1999 Eastern Open - Fayetteville, NC

Charlie Greenwalt Wins the 1999 Eastern "Dogwood Festival" Open

Fayetteville, NC - Charlie Greenwalt of Indianapolis Indiana took the lead with a fourth round 23 on Saturday and held it throughout the final four rounds of competition on Sunday to win the $10,000.00 Eastern "Dogwood Festival" Open, the first stop on this year's PPA national tour. "It's about time!" exclaimed Greenwalt, who had led after the first day of competition in seven previous eight-round PPA tournaments without finding the winner's circle. "It is fitting that I finally won in Fayetteville, the home of Putt-Putt Golf and where I qualified for the TV series in 1983." Greenwalt finished the eight rounds with a score of 204, 84-under par which earned him the first place prize of $2,000.00.

Runner-up Mike Brown of Rock Hill, SC, who had been dubbed one of the pre-tournament favorites due to the fact he had set a new 72-hole world record on Wednesday, scored the lowest second day total with a 101 and finished with an eight round total of 207, three shots back of Greenwalt. Brown won $1200.00.

Placing third at 209 was another pre-tournament favorite and last year's Southern Open champion Kevin Lacey of Cincinnati, Ohio at 209. 79-under par. "Charlie had all the answers today. Every time I got close he would run off another string of aces" said Lacey, who collected $700.00 for his efforts. Another shot back at 210 was Rick Rybaczek in fourth place, and finishing in a tie for fifth at 211 were Greg Ward of Loganville, GA and Cliff Matthews from Hurst, TX.

In the APA division Donnie Carpenter's second round 22 vaulted him to a lead he would never relinquish as he cruised to an eleven stroke victory over Billy Caudle (228). Carpenter finished the eight rounds with a score of 217, 71-under par. Finishing third at 231 was Terry Porter and fourth place went to Stan Seethoff at 234.

Perhaps the biggest winner in either division of the Eastern Open in Fayetteville this week was APA member Robin Ventura from Cincinnati, Ohio. Her dad, national pro John Ventura, said that if she beat him in the Eastern Open he would buy her a new car! As it turned out she beat him by four strokes for the eight rounds of play and the word is that a new Eagle Talon will be in the Ventura's driveway in the near future. Congratulations Robin!

