Andy Coradini Wins 2003 Barbara Nance Memorial (High Point, NC

6 July 2003 - High Point, NC - Andy Coradini won a shootout at the Barbara Nance Memorial in High Point on Sunday that involved eight players separated by two strokes going into the final round. Coradini was in a tie for the lead with Greg Newport and Robert Johnson after starting out with rounds of 25 and 26 to go in at 51.

As an amateur, Bear Landin won three APA events on this course, including two last season and had won the previous two Wayne Hancock Memorials before the weekend began. Landin jumped out in front with an opening round 23 for a one-shot lead over Rick Carter. In the second round, the two leaders had mediocre rounds, but was still in the hunt. Coradini and Newport fired a 26 each, while Johnson shot 24 to take over a share of the lead at 51. Carter was in a tie for fourth and a shot off at 52, which was shared with Bob Haizlip and four players were in at 53, including Landin, Randy Carter, Randal Smith, and Saturday's winner Rick Rybaczek.

Coradini had it going in the last round. Despite higher scores from Saturday's play, Coradini fired a 26 in the final round to top the field for the first time on the North Carolina tour this season. Only four players out of the 30 participants in the Pro Division were in the 70's. Coradini won with a score of 77 to win the Barbara Nance Memorial. A native of Loganville, Georgia, he becomes the fifth different player from the state of Georgia to win this type of event.

Newport, who had won five events over the last two seasons here in High Point, will not come away with a win this season here as he finished a shot off the win at 78. Haizlip and Landin were tied for third at 79, while the Carters tied Rybaczek and Smith for the fifth position at 80. Greg Newport earned the North Carolina State medal play spot, and Bob Haizlip earned his spot into the North Carolina match play championship.

Ricky D. Schults won again and completed a sweep on the North Carolina tour for the second time this season. Schults jumped out to a three-shot lead going into the final round and posted a decisive five-shot win over the reigning State Champion, Russell Sigmon, Jr.

Schults completed the weekend with a winning score of 79 to record the tour's leading sixth win of the season. Sigmon, still waiting for his first win since the State last season, was second at 84, and third went to Keith Waters at 85.

The North Carolina tour resumes action in two weeks in Burlington. There will be a tournament on Saturday, July 19, a make-up date from a March 30 snow-out. The event will be the NCPutters.Com Open and it will be played on Course 2, with an approximate 4:00 p.m. tee time, or one full hour after the JPA National Championship is completed. There will be another event on Sunday, July 20 on Course 1 for the Howard Loy Memorial.

Tournament recap provided by Opie Roberts and scores provided by Rick Rybaczek..

Professional Division of 2003 Barbara Nance Memorial
(High Point, NC - 6 July 2003)

		Round				NC Tour	Prize
	Player	1	2	3	Total	Points	Money
1	Coradini, Andy	25	26	26	77	40.00	$ 150.00
2	Newport, Greg	25	26	27	78	34.00	$ 110.00
3	Landin, Bear	23	30	26	79	32.50	$ 85.00
	Haizlip, Bob	26	26	27	79	32.50	$ 85.00
5	Carter, Rick	24	28	28	80	29.50	$ 68.00
	Johnson, Robert	27	24	29	80	29.50	$ 68.00
	Carter, Randy	27	26	27	80	29.50	$ 68.00
	Rybaczek, Rick	27	26	27	80	29.50	$ 68.00
9	Smith, Randal	28	25	28	81	26.50	$ 53.00
	Thompson, Don	28	26	27	81	26.50	$ 53.00
11	Guthrie, Ray	26	28	28	82	24.00	$ 43.00
	Freeman, Daryl	30	25	27	82	24.00	$ 43.00
	Caudle, Billy	29	26	27	82	24.00	$ 43.00
14	Barbour, Tommy	28	28	27	83	20.50	$ 20.00
	Hitt, Michael	28	28	27	83	20.50	$ 20.00
	Britt, Darrell	27	28	28	83	20.50	$ 20.00
	Perdue, Lance	28	27	28	83	20.50	$ 20.00
18	Varnadore, Tony	27	30	27	84	17.00
	Hester, Gary	26	28	30	84	17.00
	Bunting, Chris	29	25	30	84	17.00
21	Comer, Jimmy	28	29	28	85	14.50
	Cardwell, Michael	29	28	28	85	14.50
23	Jackson, Tony	28	30	28	86	12.50
	Griffin, Mike	26	33	27	86	12.50
25	Baird, Rick	30	30	27	87	11.00
26	Smith, Adam	31	27	30	88	10.00
27	Blake, Ben	28	32	31	91	8.50
	Moore, Gary	32	30	29	91	8.50
29	Roberts, Opie	31	27	35	93	7.00
30	Arrington, Glenwood	34	31	29	94	6.00

Professional Teams Results from 2003 Barbara Nance Memorial
(High Point, NC - 6 July 2003)

		Round				Points	Prize
	Team Members	1	2	3	Total	Earned	Money
1	Newport - Rybaczek	52	52	54	158	15.00	$ 20.00
2	Carter - Landin	50	56	53	159	14.00	$ 10.00
3	Caudle - Guthrie	55	54	55	164	12.50
	Baird - Coradini	55	56	53	164	12.50
5	Comer - Rick Carter	52	57	56	165	11.00
6	Hester - Hitt	54	56	57	167	10.00
7	Jackson - Varnadore	55	60	55	170	9.00
8	Roberts - Smith R	59	52	63	174	8.00
9	Blake - Smith A	59	59	61	179	7.00

		Round				NC Tour	Expense
	Player	1	2	3	Total	Points	Reimbursement
1	Schults, Ricky D	27	26	26	79	23.00	$ 10.00
2	Sigmon Jr, Russell	29	27	28	84	19.00	$ 10.00
3	Waters, Keith	28	28	29	85	18.00	$ 10.00
4	Kolb, Walter	34	24	29	87	16.00	$ 7.00
	Gregor, David	29	27	31	87	16.00	$ 7.00
	Nance, Chuck	26	30	31	87	16.00	$ 7.00
7	Hoover, Larry	31	28	30	89	14.00
8	Carpenter, Donnie	27	30	33	90	12.50
	Biesma, Dennis	30	31	29	90	12.50
10	Peters, Frankie	32	31	28	91	10.50
	Coffey, J.L.	29	31	31	91	10.50
12	Alley, Christopher	31	33	29	93	9.00
13	Hendrix, Terry	33	31	30	94	8.00
14	Sigmon, Roy	35	34	34	103	7.00
15	Chetister, Bob	35	40	31	106	6.00