Greg Ward Completes Atlanta Player
Sweep in Columbia, S.C.13 March 2005 - Columbia, S.C. - The calendar showed that Spring was not due to arrive until next weekend. But on Sunday, the weather almost felt like it had jumped a season to Summer, with temperatures soaring into the upper 70's on the Eastern part of Columbia. The winds were back just in time for the final round. Scoring was relatively average in the first two rounds, but the third round created higher scoring.
Greg Ward playing the 14th hole on Course #1 in the 2004 PPA World Match Play Championship
(20 July 2004).The tour also had to see if there would be another Atlanta player winning on Course 1 this weekend, after Darrell Britt led off with the season opening win and Jay Klapper followed with a night-time victory in a three-player playoff. Greg Ward would make it the sweep as he secured his marginal three-shot lead after two rounds by holding on to win by just one.
Klapper started out continuing where he left off, with the lead. Klapper fired an opening round 26 to take a share of the lead with Tony Jackson and Bob Jackson. There were a plethora of players within a shot of the lead and more were within two shots (over half the 25-player field total). One of those players in the bunch was Ward. Ward separated the humongous pack by firing a 24 in the second round to take the lead at 51, by three over four players.
Ward held on in the final round. He fired a 28 in the third round and held off Matt Summey firing a 26 and Robert Johnson posting a weekend best score of 23. Ward won Sunday's event with a final score of 79, the first and only Pro player that broke 80 the entire weekend. Summey finished at 80 for the second consecutive tournament, and Johnson's torrid finish placed him in third at 81.
Barry Moore has gotten off to a great start this season as an Amateur. Moore won on Sunday for his second win already in 2005, eclipsing his win total of last season. Moore also shot 79, but came from behind to two-round leader Russell Taylor. Taylor, trying to win his second in a row, shot a final round 30, opening the door for Moore to seal the win. Moore would win by two shots over Taylor, who finished at 81. After an opening round 32, Larry Smith finished in third at 83.
Daryl Freeman, in his first PPA event this season, finished in a tie for fourth with Tony Jackson and Randy Reeves at 83. The State Qualifying spot went to Ward, and Summey take the three-tournament weekend qualifying spot.
The South Carolina Tour will be back in action on April 2 & 3 in Forest City on Course 1. The tour then heads back to Columbia two weeks later on Course 2, with the 21st annual Carolinas' Open commencing on that course.
Tournament results provided by Opie Roberts.
Professional Division of Columbia, S.C. Event
(Columbia, S.C. - Course #1 - 13 March 2005)
Round Prize Player 1 2 3 Total Money 1 Greg Ward
27 24 28 79 $ 140.00 2 Matt Summey 27 27 26 80 $ 100.00 3 Robert Johnson 27 31 23 81 $ 80.00 4 Daryl Freeman 28 28 27 83 $ 62.00 Tony Jackson 26 28 29 83 $ 62.00 Randy Reeves 29 27 27 83 $ 62.00 7 Tom Comstock 31 26 27 83 $ 48.00 Jay Klapper 26 29 29 83 $ 48.00 9 Randal Smith 30 28 27 85 $ 43.00 Tony Varnadore 27 27 31 85 $ 43.00 11 Brad Lebo 28 26 32 86 $ 40.00 12 Andy Coradini 28 30 29 87 $ 20.00 Randy Orr 28 31 28 87 $ 20.00 14 Michael Hitt 29 29 30 88 15 Tommy Barbour 27 30 32 89 16 Bob Jackson 26 29 35 90 Rick Rybaczek 28 33 29 90 Frank Warren 32 26 32 90 19 Darrell Britt 32 29 30 91 Rick Culverhouse 29 29 33 91 21 Rick Baird 34 28 30 92 22 Dan Anders 34 28 31 93 23 Manfred Stewart 30 34 31 95 24 Steve Toomey 34 31 33 98 25 Robert Ward 30 39 35 104 Amateur Division of Columbia, S.C. Event
(Columbia, S.C. - Course #1 - 13 March 2005)
Round Expense Player 1 2 3 Total Money 1 Barry Moore
27 25 27 79 $ 10.00 2 Russell Taylor 27 24 30 81 $ 10.00 3 Larry Smith 32 25 26 83 $ 10.00 4 Chris Alley 28 27 29 84 $ 10.00 Ricky Schults 25 26 33 84 $ 10.00 6 Jeff Carr 30 28 27 85 7 Todd Trent 29 29 29 87 8 Dennis Biesma 33 28 28 89 Chris Hudson 25 33 31 89 10 Steve Helton 27 30 33 90 11 Terry Hendrix 30 30 33 93 Lynn Self 34 28 31 93 13 Larry Hoover 33 29 34 96 14 Donald Ralph 34 36 32 102 15 James LeBrun 34 40 31 105 16 Darren Harvey 36 37 36 109
