Turkish Delight but isn't it time some other

country hosted the European club final?

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Scottish club champions Prestwick, represented by James Bunch, Jonathan King and Allan Thomson, finished 12th in a field of 24 teams for this year's European club team championship at Klassis Golf & Country Club, Istanbul in Turkey.
King (217 for the three rounds), Thomson (223) and Bunch (231) totalled 440 on a best two daily scores to count basis.
The scoring was rather hot at the sharp end of the tournament with the host club amazingly being able to field a team of three players able to beat the rest of Europe, each with a sub-par 54-hole aggregate. Some shooting, but what a coincidence.
Had their players been members of the Klassis club for some time or were they recruited especially for the occasion? Perhaps there should be a rule that competitors in the European final must have been members of the participating club for at least five years.
It's not the first time Klassis has hosted the tournament. Time to pass the honour around?
The Austrians from the Murhof club almost upset the Turkish Delight by matching the home trio's final total of 23-under-par 415.
The tie-breaker was a countback of the three discarded scores. And Klassis had a better non-counting total than Murhof, so they were crowned European champions.
The man with the lowest individual three-round total played for the third-placed German club team, St Leon-Rot, but with a name like John Allen he sounds very like a British citizen. Over a par-73 course, Allen had a 13-under-par aggregate of 206, very good indeed for somebody we've never heard of before.
FINAL TOTALS
Par 438 (6x73), teams' best two individual scores daily to count for aggregate
415 TURKEY (Klassis G&CC)
bt Austria (Murhof GC) on countback on non-counting scores
208 Gencer Ozcan 64 76 78.
210 Koray Varli 70 73 67.
214 Hamza Hakan Sayin 73 73 68.
415 AUSTRIA (Murhof GC)
206 Lukas Nemecz 69 68 69.
209 Tobias Nemecz 73 67 69.
234 Christopher Taferner 84 75 75.
416 GERMANY (St Leon-Rot GC) 3rd
206 John Allen 69 69 68 (individual winner).
211 Alexis Szappanos 72 75 64.
220 Sebastian Schwind 73 74 73.
Selected scores:
431 ENGLAND (Workington GC) 7th.
215 Seb Crookall-Nixon 73 71 71.
217 William Bowe 75 70 72.
223 Mark Cowen 77 75 71.
440 SCOTLAND (Prestwick GC). 12th.
217 Jonathan King 71 72 74.
223 Allan Thomson 70 77 76.
231 James Bunch 75 80 76.
452 WALES (Marriott St Pierre GC) 15th.
225 Stephen Whitty 73 78 74.
231 Liam McVeigh 75 78 78.
234 Richard Bentham 80 80 74.
455 IRELAND (Galway GC) 16th.
225 Joe Lyons 77 73 75.
232 Damien Coyne 73 82 77.
242 David Scully 79 80 83.

NE ALLIANCE GOLF AT EDZELL

EDZELL OPEN FOR NORTH-EAST ALLIANCE ON WEDNESDAY The Edzell Golf Club course is wet but playable for Wednesday's North-east Golfers' competition. Tee times have been carried over from last week's postponed meeting at Ballater, since when the clock has gone back. This means that players with later starting times should arrive early to give themselves a chance of getting round before darkness falls. Secretary Ron Menzies will put players out ahead of their scheduled starting times as spaces develop by the usual "no-shows." The first tee will be open from 8am.

