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Dates: Thursday, July 12th through Sunday, July 15th
Site: Crestview Country Club (North Course), Wichita, Kansas
Course Architects: Robert Trent Jones (1969)
Par: 72
Yardage: 6,913
Hole-by-Hole: 1 - Par 4 443 Yds 10 - Par 4 428 Yds
2 - Par 5 563 Yds 11 - Par 4 339 Yds
3 - Par 4 343 Yds 12 - Par 3 197 Yds
4 - Par 4 397 Yds 13 - Par 4 437 Yds
5 - Par 3 194 Yds 14 - Par 5 501 Yds
6 - Par 5 495 Yds 15 - Par 4 391 Yds
7 - Par 4 456 Yds 16 - Par 4 383 Yds
8 - Par 3 206 Yds 17 - Par 3 202 Yds
9 - Par 4 418 Yds 18 - Par 5 520 Yds
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36 3,515 Yds 36 3,398 Yds
Annual: 12th
Defending Champion: Ben Crane
Runner-up: Kelly Grunewald, Vance Veazey
Tournament Record: 263 (Ben Crane, 2000)
54-Hole Record: 196 (Ben Crane, 2000)
36-Hole Record: 127 (Eric Hoos, 1991; Emlyn Aubrey, 1998)
18-Hole Record: 61 (Greg Fleisher, Eric Hoos, 1991; Emlyn Aubrey, 1998)
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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Ben Crane 263 Joey Gullion 268
Kelly Grunewald 266 Mark Hensby 268
Vance Veazey 266 Zoran Zorkic 268
Richard Johnson 267 Brian Fogt 269
Pat Perez 267 Five players at 270
Past BUY.COM Wichita Open Winners and Runners-Up
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2000 -- Ben Crane (263) -- Kelly Grunewald, Vance Veazey
1999 -- Brad Elder (268) -- Mark Wurtz
1998 -- Emlyn Aubrey (265) -- Carl Paulson, Anthony Rodriguez
1997 -- *Ben Bates (29) -- Carl Paulson, Jeff Brehaut, Chris Smith
1996 -- Rick Cramer (269) -- J.P. Hayes, Jimmy Johnston, Craig Kanada
1995 -- *David Toms (269) -- E.J. Pfister
1994 -- Dennis Postlewait (271) -- Clark Burroughs
1993 -- David Duval (271) -- Jeff Lee, John Morse
1992 -- *#Jeff Woodland (204) -- Bob May
1991 -- #Eric Hoos (199) -- Tom Garner, Pete Jordan
1990 -- #Tom Lehman (202) -- Greg Whisman (203)
* - Won in playoff.
# - 54-hole tournament.
Note: Formerly called Ben Hogan Reflection Ridge Open (1990), Ben
Hogan Wichita Charity Classic (1991-92).
Top Contenders in the Field
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Ben Crane - Defending champion, only 4 cuts made this year
Jonathan Byrd - 2nd on money list with one win and four top-10's
Paul Claxton - Has made 8 of 13 cuts with one win and two top-10's
Keoke Cotner - Two-time runner-up this year, 15th on money list
Chris Couch - 8th on money list with one win and two top-10 finishes
Trevor Dodds - Only top-10 finish this year was a win at Virginia Beach
Ryuji Imada - Two-time runner-up this year, has 3 top-10 finishes
Casey Martin - Tied for 38th in Knoxville after missing 4 straight cuts
Rod Pampling - Shot final round of 64 last week but lost in a playoff
Tim Petrovic - Has recorded five top-3 finishes this year
Heath Slocum - Two-time winner this year, 1st on money list
NOTES:
Ben Crane became the 12th Monday qualifier in BUY.COM Tour history
to become victorious when he captured last year's Wichita Open. Trailing by
three shots after round one, Crane shot rounds of 63-66-67 to post a three
shot win over Kelly Grunewald and Vance Veazey. Crane's winning total of 263
set a new tournament record, breaking the previous mark of 265 set by Emlyn
Aubrey in 1998. This event is one of the "Original Six" of the BUY.COM Tour.
The Wichita Open, Knoxville Open, Cleveland Open, Dakota Dunes Open, Ozarks
Open and Boise Open have been on the schedule since the Tour began in 1990.
Ben Crane 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. There have been five holes-in-one during the first 11 years
of the BUY.COM Wichita Open, but none in the past six years. All of the aces
occurred at Reflection Ridge CC, with four of them coming on the 12th hole.
ohn Bizik was the first to register an ace, on the third hole of the first
round of the 1991 tournament. Chris Peddicord aced the 12th hole during the
second round that year. Tommy Moore (round 3, 1993), Taylor Smith (round 4,
1993) and Emlyn Aubrey (round 2, 1994) also posted aces on the 12th hole
during tournament week. David Duval and Tom Lehman are past winners of this
event. In the 11-year history of the event, Lehman and Eric Hoos are the only
winners who have gone wire-to-wire to capture the Wichita Open. The last
player on the TOUR to win wire-to-wire was Brett Quigley at the 2001 Arkansas
Classic in April. In the eight years that this has been a 72-hole tournament,
only 35 players have fired all four rounds in the 60s. During those
same eight years, only four of the third-round leaders have gone on to win the
tournament. Dennis Postlewait (1994), Brad Elder (1999) and Crane (2000)
turned sole possession of their 54-hole leads into victory, while Aubrey
shared the third-round lead with two others before earning the win. Meanwhile,
in the three years in which the tournament was a 54-hole event, two of the
second-round leaders went on to victory - Lehman (1990) and Hoos (1991). After
four years at Willowbend Golf Club, the tournament moves across town to
Crestview Country Club, the only 36-hole facility in Wichita. The first seven
years of the tournament were held at Reflection Ridge Golf Club. Three of the
11 Wichita Open's have been decided by a playoff, six by one shot, one by two
and last year's three-stroke margin. The purse was increased by $25,000 from
last year. The BUY.COM Tour moves to South Dakota for the Siouxland Open
where Spike McRoy captured last year's event.
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