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Dates: Thursday, June 14th through Sunday, June 17th
Site: Quail Hollow Resort (Devlin Course), Concord, Ohio
Course Architect: Bruce Devlin and Robert von Hagge (1975)
Par: 72
Yardage: 6,799
Hole-by-Hole: 1 - Par 5 527 Yds 10 - Par 5 549 Yds
2 - Par 3 196 Yds 11 - Par 4 391 Yds
3 - Par 4 396 Yds 12 - Par 3 122 Yds
4 - Par 4 432 Yds 13 - Par 4 391 Yds
5 - Par 5 513 Yds 14 - Par 4 396 Yds
6 - Par 3 204 Yds 15 - Par 5 504 Yds
7 - Par 5 528 Yds 16 - Par 3 172 Yds
8 - Par 3 196 Yds 17 - Par 4 428 Yds
9 - Par 4 445 Yds 18 - Par 4 409 Yds
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36 3,437 Yds 36 3,362 Yds
Annual: 12th
Defending champion: Deane Pappas
Runner-up: Tjaart van der Walt
Tournament Record: 270 (Greg Twiggs, 1996; Mike Small, 1997;
Doug Dunakey, 1998)
54-Hole Record: 198 (David Jackson, 1992)
36-Hole Record: 130 (Pat Bates, 1997)
Course Record: 61 (Pat Bates, 1997)
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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Deane Pappas 273 Anthony Painter 276
Tjaart van der Walt 274 Donnie Hammond 276
Craig Kanada 275 Curt Byrum 277
Andrew Morse 275 Tom Kalinowski 277
Mark Hensby 276 Doug Dunakey 277
Kent Jones 277
Past BUY.COM Greater Cleveland Open Winners and Runners-Up
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2000 -- Deane Pappas (273) -- Tjaart van der Walt
1999 -- *Matt Gogel (273) -- Casey Martin
1998 -- Doug Dunakey (270) -- Dennis Paulson
1997 -- Mike Small (270) -- Patrick Sheehan
1996 -- Greg Twiggs (270) -- Jimmy Johnston
1995 -- *Karl Zoller (274) -- Larry Silveira
1994 -- *Tommy Armour III (275) -- Scott Gump, Tom Scherrer
1993 -- Stan Utley (271) -- Jerry Kelly
1992 -- #David Jackson (198) -- Dave Miley, Mike Putnam
1991 -- #Jeff Gallagher (201) -- Tom Lehman, Doug Martin
1990 -- #Barry Cheesman (207) -- Kim Young
* - Won in playoff.
# - 54-Hole tournament.
Note: Formerly called Ben Hogan Quail Hollow Open (1990), Ben Hogan
Cleveland Open (1991-92), NIKE Cleveland Open (1993-99).
Top Contenders in the Field
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Deane Pappas - Defending champion, 4th on money list with 1 win
Jonathan Byrd - Has posted 3 top-five finishes in 6 events, 1 win
Paul Claxton - 5th on money list with one win and two top-10's
Chris Couch - Has 3 top-10's in 10 events with one victory
Jason Hill - Has made the cut in 9 of 10 events with one win
Brenden Pappas - Already posted three top-five's this year in 10 events
Pat Perez - 13th on money list with four top-10 finishes
Matt Peterson - Has made 8 of 9 cuts this year with three top-10's
Sonny Skinner - Tied for 8th last week with final round of 67
NOTES:
Three shots off the pace when Sunday's final round began, Deane Pappas
fired a five-under 67 to slip past Tjaart van der Walt and win by one shot for
his first career win. Pappas, who won earlier this year, was six shots off the
lead after round one, but carded rounds of 67-69-67 for the victory. van der
Walt, who had a one-shot lead after three rounds, could do no better than 71
on Sunday. Pappas' win made him the first player from South Africa to capture
a tournament on the BUY.COM Tour. Seven times in the events history has the
previous winner not defended his title, as he had gone on to the PGA Tour.
Last year, J.J. Henry, Kenny Knox and Pappas all registered holes-in-one.
Henry on the second hole, while Knox and Pappas posted aces on number 12.
There have been 15 holes-in-one in the events history. Jeff Gallagher is the
only player in the tournament's history to win wire-to-wire, when he captured
the event in 1991. This event was one of the original tournaments when the
BUY.COM Tour made its debut in 1990. Quail Hollow has hosted this event since
its inception. The purse was increased by $25,000 from last year. Deane Pappas
will be looking to do what no one has done on the BUY.COM TOUR -- successfully
defend a title. And only two players have won the same tournament twice in the
11-year history of the BUY.COM TOUR. Chris Smith captured the 1995 and 1997
Dakota Dunes Opens and Ryan Howison won the 1997 and 1999 Lakeland Classics.
The par-4, 445-yard ninth hole was the most difficult at last year's event and
the 42nd most difficult on TOUR with a stroke average of 4.295 (29 birdies,
248 pars, 114 bogeys and 13 double bogeys). The most difficult on the TOUR was
the par-4 17th hole at The Golf Club at Yankee Trace in Dayton, OH. The hole
played to a 4.631 stroke average during the 2000 BUY.COM Dayton Open. Since
1994, the margin of victory at the Greater Cleveland Open has never been more
than one stroke. Included in that seven-year stretch are all three playoffs.
Matt Gogel defeated Casey Martin in 1999, Karl Zoller defeated Larry Silveira
in 1995 and Tommy Armour III knocked off Scott Gump and Tom Scherrer on the
first extra hole in 1994. Gogel's playoff victory was the third of his career
without a defeat. Only seven players in the 11-year history of the event have
managed to card all four rounds in the 60s. One would think the majority of
those players would have walked away with a victory, but the surprising side
to this statistic is that of the seven, only two have gone on to win the
tournament - Matt Gogel (1999) and Stan Utley (1993). Michael Muehr, who
recorded four 69s in 1997, actually tied for 15th. Since the Greater Cleveland
Open switched to a 72-hole event, Greg Twiggs is the only player who either
held or shared the lead going into the final round to actually win the
tournament. Jeff Gallagher (1991) and David Jackson (1992) both went on to
victory after either leading or co-leading after the second round of a 54-hole
event. Next week the BUY.COM Tour remains in Ohio for the Dayton Open. Last
year, Ian Leggatt captured the event, helping him advance to the PGA Tour.
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