Bill Lockie's part in the

development of US Tour

winner Martin Laird

FROM THE PGA E-BULLETIN
The former coach to Martin Laird revealed he
nearly drove off the road when he heard his
former charge had won a USPGA Tour title in
Las Vegas.
Laird has become Scotland's new golfing hero after
his stunning success last week, which not only earned
him a bumper $756,000 pay-day but also a two-year
exemption.
Bill Lockie, pictured, first coached Laird as a raw teenager during a couple of winters at Barassie Golf Club, before he headed off to America on a golf scholarship at Colorado State University.
The pair have kept in contact ever since and Lockie, an Advanced Fellow of the PGA, admitted he was ecstatic when he heard of Laird's triumph. “I was driving through Fife when news of Martin's success in Las Vegas came on the sports bulletin,” recalled Lockie.
“I nearly drove off the road, I was shouting and hollering and whooping. It was a great feeling and I was so pleased for Martin and hopefully he can move on
from here.
"I coached him over a couple of winters when he was in his mid-teens, helping him get down from two or three to scratch, and then he went on a golf scholarship
to America, but we've stayed in touch."
Lockie, a renowned coach and still an accomplished player who won the Senior PGA Professional Championship two years ago and finished runner-up this year, has kept close tabs on Laird's progress and is intrigued at finding out the key to his former protégé’s success.
“I still email him regularly and we chat occasionally. The biggest thing I remember is that when he went away to America he had a normal, lowish ball flight,” said Lockie.
“He let me see his game after the second year he’d been in the States and he had added 40 yards in length and his ball flight was twice as high.
“In golf we always talk about taking that next step and I've asked Martin if he can put a finger on that step he has taken.
“I'm really interested to find out what that was, to discover how he felt he achieved that added distance that's made the difference."

