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Dates: Thursday, August 16th through Sunday, August 19th
Site: The Club at Mission Dorado, Odessa, Texas
Course Architect: Kenneth Killian, Richard Nugent (1982)
Par: 72
Yardage: 7,221
Hole-by-Hole: 1 - Par 4 420 Yds 10 - Par 4 415 Yds
2 - Par 4 370 Yds 11 - Par 5 566 Yds
3 - Par 5 585 Yds 12 - Par 4 385 Yds
4 - Par 3 170 Yds 13 - Par 3 205 Yds
5 - Par 4 425 Yds 14 - Par 4 445 Yds
6 - Par 4 460 Yds 15 - Par 5 550 Yds
7 - Par 5 560 Yds 16 - Par 4 400 Yds
8 - Par 3 195 Yds 17 - Par 3 160 Yds
9 - Par 4 445 Yds 18 - Par 4 465 Yds
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36 3,630 Yds 36 3,591 Yds
Annual: 10th
2000 Champion: Kevin Johnson
Runner-up: Mark Hensby
Tournament Record: 267 (Paul Gow, 1997)
54-Hole Record: 198 (Dicky Thompson, 1999; Kevin Johnson, 2000)
36-Hole Record: 128 (Kevin Johnson, 2000)
Course Record: 62 (Kevin Johnson, 1997; Dicky Thompson, 1999; Guy Boros,
Todd Barranger, 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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Kevin Johnson 268 Hiroshi Matsuo 275
Mark Hensby 271 Rocky Walcher 275
Todd Barranger 272 Briny Baird 276
Gene Sauers 274 Guy Boros 276
Greg Gregory 275 Paul Gow 276
Tom Kalinowski 276
Greg Sweatt 276
Brian Wilson 276
Zoran Zorkic 276
Past BUY.COM Permian Basin Open Winners and Runners-Up
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2000 -- Kevin Johnson (268) -- Mark Hensby
1999 -- David Berganio, Jr. (269) -- Paul Gow, Dicky Thompson
1998 -- *Stiles Mitchell (276) -- Woody Austin, Jeff Barlow
1997 -- Paul Gow (267) -- Steve Lamontagne
1996 -- Michael Christie (270) -- Anthony Rodriguez
1995 -- Hugh Royer III (275) -- P.Claxton, F.Conner, K.Cotner, F.Langham,
D.Miley, C.Smith, P.Tataurangi
1994 -- Bruce Vaughan (269) -- Gary Rusnak, Bob Wolcott
1993 -- #*Franklin Langham (202) -- Doug Martin
1992 -- #Taylor Smith (205) -- Pete Jordan, Andrew Morse
* - Won in playoff.
# - 54-hole tournament.
Note: Formerly called Ben Hogan Permian Basin Open (1992), NIKE Permian
Basin Open (1993-99).
Top Contenders in the Field
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Todd Barranger - 8th on money list with one win, 13 of 19 cuts made
Jonathan Byrd - Has failed to crack the top-30 in his last four starts
Chad Campbell - 3rd on money list, 1 win and 4 top-10 finishes
Paul Claxton - Shot four rounds in the 60's last week to tied for 22nd
Keoke Cotner - Has missed the cut in 3 of his last 4 starts, 2 2nd's
Chris Couch - Withdrew from last week's event, tied for 25th in Omaha
John Elliott - Has made the cut in 4 straight events, 1 top-10 in 2001
Jeff Gove - Has seven straight cuts made with a second and a third
Ryuji Imada - Only 2 rounds in the 60's in his last five starts
Casey Martin - WD last week after 79, 6 missed cuts in last 9 starts
Rod Pampling - Only one round over par in his last 22, MC last week
Pat Perez - Has only two rounds in the 60's in his last 3 events
Tim Petrovic - Shot final round of 62 last week to tie for 14th
Bo Van Pelt - Has made the cut in 6 of last 8 events with 3 top-10's
Richard Zokol - Has made the cut in 11 of 12 events in 2001 with 1 win
NOTES:
Kevin Johnson opened with back-to-back 64's and closed with two straight
70's to post a three shot win over Mark Hensby and record his third career
BUY.COM Tour win. The victory helped enable Johnson to advance to the PGA
Tour where his has competed in 24 events and has made 14 cuts. Johnson's best
finish this year is a tie for 11th at the Bob Hope Classic and ranks 153rd on
the money list. Johnson's 36-hole total of 128 is a tournament record while
his 198 mark after three rounds equaled the mark set by Dicky Thompson in
1999. In a battle with Guy Boros and Todd Barranger in the final round,
Johnson took control with birdies on 13, 14 and 15 to seal the deal. Boros and
Barranger each tied the course record of 62. Boros accomplished the feat
during round two while Barranger posted his 62 in round three. The purse was
increased by $25,000 from last year. This is the 10th year of the event, all
of which have been held at the Club at Mission Dorado. There are only six
events on the schedule of the BUY.COM Tour since its inception in 1990. The
events which share that distinction are: Knoxville, Cleveland, Ozarks,
Siouxland, Wichita and Boise. There have been only two playoffs in tournament
history. The first came in 1993 when Franklin Langham defeated Doug Martin on
the first extra hole and the second came in 1998 when Stiles Mitchell knocked
off Jeff Barlow and Woody Austin with a par on the first playoff hole. There
has never been a wire-to-wire winner of this event. Michael Christie owns the
best final-day comeback at this event. Christie came from three down in 1996
to overtake Anthony Rodriguez and win by two. The BUY.COM Tour will take next
week off and resume with the Utah Classic the last week in August at Willow
Creek Country Club where Andy Morse captured the 2000 event.
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