Cliff Matthews Posts Fourth Victory in Four Starts (29 October 2005

Cliff Matthews Open State Weekend with Fourth Victory in Four Starts

29 October 2005 - Lewisville, TX - The Texas Putting Tour held its last state qualifying event this Saturday at the Lewisville, Texas Putt-Putt. After the first round of play there was a four way tie for first place at 10 under 26. Joel Baker, Gary Reed, Cliff Matthews and Steve Armstrong held a one stroke lead over Rodney Phillips, Mike Baldoza and Brice Bergesen. Cliff Matthews pulled away from the pack in the second round. His 12 under 24 was good enough to give him a two stroke lead over Gary Reed with Jeffrey Smith and Joel Baker sitting four strokes back.

The last round saw Jeffrey tie for the lowest round of the day with a 12 under 24. This score was good enough to make up the four stroke deficit on Cliff Jeffrey had going into the last round. No other players were able to catch Jeffrey or Cliff and an 18 hole playoff ensued for the title. Cliff would slowly pull away through out the 18 holes to take his fourth win in four attempts on the Texas Tour. The three available State Spots would go to David Lynch, Mike Chisum and Rodney Phillips.

In the amateur division Adam Sahmel would win his second event of the year. Coming from two strokes off the pace set by Jimmy Van Buskirk in the first round Adam would finish with a three round total of 21 under 87, two strokes better than four other players: Trevor Lewin, Chance Marett, Mike Foster, and Mike Huckaby. Another group of three players would finish three strokes in back of Adam. Eight players would earn State spots in the final state qualifying event: Mike Foster, Alan Sahmel, Jason Van Buskirk, Donald Halpain, Jimmy Van Buskirk, Danny Hoel, Rob Martin and Allen Thomas.

Article and scores provided by Lee Messinger.

		Round				Prize
	Player	1	2	3	Total	Money
1	Cliff Matthews	26	24	28	78	$ 190.00
2	Jeffrey Smith	28	26	24	78	$ 110.00
3	Gary Reed	26	26	28	80	$ 80.00
4	Wade Sahmel	30	26	26	82	$ 70.00
5	Steve Armstrong	26	30	28	84	$ 60.00
6	Brice Bergesen	27	28	30	85	$ 40.00
7	Rodney Phillips*	27	30	29	86	$ 30.00
8	David Lynch*	30	29	28	87	$ 4.00
	Keith Barfield	31	31	25	87	$ 4.00
	Mike Baldoza	27	28	32	87	$ 4.00
	Mike Chisum*	28	29	30	87	$ 4.00
	Steve Tanton	30	27	30	87	$ 4.00
13	Joel Baker	26	28	34	88
14	John Tritz	29	32	29	90
15	James Taylor	31	30	30	91
16	Lee Messinger	33	27	32	92
17	Tom Adair	33	31	29	93
18	Chris Conradi	34	32	31	97

		Round				Expense
	Player	1	2	3	Total	Money
1	Adam Sahmel	28	27	32	87	$ 20.00
2	Chance Marett	32	29	28	89	$ 10.00
	Mike Foster*	33	27	29	89	$ 10.00
	Mike Huckaby	29	29	31	89	$ 10.00
	Trevor Lewin	30	27	32	89	$ 10.00
6	Alan Sahmel*	30	31	29	90	$ 6.67
	Jason Sheffield	29	33	28	90	$ 6.67
	Jason Van Buskirk*	28	30	32	90	$ 6.67
9	Donald Halpain*	32	32	27	91
10	Jimmy Van Buskirk*	26	33	33	92
11	Danny Hoel*	33	31	30	94
	Rob Martin*	29	32	33	94
13	Allen Thomas*	33	34	31	98
14	Ken Stanfill	39	29	31	99
15	Dave Blalock	32	35	33	100
	Doug Austin	32	34	34	100
17	Gary Plain	32	41	33	106