SANDY LYLE FINISHES 14 SHOTS BEHIND

Phil Blackmar shoots a closing 64 to win

his first US Seniors Tour title

FROM THE PGA.COM WEBSITE
Phil Blackmar won his first US Champions (Seniors) Tour title on Sunday, birdieing five of his first six holes en route to a 7-under 64 and a one-stroke victory over Jay Haas, Tom Kite and Andy Bean in the AT&T Championship at Oak Hills Country Club, San Antonio, Texas.
Blackmar, a three-time winner on the US PGA Tour and who joined the Champions Tour late in 2007, had a 10-under 203 total on the Oak Hills course. The 6ft 7in former University of Texas player earned $255,000 in the final full-field over-50s event of the year.
He jumped 27 spots in the Charles Schwab Cup standings to 30th to take the last spot in the season-ending Schwab Cup in Sonoma, California. He admitted he's been thinking about getting out of golf if he had to go through qualifying school and was unsuccessful getting his card.
"I got very nervous, but I was able to hang in there," said Blackmar, who lives about 150 miles away in Corpus Christi. "This year hasn't been very much fun, so I was comfortable with getting back into broadcasting, or something else."
Haas (69) had a chance to win or force a playoff, but bogeyed the 202-yard, par-3 18th. He left his tee shot short, dumped a chip into the front bunker, then watched his third shot roll over the lip and stay out of the cup by less than an inch.
"You see this ball sitting there and there's no way it's not in," Haas said. "You see very few balls like that that don't fall in."
Kite (68) missed an 8-foot birdie putt on 18, and Bean (70) failed to chip in from past the green. Kite, who grew up and lives in Austin, has never won a professional tournament in his home state.
John Cook, the two-time defending champion and winner last week near Houston, closed with a 66 finish two shots behind Blackmar. Hale Irwin (68) was fifth at 7 under, and Keith Fergus (67), Bernhard Langer (69) and Scott Simpson (70) tied for sixth at 6 under.
Blackmar, who listened to Ted Nugent and Deep Purple in his headphones on the practice tee before the round, knocked the ball within 10 feet on each of the five birdie holes to start his round.
"Listening to that music, I could feel my demeanour change," he said. "I was ready to fight someone."
But at the turn, Blackmar admitted to a bad case of nerves. Still, he tied for the lead when he had a tap-in birdie after blasting out of a greenside bunker on the 527-yard 15th.
He was in the lead when he birdied from 15 feet at No. 16 before Haas birdied the 15th. He had a four-foot par putt on 18 after he blasted out of a greenside bunker.
"I was so nervous I couldn't feel my hands," said Blackmar.
Sandy Lyle finished on 217, 14 shots behind the winner.
FINAL TOTALS
Par 213 (3x71)
203 Phil Blackmar 72 67 64
204 Andy Bean 67 67 70, Tom Kite 67 69 68, Jay Haas 68 67 69
205 John Cook 68 71 66
206 Hale Irwin 71 67 68
207 Bernhard Langer (Ger) 70 68 69, Scott Simpson 68 69 70, Keith Fergus 69 71 67
208 Russ Cochran 66 68 74, Jim Thorpe 70 69 69, Jeff Sluman 69 67 72, Mike Goodes 68 72 68
209 Tom Jenkins 72 71 66, Chip Beck 70 69 70, Craig Stadler 68 74 67, David Frost (Rsa) 73 69 67
210 James Mason 69 71 70, Mark O'Meara 67 70 73, Dan Forsman 69 71 70, Morris Hatalsky 71 71 68
211 Gil Morgan 71 71 69, Joey Sindelar 73 70 68, Gene Jones 71 71 69, Jeff Roth 69 73 69, Peter Jacobsen 72 73 66, Bruce Vaughan 72 69 70, Mark Wiebe 71 71 69, Loren Roberts 71 72 68, John Morse 69 72 70, Tim Simpson 68 69 74
212 Mark James (Eng) 74 70 68, David Eger 68 71 73, Lanny Wadkins 71 70 71, Keith Clearwater 66 74 72
213 Mike McCullough 71 69 73, Kirk Hanefeld 70 72 71, Tim Conley 69 70 74, Bob Gilder 71 70 72, Ronnie Black 71 71 71, Bob Tway 68 75 70
214 David Ogrin 72 71 71, Fulton Allem (Rsa) 70 72 72, Tom Purtzer 72 70 72, Ben Crenshaw 67 75 72, Mike Reid 68 72 74
215 Brad Bryant 71 74 70, Eduardo Romero (Arg) 75 74 66, Joe Inman 70 74 71
216 Allen Doyle 70 71 75
217 Lonnie Nielsen 73 73 71, Fuzzy Zoeller 75 69 73, Olin Browne 72 73 72, Sandy Lyle (Sco) 74 70 73, Steve Thomas 72 78 67
218 Robert L Thompson 76 70 72, Bruce Fleisher 71 73 74, Tom Wargo 74 70 74, Dave Eichelberger 76 67 75, Blaine McCallister 78 69 71
220 Bruce Lietzke 71 80 69, John Harris 75 73 72, Jay Don Blake 74 74 72, Fred Funk 74 74 72
221 Gary Hallberg 73 74 74, Mike Hulbert 70 75 76, Bobby Wadkins 72 78 71
222 Danny Edwards 70 78 74
223 Denis Watson (Zim) 78 72 73, Don Pooley 79 68 76
224 Mike Lawrence 77 76 71, Jim Dent 72 80 72
226 Raymond Floyd 79 75 72, Mark McNulty (Irl) 73 76 77
227 Tom McKnight 75 73 79
228 Mike San Filippo 74 78 76
243 Jim Albus 78 85 80.

Jamieson and Surry joint favourites

for EuroPro Tour Championship

PGA EuroPro Tour Order of Merit leader Scott Jamieson from Glasgow tops the ante-post betting list for the 2009 Tour Championship at De Vere Slaley Hall in Northumberland, beginning tomorrow (Tuesday, October 27).

The Scot, pictured, a former US college circuit player for four years as a student at Augusta State University, leads the money list by less than £1,000 as the top 60 players on the Order of Merit battle it out for the £15,000 winner’s cheque

Jamieson is 10-1 joint favourite with Steve Surry (Cumberwell Park) to claim victory in the final event of the 2009 Tour.
Victory in the event would secure top spot on the Order of Merit for Jamieson, and he is a 4-9 chance to top the money list for the 2009 season. Second spot belongs to Tom Haylock (Ground Construction Ltd) who is 14-1 to win the event and 4-1 to claim top spot on the money list.

