Brad Lebo Posts
His Third Victory of 2005 Season

1 May 2005 - White Lake, N.C. - The third and final leg of the weekend in White Lake will go down as a record setting day. Brad Lebo shattered the old record of 73 by two strokes in the Pro Division and Jeff Carr destroyed Dennis Biesma's record he set in the Amateur Division less than 24 hours ago. Lebo also tied a single round record with a 22 in the second round that solidified his wire-to-wire win on Sunday.

Lebo led a group of 38 players that came as far north as Cleveland, Ohio to as far south as Montgomery, Alabama. Through the first round, he was sharing the lead with three other players at 24, including Saturday evening's winner Mike Brown, Carolinas' Open winner Randy Reeves, and Rick Culverhouse. Lebo took charge in the second round and was completely unstoppable. Lebo fired a second round score of 22, which was posted for the eighth time in history in White Lake, joining Brown, Rick Rybaczek, Ricky Schults, and Greg Ward amongst those who accomplished the feat before. After two rounds, Lebo was in at 46, with Culverhouse, who was in his group, and Reeves two back of Lebo at 48.

After a slow start on the front nine in the final round, Lebo recovered to shoot 11 on the back for a round total of 25 and a secured victory by three shots over Brown and Reeves. Lebo also broke the old record by two strokes with a final score of 71. The old record was set by Vince Batten last season and matched just earlier this weekend by Rusty Taylor in his win on Saturday.

Brown and Reeves were tied for second at 74. Robert Johnson jumped to fourth after a final round 26 placed him at 75. Culverhouse would slip down to the fifth position with a score of 77.

It was also a record-setting day for APA veteran Jeff Carr. After trailing by two shots to Dennis Biesma, Carr took his opening round 26 and completed play with a pair of 23's. It would be enough for a seven-shot victory and would knock Biesma off the record books for lowest APA score by five shots.

Carr posted an incredible score of 72 for his second win this season in North Carolina. Carr also posted his first win this season in South Carolina with that score. Biesma came in second at 79, while third went to Frankie Peters at 82.

Carr also grabbed the APA qualifying spot from this tournament. Lebo earned spots into the North Carolina State, South Carolina State, and North Carolina Match Play Championships. Reeves took the World Match Play qualifying spot from this event.

Special thanks goes directly out to John and Jill Womble for their gracious offering in hosting this weekend in White Lake. This weekend's activities yielded the largest turnout in history, almost triple the numbers that were there when the tour began playing regularly in 1996.

With the weekend over with, both tours will not play again for at least three weeks. North Carolina is next in action on May 21st and 22nd in Martinsville, Virginia on Course 2 for a pair of tournaments that will also be with the Virginia tour. The South Carolina tour resumes their season the following weekend on the Red Course in Martinez, Georgia.

Tournament results provided by Opie Roberts and Rick Rybaczek.

Professional Division of the White Lake Classic
(White Lake, N.C. - Course #1 - 1 May 2005)

    Round   N.C. Prize
  Player 1 2 3 Total Points Money
1 Lebo, Brad 24 22 25 71 40.00  $ 150.00
2 Brown, Mike 24 27 23 74 33.50  $ 100.00
  Reeves, Randy 24 24 26 74 33.50  $ 100.00
4 Johnson, Robert 25 24 26 75 32.00  $   80.00
5 Culverhouse, Rick 24 24 29 77 31.00  $   75.00
6 Barbour, Tommy 25 29 26 80 30.00  $   70.00
7 Taylor, Rusty 27 30 24 81 28.00  $   60.00
  Ward, Greg 26 27 28 81 28.00  $   60.00
  Summey, Matt 28 26 27 81 28.00  $   60.00
10 Varnadore, Tony 26 26 30 82 25.50  $   48.00
  Baird, Rick 26 28 28 82 25.50  $   48.00
12 Hitt, Michael 26 28 29 83 22.00  $   41.00
  Stewart, Manfred 31 29 23 83 22.00  $   41.00
  Klapper, Jay 26 29 28 83 22.00  $   41.00
  Rawles, Thomas 30 27 26 83 22.00  $   41.00
  Landin, Bear 29 28 26 83 22.00  $   41.00
17 Britt, Darrell 28 28 28 84 17.00  $   24.00
  Spainhour, Jeff 26 29 29 84 17.00  $   24.00
  Batten, Vince 27 27 30 84 17.00  $   24.00
  Freeman, Daryl 29 26 29 84 17.00  $   24.00
  Warren, Frank 27 30 27 84 17.00  $   24.00
22 Moore, Gary 28 26 31 85 12.50  $        -  
  Rybaczek, Rick 31 29 25 85 12.50  $        -  
  Jackson, Tony 31 25 29 85 12.50  $        -  
  Perdue, Lance 27 31 27 85 12.50  $        -  
26 Coradini, Andy 28 28 30 86 10.00  $        -  
27 Carter, Randy 32 27 28 87 9.00  $        -  
28 Kirby Jr., Bill 28 26 34 88 7.50  $        -  
  Bunting, Chris 33 29 26 88 7.50  $        -  
30 English, Gary 32 29 28 89 5.33  $        -  
  Jackson, Bob 33 26 30 89 5.33  $        -  
  O'Brien, Tom 30 27 32 89 5.33  $        -  
33 Cardwell, Michael 33 26 31 90 5.00  $        -  
34 Caudle, Billy 31 30 30 91 5.00  $        -  
  Orr, Randy 29 29 33 91 5.00  $        -  
36 Blake, Ben 32 29 32 93 5.00  $        -  
37 Ward, Robert 32 31 31 94 5.00  $        -  
38 Bason, Bart 32 25 38 95 5.00  $        -  

Amateur Division of the White Lake Classic
(White Lake, N.C. - Course #1 - 1 May 2005)

    Round   N.C. Expense
  Player 1 2 3 Total Points Money
1 Jeff Carr 26 23 23 72 23.0 $ 10.00
2 Dennis Biesma 24 26 29 79 19.0 $ 10.00
3 Frankie Peters