Kevin Lacey Wins Carolina's Open in Rock Hill, SC (16 May 1999)

Kevin Lacey Wins 1999 $2,000 Carolinas' Open in Rock Hill, SC

lacey.jpg (5900 bytes) Rock Hill, SC - Kevin Lacey continued his great play in the Carolinas in 1999 recording his third victory of 1999 in the Carolinas by winning the Carolinas' Open by one-stroke over Andy Coradini, 1993 National Champion. After the morning's first three rounds, Lacey trailed Coradini by a single stroke as the players had shot 76 and 75 respectively. Four stroke of the lead after the morning rounds were Lewis Burton, Mike Brown, Michael Hitt, and Rob Smarzik at 79, 29-under par, with Thomas Rawles at 80, 28-under par, in 7th place.

The final three rounds saw the scoring by two leader cool off but entering the final round it was still a race between Lacey and Coradini. Kevin had taken the lead by one-stroke from Coradini with a fifth round of 25, 11-under par, and finished off the victory with a final round of 27. Brad Lebo posted a 78, 30-under par, for the final three rounds to finish in third place one stroke ahead of 1998 National Champion, Lewis Burton, who closed with a final round of 24 to finish in fourth place.

Tied in fifth place were Bart Bason and Thomas Rawles at 161, 55-under par, five strokes behind Lacey. Rounding out the top ten were C. L. Jones, whose final three rounds of 76 were the best by two-strokes, Robert Johnson, and Dan Anders all tied for 7th place at 162 and Greg Newport, Mike Flavin, and Mike Brown all tied for 10th place at 163. Total prize money in Carolinas' Open was $2,000.

Lacey's win was his first of the year on the SC tour, and his 3rd career SC victory. Two top ten finishes this weekend allowed Robert Johnson to remain the leader in the race for Player of the Year. Earlier in the day, Coradini became the 4th person to shoot the course record of 21 on Course 1 in Rock Hill. Coradini had a perfect 9 on the back 9. Later in the afternoon, Thomas Rawles, who finished tied for 5th at 161, also had a perfect 9 during his final round 23.

In the amateur division, Stan Seethoff fired a fourth round 26 to finish at 109, 35 under par, to take the win away from 3rd round co-leaders Donnie Carpenter and Ray Guthrie who were both in at 80 after three rounds of play. Carpenter shot a 30 in the fourth round to finish at 110, 34 under par to take second place. Guthrie, who won Saturday's event, ran out of steam in the last round with a 32 to finish tied for 3rd with Brian Hutchins, who closed with 3 consecutive 27's to end at 112, 32 under par. Closing out the top five was Jonathan Reid with a 113. Ray Guthrie qualified for the State Championship by being the low APA medallist by shooting 194 for the weekend.

In the novice division, Margie Walters won with a 123, beating Adam Smith by 6 strokes. The victory gave Margie Walters a sweep in the novice division for the weekend.

The NC tour is next in action in Martinsville, VA on May 22nd and in High Point, NC on May 23rd. The SC tour takes the following weekend off at will next play a double-header on Saturday, May 29th, in Anderson, SC. The Virginia tour's next event will be in Fredericksburg, VA on June 5th and June 6th. The Fredericksburg course has been re-carpeted in late April and is playing quite well. All players are invited to this VA tour event as a warm-up for the 1999 Southern Open in Albany, GA to be held the following weekend.

