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Dates: Thursday, July 5th through Sunday, July 8th
Site: Country Club of Hershey (East Course), Hershey, Pennsylvania
Course Architect: George Fazio (1970)
Par: 71
Yardage: 7,154
Hole-by-Hole: 1 - Par 5 498 Yds 10 - Par 4 393 Yds
2 - Par 3 193 Yds 11 - Par 4 420 Yds
3 - Par 4 448 Yds 12 - Par 4 414 Yds
4 - Par 4 437 Yds 13 - Par 3 187 Yds
5 - Par 4 356 Yds 14 - Par 5 540 Yds
6 - Par 5 554 Yds 15 - Par 4 467 Yds
7 - Par 4 458 Yds 16 - Par 3 215 Yds
8 - Par 3 224 Yds 17 - Par 4 449 Yds
9 - Par 4 445 Yds 18 - Par 4 456 Yds
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36 3,613 Yds 35 3,541 Yds
Annual: 5th
2000 Champion: Paul Gow
Runner-up: Paul Claxton
Tournament Record: 273 (Michael Clark, 1998)
54-Hole Record: 200 (Michael Clark, 1998)
36-Hole Record: 134 (Michael Clark, 1998)
Course Record: 64 (Bob Burns, 1998; Gary Nicklaus, 1999)
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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Paul Gow 281 Todd Demsey 283
Paul Claxton 282 John Riegger 284
J.J. Henry 283 Anthony Painter 284
Joe Daley 283 Patrick Burke 284
Shane Bertsch 283 Jay Hobby 284
Pat Bates 284
Past BUY.COM Hershey Open Winners and Runners-Up
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2000 -- Paul Gow (281) -- Paul Claxton
1999 -- Edward Fryatt (275) -- Brett Wayment
1998 -- Michael Clark (273) -- Bob Burns
1997 -- Barry Cheesman (278) -- Billy Downes, Greg Lesher
Note: Formerly called NIKE Hershey Open (1997-99).
Top Contenders in the Field
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Jonathan Byrd - 2nd on money list with one win and four top-10 finishes
Paul Claxton - Has made 7 of 12 cuts with one win and 2 top-10's
Keoke Cotner - Two-time runner-up this year, 12th on money list
Chris Couch - Won earlier this season, 8th on money list, 3 top-10's
Trevor Dodds - Only top-10 finish this year was a win at Virginia Beach
David Gossett - Has posted 4 top-10's in the 7 cuts made, 25th in money
Ryuji Imada - Two of his top-five finishes have been seconds
Deane Pappas - 9 of 11 cuts made with one win and four top-10 finishes
Tim Petrovic - Two seconds and two thirds this year, 3rd on money list
Bo Van Pelt - 18th on money list with one second and three top-10's
NOTES:
Paul Gow captured his second career victory by edging out Paul Claxton by
one stroke last year. Gow was tied for 21st after the first round, five
strokes behind leader Tim Loustalot. A 68 on Friday moved him to two-under 140
and into a three-way tie with Claxton and John Riegger. Gow kept a share of
the lead with a 70 during the third round to join Claxton and Pat Bates at
three-under 210. A final-round 71 gave him the one-stroke margin over Claxton.
12 golfers were within two shots of the lead with nine holes to play, but
Gow birdied the 15th and parred the final three holes to secure the win. The
victory enabled Gow to finish in the top-15 on the 2000 money list and earn a
promotion to the PGA Tour. So far in 2001, Gow has made seven of 15 cuts
without a top-10 finish and ranks 146th on the money list. No player has
successfully defended a title and only two have won the same tournament twice
in the 11-year history of the BUY.COM Tour. Chris Smith captured the Dakota
Dunes Open in 1995 and 1997 and Ryan Howison won the Lakeland Classic 1997
and 1999. The Country Club of Hershey, which previously hosted an LPGA event on
the West Course from 1978-94 (Lady Keystone Open), has been the site of this
event since its inception in 1997. The Country Club of Hershey East Course,
ranked the toughest on the 1999 BUY.COM Tour, was displaced on the 2000 list
by Meadow Springs Country Club in Richland, Washington, the home of the Tri-
Cities Open. Hershey's East Course was considered the second-most difficult
layout last season. It's level of difficulty increased from 3.150 strokes over
par in 1999 to 3.234 in 2000. Meadow Springs played to a scoring average
of 75.417 or 3.417 above par, due in large part to second-round winds which
gusted up to 50 mph during the afternoon. There has only been one hole-in-one
posted in the first four years of the Hershey Open, with Barry Conser
recording an ace on the eighth hole during the third round of the inaugural
1997 event. 1998 champion Michael Clark is the only player to go wire-to-wire
in winning the Hershey Open, and no player has fired all four rounds in the
60s in the history of the event. In fact, only four players have
managed to put together three rounds in the 60s, including Edward Fryatt in
1999 and Michael Clark, Mike Sposa and Paul Gow in 1998. Three of the four
Hershey winners have either led or were tied for the lead heading into the
final round, with only 1997 champ Barry Cheesman mounting a come-from-behind
victory. Cheesman closed with a 66 to come from three strokes back on the
final day of the first-year tournament. The purse was increased by $25,000
from last year. The BUY.COM Tour moves to Kansas next week for the Wichita
Open where Ben Crane will defend his title.
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