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Date: Friday, April 20th through Sunday, April 22nd
Site: TPC at Summerlin, Las Vegas, Nevada
Course Architect: PGA TOUR Design Services, consultant - Fuzzy Zoeller
Par: 72
Yardage: 6,963
Hole-by-Hole: 1 - Par 4 408 yds 10 - Par 4 420 yds
2 - Par 4 424 yds 11 - Par 4 415 yds
3 - Par 5 492 yds 12 - Par 4 413 yds
4 - Par 4 429 yds 13 - Par 5 579 yds
5 - Par 3 187 yds 14 - Par 3 156 yds
6 - Par 4 407 yds 15 - Par 4 341 yds
7 - Par 4 382 yds 16 - Par 5 560 yds
8 - Par 3 190 yds 17 - Par 3 196 yds
9 - Par 5 531 yds 18 - Par 4 433 yds
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36 3,450 yds 36 3,513 yds
Annual: 16th
Defending Champion: Larry Nelson
Runner-Up: Hale Irwin, Bruce Fleisher
72-Hole Record: 274 (Vicente Fernandez, 1999)
Tournament Record: 197 (Larry Nelson, 2000 -- 54-hole event)
36-Hole Record: 133 (Gibby Gilbert, 1993, Larry Nelson, Bruce Fleisher, 2000)
18-Hole Record: 62 (Al Geiberger, 1987; Kermit Zarley, 1993)
Course Record: 63 (Jim Colbert, 1996)
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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Larry Nelson 197 Jim Colbert 205
Hale Irwin 202 Hugh Baiocchi 205
Bruce Fleisher 202 Dave Stockton 205
David Lundstrom 203 Ed Dougherty 207
Gil Morgan 204 Dana Quigley 207
Past Las Vegas Senior Classic Winners and Runners-Up
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2000 -- Larry Nelson (197) -- Hale Irwin, Bruce Fleisher
1999 -- Vicente Fernandez (274) -- Dave Eichelberger
1998 -- Hale Irwin (281) -- Vicente Fernandez
1997 -- Hale Irwin (207) -- Isao Aoki
1996 -- *Jim Colbert (207) -- Bob Charles, Dave Stockton
1995 -- Jim Colbert (205) -- Jim Dent, Ray Floyd, Rocky Thompson
1994 -- Ray Floyd (203) -- Tom Wargo
1993 -- Gibby Gilbert (204) -- Mike Hill
1992 -- Lee Trevino (206) -- Orville Moody
1991 -- Chi Chi Rodriguez (200) -- Walter Zembriski
1990 -- Chi Chi Rodriguez (204) -- George Archer, Charles Coody
1989 -- *Charles Coody (205) -- Bob Charles, Chi Chi Rodriguez
1988 -- Larry Mowry (204) -- Bob Charles, Bobby Nichols
1987 -- Al Geiberger (203) -- Chi Chi Rodriguez
1986 -- Bruce Crampton (206) -- Dale Douglass
* - Won in Playoff.
Note: Formerly called General Tire Las Vegas Classic (1988-89), Las Vegas
Senior Classic (1986-87).
Top Contenders in the Field
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Larry Nelson - Defending champ, two-time winner this year, 1st in money
Isao Aoki - 33rd on money list with only one top-10 finish
Jose M. Canizares - 1 win and 6 top-10s, 4th on money list
Jim Colbert - Has registered 3 top-five finishes including a win
Ed Dougherty - Has finished third twice this year, 12th on money list
Allen Doyle - One of two people on the top-10 money list without a win
Bruce Fleisher - Has five top-10s this year in 9 events but no wins
Bob Gilder - Won Verizon Classic earlier this year for 1st career win
Hale Irwin - Finished 3rd last week with four rounds under par
Mike McCullough - Two-time winner this year, 2nd last week at Tradition
Andy North - Teamed with Jim Colbert to win Liberty Mutual Legends
Dana Quigley - 13th on money list with 3 top-10 finishes in 10 events
Doug Tewell - Won last week's Tradition with a final round of 62
Jim Thorpe - 20th on money list with only one top-10 result
Lanny Wadkins - Has played seven events failing to crack the top-10
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 5th
Last week's Darkhorse (Graham Marsh) - Finished tied for 55th
NOTES:
Tied with Bruce Fleisher heading into the final round, Larry Nelson
carded an eight-under 64 to cruise to a five-shot win over Fleisher and Hale
Irwin last year for the first of his six year-2000 wins. His first-place check
of $210,000 was the largest ever as a professional. Irwin shot a final round
of 65 to tie for second with Fleisher, who closed with a 69. Nelson's three-
round total of 197 set a new tournament record, breaking the previous mark of
200 set by Chi Chi Rodriguez in 1991. Nelson was the first player since Chi
Chi to post three rounds in the 60s. Rodriguez accomplished the feat in 1991.
Irwin has posted two wins, a second and a sixth at this event the last four
years. Irwin, Jim Colbert and Rodriguez are the only back-to-back, two-time
winners of this event. Bob Charles has finished in the top-five at this
tourney eight times and has finished second and third three times each in 14
events. Desert Inn hosted this event from 1986 through 1993, followed by TPC
at Summerlin from 1994 through 1996. After two years as a 72-hole event, the
tournament was shortened to a 54-hole event in 2000 and will only be played on
the TPC at Summerlin course. In 1997 through 1999 the event was played over
two courses, TPC at Summerlin and TPC at The Canyons. There have been only
two playoffs in the 15-year history of the event (1989 and 1996). The Senior Tour
moves to Birmingham, Alabama next week for the Bruno's Memorial Classic
where John Jacobs will defend his title.
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