John Napoli Wins 1999 PPA National Championship (18 September 1999

Napoli Takes 1999 PPA National Championship Title

Kissimmee, FL - 18 September 1999 - John Napoli of Clearwater Beach, FL didn't have to look over his shoulder Saturday at the Professional Putters Association 1999 National Championship Open. The professional putter blitzed the final four rounds of the $20,000.00 putting event for an eight round total 206 - (82 under par) to post a seven stroke victory in the National Putt-Putt event. Napoli a touring Putt-Putt pro since 1971 took the lead of the tournament during the seventh, eighteen hole round and never relinquished the top spot.

John Napoli aces the final hole of the 1999 PPA National Championship (Rick Baird appears directly behind Napoli).

Napoli is one of only two professional putters to have scored a perfect "18" during PPA competition. Napoli fired eighteen consecutive aces in a tournament in Columbus OH in 1979. Orlando, Fl pro Warren Morris, recorded the other perfect eighteen in 1973. Over thirty-five million rounds of Putt-Putt Golf are played each year making the two perfect rounds one of the most precious events in sporting history. Napoli, 43 years of age, was also the National Championship Tournament's single round low medallist firing 15 aces for a seventh round score of 21. Napoli is no stranger to low scores. Napoli is one of only two professional putters to have scored a perfect "18" during PPA competition. Napoli fired eighteen consecutive aces in a tournament in Columbus OH in 1979. Orlando, Fl pro Warren Morris, recorded the other perfect eighteen holes round in 1973. Over thirty-five million rounds of Putt-Putt Golf are played each year making the two perfect rounds one of the most precious events in sporting history.

Napoli recorded aces on 28 of 34 holes in the stretch from the 4th hole of the sixth round to the 1st hole of the eighth round to pull ahead of the field. Napoli blitzed the field of competitors finishing seven shots ahead of Kevin Lacey of Cincinnati, OH, Todd Fowler of Duncan, SC and Darrell Britt of Loganville, GA all tied at 213 (75 under par) for second place. Loganville, GA professional Greg Ward took the solo fifth position with a total 144 hole score of 214, eight shots out of the lead. The win in the National Championship brought Napoli's total career money winnings to $32,700.00.

Jeff Brown of North Olmsted, OH lost a hard fought effort to defend his 1998 National Championship title in the Amateur Putters Association (APA) division finishing second to Robb Titchell of Columbus, OH. Titchell, earned his second APA National Title by firing an eight round score of 214, 74 under par.

Titchell recorded eighteen hold rounds of 25-22-30-29-29-31-25-23. During the awards ceremony Titchell announced his plans to turn professional during the 1999 tour.

Since 1959 the PPA has crowned a National champion and to date, has awarded over 7.5 million dollars ($7,500,000.00) in prize money through its putting tournament competitions. Please visit www.putt-putt.com or www.proputters.com for more detailed information regarding the company and PPA tour.

Leaders of 1999 PPA National Championship by Round

First Round Leaders	Andy Coradini, Cliff Matthews, Greg Ward, Lewis Burton, Bill Baus, John Napoli	25 (11-under par)
Second Round Leaders	Andy Coradini	49 (23-under par)
Third Round Leader	Andy Coradini	76 (32-under par)
Fourth Round Leader	Andy Coradini	103 (41-under par)
Fifth Round Leaders	Darrell Britt	130 (50-under par)
Sixth Round Leaders	Danny McCaslin	157 (59-under par)
Seventh Round Leader	John Napoli	180 (72-under par)

Tournament recap and scores courtesy of the Putt-Putt Home Office.

