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Dates: Friday, April 27th through Sunday, April 29th
Site: Greystone Golf & Country Club (Founder's Course), Hoover, Alabama
Course Architect: Bob Cupp and Hubert Green
Par: 72
Yardage: 6,967
Hole-by-Hole: 1 - Par 4 400 yds 10 - Par 3 178 yds
2 - Par 5 532 yds 11 - Par 4 438 yds
3 - Par 4 408 yds 12 - Par 4 416 yds
4 - Par 3 155 yds 13 - Par 5 531 yds
5 - Par 5 623 yds 14 - Par 3 165 yds
6 - Par 4 402 yds 15 - Par 5 526 yds
7 - Par 3 207 yds 16 - Par 4 414 yds
8 - Par 4 425 yds 17 - Par 3 201 yds
9 - Par 4 420 yds 18 - Par 5 526 yds
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36 3,572 yds 36 3,395 yds
Annual: 10th
Defending Champion: John Jacobs
Runner-Up: Gil Morgan
Tournament Record: 201 (Jim Dent, 1994; Graham Marsh, 1995)
36-Hole Record: 131 (Graham Marsh, 1995)
Course Record: 63 (Jack Kiefer, 1992; Graham Marsh, 1995; Terry Dill, 1998)
Total Purse: $1,400,000
Shares: 1st Place - $210,000; 2nd Place - 123,200; 3rd Place - 100,800
2000 Finish
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Player Score Player Score
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John Jacobs * 203 Bruce Fleisher 207
Gil Morgan 203 Andy North 207
Dana Quigley 205 Jim Thorpe 207
Allen Doyle 206 Hubert Green 207
Tom Jenkins 206 Bob Murphy 207
* - Won in playoff.
Past Bruno's Memorial Classic Winners and Runners-up
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2000 -- *John Jacobs (203) -- Gil Morgan
1999 -- Larry Nelson (205) -- Dana Quigley
1998 -- Hubert Green (203) -- Hale Irwin
1997 -- Jay Sigel (205) -- Gil Morgan
1996 -- *John Bland (208) -- John Paul Cain, Kermit Zarley
1995 -- Graham Marsh (201) -- J.C. Snead
1994 -- Jim Dent (201) -- Bob Charles
1993 -- Bob Murphy (203) -- Bob Charles, Lee Trevino, Larry Gilbert,
Kermit Zarley
1992 -- George Archer (208) -- Jack Kiefer, Rocky Thompson
* - Won in playoff.
Top Contenders in the Field
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John Jacobs - Defending champion, 46th on money list without a top-10
Jose M. Canizares - 3rd on money list with 1 win and 7 top-10's in 10 events
Jim Colbert - One win and one runner-up finish this year, 9th in money
Allen Doyle - Only top-10 money winner this year without a victory
Bruce Fleisher - Won last week's event in Las Vegas for 1st 2001 win
Ray Floyd - Competing in only his 7th event in 2001, 1 top-10
Hale Irwin - 5 top-10's in 7 2001 events, finished 2nd last week
Tom Kite - 16th on money list with 4 top-10 finishes in 7 events
Gil Morgan - Two-time runner-up at this event, 4th on money list
Larry Nelson - Two wins and 9 top-10's in 10 tournaments, 1st in money
Dana Quigley - 12th on money list with three top-10's in 11 events
Doug Tewell - Won season's first major - The Tradition, 8th in money
Lee Trevino - The Merry Mex was runner-up here in 1993, 55th in money
Golftoday Network Selections
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Pick to Win - Larry Nelson
Darkhorse - Hubert Green
Last week's Pick to Win (Hale Irwin) - Finished tied for 2nd
Last week's Darkhorse (Stewart Ginn) - Finished tied for 14th
NOTES:
John Jacobs two-putted for par on the first hole of sudden death to
defeat Gil Morgan and win his third career Senior Tour title at last year's
Bruno's Memorial Classic. Morgan, who also finished second in 1997, tied
Jacobs at 13-under-par 203 in regulation with a bogey-free 69 but found the
water with his approach to the playoff hole. Jacobs, six shots back at the
start of the final round, fired a flawless eight-under 64 that was capped by
a 20-foot eagle putt at the 18th hole to give him his first lead of the
tournament. Two of Morgan's three birdies came over the back nine on Sunday
and allowed him to draw even to Jacobs. Jacobs' 64 matched Hubert Green for
the best final-round score in tournament history. His comeback from six
strokes down was the best on the Senior Tour since 1997 when Bruce Summerhays
made up the same margin to win the Saint Luke's Classic. Jacobs will look to
become the first two-time Bruno's winner, as his victory made him the ninth
different champion in the nine-year history of this event. In fact, only two
prior winners, Graham Marsh and George Archer, have finished in the top-10
the year following their title. When Larry Nelson won in 1999, he became the
second consecutive Alabama native to take the title. Green, who was born in
Birmingham, captured the 1998 event. Bob Murphy (1993), Marsh (1995) and
Green (1998) all claimed their first Senior Tour victories at this
tournament. While historically it has been important to get off to a good
start in this event (no winner has opened with a round higher than 71, and
seven of the previous nine champs turned in rounds in the 60s on the first
day), only once has a first-round leader gone on to win (John Bland, 1996).
Bland was also the last player on the Senior Tour to win a playoff with a
bogey when he prevailed five years ago. The best first-round score in
tournament history is 63 by Jack Kiefer (1992) and Terry Dill (1998), while
the lowest second-round score is 60 by Marsh (1995). In 1994, Archer made his
way through the 54-hole event without a bogey but managed only a tie for
fifth behind winner Jim Dent. Morgan is the event's leading money winner with
a total of $327,300 in four starts. Although he has never won in nine
appearances at Bruno's, J.C. Snead has tallied five top-10 finishes, the most
by a player in this tournament. There have been five aces in event history,
the most recent coming last year when Bob Lendzion scored a hole-in-one on
the 14th hole in the final round. Greystone Golf and Country Club has hosted
this event since its inception in 1992. The most difficult hole in the 2000
event proved to be the 180-yard, par-three fourth, which played to an
average of 3.224. The hole yielded just 18 birdies against 159 pars, 43
bogeys and nine double-bogeys. The purse was increased by $100,000 from last
year to $1.4 million, with a first prize of $210,000. In the tournament's
nine-year history, only Bob Murphy and Bob Charles have posted all three
rounds in the 60s, accomplishing the feat in 1993. The Senior Tour shifts to
North Carolina next week for the Home Depot Invitational, where Bruce
Fleisher is the two-time defending champion.
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