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2009 Volvo world match-play championship

groups and draw announced

NEWS RELEASE ISSUED BY I M G
The groups and matches for the ‘round-robin’ stage of the 16-man Volvo world match-play championship are announced below with the players competing in a new format at Finca Cortesin, Spain from this Thursday (October 29) to Sunday (November 1).
Colin Montgomerie, the 2010 European Ryder Cup captain, commented:
“Seeing the final draw totally justifies Volvo’s decision to change to the group format. There really are some tantalising match-ups and it is going to be a thoroughly entertaining week for all the spectators.
"I am delighted that Volvo’s inaugural year partnering the world match-play championship has attracted such a world-class field with their refreshed qualifying criteria. I am thoroughly looking forward to seeing how some of these intriguing match-ups unfold.
"This will be very interesting viewing for me with my Ryder Cup hat on but as anyone who knows me will suspect, a big part of me will be wishing I was out there as one of the 16 qualified players!”
The 16-man field is grouped based on their seeding as determined by today’s Official World Golf Ranking. On Thursday and Friday each player will play their group members in a round robin format over full 18-hole matches with points awarded based upon a win, tie or loss.
The leading player (the one with the most points) from each group will qualify for the semi-final knock-out stage with aggregate number of holes won used to determine tied positions.
The winner of each group will qualify for Saturday's semi-finals which, along with the final on Sunday, will be played over 36 holes in the traditional head-to-head match play format.
The semi-finals will be contested between the winner of Groups A & B and C & D.
The Groups are:
A - Paul Casey (seeded No 1), Retief Goosen, Anthony Kim, Scott Strange.
B - Sergio Garcia (seeded No 4), Martin Kaymer, Robert Allenby, Oliver Wilson.
C - Henrik Stenson (seeded No 3), Rory McIlroy, Angel Cabrera, Simon Dyson.
D - Lee Westwood (seeded No 2), Camilo Villegas, Ross Fisher, Jeev Milkha Singh.

Group ties:

THURSDAY MORNING
Paul CASEY v Scott STRANGE
Retief GOOSEN v Anthony KIM
Sergio GARCIA v Oliver WILSON
Martin KAYMER v Robert ALLENBY
Henrik STENSON v Simon DYSON
Rory McILROY v Angel CABRERA
Lee WESTWOOD v Jeev Milkha SINGH
Camilo VILLEGAS v Ross FISHER
THURSDAY AFTERNOON
CASEY v KIM
GOOSEN v STRANGE
GARCIA v ALLENBY
KAYMER v WILSON

FRIDAY MORNING
STENSON v CABRERA
McILROY v DYSON
WESTWOOD v FISHER
VILLEGAS v SINGH
CASEY v GOOSEN
KIM v STRANGE
GARCIA v KAYMER
ALLENBY v WILSON
FRIDAY AFTERNOON
STENSON v McILROY
CABRERA v DYSON
WESTWOOD v VILLEGAS
FISHER v SINGH

The total prize money for the 2009 Volvo world match-play championship will be €3,250,000.

1st: €750,000
2nd: €450,000
3rd: €250,000
4th: €200,000
Runner up in group: €150,000
3rd in Group: €130,000
4th in Group: €120,000

This is the 45th edition of the world match-play championship and will be Volvo’s first time as championship partners with IMG, having hosted the 21st and final Volvo Masters at Club de Golf Valderrama in 2008. The Finca Cortesín event is Volvo’s 120th title sponsorship in professional golf.
The championship is being held in Spain for the first time in its history, moving from Wentworth Club to the magnificent 7,439yd course at Finca Cortesin, designed by Cabell B Robinson.

