Brad Lebo Wins 2006 PPA National Championship (Martinez, GA

Brad Lebo Wins the
2006 PPA National Championship

Brad Lebo opens the 2006 PPA National Championship with the first of his 198 putts over eight rounds of competition

6-7 July 2006 - Martinez, GA - Brad Lebo opened up a dominating six stroke lead entering the final round of play with rounds of 24, 24 and 22 to open the second day of competition. Lebo entered the final four rounds of play tied with Kevin Lacey at 101 (43-under par). Rainey Statum provided a challenge in the final round shooting a closing round 23 (13-under par) but was still two strokes behind after playing the final hole. Lebo's deuce on the final hole secured the victory and his first PPA National title in his sixteen year PPA career. Lebo posted a final score of 198 (90-under par) with his closing round 27.

Rounding out the top five were John Bambling in third at 205 with a second day score of 99 and Greg Newport and Kevin Lacey in a tie for fourth at 207. Finishing in sixth was 2001 PPA National Champion Greg Ward at 208. Dan Anders finished in seventh at 209 with Vince Batten in eighth at 210 and Vance Randall in ninth at 211. A group of five players who finished in a tie for tenth included the 2005 PPA National Champion Jay Klapper at 212.

1st Round Leaders	Jay Klapper and Wade Sahmel	23 (13 under par)
2nd Round Leaders	Wade Sahmel, Brad Lebo, Tom O'Brien, Rick Culverhouse and Andy Coradini	51 (21 under par)
3rd Round Leader	Rainey Statum	74 (34 under par)
4th Round Leaders	Kevin Lacey and Brad Lebo	101 (43 under par)
5th Round Leader	Brad Lebo	125 (55 under par)
6th Round Leader	Brad Lebo	149 (67 under par)
7th Round Leader	Brad Lebo	171 (81 under par)

PPA	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Ace's	99	164	37	205	63	38	165	156	107	62	135	32	151	159	40	77	129	77
Par's	129	58	175	23	155	169	63	71	120	160	92	186	76	66	168	148	82	146
3's	0	6	13	0	10	21	0	1	1	6	1	10	1	2	13	1	11	5
4's	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	2	4	0
5's	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	1	0
Other's	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Avg. Score	1.57	1.31	1.92	1.10	1.77	1.93	1.28	1.32	1.54	1.75	1.41	1.90	1.34	1.32	1.96	1.68	1.55	1.68

PPA	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Ace's	146	132	173	72	89	193	71	113	128	94	66	197	117	124	224	163	28	210
Par's	74	93	55	141	114	34	157	110	87	130	132	23	108	96	4	65	189	11
3's	7	3	0	13	20	1	0	5	9	3	29	8	3	8	0	0	10	7
4's	1	0	0	2	3	0	0	0	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
5's	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other's	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Avg. Score	1.40	1.43	1.24	1.76	1.75	1.16	1.69	1.53	1.51	1.61	1.85	1.17	1.50	1.49	1.02	1.29	1.93	1.11