		Round							Prize	NC	SC
	Names	1	2	3	4	5	6	Total	Money	Points	Points
1	Kevin Lacey	28	25	23	28	25	27	156	$ 300.00	40	30
2	Andy Coradini	26	28	21	28	27	27	157	$ 200.00	34	29
3	Brad Lebo*	26	28	27	29	24	25	159	$ 170.00	33	28
4	Lewis Burton	25	24	30	28	29	24	160	$ 150.00	32	27
5	Bart Bason	30	25	28	27	26	25	161	$ 118.00	30.5	25.5
	Thomas Rawles	29	27	24	27	31	23	161	$ 118.00	30.5	25.5
7	C. L. Jones	31	27	28	24	24	28	162	$ 100.00	28	23
	Robert Johnson	29	26	29	25	25	28	162	$ 100.00	28	23
	Dan Anders	27	28	26	28	26	27	162	$ 100.00	28	23
10	Greg Newport	27	27	29	27	28	25	163	$ 85.00	25	20
	Mike Flavin	29	25	28	28	27	26	163	$ 85.00	25	20
	Mike Brown	27	25	27	28	28	28	163	$ 85.00	25	20
13	Jimmy Mott	27	26	31	25	29	26	164	$ 75.00	23	18
14	Mark Rainey	27	31	28	26	24	29	165	$ 64.00	20.5	15.5
	Danny McCaslin	29	30	25	25	28	28	165	$ 64.00	20.5	15.5
	Tom Butler	26	31	26	26	26	30	165	$ 64.00	20.5	15.5
	Michael Hitt	25	26	28	30	25	31	165	$ 64.00	20.5	15.5
18	Rob Smarzik	24	26	29	29	27	31	166	$ 60.00	18	13
19	Kevin Chambers	28	29	28	30	25	27	167		17	12
20	Tony Jackson	26	28	30	29	27	28	168		16	11
21	Rick Rybaczek	29	28	29	30	27	26	169		15	10
22	Randy Reeves	29	30	26	31	28	26	170		13	8
	Tony Varnadore	29	30	26	27	28	30	170		13	8
	Rick Baird	27	29	28	30	28	28	170		13	8
25	Bob Haizlip	24	31	28	31	28	29	171		11	6
26	Todd Barfield	30	25	31	26	30	30	172		9	5
	Darrell Britt	29	32	27	29	25	30	172		9	5
	Greg Ward	29	28	28	31	29	27	172		9	5
29	Frank Warren	29	32	28	25	29	30	173		6	5
	Chris Bunting	29	33	27	27	27	30	173		6	5
	Randal Smith	30	29	31	28	29	26	173		6	5
32	Robby Bryant	29	29	26	32	27	32	175		5	5
33	Gary Hester	30	27	27	28	29	35	176		5	5
34	Gary English	32	29	31	28	31	26	177		5	5
35	Bob Jackson	30	29	27	34	31	29	180		5	5
36	Peter Ansbacher	30	29	32	30	30	29	180		5	5
	Jay Klapper	32	30	33	30	30	25	180		5	5
	David McCaslin	28	29	28	30	30	35	180		5	5
39	Allen Wall	28	27	30	33	35	29	182		5	5
40	Todd Fowler	29	26	34	30	33	31	183		5	5
	Brian Martin	28	37	30	29	28	31	183		5	5
42	Opie Roberts	30	34	30	31	31	29	185		5	5
43	Gary Benfield	29	31	30	32	33	32	187		5	5
44	Edgar Hollifield	26	31	31	29	32	39	188		5	5

		Round						NC
	Player	1	2	3	4	Total	Total	Points
1	Stan Seethoff	25	27	31	26	109	$20.00	20
2	Donnie Carpenter	30	23	27	30	110	$20.00	19
3	Brian Hutchins	31	27	27	27	112	$20.00	17.5
	Ray Guthrie *	28	27	25	32	112	$20.00	17.5
5	Jonathan Reid	27	29	29	28	113	$20.00	16
6	Steve Helton	25	29	29	31	114		14
	Chuck Nance	28	31	28	27	114		14
	Keith Waters	31	29	27	27	114		14
9	Billy Caudle	29	30	29	27	115		12
10	Tommy Hutchinson	33	26	32	26	117		11
11	J L Coffey	28	28	31	31	118		10
12	Jeff Greene	34	30	28	28	120		8.5
	Gil Logan	29	33	27	31	120		8.5
14	Billy Walters	31	31	32	29	123		7
15	Tommy Barbour	32	32	29	32	125		6
16	Clay Craft	35	29	35	29	128		5
17	Zeb Head	33	31	33	32	129		5
18	Todd Trent	36	32	31	34	133		5
19	Robbie Waldrop	33	30	37	35	135		5
20	Lester Helms	32	36	33	35	136		5
	Calvin Waldrop	36	34	33	33	136		5
	Don Zimmerman	36	32	29	39	136		5
23	Russell Johnson	34	35	36	33	138		5
24	Mason Harkey	33	38	36	33	140		5

		Round							Prize	NC
	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	Total	Money	Points
1	Dan McCaslin - Lacey	57	55	48	53	53	55	321	$20.00	15
2	Anders - Mott	54	54	57	53	55	53	326	$10.00	14
3	Jones - Rainey	58	58	56	50	48	57	327		12.5
	Baird - Coradini	53	57	49	58	55	55	327		12.5
5	Barfield - Johnson	59	51	60	51	55	58	334		10.5
6	Bason - Bunting	59	58	55	54	53	55	334		10.5
7	Smith - Newport	57	56	60	55	57	51	336		9
8	Hitt - Hester	55	53	55	58	54	66	341		8
9	Fowler Jackson	52	57	64	59	60	59	351		7
10	Roberts - Rybaczek	59	62	59	61	58	55	354		6
11	Hollifield - Wall	54	55	61	62	67	68	367		5

		Round
	Player	1	2	3	4	Total
1	Margie Walters	30	31	30	32	123
2	Adam Smith	32	32	36	29	129
3	Tracy Logan	29	34	35	33	131
4	Tim Cable	37	37	31	37	142
5	Robin Matthews	36	40	35	39	150
6	Gavin Matthews	43	42	40	39	164
7	Chance Matthews	42	44	42	45	173