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Dates: Thursday, April 12th through Sunday, April 15th
Site: Harbour Town Golf Links, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Course Architect: Pete Dye (1969) with Jack Nicklaus
Par: 71
Yardage: 6,916
Hole-by-Hole: 1 - Par 4 414 yds 10 - Par 4 436 yds
2 - Par 5 505 yds 11 - Par 4 438 yds
3 - Par 4 411 yds 12 - Par 4 413 yds
4 - Par 3 198 yds 13 - Par 4 378 yds
5 - Par 5 535 yds 14 - Par 3 165 yds
6 - Par 4 419 yds 15 - Par 5 575 yds
7 - Par 3 180 yds 16 - Par 4 376 yds
8 - Par 4 466 yds 17 - Par 3 192 yds
9 - Par 4 337 yds 18 - Par 4 478 yds
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36 3,465 yds 35 3,451 yds
Annual: 33rd
Defending champion: Stewart Cink
Runner-Up: Tom Lehman
Tournament Record: 265 (Loren Roberts, 1996)
54-Hole Record: 198 (Hale Irwin, 1994; Loren Roberts, 1996)
36-Hole Record: 129 (Jack Nicklaus, 1975)
Course Record: 61 (David Frost, 1994)
9-Hole Record: 30 (Done by several players)
Total Purse: $3,500,000
Shares: 1st Place - $630,000; 2nd Place - 378,000; 3rd Place - 238,000
2000 Finish
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Player Score Player Score
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Stewart Cink 270 Larry Mize 275
Tom Lehman 272 Davis Love III 275
Vijay Singh 275 Ernie Els 275
Edward Fryatt 275 John Huston 276
Dan Forsman 275 Jesper Parnevik 276
Past WORLDCOM Classic Winners and Runners-Up
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2000 -- Stewart Cink (270) -- Tom Lehman
1999 -- *Glen Day (274) -- Jeff Sluman, Payne Stewart
1998 -- Davis Love III (266) -- Glen Day
1997 -- Nick Price (269) -- Brad Faxon, Jesper Parnevik
1996 -- Loren Roberts (265) -- Mark O'Meara
1995 -- *Bob Tway (275) -- David Frost, Nolan Henke
1994 -- Hale Irwin (266) -- Greg Norman
1993 -- David Edwards (273) -- David Frost
1992 -- Davis Love III (269) -- Chip Beck
1991 -- Davis Love III (271) -- Ian Baker-Finch
1990 -- *Payne Stewart (276) -- Steve Jones, Larry Mize
1989 -- Payne Stewart (268) -- Kenny Perry
1988 -- Greg Norman (271) -- David Frost, Gil Morgan
1987 -- Davis Love III (271) -- Steve Jones
1986 -- Fuzzy Zoeller (276) -- Chip Beck, Roger Maltbie, Greg Norman
1985 -- *Bernhard Langer (273) -- Bobby Wadkins
1984 -- Nick Faldo (270) -- Tom Kite
1983 -- Fuzzy Zoeller (275) -- Jim Nelford
1982 -- *Tom Watson (280) -- Frank Conner
1981 -- Bill Rogers (278) -- Bruce Devlin, Hale Irwin, Gil Morgan, C.Stadler
1980 -- *Doug Tewell (280) -- Jerry Pate
1979 -- Tom Watson (270) -- Ed Sneed
1978 -- Hubert Green (277) -- Hale Irwin
1977 -- Graham Marsh (273) -- Tom Watson
1976 -- Hubert Green (274) -- Jerry McGee
1975 -- Jack Nicklaus (271) -- Tom Weiskopf
1974 -- Johnny Miller (276) -- Gibby Gilbert
1973 -- Hale Irwin (272) -- Jerry Heard, Grier Jones
1972 -- Johnny Miller (281) -- Tom Weiskopf
1971 -- Hale Irwin (279) -- Bob Lunn
1970 -- Bob Goalby (280) -- Lanny Wadkins
1969 -- Arnold Palmer (283) -- Richard Crawford, Bert Yancey
* - Won in Playoff.
Note: Formerly called Heritage Classic (1969-70), Sea Pines Heritage
Classic (1971-86), MCI Heritage Classic (1987-95), MCI Classic
(1996-2000).
