Brad Lebo Wins His Third Career Dogwood Festival Open Title2 May 2010 - Charlottesville, VA - 2 May 2010 - Charlottesville, VA - The Virginia PPA Tour held its first major championship of the 2010 season, the 72-hole Dogwood Festival Open, on course # 2 at the beautiful Charlottesville, VA Putt-Putt Fun Center. With intermittently overcast skies and moderate morning temperatures, the course's enigmatic carpet fibers remained fairly tame throughout the tournament. The players took advantage of the relatively benign conditions, as general field scoring improved significantly from that posted in the previous day's event.
2006 PPA National Champion Brad Lebo, the only player in the field to record four sub-30 rounds, survived a spirited final-round clubhouse charge by reigning PPA Eastern Open Champion Greg Newport to notch his third career Dogwood Festival Open title. Lebo fired rounds of 27, 27, 29, and 26 for a bogey-free 72-hole total of 109 to earn his first victory of the 2010 season. Newport carded the tournament's low round of 25 in the final round but inevitably settled for runner-up honors at 110. At 112, third-round leader Robert Johnson finished third. 2007 PPA National Champion Rick Baird continued his stellar 2010 PPA campaign, completing the event in fourth position at 114. A two-way, fifth-place tie at 115 included Thomas Rawles and 1991 VA State Champion Ed Grajewski, who won the previous day's tournament. The cash line for the nine money spots allocated in the event fell at a 72-hole score of 120.
In the amateur division, 1999 VA APA State Champion Malcolm Shumaker used a brilliant penultimate-round 26, the low round of the day in the amateur division, as a springboard to a two-stroke victory. Shumaker manufactured rounds of 29, 32, 26, and 29 for a 72-hole total of 116. Third-round leader Mike Matthews struggled to a final-round 32 but held on to finish in second place at 118. At 119, two-time APA National Champion Clayton Craft, Esq. completed the event in third position. Amateur division heavyweight Randal Smith overcame a difficult start to the tournament to finish in fourth place at 120. James LeBrun and five-time VA APA State Champion Chuck Dibbs shared fifth position at 121 and split the final of the five amateur division expense reimbursement spots distributed in the tournament. Article provided by Brad Lebo |
Professional Division
(Charlottesville, VA - Course # 2 - 2 May 2010)
Round Points Prize Player Name 1 2 3 4 Total Earned Money 1 Brad Lebo 27 27 29 26 109 30.00 $ 275.00 2 Greg Newport 26 28 31 25 110 25.00 $ 175.00 3 Robert Johnson 27 28 26 31 112 24.00 $ 165.00 4 Rick Baird 27 28 29 30 114 23.00 $ 140.00 5 Ed Grajewski 29 30 29 27 115 21.50 $ 115.00 Thomas Rawles 29 30 29 27 115 21.50 $ 115.00 7 Bill Baus 31 28 30 29 118 20.00 $ 105.00 8 Daryl Freeman 30 30 28 31 119 19.00 $ 95.00 9 Vince Batten 29 28 31 32 120 18.00 $ 80.00 10 Rick Rybaczek 29 33 32 29 123 15.50 Matt Summey 32 28 31 32 123 15.50 Jeff Spainhour 34 31 28 30 123 15.50 Ken Schooler 30 32 28 33 123 15.50 14 Gary Hinshaw 29 32 31 35 127 13.00 15 Dennis Biesma 31 30 34 33 128 12.00 16 Rick Shelton 34 34 35 31 134 11.00 Amateur Division
(Charlottesville, VA - Course # 2 - 2 May 2010)
Round Points Expense Player Name 1 2 3 4 Total Earned Money 1 Malcolm Shumaker 29 32 26 29 116 25.00 $ 35.00 2 Mike Matthews 30 28 28 32 118 20.00 $ 30.00 3 Clayton Craft 30 29 31 29 119 19.00 $ 25.00 4 Randal Smith 33 27 31 29 120 18.00 $ 20.00 5 James LeBrun 34 27 30 30 121 16.50 $ 7.50 Chuck Dibbs 33 27 31 30 121 16.50 $ 7.50 7 Terry Sanner 31 34 30 27 122 15.00 8 Conway Coffey 30 31 31 32 124 13.50 Wade Driskill 31 28 30 35 124 13.50 10 Randy Baldwin 28 34 32 31 125 12.00 11 Amy Smith 32 30 30 34 126 11.00 12 Bill Petrie 31 31 36 35 133 10.00 13 Marty Handschuh 37 35 31 32 135 9.00 14 Walter Kolb 38 35 39 34 146 8.00