			Round									Prize
	Player		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total	Money	Points
1	Charlie	Greenwalt	24	26	27	23	25	28	24	27	204	$2,000.00	100
2	Mike	Brown	30	23	29	24	26	26	22	27	207	$1,200.00	98
3	Kevin	Lacey	24	24	28	27	25	29	23	29	209	$700.00	96
4	Rick	Rybaczek	28	26	30	21	25	29	24	27	210	$550.00	94
5	Cliff	Matthews	28	27	31	23	26	26	24	26	211	$475.00	91
	Greg	Ward	31	28	26	24	25	26	24	27	211	$475.00	91
7	Robby	Bryant	31	25	25	27	28	28	23	26	213	$412.50
	Dave	McCaslin	25	27	31	23	26	31	24	26	213	$412.50	88
9	Danny	McCaslin	27	28	30	27	24	25	25	30	216	$375.00	86
10	Todd	Barfield	28	26	29	27	26	31	28	22	217	$275.00	83
	Gilbert	Sharpe	32	25	26	26	29	28	24	27	217	$275.00
	Randy	Reeves	28	23	27	24	26	29	29	31	217	$275.00	83
	Dave	Taylor	28	28	27	25	25	25	26	33	217	$275.00
14	Dan	Anders	33	26	32	23	26	26	28	24	218	$191.67	75
	Todd	Fowler	28	28	24	25	26	31	30	26	218	$191.67	75
	Bill	Baus	29	25	29	26	27	30	25	27	218	$191.67	75
	Tony	Varnadore	33	24	26	29	28	26	24	28	218	$191.67	75
	Gary	Hester	30	25	31	25	27	27	25	28	218	$191.67	75
	Bart	Bason	31	30	29	24	24	25	24	31	218	$191.67	75
20	Jeffrey	Smith	29	28	27	27	27	27	27	27	219	$167.50	66
	Brad	Lebo	28	26	30	23	26	29	27	30	219	$167.50	66
	Darrell	Britt	29	26	30	22	28	30	23	31	219	$167.50	66
	Danny	Dore	32	23	26	27	26	26	28	31	219	$167.50
24	Rick	Baird	30	29	27	26	28	28	27	25	220	$165.00	61
	Tom	Butler	29	28	31	25	28	26	24	29	220	$165.00	61
26	Jim	Heikkinen	32	27	30	28	28	28	26	22	221		51.75
	Jim	Cruse	28	27	30	26	25	29	28	28	221		51.75
	Daniel	Price	33	25	29	23	24	29	29	29	221
	Tony	Jackson	29	27	28	26	31	26	24	30	221		51.75
	Kevin	Garrett	30	23	31	27	27	28	25	30	221
	Mark	Rainey	31	25	30	28	24	26	27	30	221		51.75
	Greg	Newport	30	27	29	23	27	30	24	31	221		51.75
	Bo	Luthie	32	25	30	23	28	28	24	31	221		51.75
	Paul	Johns	31	29	28	22	28	26	26	31	221		51.75
	Greg	Roberts	29	27	29	24	26	27	27	32	221		51.75
36	C.L.	Jones	28	26	30	26	28	31	23	30	222		44
	Jay	Klapper	30	24	29	28	28	29	24	30	222		44
	Michael	Hitt	26	27	29	25	26	29	30	30	222		44
	Lewis	Burton	31	24	28	26	26	29	27	31	222		44
	Lee	Messinger	30	27	30	24	26	26	28	31	222		44
41	Andy	Coradini	33	28	29	26	26	28	25	29	224		40.5
	Rick	Alessi	32	30	29	26	24	29	25	29	224		40.5
43	Robert	Johnson	29	29	30	25	27	32	26	27	225		39
44	Gene	Reams	29	30	27	26	25	28	29	32	226		38
45	Larry	Simpson	32	30	27	26	28	27	26	31	227
46	Bill	Kirby	32	28	31	28	27	26	26	30	228		37
47	Gary	English	32	28	30	26	26	30	30	27	229		36
	Paul	Sample	30	28	28	29	26	27	31	30	229
49	Opie	Roberts	33	23	29	28	33	28	29	27	230
50	Manfred	Stewart	33	26	30	27	28	31	27	29	231		34.5
	Bob	Haizlip	30	30	29	28	25	28	27	34	231		34.5
52	Frank	Warren	30	28	31	31	27	31	29	25	232		33
	Rusty	Taylor	31	33	30	28	28	26	25	31	232
	Gary	Benfield	29	28	30	27	27	29	31	31	232
55	Randall	Willett	30	30	31	28	28	31	25	30	233		32
56	Jimmy	Mott	33	27	31	29	31	29	27	27	234		31
57	Mark	Hasty	29	30	26	30	29	31	27	34	236		29.5
	Dave	Nutini	30	27	28	28	26	31	27	39	236		29.5
59	Rich	Gillooly	32	26	34	24	29	35	29	29	238		27.5
	Thomas	Rawles	29	31	31	31	33	26	26	31	238		27.5
61	Rodney	Ashley	35	28	30	28	28	31	28	32	240		26
	Buddy	Taylor	32	26	32	27	32	31	27	33	240
63	Chris	Bunting	27	30	32	27	30	36	27	32	241
64	Ed	Grajewski	33	28	31	31	27	33	28	32	243
65	John	Ventura	35	29	31	28	29	34	26	34	246		25
66	Paul	Pastilong	30	29	32	31	31	31	29	34	247
67	Bill	Walsh	33	32	31	34	36	33	34	30	263
68	Barb	Mingo	33	32	35	31	33	34	36	41	275		24

			Round									Prize
	Player		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total	Money
1	Donnie	Carpenter	31	22	29	26	27	29	24	29	217	$30.00
2	Billy	Caudle	25	28	33	26	27	33	26	30	228	$30.00
3	Terry	Porter	28	27	30	32	33	28	27	26	231	$30.00
4	Stan	Seethoff	33	29	29	26	26	30	29	32	234	$20.00
	Ray	Guthrie	24	27	30	28	29	33	30	33	234	$20.00
	Jimmy	Comer	32	29	26	30	28	27	31	31	234	$20.00
7	Jeff	Brown	31	31	32	28	27	28	28	30	235
8	Mark	Stephens	29	23	35	32	27	30	30	33	239
	William	Glisson	30	29	31	24	33	34	32	26	239
10	Robin	Ventura	32	25	32	29	32	32	30	30	242
	Keith	Waters	34	28	32	29	30	28	30	31	242
	Tommy	Barbour	30	29	35	26	28	35	29	30	242
13	Brian	Fridley	31	30	32	26	34	32	23	37	245
	Justin	Taylor	34	31	35	32	28	33	25	27	245
	Matt	Summey	33	32	31	26	26	34	34	29	245
16	Gil	Logan	30	28	32	26	30	34	32	35	247
17	Steven	Jones	29	31	37	28	27	29	34	34	249
18	Walt	Warfel	31	31	30	31	36	33	28	32	252
19	Russell	Johnson	41	27	32	29	28	34	31	33	255
20	Randy	Carter	31	33	38	30	32	32	32	29	257
21	Todd	Trent	41	29	34	31	31	33	32	32	263
22	Darren	Harvey	38	47	39	35	49	45	33	42	328