Rusty Taylor Get First Professional Win at Dogwood Open (Charlottesville, VA

Rusty Taylor Gets First Pro Win at Dogwood Festival Open

4 June 2000 - Charlottesville, VA - With the scores tightly grouped together, it should have come as no surprise that it took a playoff to decide the winner of the 2000 Dogwood Festival Open. Last years 1999 Dogwood Festival Open required five holes of sudden-death after an 18-hole playoff to decide the winner. The 2000 tournament required nearly as much play as Rusty Taylor and Darrell Anderson tied after 72 holes were still tied after an additional 18 holes. With honors on the first sudden death hole, Rusty Taylor aced the hole putting the pressure on Darrell Anderson who missed the hole giving Rusty his first professional win.

The Dogwood Festival Open, which replaced the Maryland Open on the schedule in 1999, is the first major of the year on the Virginia Tour. Other players contending entering the final round were Bart Bason who was tied for the lead at 87, 21-under par, with eventual runner-up Darrell Anderson. In a three-way tie for third entering the final round were Dave Taylor, Ken Cook, and Rusty Taylor.

In the amateur division, Wesley Pollard posted a three-shot win over Marty Handschuh who finished alone in second. Pollard score of 119, 25-under par, was one stroke behind last year's winning amateur score by Matt Summey who fired a 118 in 1999 at this event to win by 11 strokes.

The Virginia Tour next plays on Saturday and Sunday, June 17th and June 18th, in Lynchburg, VA. These events are co-sponsored with the North Carolina State Tour.

		Round					Prize
	Player	1	2	3	4	Total	Money
1	Rusty Taylor*	33	26	29	29	117	$300.00
2	Darrell Anderson	31	29	27	30	117	$200.00
3	Dave Taylor	28	30	30	31	119	$162.50
	Ken Cook	30	29	29	31	119	$162.50
5	Bart Bason	28	30	29	33	120	$130.00
6	Thomas Rawles	32	31	28	30	121	$120.00
7	Gilbert Sharpe	30	30	34	28	122	$60.00
	Ed Grajewski	28	32	30	32	122	$60.00
	Brad Lebo	34	26	32	30	122	$60.00
	Manfred Stewart	30	29	31	32	122	$60.00
	Bill Baus	31	33	29	29	122	$60.00
12	Peter Neumann	31	30	29	33	123
13	Buddy Taylor	32	33	30	31	126
	Matt Summey	32	29	32	33	126
	Kevin Garrett	31	30	34	31	126
16	Gil Logan	32	32	35	30	129
17	Scott Searcy	34	32	35	29	130
	Danny Dore	32	29	36	33	130

		Round					Prize
	Player	1	2	3	4	Total	Money
1	B. Bason - R. Taylor	61	56	58	62	237	$20.00
2	G. Sharpe - M. Stewart	60	59	63	60	242	$10.00
3	B. Taylor - D. Taylor	60	63	60	62	245
4	D. Anderson - D. Dore	63	58	63	63	247
5	E. Grajewski - K. Garrett	59	62	64	63	248
6	G. Logan - M. Summey	64	61	67	63	255

		Round					Expense
	Player	1	2	3	4	Total	Reimbursement
1	Wesley Pollard	29	32	27	31	119	$25.00
2	Marty Handschuh	30	32	30	30	122	$25.00
3	Malcolm Shumaker	30	32	33	28	123	$25.00
	Bill Garrett	34	28	28	33	123	$25.00
	Philip Wagoner	30	32	30	31	123	$25.00
6	Matt Coghill	34	29	31	30	124
7	Steven Jones	32	29	31	33	125
	Wayne Saunders	31	30	32	32	125
9	Bill Swindells	33	33	30	33	129
10	Walter Kolb	33	30	34	33	130
11	Jonathan Moore	39	30	30	32	131
	Nat Morva	32	36	32	31	131
13	Amy Smith	32	33	34	33	132
	David Sharp	36	36	33	27	132
15	Chuck Cyr	33	33	34	34	134
16	Liz Shumaker	34	38	30	34	136
17	Russell Johnson	37	31	31	38	137
18	Bob Chetister	36	32	39	34	141

		Round
	Player	1	2	3	Total
1	Earl Davis	34	36	34	104
2	Shane Bell	37	33	35	105
3	Shayne Shiflet	38	36	33	107
4	Tracy Logan	36	35	37	108