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2000 PGA Club Pro Championship
A spectacular lightning display hovered long enough ... almost seven hours ... near Oak Tree Golf Club on a Sunday morning. Mother Nature's exhibition cancelled the final 18-hole round of the 33rd PGA Club Professional Championship, but it didn't end the dramatics. A contingency plan of a five- hole cumulative score playoff was deployed to decide the winner of the Walter Hagen Cup. Tim Thelen of Richmond,Texas and Mark Brown of Glen Cove, N.Y., who had tied after 54 holes at 1-over-par 214, marched to the 10th tee on a soggy Oak Tree layout to decide the national championship. Thelen, a 39- year-old assistant at Baywood Country Club in Pasadena, Texas, opened the duel by saving par from a greenside bunker. Two holes later, at the 131-yard par-3 13th, Thelen hit a sand wedge to within four feet of the hole. Brown's tee shot sailed wide right into a grassy swale, from where he saved par with a brilliant recovery pitch and made a 10-foot par putt. But Thelen's one-stroke margin held up on the par-4 14th, as he two-putted for par from 35 feet and Brown followed by missing his downhill 20-foot birdie attempt. Thelen had learned much from his CPC appearance one year earlier, when he tied for eighth at Whistling Straits in Kohler,Wis. "I had been there before and gone through the pressure. I felt I was ready. Oak Tree was without question the toughest golf course I've played in my life - by two shots."
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Oak Tree averages |
Sub-par rounds |
Par rounds |
Rounds over par |
Round leader |
Tim Thelen |
| Rd. 1 |
76.7 |
2 |
4 |
149 |
69 - Bob Boyd |
72 - T7th |
| Rd. 2 |
7707 |
3 |
1 |
151 |
67 - Shawn Kelly |
142 - T1st |
| Rd. 3 |
75.7 |
3 |
5 |
70 |
69 - Jeff Freeman |
214 - T1st* |
| Totals |
76.9 |
8 |
10 |
3703 |
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Won five-hole cumulative score playoff
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Course Overview
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The Oaks - 1
Par: 4
Tournament: 451 yards
Championship: 437 yards
Handicap: 3
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Dub's Dread - 2
Par: 4
Tournament: 418 yards
Championship: 387 yards
Handicap: 13
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Coe's Corner - 3
Par: 5
Tournament: 592 yards
Championship: 547 yards
Handicap: 1
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Waterloo - 4
Par: 3
Tournament: 206 yards
Championship: 117 yards
Handicap: 11
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Oak Tree - 5
Par: 5
Tournament: 592 yards
Championship: 547 yards
Handicap: 7
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Muirfield - 6
Par: 4
Tournament: 411 yards
Championship: 370 yards
Handicap: 17
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Dye's Dread - 7
Par: 4
Tournament: 462 yards
Championship: 437 yards
Handicap: 5
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Harbor Town - 8
Par: 3
Tournament: 192 yards
Championship: 163 yards
Handicap: 15
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The Plateau - 9
Par: 4
Tournament: 480 yards
Championship: 433 yards
Handicap: 9
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Teeth of the Dog - 10
Par: 4
Tournament: 402 yards
Championship: 357 yards
Handicap: 12
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Windmill - 11
Par: 4
Tournament: 465 yards
Championship: 447 yards
Handicap: 2
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Prairie Dunes - 12
Par: 4
Tournament: 471 yards
Championship: 444 yards
Handicap: 6
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Postage Stamp - 13
Par: 3
Tournament: 171 yards
Championship: 142 yards
Handicap: 18
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Augusta - 14
Par: 4
Tournament: 457 yards
Championship: 433 yards
Handicap: 8
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Deerfield - 15
Par: 4
Tournament: 472 yards
Championship: 452 yards
Handicap: 4
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The Box Car - 16
Par: 5
Tournament: 538 yards
Championship: 508 yards
Handicap: 16
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Eternity - 17
Par: 3
Tournament: 196 yards
Championship: 171 yards
Handicap: 14
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Valley of Sin - 18
Par: 4
Tournament: 436 yards
Championship: 411 yards
Handicap: 10
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