NORTH SCOTTISH ALLIANCE

John Campbell's 63 wins by six

at Grantown-on-Spey

By ALAN COWIE
John Campbell (Grantown-on-Spey) took best advantage of the early, more favourable conditions to fire a seven under par 63 for a six-stroke victory in Saturday's North Scottish Golfers' Alliance fixture over his home course.
New member Barrie Syms from Muir of Ord scored the lowest net return with a 64 off 11 to win Section 2.
LEADING SCRATCH
63 J S D Campbell (Grantown).
69 M Macdonald (Fortrose & Rosemarkie), C Campbell (Nairn Dunbar) p, G H Hay (Grantown).
70 A Cameron (Inverness).
71 D Hector (Elgin), K Thomson (Moray), J A Grant (Grantown), S Chisholm (Nairn).
72 K Williamson (Torvean), B Fotheringham (Forres).
73 A W Mair (Moray), S G Milne (Elgin), S Wilson (Inverness), J D Forbes (Inverness), K. Stables (Elgin) p.
74 J A G Innes (Elgin), L Stewart (Grantown), G Murray (Spey Bay), G J Abel (Elgin), D Johnston (Moray).
75 I Findlay (Grantown), B Inch (Elgin), C Nelson (Inverness), J Simpson (Forres), B Syms (Muir of Ord).
76 J R Souter (Moray), B Main (Fortrose & Rosemarkie).
77 I Macaulay (Elgin), R. Douglas (Inverness) p, V Tilman (Muir of Ord).
78 M McDonald (Grantown), R Proctor (Forres), M C Page (Moray), A Henry (Inverness), L. Duncan (Elgin), K B Taylor (Elgin), B Cruickshank (Garmouth & Kingston).
79 A Boxx (Boat of Garten), A. McKenzie (Elgin).
LEADING HANDICAP
Section 1 (handicaps 8 and under)
67 G J Abel (Elgin) (7), D Hector (Elgin) (4), K. Williamson (Nairn) (5).
68 S Chisholm (Nairn)(3), L Stewart (Grantown) (6).
Section 2 (handicaps 9 to 14)
64 B Syms (Muir of Ord) (11).
68 I. Turner (Boat of Garten)(14), T. Madden (Hopeman)(13);
69 C.Small (Fortrose & Rosemarkie)(12), L. Duncan (Elgin)(9), A. Boxx (Boat of Garten)(10);