		Round									Prize
	Player	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total	Money
1	Brad Lebo	24	27	25	25	24	24	22	27	198	$ 3,000.00
2	Rainey Statum	26	27	21	28	24	26	25	23	200	$ 2,000.00
3	John Bambling	25	28	25	28	24	24	23	28	205	$ 1,600.00
4	Greg Newport	25	28	24	27	23	28	24	28	207	$ 1,200.00
	Kevin Lacey	25	27	23	26	25	25	26	30	207	$ 1,200.00
6	Greg Ward	29	27	25	24	25	26	24	28	208	$ 1,000.00
7	Dan Anders	26	29	24	25	26	23	28	28	209	$ 900.00
8	Vince Batten	24	29	27	25	30	24	23	28	210	$ 850.00
9	Vance Randall	26	33	25	26	23	26	26	26	211	$ 800.00
10	Jay Klapper	23	29	31	27	25	25	25	27	212	$ 650.00
	Andy Coradini	26	25	27	29	23	27	26	29	212	$ 650.00
	Joel Baker	27	30	25	28	21	26	27	28	212	$ 650.00
	Tom O'Brien	24	27	26	29	27	28	24	27	212	$ 650.00
	Jeffrey Smith	26	29	27	26	24	28	25	27	212	$ 650.00
15	Randy Reeves	26	29	27	28	22	29	28	24	213	$ 475.00
	Nate Nichols	29	25	27	26	25	33	23	25	213	$ 475.00
17	Peter Neumann	28	27	26	28	26	30	25	24	214	$ 387.50
	Rick Baird	28	27	26	29	26	26	24	28	214	$ 387.50
	Tony Jackson	26	28	28	29	24	29	27	23	214	$ 387.50
	Robb Titchell	27	27	27	27	25	27	28	26	214	$ 387.50
21	Bill Baus	29	30	25	28	27	24	26	26	215	$ 335.00
	Wade Sahmel	23	28	26	30	26	26	28	28	215	$ 335.00
23	Bill Kirby, Jr.	26	28	28	28	27	27	26	26	216	$ 306.25
	Rick Culverhouse	24	27	29	31	25	24	28	28	216	$ 306.25
	Bob Davis	26	29	26	28	23	28	27	29	216	$ 306.25
	Charlie Greenwalt	24	30	31	28	23	26	25	29	216	$ 306.25
27	Daryl Freeman	26	29	23	30	25	27	27	30	217	$ 282.50
	Gary English	26	29	27	30	28	23	27	27	217	$ 282.50
	Frank Warren	28	29	24	32	28	27	22	27	217	$ 282.50
	Lee Messinger	24	28	26	30	26	31	24	28	217	$ 282.50
31	James Taylor	28	27	28	29	26	28	28	24	218	$ 262.50
	Randy Orr	27	29	27	27	26	27	28	27	218	$ 262.50
	Ricky Schults	24	28	29	31	26	27	25	28	218	$ 262.50
	Michael Hitt	25	28	24	34	24	30	25	28	218	$ 262.50
35	Rusty Taylor	30	26	26	26	25	32	26	28	219	$ 250.00
36	Paul Johns	30	29	28	24	26	29	26	28	220	$ 247.50
	Mark Ross	26	28	25	26	27	29	28	31	220	$ 247.50
38	Cliff Matthews	25	28	25	28	29	34	23	29	221	$ 239.00
	Robert Johnson	25	29	29	27	27	31	25	28	221	$ 239.00
	Lewis Burton	28	28	28	27	27	31	28	24	221	$ 239.00
	Darrell Britt	25	30	27	27	24	29	27	32	221	$ 239.00
	Jerry Pinotti	28	28	25	33	23	28	28	28	221	$ 239.00
43	Dom Perry	27	29	26	28	34	31	22	25	222	$ 230.00
	James Weber	25	30	29	30	27	27	27	27	222	$ 230.00
45	Tony Varnadore	24	30	28	31	26	30	25	29	223	$ 225.00
46	Rick Rybaczek	31	30	26	26	29	32	26	26	226
47	Mark Hasty	25	29	24	31	25	37	27	29	227
	Matthew Summey	26	27	28	30	29	30	27	30	227
49	Roger Beckerman	31	28	29	28	24	30	33	27	230
	Allen Wall	26	30	27	29	26	31	29	32	230
51	Mike Baldoza	27	34	32	32	26	25	25	30	231
52	Russell Sigmon, Jr.	24	33	29	32	27	28	28	31	232
53	Robert Ward, Jr.	30	31	28	28	31	31	25	29	233
54	Robin Ventura	32	32	29	30	25	32	30	25	235
55	Steve Toomey	29	30	30	28	32	30	27	33	239
56	Paul Pastilong	34	30	28	29	28	27	34	33	243
57	Danny Tatum	30	35	32	33	35	41	33	32	271