Top Contenders in the Field
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Stewart Cink - Defending champ, has missed 4 cuts in 2001, 2 top-10's
Robert Allenby - 15th on money list, only top-10 was a win at Nissan
Mark Calcavecchia - Tied for 4th last week at Masters, 5th on money list
Michael Campbell - Shot 78-75 last week in Georgia to miss the cut
Joe Durant - Two-time winner this year, 4th on money list
Nick Faldo - Won this event in 1984, 3-time Masters champ missed cut
Brad Faxon - Has made the cut in all 10 events entered, 1 win
Fred Funk - Has a pair of top-10's this year with just 1 missed cut
Sergio Garcia - Only one top-10 on PGA Tour this year in 6 events played
Padraig Harrington- Currently 5th on Europe money list, 1 round in 60's in GA
Lee Janzen - Shot final round of 79 at Augusta after contending
Bernhard Langer - Finished at 9-under last week to tie for sixth
Tom Lehman - Has registered 3 top-10's in 10 events, 12th in money
Justin Leonard - Only 6 cuts made in 10 tournaments, two top-10's
David Love III - Missed the cut last week at Augusta, 6th on money list
Greg Norman - Won this event in 1988 and has been runner-up twice
Jesper Parnevik - Captured Honda Classic earlier this year, 14th in money
Nick Price - 2 top-10's in 5 PGA events, only missed cut was in GA
Vijay Singh - 3rd on money list with five top-five finishes
Fuzzy Zoeller - Two-time winner of this event, missed cut last week
Golftoday Network Selections
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Pick to Win - Davis Love III
Darkhorse - Fred Funk
Last week's Pick to Win (Tiger Woods) - Finished 1st
Last week's Darkhorse (Greg Norman) - Missed the cut
NOTES:
Trailing third-round leader Ernie Els by four shots, Stewart Cink carded
a six-under 65 to post a two-shot win over Tom Lehman and record his second
career win. Els, who posted three straight rounds in the 60's, finished with a
closing 74 to tie for third. Cink's final-round included birdies on three of
the final four holes. On the final hole, Cink needing par to win, secured the
victory with a nine-iron to eight feet and then calmly sank the putt. The
purse was increased by $500,000 from last year. There have been only three
wire-to-wire winners in tournament history: Johnny Miller in 1974, Tom Watson
in 1979 and Nick Price in 1997. Kenny Knox set the PGA Tour record for fewest
putts in a 72-hole tournament at the 1989 MCI Classic with only 93 putts,
including a record-tying 18 in the first round. Payne Stewart and Davis Love
III are the only players to win this event two straight years, Love in 1991
and `92 and Stewart in 1989 and `90. Love III has played in each MCI Classic
since he joined the tour in 1986. Not only does Love have four wins at this
event, his has seven top-10's in 15 starts and has shot par or better in 35
of 51 rounds at Harbour Town. There have been 12 holes-in-one in tournament
history. The par-4, 8th hole at Harbour Town was the toughest hole last year
with a stroke average of 4.266 while the easiest was the par-5 2nd with an
average of 4.537. Of the 22 players who have won this event, 15 of those have
won at least one of golf's four major's. This event has followed the Masters
since 1983. In that time, only Bernhard Langer has followed up a Masters win
with a win at the WORLDCOM Classic. Langer accomplished the trick in 1985
when he defeated Bobby Wadkins in a playoff. Glen Day equaled Hubert Green for the
record of the biggest come-from-behind victory in tournament history, making
up five shots on the final day. Green accomplished the feat in 1978 while Day
turned the trick in 1999. There have been six playoffs in the tournaments
history, the last coming in 1999. Harbour Town has the smallest greens on the
PGA Tour and has hosted this event since its inception in 1969. The golf
course underwent a $4-million renovation by course designer Pete Dye last
spring. The changes and additions to the course were: a $1-million drainage
system, extensive dredging of the course's lagoons, bulkheads around water
hazards were replaced and tees were expanded from 70,000 square feet to
170,000 square feet. In addition, all the bunkers were refurbished and the
greens were enlarged by an average of 600 square feet and were replanted with
a new strain of bermuda grass. New tournament tees were also added on the
third and 14th holes. The Ocean Course on Hilton Head Island played host to
the first two rounds of this event in 1972. There have been seven multiple
winners of this event. Five of the top-10 money winners on the PGA Tour are
competing this week. This is the 14th of 45 official events on the PGA Tour,
which moves to Texas next week for the Shell Houston Open at The Woodlands.
where Robert Allenby will defend his title.
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