US PGA TOUR REPORT

Troy Matteson seizes second bite at the

cherry at Scottsdale, Arizona

FROM THE PGA.COM WEBSITE
Troy Matteson won a three-man play-off after earlier blowing a chance to win the Frys.com Open in regulation by bogeying the 17th and 18th holes in Sunday's final round at Scottsdale, Arizona.
Playing the same holes in reverse order in a three-way playoff, Matteson recovered from his late collapse. He birdied the second extra hole to beat Jamie Lovemark and Rickie Fowler on Sunday at Grayhawk Golf Club for his second US PGA Tour victory.
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"I just can't believe that it's ended up like this," said Matteson, who won $900,000. "I know I stumbled going down the stretch, but I'm still beside myself."
After all three players parred the first playoff hole, Matteson hit his approach within 3 feet on the 464yd, par-4 17th hole. With shadows stretching onto the green, he rolled in the putt to win.
That capped an incredible three-day stretch for the 29-year-old Matteson. After shooting a 2-over 72 on Thursday, he thought he might be headed for the airport before the weekend.
But Matteson had back-to-back 61s on Friday and Saturday -- a PGA Tour record for lowest score in consecutive rounds -- and he took a three-stroke lead into the final round.
"That's as good as I can play," Matteson said. "I really don't have to worry about playing better than that, because that's it."
Matteson's first Tour victory came as a rookie in 2006, when he won the Frys.com Open in Las Vegas, now called the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open.
On the first extra hole, Lovemark got a gift when his approach splashed into a man-made lagoon, then bounced onto the slope of the green. Lovemark chipped to 3 feet and made the putt to stay alive.
"It was crazy," said Lovemark, who called the fluke shot a "skipper."
Lovemark and Fowler, who are seeking PGA Tour cards, each earned $440,000.
Fowler has made $553,700 this season, which gives him special temporary membership because the amount exceeds the 150th spot on the money list last year. That allows him to skip the first stage of Q-School next week and most likely makes him exempt into the final stage. He is the equivalent of 136th on this year's money list, and still has time to reach the top 125 and earn his card without Q-School.
"I knew I was capable of coming out and competing," said the shaggy-haired Fowler, who tied for seventh in Las Vegas last week. "But to finish tied for seventh and then tied for first and then losing a playoff, pretty quick start."
The 20-year-old Fowler turned pro after the Walker Cup last month.
Lovemark has earned $453,872 and said he would go to Q-School next week in North Carolina. He needed to finish second alone to earn enough to be a temporary member. If he were to skip the first stage and take his chances at the Viking Classic next week, he would not be eligible for Q-School the rest of the way.
Fowler and Lovemark had finished their rounds when Matteson faltered on a sun-splashed afternoon in the desert.
After bogeying the 17th, Matteson (68) knocked his approach shot into a bunker on the 18th. He chipped to about 10 feet, then missed the putt to force a playoff with Fowler and Lovemark.
Fowler and Lovemark, who shots 64s, watched the drama unfold from a practice green across the lagoon from the 18th green.
"I'm more nervous right now than I was when playing, which is kind of weird," Lovemark told a TV interviewer.
Fowler led briefly midway through the round, but his bogey on 18 cost him a chance to win in regulation.
Lovemark had seven birdies in regulation, five on the back nine.
"I felt like I was pretty far out of it," he said.
Bill Lunde (66) and Tim Clark (67) tied for fourth at 16 under, and 2007 winner Mike Weir (61) and Bryce Molder (63) followed at 15 under. Weir had a chance for the fourth 59 in PGA Tour history, but parred the final three holes.
For most of the day, the tourney seemed to be a duel between Fowler and Matteson, who traded salvos on Grayhawk's Raptor Course.
Fowler entered in a five-way tie at 12 under, four strokes back of Matteson. But Fowler quickly charged into the lead.
Fowler aced the par-3, 203-yard fifth hole to go to 17 under and leapfrog Matteson. It was the fourth hole-in-one in two days.
Matteson, playing two groups behind Fowler, responded with an eagle on the par-5 fourth to jump back in front.
Matteson said he didn't know that Fowler was making a charge because he refused to check out at the leaderboard.
"When you've got a little bit of a lead and you start playing good on the front side, the worst thing you can do is look over and see somebody is 5, 6, 7 under on the day," Matteson said.
Glasgow's Martin Laird, a first-time winner in the previous weekend's event on the US PGA Tour, maintained his good late-season form with a joint 13th place finish on 12-under-par 268.
FINAL TOTALS
Grayhawk GC (Raptor Course), Scottsdale, Arizona
Par 280 (4x70)
262 Troy Matteson 72 61 61 68 (Matteson won play-off at second extra hole), Rickie Fowler 65 64 69 64, Jamie Lovemark 69 64 65 64
264 Bill Lunde 66 67 65 66, Tim Clark (Rsa) 68 64 65 67
265 Mike Weir (Can) 66 67 71 61, Bryce Molder 67 65 70 63
267 Chris Stroud 67 65 65 70, Heath Slocum 64 68 68 67, Ryan Moore 66 65 67 69, Nicholas Thompson 66 68 65 68, Alex Cejka (Ger) 67 67 69 64
268 Pat Perez 66 67 68 67, Tim Herron 68 68 66 66, Nick O'Hern (Aus) 63 68 67 70, Tom Pernice Jnr. 67 69 68 64, Webb Simpson 68 65 64 71, Ben Crane 66 67 67 68, Justin Leonard 66 64 69 69, Tim Petrovic 66 71 66 65, Martin Laird (Sco) 67 72 62 67, Rocco Mediate 67 66 70 65
269 D.A. Points 65 71 67 66, Chris Riley 70 67 67 65, Robert Garrigus 70 65 65 69, Andres Romero (Arg) 68 68 70 63, Chez Reavie 70 67 68 64, Stephen Ames (Can) 66 66 68 69
270 Brett Quigley 68 70 68 64, Bo Van Pelt 67 68 67 68, Carl Pettersson (Swe) 70 67 65 68, Greg Owen (Eng) 65 64 73 68
271 Spencer Levin 66 71 66 68, J J Henry 69 67 70 65, Nathan Green (Aus) 69 66 66 70, Chad Campbell 68 67 68 68, Arron Oberholser 68 69 66 68, Bob Heintz 64 73 69 65
272 Peter Tomasulo 68 65 70 69, Rory Sabbatini (Rsa) 65 72 68 67, Scott McCarron 67 67 70 68, John Merrick 72 65 66 69, Ted Purdy 72 67 64 69, Steve Elkington (Aus) 68 71 68 65, Ricky Barnes 66 70 71 65, Mark Calcavecchia 71 68 67 66, D.J. Trahan 69 64 71 68
273 Kent Jones 71 67 67 68, Ryan Palmer 69 66 68 70
274 Charlie Wi (Kor) 69 69 68 68, Jeff Klauk 66 70 70 68, Paul Goydos 66 70 70 68, Billy Mayfair 66 70 68 70, Matthew Jones (Aus) 67 68 71 68
275 Brian Davis (Eng) 70 67 70 68, Vaughn Taylor 69 66 71 69, Chris DiMarco 68 69 69 69, Steve Flesch 69 68 67 71, Greg Chalmers (Aus) 70 69 67 69, Tom Lehman 68 65 72 70, John Mallinger 70 68 66 71, Brian Vranesh 68 66 69 72, Jonathan Byrd 70 66 66 73, Jason Gore 70 68 68 69, Stuart Appleby (Aus) 70 65 70 70
276 Matt Bettencourt 69 70 65 72, Fred Couples 67 69 68 72, Mark Wilson 68 67 67 74
278 Colt Knost 71 66 69 72, Steve Lowery 67 67 76 68
279 Johnson Wagner 68 70 72 69, Peter Lonard (Aus) 69 68 70 72
281 Parker McLachlin 70 68 72 71
282 Glen Day 70 68 74 70
284 Brad Faxon 69 69 74 72
285 Michael Bradley 70 69 73 73
286 Aron Price (Aus) 70 69 75 72

