Cliff Matthews Wins in Arlington, TX on PPA Texas State Tour (12 September 2004

Cliff Matthews Posts Three Stroke Victory in Arlington, TX

12 September 2004 - Arlington, TX - The Texas Putting tour held it's 19^th event of the year at the Arlington-Division course. Brice Bergesen and Gary Reed held the opening round lead at 9 under 27 with Mike Baldoza and Keith Barfield one stroke back. A second round 11 under 25 by National Champion Cliff Matthews gave him the lead with Rodney Phillips, who shot a 10 under 26, going to the last round. With seven other player within four strokes of Rodney and Cliff it could have a tight last round but Cliff shot a solid 10 under 26 with 13's on both nines to take the win by three strokes over Rodney in second. Brice Bergesen and David Lynch finished tied for 3^rd four behind Cliff. State spots went to Keith Barfield, Jody Kimble, and Jude Prather.

Local amateur Rob Martin's first two rounds gave him a three-stroke lead over his nearest pursuer, James Taylor, going into the last round. A poor last round by Rob, which included four bogey strokes, opened the door for someone to catch him, but with no player in the field shooting better than six under in the last round Rob's lead held up. He finished at 18 under 90 one stroke ahead of James Taylor and Danny Hoel.

Article and scores provided by Lee Messinger.

		Round				Prize
	Player	1	2	3	Total	Money
1	Cliff Matthews	30	25	26	81	$170.00
2	Rodney Phillips	29	26	29	84	$110.00
3	Brice Bergesen	27	29	29	85	$70.00
	David Lynch	30	30	25	85	$70.00
5	Gary Reed	27	31	28	86	$40.00
	Joel Baker	30	28	28	86	$40.00
	Keith Barfield*	28	30	28	86	$40.00
8	Jeffrey Smith	31	29	29	89	$6.67
	Jude Prather*	32	29	28	89	$6.66
	Steve Armstrong*	32	26	31	89	$6.66
11	Lee Messinger	29	30	31	90
12	Mike Baldoza	28	31	32	91
13	Mike Chisum	29	37	27	93
14	Wade Sahmel	34	34	26	94
15	Jody Kimble	35	36	27	98
16	Don McCracken	34	37	29	100
17	Al Simpson	35	39	34	108

		Round				Expense
	Player	1	2	3	Total	Money
1	Rob Martin*	28	29	33	90	$20.00
2	Danny Hoel	32	29	30	91	$10.00
	James Taylor	30	30	31	91	$10.00
4	Chance Marett	31	30	31	92	$10.00
5	Dave Blalock	34	29	33	96	$10.00
6	Mickey DeLucca	37	29	31	97
7	David Chisum*	35	31	32	98
8	Neal Armstrong*	31	34	34	99
9	Adam Sahmel	37	29	34	100
	Jason Sheffield	31	32	37	100
	Mike Huckaby	33	33	34	100
12	Gary Plain	37	32	32	101
13	Lloyd Navarro Jr.	33	34	34	101
14	Steve Yancey	38	33	35	106
15	Trevor Lewin	34	33	40	107