Dates: Friday, July 27th through Sunday, July 29th
Site: Hayfields Country Club, Hunt Valley, Maryland
Course Architect: Ault, Clark & Associates (1998)
Par: 72
Yardage: 6,917
Hole-by-Hole: 1 - Par 4 380 yds 10 - Par 4 362 yds
2 - Par 5 526 yds 11 - Par 3 167 yds
3 - Par 3 180 yds 12 - Par 4 398 yds
4 - Par 4 411 yds 13 - Par 4 433 yds
5 - Par 5 531 yds 14 - Par 3 209 yds
6 - Par 4 412 yds 15 - Par 4 384 yds
7 - Par 4 417 yds 16 - Par 5 553 yds
8 - Par 3 210 yds 17 - Par 4 441 yds
9 - Par 4 385 yds 18 - Par 5 518 yds
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36 3,452 yds 36 3,465 yds
Annual: 4th
Defending Champion: Leonard Thompson
Runner-Up: Isao Aoki
Tournament Record: 198 (Christy O'Connor, 1999)
36-Hole Record: 131 (Christy O'Connor, 1999)
18-Hole Record: 64 (Jose Maria Canizares, 2000)
9-Hole Record: 31 (Tom Shaw, 1999; Jose Maria Canizares, George Burns,
Bruce Fleisher, John Bland, 2000)
Total Purse: $1,450,000
Shares: 1st Place - $217,500; 2nd Place - 127,600; 3rd Place - 104,400
2000 Finish
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Player Score Player Score
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Leonard Thompson * 205 Jim Albus 208
Isao Aoki 205 Hubert Green 208
Dana Quigley 207 Jim Thorpe 209
Larry Nelson 207 Jose Maria Canizares 209
Bruce Fleisher 208 Walter Hall 209
* - Won in playoff.
Past State Farm Senior Classic Winners and Runners-up
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2000 -- *Leonard Thompson (205) -- Isao Aoki
1999 -- Christy O'Connor (198) -- Bruce Fleisher
1998 -- Bruce Summerhays (206) -- Walter Hall, Hale Irwin
* - Won in playoff.
Top Contenders in the Field
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Leonard Thompson - Defending champion, has 1 win and five top-10's in 2001
Jose M. Canizares - 10th on money list with a win and 10 top-10 finishes
Ed Dougherty - Has finished in the top-3 four times with one win
Allen Doyle - Captured Senior Players Championship, has 17 top-10's
Bruce Fleisher - Three-time winner and eight-time top-five finisher in 2001
Tom Kite - Has finished third four times this year, 13th in money
Bruce Lietzke - Made Senior Tour debut last week as he tied for 24th
Mike McCullough - Two-time winner this year, 8th on money list
Dana Quigley - Won last week for the first time this year, 6th in money
Bruce Summerhays - Won this event in 1998, only five top-10's this year
Jim Thorpe - Two-time runner-up this year, 12th on money list
Lanny Wadkins - Has played in only 11 events in 2001 with 1 top-10
Golftoday Network Selections
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Pick to Win - Allen Doyle
Darkhorse - Hubert Green
Last week's Pick to Win (Bruce Fleisher) - Finished tied for 13th
Last week's Darkhorse (Bruce Lietzke) - Finished tied for 24th
NOTES:
Leonard Thompson birded the second playoff hole to defeat Isao Aoki
last year and win for the second time in his Senior Tour career. Thompson, the
only player in the field to post all three rounds in the 60's, needed a birdie
on the final hole to force the playoff with Aoki. Aoki, who started the day
four strokes behind, carded a Sunday best bogey-free 65. Thompson birdied the
par-5 18th hole all three rounds of regulation play as well as the two playoff
holes. Thompson, who added his third career win earlier this year, had beaten
Aoki in playoffs for his first two titles. With his first-place check of
$202,500, Leonard Thompson became the all-time money leader at the State Farm
Senior Classic with $252,989. Thompson earned $48,214 in 1998 and $2,275 in
1999. Christy O'Connor is second on the list with $215,959 in earnings.
Hubert Green became the first player to record an ace at the State Farm Senior
Classic. Green hit a 7-iron to the 157-yard 11th hole in the final round for
his 22nd career ace. Green tied for fourth the first two years and tied for
fifth last year. Jim Albus and Walter Hall join Hubert Green as the only
players to finish in the top-10 all three years of the State Farm Senior
Classic. Albus has finished T4, T10 and T5 while Hall has recorded T2, T10 and
T8 finishes. All three champions of the State Farm Senior Classic (Bruce
Summerhays, Christy O'Connor and Leonard Thompson) shot three rounds in the
60s the year they won the tournament. No champion has shot a round greater
than 69 the year they won. In nine rounds of tournament play at Hobbit's Glen,
Kermit Zarley has recorded the most birdies with 38, an average of one birdie
every 4.3 holes. Walt Morgan and Dana Quigley have each recorded 37 birdies
apiece. In two years at this event, Bruce Fleisher has finished 2nd and 5th
with all six rounds under par and is the all-time scoring leader at this event
at 67.83. After three year's at Hobbit's Glen Golf Club, the tournament moves
to Hayfields Country Club. The purse was increased by $100,000 from last year.
The Senior Tour moves to New York next week for the Lightpath Long Island
Classic at Meadow Brook Club where Fleisher will defend his title.
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