Dates: Friday, June 9th through Sunday, June 11th
Site: Kemper Lakes Golf Course, Long Grove, Illinois
Course Architect: Ken Killian and Richard Nugent (1979)
Par: 72
Yardage: 6,947
Hole-by-Hole: 1 - Par 4 406 Yds 10 - Par 4 425 Yds
2 - Par 4 400 Yds 11 - Par 5 534 Yds
3 - Par 3 173 Yds 12 - Par 4 393 Yds
4 - Par 5 508 Yds 13 - Par 3 183 Yds
5 - Par 4 423 Yds 14 - Par 4 395 Yds
6 - Par 3 180 Yds 15 - Par 5 557 Yds
7 - Par 5 532 Yds 16 - Par 4 426 Yds
8 - Par 4 421 Yds 17 - Par 3 172 Yds
9 - Par 4 435 Yds 18 - Par 4 384 Yds
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36 3,478 Yds 36 3,469 Yds
Annual: 13th
Defending Champion: Tom Kite
Runner-Up: Bruce Fleisher
Tournament Record: 195 (Hale Irwin, 1995)
36-Hole Record: 128 (Hale Irwin, 1998)
Course Record: 62 (Hale Irwin, 1998)
18-Hole Record: 62 (Joe Jimenez, 1995)
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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Tom Kite 207 Larry Nelson 213
Bruce Fleisher 209 Graham Marsh 213
Bruce Summerhays 210 John Bland 213
Hale Irwin 213 Bob Murphy 215
George Archer 213 Dave Eichelberger 215
Past SBC Senior Open Winners and Runners-up
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2000 -- Tom Kite (207) -- Bruce Fleisher
1999 -- Hale Irwin (206) -- Gary McGord, Bruce Fleisher, Ray Floyd
1998 -- Hale Irwin (201) -- Larry Nelson
1997 -- Gil Morgan (210) -- Hale Irwin
1996 -- Walter Morgan (205) -- John Bland
1995 -- Hale Irwin (195) -- Kermit Zarley
1994 -- John Paul Cain (202) -- Jim Colbert, Simon Hobday
1993 -- #George Archer (133) -- Jim Colbert, Simon Hobday, Dick Rhyan
1992 -- Dale Douglass (201) -- Jim Dent
1991 -- Mike Hill (200) -- Bob Charles
1990 -- Chi Chi Rodriguez (203) -- George Archer, Al Kelley
1989 -- Bruce Crampton (205) -- Jim Ferree, Orville Moody
# - Rain Shortened.
Note: Formerly called Ameritech Senior Open (1989-99).
Top Contenders in the Field
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Tom Kite - Defending champion, 15th on money list with 9 top-10's
Jose M. Canizares - 9th on money list with one win and two runner-up finishes
Ed Dougherty - Tied for 4th last week after holding third-round lead
Allen Doyle - Won last week's Players Championship in a playoff
Bruce Fleisher - Has finished 2nd at this event two straight years
Ray Floyd - Posted his third top-10 of the year last week
Hale Irwin - Three-time winner of this event, two wins in 2001
Bruce Lietzke - Making his Senior Tour debut, 13 career PGA wins
Dana Quigley - Only top-10 money leader without a win in 2001
Jay Sigel - Moved up to 60th on money list with 1st top-10 of 2001
Bruce Summerhays - 25th on money list with five top-10 finishes
Doug Tewell - Lost last week in a playoff to Doyle, 6th on money list
Jim Thorpe - Two-time runner-up this year, 11th on money list
Golftoday Network Selections
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Pick to Win - Bruce Fleisher
Darkhorse - Bruce Lietzke
Last week's Pick to Win (Hale Irwin) - Finished 3rd
Last week's Darkhorse (John Jacobs) - Finished tied for 20th
NOTES:
After opening with a one-under 71 last year, Tom Kite fashioned back-to-
back 68's to post a two-shot win over Bruce Fleisher. Trailing by two strokes
with five holes to play, Kite made birdies on the 14th and 15th holes, saved
par from greenside bunkers at 16 and 17, and holed a 28-foot birdie putt at the
18th. Fleisher, playing one group ahead of Kite, shared the lead going into the
final hole. He went straight for the tight back right pin, but hit his approach
shot long and into the greenside bunker. Fleisher then pulled his 10-foot par
putt left. Two-time defending champion Hale Irwin finished tied for fourth
after a Sunday 64. Irwin has won five times in the Chicago-area, capturing this
event three times, the 1975 Western Open and the 1990 U.S. Open. The buzz this
week is Bruce Lietzke, who is making his Senior Tour debut this week. Lietzke,
a 13-time winner on the PGA TOUR, will turn 50 on Wednesday, July 18th. Lietzke
played at Kemper Lakes in the 1989 PGA Championship and tied for 46th. He had
four top-10 finishes in the Western Open, including a tie for fourth in 1985.
The last player to win his first SENIOR TOUR start was Lanny Wadkins in a
playoff at the 2000 ACE Group Classic in Naples. With his victory last year at
Kemper Lakes, Kite joined Irwin as the only other player to claim both a PGA
TOUR and SENIOR TOUR title in the Chicago area. Kite won the 1986 Western Open
in a playoff at Butler National Golf Club. There have been three holes-in-one
in tournament history. The first was by Jimmy Powell in 1990 at Grand Traverse
Resort in Michigan. DeWitt Weaver made the second at the 1996 event atKemper
Lakes, and Jerry McGee followed with an ace in 1998. This is the sixth
consecutive year in which the tournament is being held at Kemper Lakes. The
tournament had been played at the Stonebridge Country Club the previous five
years and was held at Grand Traverse Resort and Canterbury Golf Club prior to
Stonebridge. The 1989 PGA Championship was held at Kemper Lakes. The par-4
16th hole at Kemper Lakes consistently ranks among the top 50 hardest holes on
the SENIOR TOUR. Last year, the hole was the 10th most difficult on the
circuit, playing to a stroke average of 4.376. It also ranked as the 10th
hardest in 1999 with a stroke average of 4.427. In 1998, it was ranked as the
22nd most difficult (4.406) and was the fourth hardest in 1997 (4.536). Irwin
is the all-time money leader at this event with $569,280 in earnings and ranks
second in scoring with an average round of 69.87. There have been four players
in the history of this event who have competed in each tournament -- Tommy
Aaron, Mike Hill, Chi Chi Rodriguez and Tom Shaw. Aaron is the only player
not scheduled to compete this week. Next week the Senior Tour moves to
Baltimore for the State Farm Senior Classic where Leonard Thompson is expected
to defend his title. Some of the Senior players will be competing next week at
the Senior British Open.
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