Total Purse: $1,600,000
Shares: 1st Place - $240,000; 2nd Place - 140,800; 3rd Place - 115,200
2000 Finish
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Player Score Player Score
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Hale Irwin 198 Jose Maria Canizares 202
Gil Morgan 199 Jim Dent 202
Tom Jenkins 200 Walter Hall 202
Stewart Ginn 201 Six players at 203
Larry Nelson 202
Past BellSouth Senior Classic at Opryland Winners and Runners-up
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2000 -- Hale Irwin (198) -- Gil Morgan
1999 -- Bruce Fleisher (200) -- Al Geiberger
1998 -- Isao Aoki (198) -- Larry Nelson
1997 -- Gil Morgan (202) -- John Bland
1996 -- Isao Aoki (202) -- Graham Marsh, Jay Sigel
1995 -- Jim Dent (203) -- Bob Murphy
1994 -- Lee Trevino (199) -- Jim Albus, Dave Stockton
Top Contenders in the Field
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Hale Irwin - Defending Champ, 1st on money list, 2 wins, 5th last week
Isao Aoki - Two-time winner of this event, 1 top-10 in 11 events
Jose M. Canizares - 7th on money list with one win and two runner-up finishes
Ed Dougherty - Won in Kansas City two weeks ago for 1st win this year
Allen Doyle - Leads the Senior Tour with 12 top-10's in 15 tournaments
Bruce Fleisher - Has a pair of wins this year, 3rd in money, 8 top-10's
Tom Kite - Has 6 top-10's in 10 Senior events, made cut at Colonial
Gil Morgan - Has recorded six straight top-10 finishes, 1 win this yr
Larry Nelson - Two-time winner this yr, 2nd on money list, 10 top-10's
Dana Quigley - 14th on money list, has a pair of runner-up finishes
Bruce Summerhays - Only four top-10 finishes this year in 15 tournaments
Doug Tewell - 12th on money list with one win and five top-10 finishes
Jim Thorpe - Finished 2nd last week at Senior PGA Championship
Golftoday Network Selections
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Pick to Win - Hale Irwin
Darkhorse - Stewart Ginn
Last week's Pick to Win (Larry Nelson) - Finished tied for 27th
Last week's Darkhorse (Lee Trevino) - Finished tied for 55th
NOTES:
Hale Irwin birdied seven of the first 10 holes and held off a late
charge by Gil Morgan with pars on the final eight holes to capture last year's
title. It was Irwin's putter that paid dividends on Sunday and got him off to
his torrid start. He made a 15-footer on the first hole, a 30-footer on the
second and then an eight-footer on the third. Two holes later, he nailed a 20-
footer for another birdie and needed just 28 putts in his final round. Irwin
also hit 48 of 54 greens in regulation (89%). Thanks to his 2000 win and four
other top-10 finishes, Hale Irwin has won more money than any other player in
tournament history -- $509,192. Gil Morgan, a winner in 1997, is second with
$468,200 and four top-10 efforts. Isao Aoki is the only two-time winner of
this event, capturing the tournament in 1996 and 1998. Aoki has four top-10's
in six starts at this event and is third on the all-time money list with
$441,051 in earnings. Irwin has enjoyed a good deal of success at this
tournament. In six starts, he has five top-10 finishes (matching Dave Stockton
for most in tournament history), including his win in 2000. Irwin also shares
the record with Isao Aoki for the best 54-hole score in tournament history
(18-under-par 198), and his closing-round 65 last year was the lowest final
round by a tournament winner. He is 67 strokes under par in his 18 rounds at
this tournament with a scoring average of 68.28. Of those 18 rounds, 12 have
been in the 60s. He has had just one round over par -- a final-round 73 in
1999. Course designer Larry Nelson finished second in 1998, 15th in 1999 and
tied for 5th last year. This tournament has been decided by two shots or less
in each of the seven previous events, however there has never been a playoff.
Springhouse has hosted this event since its inception in 1994. In the previous
seven events, the player who has led or had sole possession of the lead after
36 holes has won the event six of seven times. The lone exception was in 1994,
when Dave Stockton could not hold off Lee Trevino and finished T2. Last year,
Irwin was among four tied for the lead at 11-under-par 133, before closing
with a 7-under-par 65 for a one-stroke win over Morgan. Hole No. 4 was the
toughest hole at the 2000 BellSouth Senior Classic at Opryland with an average
score of 4.221 or .221 over par. Hole No. 11 ranked as the second hardest at
4.199 (+.199). Four of the holes at the Springhouse Golf Club were among the
25 easiest on the SENIOR PGA TOUR in 2000. Hole #6 was the 15th easiest, #12
was the 18th easiest and #10 was the 20th easiest. In addition, hole #1 ranked
as the 24th easiest. The Springhouse GC ranked 37th among 38 courses on the
SENIOR TOUR, with an average score of 70.641 or 1.359 under par. Only Serrano
Country Club, site of the Gold Rush Classic, was easier with an average score
of 70.177. The purse was increased by $100,000 from last year. Trevino has won
four tournaments in the state of Tennessee. In addition to his victory in 1994
at this event, Trevino captured the 1971-72 and 80 Danny Thomas Memphis
Classics. Gary Player opened with an eight-under 64 last year, making him the
youngest player in Senior Tour history to shoot his age. Miller Barber also
shot his age when he carded a first round of 68, beating his age by one, the
first time he accomplished the feat as a Senior. Next week the Senior Tour
moves back to New Jersey for the NFL Golf Classic at Upper Montclair Country
Club where Trevino will defend his title.
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