Richard Spitzer Gets First Victory Since 1997 on Texas Tour

15 July 2001 - College Station, TX - Richard Spitzer returned to winners circle for the first time since 1997 with hard fought victory. Both Bill Florian and Jeffrey Smith put 10 under 25s on the board in the last round putting pressure on Richard to close out the solid third round he was already having. Richard responded by acing the last three holes to take the two stroke victory and a state spot. Bill Florian and Greg Roberts also claimed state spots.

In the Amateur division both Gary Plain and Wade Sahmel faltered in the last round an allowed a solid 9 under last round from Andy Gaiser to take the win. This was Andy's third win of 2001. State spots went to Dave Blaylock, Doug Austin and Alan Thomas.

Professional Division of College Station, TX Event (15 July 2001)

Round Prize
Player 1 2 3 Total Money
1 Richard Spitzer* 27 30 26 83 $140.00
2 Bill Florian* 31 29 25 85 $80.00
3 Jeffrey Smith 33 28 25 86 $50.00
4 Shannon Spitzer 28 29 30 87 $30.00
5 Brice Bergesen 30 29 30 89 $7.00
  David Lynch 29 31 29 89 $7.00
  Lee Messinger 32 30 27 89 $6.00
8 Chris Conradi 33 29 29 91  
  Tom Adair 28 30 33 91  
10 Greg Roberts* 33 29 33 95  
11 Steve Armstrong 32 32 33 97  
12 Randy Wimpy 34 32 32 98  

Amateur Division of College Station, TX Event (15 July 2001)

Round
Player 1 2 3 Total
1 Andy Gaiser 33 29 27 89
2 Wade Sahmel 28 31 31 90
3 Steve Tanton 31 32 31 94
4 Dave Blaylock* 33 30 33 96
5 Gary Plain 31 28 38 97
6 Adam Sahmel 31 34 33 98
7 Ken Beck 34 35 31 100
8 Doug Austin* 35 31 35 101
9 Alan Thomas* 32 40 36 108

* Earned TX State Championship Spot.

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