		Round									Prize	National
	Player	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total	Money	Points
1	John Napoli	25	32	24	27	27	24	21	26	206	$3,500.00
2	Kevin Lacey	27	26	29	26	26	26	26	27	213	$1,583.33	98
	Todd Fowler	30	26	30	27	24	25	24	27	213	$1,583.33	98
	Darrell Britt	28	27	28	25	22	29	25	29	213	$1,583.33	98
5	Greg Ward	25	26	28	29	26	29	26	25	214	$1,000.00	94
6	Cliff Matthews	25	26	30	29	26	30	24	25	215	$816.67	90
	Danny McCaslin	26	28	25	27	27	24	27	31	215	$816.67	90
	Rainey Statum	27	27	28	27	23	29	24	30	215	$816.67	90
9	Lewis Burton	25	29	31	28	29	26	22	26	216	$616.67	84
	Dave McCaslin	26	27	30	26	27	28	25	27	216	$616.67	84
	Manfred Stewart	29	26	27	25	25	32	25	27	216	$616.67	84
12	Frank Warren	28	25	27	28	27	29	26	28	218	$500.00	80
13	Rick Baird	30	29	27	22	28	27	25	31	219	$480.00	78
14	Bart Bason	28	27	29	30	25	29	25	27	220	$395.71	72
	Bill Baus	25	29	31	25	26	26	30	28	220	$395.71	72
	Gary English	32	27	28	28	24	30	27	24	220	$395.71	72
	David Lynch	27	27	28	28	28	30	26	26	220	$395.71	72
	Rodney Ashley	29	29	29	23	28	27	30	25	220	$395.71	72
	Marc Portugal	29	29	30	27	26	27	24	28	220	$395.71
	Dave Taylor	27	25	27	28	29	30	26	28	220	$395.71
21	Mike Brown	27	28	27	29	27	29	28	26	221	$250.00	64
	Greg Newport	29	25	29	27	27	27	26	31	221	$250.00	64
	Andy Coradini	25	24	27	27	32	28	27	31	221	$250.00	64
	Mike O'Rourke	29	26	28	30	27	29	28	24	221	$250.00
25	Jay Klapper	32	26	29	30	27	25	29	24	222	$200.00	60
	Jim Engel	27	27	27	29	28	30	27	27	222	$200.00
27	Randy Reeves	30	26	27	26	28	29	29	28	223	$200.00	56
	Lee Messinger	31	25	30	25	23	32	27	30	223	$200.00	56
	Michael Hitt	26	26	29	24	30	27	27	34	223	$200.00	56
30	Tony Varnadore	33	29	30	26	26	26	26	28	224	$50.00	50.33
	Jeffrey Smith	32	22	29	30	29	28	27	27	224	$50.00	50.33
	Bill Kirby	29	31	28	26	26	26	26	32	224	$50.00	50.33
	Daryl Freeman	26	25	28	26	30	29	30	30	224	$50.00
34	Peter Neumann	31	30	26	33	26	29	26	24	225		48
35	Thomas Rawles	27	27	34	32	23	31	26	26	226		46.5
	Jim Cruse	30	27	29	27	27	28	25	33	226		46.5
37	Bob Haizlip	28	27	34	28	27	28	29	26	227		44.5
	Roger Beckerman	30	28	24	28	30	30	27	30	227
	Robert Johnson	26	30	28	25	29	30	30	29	227		44.5
40	Paul Johns	30	29	27	32	28	29	26	27	228		43
41	Buddy Taylor	29	30	28	28	32	32	26	24	229
42	Brad Lebo	30	30	26	28	27	32	29	29	231		41.5
	Rick Alessi	31	30	27	28	29	28	30	28	231		41.5
44	Robby Bryant	30	31	28	28	30	32	23	30	232
45	Mike Damsky	29	29	32	29	28	31	26	30	234
46	Rich Gillooly	30	29	31	27	27	30	29	32	235		40
	Rusty Taylor	30	31	29	26	28	31	30	30	235
48	Charlie Greenwalt	27	28	33	27	29	30	29	33	236		39
49	Ken Hastings	33	29	29	29	31	31	26	29	237
50	Jim Heikkinen	30	33	28	29	32	30	29	27	238		38
	Scott Buddie	30	31	25	31	30	33	28	30	238
52	Larry Simpson	27	33	34	30	27	31	29	29	240
53	Mark Hasty	31	35	29	26	25	38	27	30	241		36
	Tony Jackson	31	32	30	29	30	31	27	31	241		36
	Randall Willett	28	28	31	31	31	35	28	29	241		36
56	Todd Barfield	32	31	27	29	33	33	31	30	246		34
57	Kevin Garrett	32	29	31	33	30	31	32	29	247
58	Paul Sample	33	32	34	32	30	28	28	31	248
	Paul Pastilong	34	26	33	30	33	35	29	28	248
60	Al Simpson	31	33	29	34	31	29	31	35	253
61	Bill Walsh	34	34	34	32	32	35	27	30	258
62	Barb Mingo	33	45	29	29	33	32	31	33	265		33
63	Tom Butler	27	32	31	28	WD

		Round									Prize
	Player	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total	Money
1	Robb Titchell	25	22	30	29	29	31	25	23	214	$ 50.00
2	Jeff Brown	28	28	26	27	30	25	28	30	222	$ 50.00
3	Ray Guthrie	29	31	30	32	26	30	24	27	229	$ 50.00
4	Billy Caudle	28	29	28	26	27	30	32	30	230	$ 50.00
5	Tony Davenport	30	28	27	30	28	27	30	32	232	$ 50.00
6	Steven Jones	30	33	29	31	31	29	30	24	237	$ 50.00
	Stan Seethoff	30	30	27	24	30	31	32	33	237	$ 50.00
8	William Glisson	26	25	32	31	33	30	31	31	239	$ 50.00
	Todd Trent	35	28	33	31	29	28	25	30	239	$ 50.00
10	Keith Waters	30	34	32	31	30	29	28	30	244	$ 50.00
11	Joe Gallagher	35	31	30	33	30	30	27	29	245
12	David Sharp	31	33	33	32	31	30	28	28	246
13	Jimmy Comer	29	36	35	28	29	31	27	32	247
14	Robin Ventura	34	28	35	34	33	29	27	31	251
15	Phillip Wagoner	34	33	29	33	31	32	33	30	255
16	Bill Combs	36	28	35	29	34	38	31	32	263
17	Gil Logan	40	31	31	34	35	33	31	30	265
18	Matt Summey	37	36	34	34	35	34	30	34	275
19	Darren Harvey	40	45	39	40	37	49	38	33	321
20	Dom Perry	34	30	33	33	WD

		Round
	Player	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total
1	Paul Lowery	31	34	29	24	29	33	32	30	242
2	Mike Fowler	31	34	33	27	28	34	25	31	243
3	Tracey Logan	40	39	33	36	41	36	31	38	294
4	Robin Trent	42	42	42	38	39	32	31	38	308