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Dates: Thursday, August 9th through Sunday, August 12th
Site: Hardscrabble Country Club, Fort Smith, Arkansas
Course Architect: Perry Maxwell (1926), Jay Morrish (redesign, 1997)
Par: 70
Yardage: 6,619
Hole-by-Hole: 1 - Par 4 373 Yds 10 - Par 4 432 Yds
2 - Par 3 164 Yds 11 - Par 5 510 Yds
3 - Par 5 500 Yds 12 - Par 4 370 Yds
4 - Par 3 185 Yds 13 - Par 4 365 Yds
5 - Par 4 440 Yds 14 - Par 4 428 Yds
6 - Par 5 533 Yds 15 - Par 3 173 Yds
7 - Par 4 444 Yds 16 - Par 4 417 Yds
8 - Par 3 186 Yds 17 - Par 3 204 Yds
9 - Par 4 458 Yds 18 - Par 4 437 Yds
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35 3,283 Yds 35 3,336 Yds
Annual: 4th
2000 Champion: Tim Clark
Runner-up: Lee Rinker
Tournament Record: 260 (Mark Hensby, 1998)
54-Hole Record: 195 (Mark Hensby, 1998)
36-Hole Record: 130 (David McCampbell, 1998; Joey Guillion, 1999)
Course Record: 62 (Mark Hensby, John Kernohan, 1998; Zoran Zorkic, 2000)
Total Purse: $425,000
Shares: 1st Place - $76,500; 2nd Place - 45,900; 3rd Place - 28,900
2000 Finish
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Player Score Player Score
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Tim Clark 264 Joe Daley 269
Lee Rinker 267 Ahmad Bateman 270
Chris Couch 268 Brad Klapprott 270
Kelly Grunewald 269 Paul Claxton 270
Keoke Cotner 269 Zoran Zorkic 270
Tjaart Van Der Walt 270
Paul Gow 270
Past BUY.COM Fort Smith Open Winners and Runners-Up
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2000 -- Tim Clark (264) -- Lee Rinker
1999 -- Gary Webb (264) -- Matt Peterson
1998 -- Mark Hensby (260) -- Woody Austin
Note: Formerly called NIKE Fort Smith Open (1998-99).
Top Contenders in the Field
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Todd Barranger - 4 top-10's including a win in Dayton, 2nd in birdies
Jonathan Byrd - 1st in all around, 9-of-11 cuts made, a 1st, 2nd and 3rd
Chad Campbell - 3rd on money list, one win, 14-of-15 cuts made
Chris Couch - 11th in money, won season opening Florida Classic
Mike Heinen - Made 8-of-10 cuts with 4 top-10's
Deane Pappas - 2nd in money, 1 win, 7 top-10's in 15 events
Pat Perez - 5-out-of-10 cuts made were top-10 finishes
Matt Peterson - 1st in greens in reg, 9th in money, 5 top-10's
Don Pooley - Only 7th BUY.COM event of year, 2 top-10's
Richard Zokol - 1st in scoring with a 69.60 avg, Canadian PGA Champion
NOTES:
Two shots off the pace heading into the weekend, Tim Clark carded rounds
of 65-66 to post a three-shot win over Lee Rinker for his first career BUY.COM
Tour win. Rinker closed with a seven-under 63. The win helped enable Clark to
advance to the PGA Tour and thus he will not be on hand to defend his title.
Clark, however has not played on Tour since February's Pebble Beach Pro-Am
when he withdrew after the first round. In his three events, Clark has made
just one cut. This tournament is one of 11 on the BUY.COM Tour schedule that
has never had a winner decided by a playoff. The par-four, 428-yard 14th hole
was the most difficult at last year's event and the 29th most difficult on
tour with a stroke average of 4.328. The most difficult on the tour was the
par-4 17th hole at The Golf Club at Yankee Trace in Dayton, Ohio. That hole
played to a 4.631 stroke average during the 2000 Dayton Open. There have been
no holes-in-one in the three-year history of the tournament. In the three
years the Fort Smith Classic has been held, all three of the players who held
the lead going into the final round went on to win the tournament. Mark Hensby
(1998), Gary Webb (1999) and Clark (2000) all had one-stroke leads heading
into Sunday and came away victorious. The purse was increased by $25,000
from last year. Next week the BUY.COM Tour moves to Texas for the Permian Basin
Open at The Club at Mission Dorado. Kevin Johnson captured the event last
year.
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