Michael Sim, runner-up in final Nationwide Tour event of the season.

Aberdonian Michael Sim sets one-season money

record ($644,142) for US Nationwide Tour

FROM THE PGA.COM WEBSITE
Charleston, South Carolina. Former University of Florida All-American Matt Every posted a 5-under-par 67 on Sunday to outlast the Nationwide Tour's most dominating player of 2009, Aberdeen-born Australian Michael Sim, and win the season-ending Nationwide Tour Championship at the Daniel Island Club.
THE 2009 NATIONWIDE TOUR GRADUATES
TO THE 2010 US PGA TOUR

1. Michael Sim $644,142
2. Chad Collins $415,114
3. Blake Adams $399,749
4. Derek Lamely $374,998
5. Tom Gillis $364,529
6. Chris Tidland $354,510
7. Josh Teater $326,438
8. Cameron Percy $320,715
9. Roger Tambellini $307,482
10. Matt Every $300,936
11. Justin Bolli $284,537
12. Garrett Willis $269,856
13. Kevin Johnson $266,915
14. Garth Mulroy $263,126
15. Jerod Turner $237,993
16. Alex Prugh $233,325
17. Jeff Gove $221,231
18. Henrik Bjornstad $218,652
19. Chris Baryla $217,680
20. Steve Wheatcroft $213,165
21. Rich Barcelo $199,975
22. Craig Bowden $198,208
23. Vance Veazey $193,243
24. Mathias Gronberg $191,743
25. Fran Quinn $191,467

With 25 US PGA Tour cards on the line, Matt Every began the final week as No. 49 on the money list and was a long shot to earn his PGA Tour playing privileges for 2010.

