Allen Wall wins at Forest City, NC (25 July 1999)

Allen Wall Picks Up First Victory of 1999 at Forest City, NC

Forest City, NC - Local player Allen Wall picked up his first NC and SC victories of the season on Sunday coming from six strokes down in the first round to win the Charles Connor Memorial tournament held in Forest City. Trailing by six strokes, the Shelby, NC native put on a massive charge in the second round shooting 25 to pull within one stroke of the lead held by defending champion Andy Coradini, and was tied with four-time NCPPA State and 1995 National Champion Bill Kirby and also with Robby Bryant.

Wall's final round of 28 coupled with scores no better than 31 from all three participants mentioned gave Wall a final score of 82, and a one-stroke victory 1997 NCPPA State Champion Todd Barfield and 1997 National Champion, Randy Reeves.

William Glisson used a final round of 25 to run away from the APA field with a final score of 82, a seven stroke win over Jonathan Reid, Campobello, SC, who used a strong final two rounds to finish second after being in a three-way tie for fourth at 32. 1998 NC and SC APA State Champion Billy Caudle finished in third at 90.

Extreme heat and humidity for the second straight day made scores a little more surprising to the field as the 82 recorded by Wall was the highest score recorded for a victory in Forest City since he won the event in 1996 with an 84, also a big come-from-behind victory in the tournament.

Rounding out the top ten in the Pro Division were Gary Hester and Greg Newport at 84; and a five-way tie for sixth, Andy Coradini, Gary English, Bill Kirby, Tony Varnadore, and Frank Warren finishing at 85. Payout for seventeen spots were once again available in this tournament with 87 receiving a four-way split for the final three spots. Qualifying spots from this tournament were received as follows: Wall, NC and SC Match Play (last one used for 1999) and SC State; Barfield, SC two-day State, Varnadore, NC State Spot; Chuck Nance, NCAPA two-day low qualifier.

Special thanks were given out to Bobby and Sharon Connor, who had very little time to get the course ready due to personal circumstances; however, the course was played in great shape.

Scores and tournament recap courtesy of Rick Rybaczek and Opie Roberts.

		Round				Prize	NC
	Player	1	2	3	Total	Money	Points
1	Allen Wall*	29	25	28	82	$150.00	40
2	Todd Barfield**	26	30	27	83	$100.00	33.5
	Randy Reeves	25	30	28	83	$100.00	33.5
4	Gary Hester	28	29	27	84	$77.50	31.5
	Greg Newport	31	26	27	84	$77.50	31.5
6	Andy Coradini	29	24	32	85	$60.00	28
	Gary English	33	27	25	85	$60.00	28
	Bill Kirby	23	31	31	85	$60.00	28
	Tony Varnadore***	29	30	26	85	$60.00	28
	Frank Warren	27	29	29	85	$60.00	28
11	Robby Bryant	29	25	32	86	$42.50	23.5
	Lewis Burton	27	29	30	86	$42.50	23.5
	Jay Klapper	27	30	29	86	$42.50	23.5
	Buddy Taylor	31	29	26	86	$42.50	23.5
15	Darrell Britt	31	30	26	87	$30.00	19.5
	Todd Fowler	30	30	27	87	$30.00	19.5
	Tony Jackson	30	27	30	87	$30.00	19.5
	Tony Pack	31	28	28	87	$30.00	19.5
19	Rick Baird	29	29	30	88		15
	Chris Bunting	30	27	31	88		15
	Michael Hitt	31	27	30	88		15
	Rick Rybaczek	32	27	29	88		15
	Randal Smith	34	26	28	88		15
24	Robert Johnson	30	29	31	90		11.5
	Gilbert Sharpe	29	33	28	90		11.5
26	Bart Bason	29	30	33	92		9
	Opie Roberts	32	29	31	92		9
	Rob Smarzik	30	33	29	92		9
29	Bob Jackson	32	28	33	93		7
30	Brian Martin	29	33	33	95		5.5
	Rusty Taylor	29	33	33	95		5.5
32	Edgar Hollifield	30	30	36	96		5
33	Bill Walsh	34	29	35	98		5
34	Kevin Chambers	34	31	37	102		5
35	Nick Gill	33	34	36	103		5
36	Michael Cardwell	37	34	37	108		5

		Round				Prize	NC
	Player	1	2	3	Total	Money	Points
1	William Glisson	29	28	25	82	$20.00	20
2	Jonathan Reid	32	28	29	89	$20.00	19
3	Billy Caudle	32	30	28	90	$20.00	18
4	Ray Guthrie	27	34	30	91		17
5	Brian Hutchins	35	28	31	94		16
6	Jimmy Comer	27	33	35	95		15
7	Tommy Hutchinson	32	29	35	96		14
8	Gil Logan	40	29	28	97		13
9	Stan Seethoff	33	31	34	98		12
10	Steve Helton	31	31	37	99		10
	Chuck Nance	34	32	33	99		10
	Keith Waters	34	35	30	99		10
13	Tommy Barbour	37	31	36	104		8

		Round				Prize	NC
	Player	1	2	3	Total	Money	Points
1	Hester - Hitt	59	56	57	172	$15.00	14.50
	Newport - Smith	65	52	55	172	$15.00	14.50
3	Coradini - Baird	58	53	62	173		12.50
	Johnson - Barfield	56	59	58	173		12.50
5	Fowler - Jackson	60	57	57	174		11.00
6	Wall - Hollifield	59	55	64	178		10.00
7	Roberts - Rybaczek	64	56	60	180		8.50
	Bason - Bunting	59	57	64	180		8.50