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Dates: Thursday, July 26th through Sunday, July 29th
Site: Highland Springs Country Club, Springfield, Missouri
Course Architect: Robert Trent Jones, Jr. (1989)
Par: 72
Yardage: 7,060
Hole-by-Hole: 1 - Par 5 547 Yds 10 - Par 4 394 Yds
2 - Par 4 395 Yds 11 - Par 5 535 Yds
3 - Par 4 403 Yds 12 - Par 4 397 Yds
4 - Par 3 211 Yds 13 - Par 3 174 Yds
5 - Par 4 424 Yds 14 - Par 4 427 Yds
6 - Par 3 179 Yds 15 - Par 3 151 Yds
7 - Par 4 422 Yds 16 - Par 4 431 Yds
8 - Par 5 544 Yds 17 - Par 4 460 Yds
9 - Par 4 424 Yds 18 - Par 5 542 Yds
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36 3,549 Yds 36 3,511 Yds
Annual: 12th
Defending champion: Pat Perez
Runner-up: Pat Bates, Mike Heinen
Tournament Record: 267 (Anthony Painter, 1998)
54-Hole Record: 196 (Anthony Painter, 1998)
36-Hole Record: 129 (Edward Fryatt, 1999)
Course Record: 61 (John Connelly, 1995)
Total Purse: $450,000
Shares: 1st Place - $81,000; 2nd Place - 48,600; 3rd Place - 30,600
2000 Finish
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Player Score Player Score
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Pat Perez * 270 Matt Peterson 271
Pat Bates 270 Brad Klapprott 272
Mike Heinen 270 Greg Parker 272
Paul Gow 271 Ahmad Bateman 273
Hugh Royer III 271 Jay Hobby 273
* - Won in playoff.
Past BUY.COM Ozarks Open Winners and Runners-Up
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2000 -- *Pat Perez (270) -- Pat Bates, Mike Heinen
1999 -- *Ryan Howison (270) -- Edward Fryatt
1998 -- Anthony Painter (267) -- Scott Dunlap
1997 -- @Chris DiMarco (204) -- Robin Freeman
1996 -- *Stewart Cink (272) -- R.W. Eaks
1995 -- *Mike Schuchart (271) -- Stuart Appleby, P.H. Horgan III
1994 -- Jerry Haas (272) -- Frank Conner
1993 -- Tommy Tolles (271) -- Bob Burns, Bob May
1992 -- #*Lennie Clements (197) -- Tommy Tolles, Ted Tryba
1991 -- #Rick Dalpos (201) -- Kevin Sutherland
1990 -- #*Jeff Cook (207) -- Olin Browne
* - Won in playoff.
@ - Rain shortened.
# - 54-hole tournament.
Note: Formerly called Ben Hogan Greater Ozarks Open (1990-92); NIKE
Ozarks Open (1993-99).
Top Contenders in the Field
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Pat Perez - Defending champion, has 5 top-10's this year
Todd Barranger - 10th on money list with one win and 3 top-10's
Pat Bates - Won last week's Siouxland Open, 13th in money
Jonathan Byrd - Has made 9 of 10 cuts this year with one win
Chad Campbell - 4th on money list with one win and one second
Paul Claxton - Nine cuts made in 14 events with a win and 2 top-10's
Jason Hill - 16th on money list with one win and three top-10's
Ryuji Imada - Two-time runner-up this year, 9th on money list
Rod Pampling - Has four top-10's in 14 events with 3 missed cuts
Deane Pappas - 2nd on money list with one win and six top-10 finishes
Tim Petrovic - One of two top-10 money leaders without a win, 2 seconds
Heath Slocum - Only two-time winner this year, 1st on money list
NOTES:
Pat Perez birdied the first extra hole to defeat Pat Bates and Mike
Heinen to secure his first career win. One shot behind Richard Johnson heading
into the final round, Perez carded his fourth straight round in the 60's, a
three-under 69 to join the playoff with Bates and Heinen. On the first playoff
hole, both Bates and Heinen made long par putts while Perez knocked in a
three-footer for birdie and the win. Pat Perez will be looking to do what no
one has done on the BUY.COM TOUR -- successfully defend a title. 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 Ozarks Open is
one of six tournaments that has been on the schedule since the inception of the
TOUR in 1990. Other members of the original six include the Knoxville Open,
Greater Cleveland Open, Dakota Dunes Open (now Siouxland Open), Wichita
Open and Boise Open. Of the original six tournaments on the current schedule,
Highland Springs Country Club joins Quail Hollow Country Club (Cleveland) and
Hillcrest Country Club (Boise) as the only three courses which have hosted a
BUY.COM Tour event each year. The tournaments in Knoxville, Dakota Dunes
and Wichita have changed sites at least once in their history. Four of the
previous 11 tournament winners have gone on to finish high on the season-
ending money list and earn their PGA TOUR card for the following
year. Jerry Haas (1994), Stewart Cink (1996), Chris DiMarco (1997) and Ryan
Howison (1999) all graduated to the PGA TOUR. Cink finished the 1996 season as
the leading money winner on TOUR. There have been 11 holes-in-one recorded at
the BUY.COM Ozarks Open, including two last year. Don Walsworth (No. 13) did
it in the first round and Richard Johnson (No. 4) matched it in round three.
The par-3, 4th hole has been aced six times in tournament history, while the
other par-3 on the front, No. 6, has been aced three times. The 13th and 15th
holes have each been aced once. There have been six playoffs in the first 11
years of the BUY.COM Ozarks Open, including the last two years. The first
playoff came in the initial year of the event, when Jeff Cook defeated Olin
Browne. Lennie Clements beat Ted Tryba and Tommy Tolles in a 1992 playoff,
while Mike Schuchart (1995), Stewart Cink (1996), Ryan Howison (1999) and Pat
Perez (2000) were also victorious in playoffs. In the eight years that this
has been a 72-hole tournament, only 11 of the 488 players who have played four
rounds have fired all four rounds in the 60s. Strangely enough, five of those
came during the 2000 event when Pat Perez, Pat Bates, Greg Parker, Ahmad
Bateman and Jack Ferenz all posted four sub-70 scores. Prior to 2000, five of
the six players who registered four scores in the 60's went on to victory -
Tommy Tolles (1993), Jerry Haas (1994), Stewart Cink (1996), Anthony Painter
(1998) and Ryan Howison (1999). The 460-yard, par-4 17th hole proved to be the
most difficult for last year's tournament. The hole played to a scoring
average of 4.093 despite the fact that no score higher than a double-bogey 6
was registered there during the four rounds. For the week, the Highland
Springs course had a scoring average of 71.090. The purse was increased by
$25,000 from last year. The BUY.COM Tour moves to Nebraska next week for the
Omaha Classic where David Berganio, Jr. captured the 2000 title.
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