But on Sunday, he was headed to the PGA Tour for the first time after collecting a check for $180,000 from the $1 million purse.

The 25-year-old finished No. 10 on the final money list.
"I've always felt I'm talented enough to win," said the champion. "I couldn't have waited any longer to do it though, I'll tell you that. I'm going to enjoy it."
"I'm relieved," Every said. "The practice I put in this year hasn't been paying off and I dreaded the thought of having to go back to Q-School."
Every entered the final round one shot in front of Michael Sim who had already secured promotion to the "Big League" for a second time by winning three times on the Nationwide Tour this season.

A native of Daytona Beach, Florida, Every posted a 3-under 33 on the front nine with the aid of an eagle and a birdie to increase his lead to two at the turn. Birdies at Nos. 11 and 15 padded the lead to three.
Pars on the final three holes secured a three-shot win, his first in 56 starts since joining the Nationwide Tour last year. Over the final two days, Every had 10 birdies and an eagle, with his lone blemish a double-bogey in Saturday's third round.
"I'm looking forward to playing on the PGA Tour next year. It's hard to watch your college buddies play on Tour and in the Presidents Cup," said Every. "You start to think, 'are these guys really that much better than me,' and I know the answer to that question. Deep down I do."
Sim concluded the most dominating year in the 20-year history of the Nationwide Tour. In addition to three wins this year, Sunday's runner-up finish was his second of the season. He had eight top-5 finishes in 2009. His Tour earnings of $644,142 smashed the previous single-season best of $495,009 set by Troy Matteson in 2005.
Sim, who emigrated to Perth, Western Australia with his parents from Aberdeen, Scotland in the early 1990s when he was seven, turned 25 on Friday. By topping this year's money list, Sim earns an invitation in next May's Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass.
"I played great today, Matt just played better," Sim said after a 3-under 69. "He didn't hit any loose shots out there to give me many opportunities."
"I'm excited about my year out here," Sim continued. "Having three wins and two second-place finishes says a lot about where my game is. I really feel like I am ready for the PGA Tour and that I can compete at a high enough level to win out there. That's my goal for next year and hopefully bring my World Golf Ranking high enough to get me into the Masters."
The drama to determine which players would remain inside the top 25 and which would fall out continued to the very end of the day, as is almost always the case in the Tour Championship. When all was said and done, Fran Quinn was the last player to earn his card, finishing No. 25 on the money list.
The Massachusetts native began the week No. 20 on the list and was cruising along until he got sick on Friday. Quinn battled through a urinary tract infection and spent Saturday night in the hospital. His weekend scores of 75-74 were just good enough to send him back to the PGA Tour for the first time since 1992.
Steve Wheatcroft of Jacksonville, Florida, joined Every in crashing the party this week. Wheatcroft posted a 1-over 73 Sunday at the Ralston Creek course but managed his best finish of the year, a tie for third. The Indiana University grad began the week No. 31 on the money list and collected enough today to jump up to No. 18.
Two players who started the week on the right side of the bubble wound up getting bounced out. Brian Stuardof Jackson, Michigan, and Alistair Presnell of Melbourne, Australia, began the week as Nos 23 and 25, respectively and wound up falling to No. 26 and No. 28.
Blake Adams finished the season No. 3 on the money list with $399,749 to set a Nationwide Tour record for the most money won in a single season without a victory. Adams eclipsed the mark of $324,627 set by Darron Stiles in 2008.

Jeff Gove finished No. 17 on the money list, and becomes the first player in Nationwide Tour history to graduate four times (1999, 2001, 2005, 2009).
As part of a new partnership with the Nationwide Tour, Tiffany & Co. was on site Sunday to hand engrave the winner's name on the Nationwide Tour Championship trophy. Each player who finished in the top 25 received a personalized hand-engraved money clip with his 2010 PGA Tour member card enclosed. Michael Sim received a Tiffany crystal award in recognition of his "Battlefield Promotion" to the PGA Tour which he achieved in August.