Thomas Rawles Wins in Fredericksburg, VA (21 May 200)

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Tyler Proffitt

Tracy Logan

Beth Jones

Ken Schooler, Sr.

Thomas Rawles Wins By Three in Fredericksburg, VA Event

21 May 2000 - Fredericksburg, VA - Warmer and dryer than the previous day, the scoring at the Fredericksburg, VA course was once again low. Mike Brown opened the tournament with a 24, 12-under par, including a 10 on the back nine to take a two-stroke lead into the second round.

Brown's second round of 29 caused him to fall into a three-way tie at 53 after two rounds with Thomas Rawles and Ken Cook for the lead. Another group of five players were tied at 55 entering the final round putting a total of 8 players within two strokes of the lead with 18-holes to play.

Thomas Rawles opened up a lead on the front nine of the final round with a 7-under par 11 while the other two leaders entering the final round faltered. Rawles' back nine of 13 for a final round of 24, 12-under par, was enough to post a three-stroke victory and a total of 77, 31-under par, for the 54-hole event. Rusty Taylor who opened with 30 closed with rounds of 25 and 25 to finish in second place at 80. Finishing in third was Dave Taylor at 81. In a four way tie for fourth were Mike Brown, Ed Grajewski, Danny Dore, and Kevin Garrett. The winner of Saturday's event, Gilbert Sharpe, tied for last money at 83 with Manfred Stewart.

Steven Jones once again found himself in the winner's circle in the amateur division on Sunday posting rounds of 25, 28, and 26 for a three-round total of 79 and a four-stroke victory. Rounding out the top five in the amateur ranks were David Sharp at 83, Wayne Saunders and Jonathan Moore at 85, and Malcolm Shumaker at 86.

The Virginia tour plays again on June 3rd and 4th in Charlottesville, VA. The tournament on Sunday, June 4th, in Charlottesville is the Dogwood Festival Open being defended by Gilbert Sharpe who won the 1999 Dogwood Festival Open in sudden-death over Peter Neumann.

		Round				Prize
	Player	1	2	3	Total	Money
1	Thomas Rawles	26	27	24	77	$200.00
2	Rusty Taylor	30	25	25	80	$110.00
3	Dave Taylor	28	28	25	81	$85.00
4	Mike Brown	24	29	29	82	$60.00
	Ed Grajewski	31	24	27	82	$60.00
	Danny Dore	30	26	26	82	$60.00
	Kevin Garrett	26	29	27	82	$60.00
8	Gilbert Sharpe	30	27	26	83	$40.00
	Manfred Stewart	29	30	24	83	$40.00
10	Wayne Cheatham	28	27	29	84
11	Brad Lebo	31	31	23	85
	Peter Neumann	29	30	26	85
	Buddy Taylor	30	27	28	85
	Darrell Anderson	28	27	30	85
15	Scott Searcy	30	28	28	86
	Ken Cook	26	27	33	86
17	Bart Bason	27	30	31	88
18	Matt Summey	31	29	32	92
19	Gil Logan	32	29	32	93

		Round				Prize
	Player	1	2	3	Total	Money
1	E. Grajewski - K. Garrett	57	53	54	164	$20.00
2	G. Sharpe - M. Stewart	59	57	50	166	$5.00
	B. Taylor - D. Taylor	58	55	53	166	$5.00
4	D. Anderson - D. Dore	58	53	56	167
	M. Brown - B. Lebo	55	60	52	167
6	R. Taylor - B. Bason	57	55	56	168
7	W. Cheatham - P. Neumann	57	57	55	169
8	G. Logan - M. Summey	63	58	64	185

		Round				Expense
	Player	1	2	3	Total	Reimbursement
1	Steven Jones	25	28	26	79	$20.00
2	David Sharp	28	28	27	83	$20.00
3	Wayne Saunders	32	25	28	85	$20.00
	Jonathan Moore	31	30	24	85	$20.00
5	Malcolm Shumaker	25	28	33	86	$20.00
6	Wesley Pollard	25	32	30	87
	Ken Schooler	34	27	26	87
8	Chuck Cyr	26	33	30	89
	Amy Smith	29	32	28	89
	Matt Coghill	30	29	30	89
11	Bill Garrett	29	31	31	91
12	Nat Morva	34	29	29	92
13	Bob Chetister	31	29	34	94
14	Walter Kolb	32	29	35	96
15	Bill Swindells	33	33	32	98
16	Russell Johnson	36	34	33	103