Kevin Lacey Wins Heartland Classic in a Playoff Over Greg Ward Tim Schrader Wins APA Division Kevin Lacey playing course #2 at the Richmond, IN Course. 27 June 2002 - Richmond, IN - The Great Lakes Tour and the Indiana Professional Putters Tour hosted a combined event on the Thursday evening before the $12,000 Northern Open. Fittingly, the winner of the event, Kevin Lacey of Cincinnati, OH, is a regular player on both tours. Tim Schrader, APA winner of the Heartland Classic. The Heartland Classic drew a competitive field, with some of the players from around the country participating. Lacey trailed Bill Baus of Cleveland Heights, OH by a single stroke after the first round, but a strong second round gave him a two-stroke lead at 47 over reigning PPA National Champion, Greg Ward of Loganville, GA. A slow start in the final round enabled both Ward and Baus to catch Lacey, but he managed to ace the fence line to close out Baus by a single shot. Ward answered by acing the last three holes to tie Lacey at 73, which ties the GLT record for 54 holes. Tim Schrader - APA (left) and Kevin Lacey - PPA (right) winners of the Heartland Classic in Richmond, IN. Lacey defeated Ward in an 18-hole playoff to claim his unprecedented seventh win on the GLT for 2002. Baus finished third at 74, followed by Robb Titchell of Columbus, OH, who received a World spot and a GLT spot. Fifth place finisher, John Ventura of Cincinnati also received a GLT spot. In the APA division, Tim Schrader of New Bremen, OH, fired three consecutive 27’s to win by three shots over Scott Copeland of Springfield, OH and James Weber of Cincinnati. It was Schrader’s second win on the APA GLT this year. Schrader received his second GLT spot. The other GLT spot went to Bob Luginbuhl, of Fenwick, MI playing in his first GLT event ever. The GLT will return to Richmond in September for the 2002 Great Lakes Tour Championship. Scores provided and tournament recap provided by Bill Thompson.

Professional Division of the Heartland Classic
(Richmond, IN - Course #2 - 27 June 2002)

		Round				Prize	GLT	GLT	WPC
	Player	1	2	3	Total	Money	Points	Spots	Spots
1	Kevin Lacey	24	23	26	73	$200.00	100.00
2	Greg Ward	25	24	24	73	$150.00	85.00
3	Bill Baus	23	27	24	74	$130.00	75.00
4	Robb Titchell	24	27	26	77	$115.00	70.00	Match	1
5	John Ventura	27	24	27	78	$100.00	65.00	Medal
6	Paul Johns	26	24	29	79	$92.50	57.50
	Brad Lebo	27	24	28	79	$92.50	57.50
8	Tom Gross	27	25	28	80	$80.00	46.33
	Tom O'Brien	26	28	26	80	$80.00	46.33
	Randy Reeves	26	28	26	80	$80.00	46.33
11	Jim Heikkinen	28	27	26	81	$62.50	34.00
	Mike McCormack	25	28	28	81	$62.50	34.00
	Craig Williams	27	28	26	81	$62.50	34.00
	Darrell Britt	26	25	30	81	$62.50	34.00
15	Mark Hasty	30	24	28	82	$36.66	23.00
	Jeff Garrison	27	26	29	82	$36.66	23.00
	Ray Guthrie	27	27	28	82	$36.66	23.00
18	Terry Whitaker	26	26	31	83		15.00
	Ken Hastings	29	29	25	83		15.00
	Charlie Greenwalt	27	29	27	83		15.00
	Dave Nutini	29	26	28	83		15.00
22	Bill Thompson	28	25	31	84		9.50
	Robin Ventura	24	28	32	84		9.50
24	Scott Buddie	30	26	29	85		6.50
	Shawn Gilliland	29	27	29	85		6.50
	Karl Moe	28	29	28	85		6.50
	Jim Engel	28	29	28	85		6.50
28	Roger Beckerman	27	30	29	86		3.50
	Bob Marcellino	32	27	27	86		3.50
30	John Bambling	31	29	27	87		1.50
	John Darst	32	27	28	87		1.50
32	Wade Sahmel	30	28	30	88		1.00
33	Harry Sykes	27	31	31	89		1.00
	Jim White	29	30	30	89		1.00
	Jim Garrison	30	26	33	89		1.00
36	Jim Cruse	30	29	32	91		1.00
37	Tim Greenert	35	27	32	94