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Dates: Friday, March 9th through Sunday, March 11th
Site: Valencia Country Club, Valencia, California
Course Architect: Robert Trent Jones (1965)
Par: 72
Yardage: 6,905
Hole-by-Hole: 1 - Par 5 521 Yds 10 - Par 4 470 Yds
2 - Par 4 400 Yds 11 - Par 4 400 Yds
3 - Par 3 190 Yds 12 - Par 4 383 Yds
4 - Par 4 386 Yds 13 - Par 4 386 Yds
5 - Par 4 367 Yds 14 - Par 3 211 Yds
6 - Par 4 421 Yds 15 - Par 5 523 Yds
7 - Par 3 185 Yds 16 - Par 3 198 Yds
8 - Par 4 369 Yds 17 - Par 4 449 Yds
9 - Par 5 500 Yds 18 - Par 5 546 Yds
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36 3,339 Yds 36 3,566 Yds
Annual: 12th
Defending Champion: Joe Inman
Runner-Up: Larry Nelson
Tournament Record: 195 (Ray Floyd, 1992)
36-Hole Record: 130 (Jim Colbert, 1997)
18-Hole Record: 61 (Dale Douglass, 1994)
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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Joe Inman 198 Christy O'Connor 206
Larry Nelson 201 John Bland 207
Stewart Ginn 204 Tom McGinnis 207
Jim Thorpe 205 Doug Tewell 207
Tom Kite 206 Hubert Green 208
Past SBC Senior Classic Winners and Runners-up
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2000 -- Joe Inman (198) -- Larry Nelson
1999 -- Joe Inman (199) -- Dave Stockton, Bruce Summerhays
1998 -- Joe Inman (202) -- Lee Trevino
1997 -- Gil Morgan (198) -- George Archer
1996 -- Gil Morgan (202) -- Jim Colbert, Chi Chi Rodriguez
1995 -- John Bland (201) -- Jim Colbert
1994 -- Jack Kiefer (197) -- Dale Douglass
1993 -- *Dale Douglass (196) -- Jim Dent
1992 -- Ray Floyd (195) -- Isao Aoki
1991 -- *John Brodie (200) -- George Archer, Chi Chi Rodriguez
1990 -- Mike Hill (201) -- Gary Player
* - Won in playoff.
Note: Previously called Security Pacific Senior Classic (1990-91), Ralph's
Senior Classic (1992-97), Pacific Bell Senior Classic (1999).
Top Contenders in the Field
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Joe Inman - Three-time defending champion, 59th on money list
Jose M. Canizares - Won last week's Toshiba Senior Classic for 1st win
Allen Doyle - Has five top-10's in five events, 4th on money list
Bruce Fleisher - 7th on money list with three top-10 finishes
Ray Floyd - Third in greens in regulation, 24th on money list
Hale Irwin - 22nd on money list with 3 top-10's in 3 tournaments
Tom Kite - 8th in scoring and 2nd in eagles, 12th in money
Gil Morgan - Has a win and two seconds in 2001, 2nd on money list
Larry Nelson - Two-time winner this year with five top-10's in 5 events
Dana Quigley - 8th on money list, 3 top-10's, 6th in driving distance
Bruce Summerhays - Only one top-10 in five tournaments this year
Doug Tewell - 18th on money list, 2 top-10's, 3rd in driving accuracy
Lanny Wadkins - Withdrew from last week's event due to the flu
Golftoday Network Selections
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Pick to Win - Hale Irwin
Darkhorse - Walter Hall
Last week's Pick to Win (Gil Morgan) - Finished 2nd
Last week's Darkhorse (Stewart Ginn) - Finished tied for 32nd
NOTES:
Joe Inman performed a three-peat when he captured last year's
event by three shots over Larry Nelson. Inman made just one bogey in
the event, becoming the fifth player in Senior Tour history to win an
event three consecutive years. Inman led from start to finish with his
final round of 65 including five birdies on the back nine. Inman's
lone bogey came during the opening round on the fourth hole. Inman and
Stewart Ginn were the only players in the field to post all three
rounds in the 60's. Ginn finished third, six shots back. Inman has
posted nine straight rounds in the 60's at this event with a scoring
average of 66.55. This is the first of three SBC events on the 2001
Senior Tour schedule and the eighth of 45 events overall. Last year,
this event was held in October, one week prior to the season-ending
Tour Championship. Of the 11 previous tournaments, six have been
decided by one shot, one by two shots and two in playoffs. Only twice
(1992 and 2000) has the event been a runaway, when Raymond Floyd won
by three shots and last year. In the events history, no champion has
ever shot a round over par and only one, Mike Hill has had a round in
the 70's on his way to victory in 1990. Valencia Country Club takes
over as the host site for this event. Valencia was the site of the
1998 Nissan Open on the PGA Tour where Billy Mayfair defeated Tiger
Woods in a playoff. The event was previously held at Wilshire Country
Club for the last six years while Rancho Park Golf Club hosted the
tournament the first five years. When Gil Morgan won this event in
1996, he became the youngest winner in SENIOR TOUR history, just 11
days after turning 50. Morgan has won four times at three different
venues in Los Angeles - The Glen Campbell Los Angeles Open at Riviera
Country Club in 1978 and at Rancho Park in 1983, as well as this event
at Wilshire Country Club in 1996-97. There have been only two playoffs
in tournament history, the last coming in 1993 when Dale Douglass
clipped Jim Dent. Inman will try to become the fifth player in Senior
Tour history to win the same event four straight years. The four
players who have accomplished this feat are: Chi Chi Rodriguez, Bob
Charles, George Archer and Hale Irwin. There have been six holes-in-
one at this event. Charles Sifford registered the first one in 1990,
Jim O'Hern in 1991, Bert Yancey in 1992, Bob Goalby in 1996 and David
Graham and Bobby Stroble each had an ace in 1997. Four players have
participated in all 11 of the previous SBC Senior Classics -- Dale
Douglass, Al Geiberger, Rocky Thompson and Tom Shaw. All four players
are expected to compete this week. Gil Morgan has also enjoyed success
at this event with two wins and four top-10 finishes in five events
with a scoring average of 67.87. The Senior Tour moves north to San
Jose, California for the inaugural Siebel Classic in Silicon Valley.
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