Tim Murphree Wins 2000 Texas State
Championship
15 October 2000 - College Station, TX - The Texas State Putting Tour
held its 2000 State Championship at the College Station Putt-Putt. Tim
Murphree of Dallas, TX continued his match play dominance at the
College Station course by adding a State Championship to his 1999 Double
Elimination Match Play Runner-Up and the 2000 TPC Championship both held
in College Station.
Mr. Murphree dominated play throughout his four matches with the
closet being a 3 and 2 win over Randall
Willett in the finals. This match was not as close as the score
appeared as Tim held a 4 to 5 hole lead for most of the last 18 holes
with Randy making it closer at the end. Second place went to long time
pro Randall Willett who gave an excellent performance in defeating Lee
Messinger, Tom Adair, and Rainey
Statum to advance to the finals. Hall of Fame member Al Simpson
looked to have a chance to play for the title after defeating the two
time Texas State Champion Jeffrey
Smith followed by 1998 champion Brice
Bergesen but ran into Mr. Murphree in the semi-finals.
Congratulations to Tim Murphree. Congratulations also go to Jeffrey
Smith for taking 2000 Player of the Year honors by setting a new record
on the Texas Tour with 7 event wins.
The Amateur division had one of the most exciting and heartbreaking finals
match in recent history. Chris Breedlove had a four-hole lead with six holes
to play. Jon Drexler won three of the next four holes to close to 1 down with
2 to go. On the 17th Jon putted first and over hit his putt, which
came off the back rail and back down the slope in front of the hole. Jon then
proceeded to make the difficult duce. Chris was now in a position to win the
match with an ace. What looked to be a perfect putt lipped the cup and came
back down the hill. Chris missed the duce putt making the match even with one
to go. The 18th hole is a long hole with a small slope and two
pipes behind the hole. Jon putted first just sliding by the right edge of the
hole and going down the slope to the back rail almost directly behind the
hole. Jon was able to make his duce. Chris hit another excellent putt that
lightly lipped the right edge of the hole and went down the slope to the back
rail with a 15-degree angle to the hole. Unfortunately Chris missed the duce
putt giving Jon the title.
Jon Drexler had a stated goal of winning both Player of Year and State
Championship at the beginning of the year. After a solid start, Jon changed
putters and went into an extended slump allowing James Kile to take a large
lead in the Player of Year points. Going into the state Jon had to have James
lose in his first match and get to the final match to catch him. Jon selected
directly into James for both players first match and proceeded to defeat him
handily and then go on and win state. Congratulations to Jon on his great win
and us pro players look forward to putting him in place when he moves up next
year.
Tournament recap and match results courtesy
of Lee Messinger.
2000 PPA Texas State
Championship
(15 October 2000 - College Station, TX)
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2nd Round |
3rd Round |
4th Round |
Semi-Finals |
Finals |
Winner |
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$70 |
$100 |
$170 |
$240 |
$395 |
$770 |
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Rainey Statum
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Rainey Statum
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Rainey Statum |
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Rainey
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Randall
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Joel Baker |
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Tom Adair
2 and 1 |
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Tom Adair |
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Tom Adair
3 and 2 |
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Pat King |
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Randall
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Lee Messinger |
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Randall
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2 and 1 |
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Randall Willett |
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Randall
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5 and 4 |
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Tim
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Brice Bergesen |
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Brice
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Randy Wimpy |
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Al
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Jeffrey Smith |
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Al
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4 and 3 |
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Al
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Al
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Chris
Wiggins |
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Tim
Murphree
5 and 4 |
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Bill Florian |
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Greg
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2 and 1 |
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Steve
Wood |
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Greg
Roberts
1 Up |
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Greg
Roberts |
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Tim
Murphree
4 and 2 |
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Tim Murphree |
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Tim
Murphree
8 and 7 |
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Chris Conradi |
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