Rick Culverhouse Wins Again in Columbia (Columbia, SC

24 August 2003 - Columbia, SC - Rick Culverhouse accomplished a feat that had not happened on the South Carolina tour since April 2002--win back-to-back tournament on the same course. Culverhouse continued to dominate the field of play by posting a three-shot win and became the first professional player to shoot in the 70's for a 54-hole tournament in Columbia.

Throughout the day, skies were overcast and seasonal temperatures were in order, prompting lower scoring for this tournament. That was the reason why 84 was the cash line, the lowest of the weekend.

Culverhouse started out the day with an opening round 25, good enough to share the lead with Rick Baird. Both players had already won this weekend, with Baird winning the first event and Culverhouse defending this one. Reigning South Carolina State Champion Robert Johnson was tied for third with Dan Anders after an opening round 26. Culverhouse then used the second round to pull away from the competition. His second round 24 gave him a three-shot lead on Baird and was in at 49, the first time ever that a score was in the 40's for two rounds in Columbia.

The lead would hold and Culverhouse would walk out of Columbia with his second straight win. A final round 28 was enough to finish the tournament with a score of 77. Culverhouse grabbed his second straight win and became the fifth person this season to win multiple times this year on the South Carolina tour. Johnson fired his second 26 of the day to vault into second at 80, while Baird wound up tied for third with Tony Pack at 81. Anders rounded out the top five finishing with Tony Varnadore and Greg Ward at 82.

Alabama product Russell Taylor completed a promising weekend by posting his first win in the APA Division and placed his third consecutive top three finish. After losing in a playoff and finished alone in second in both of Saturday's performances, Taylor led wire-to-wire from the opening round and won his first APA tournament by posting a three-shot win over defending champion Brian Hutchins. Taylor shot rounds of 25, 28, and 26 to finish the event with a score of 79. Hutchins finished in second at 82, and Todd Trent placed third on Sunday at 83.

This course will be contested later this season as the tour will be playing its 17th annual South Carolina State Championship in September.

The next weekend on the South Carolina tour is scheduled for the weekend of September 13 & 14 in Augusta, Georgia. Two separate tournaments will be played that weekend and the combined score of the two will be used to determine the Georgia State Championship, being defended this year by Randy Reeves. All action is on the Blue Course and will get underway at 12:00 p.m. on Saturday, September 13 and 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, September 14.

Tournament recap provided by Opie Roberts and scores provided by Rick Rybaczek..

		Round				SC Tour	Prize
	Player	1	2	3	Total	Points	Money
1	Rick Culverhouse	25	24	28	77	40.00	$ 120.00
2	Robert Johnson	26	28	26	80	37.00	$ 80.00
3	Rick Baird	25	27	29	81	35.50	$ 60.00
	Tony Pack	28	25	28	81	35.50	$ 60.00
5	Dan Anders	26	30	26	82	33.00	$ 45.00
	Tony Varnadore	27	26	29	82	33.00	$ 45.00
	Greg Ward	27	27	28	82	33.00	$ 45.00
8	Gary Moore	29	26	28	83	30.50	$ 38.00
	Randy Reeves	30	28	28	83	30.50	$ 38.00
10	Andy Coradini	27	27	30	84	27.50	$ 27.00
	Michael Hitt	30	25	29	84	27.50	$ 27.00
	Vance Randall	30	25	29	84	27.50	$ 27.00
	Rick Rybaczek	31	28	25	84	27.50	$ 27.00
14	Lewis Burton	31	27	27	85	23.50
	Todd Fowler	29	27	29	85	23.50
	Opie Roberts	31	28	26	85	23.50
	Frank Warren	30	27	28	85	23.50
18	Robby Bryant	30	29	27	86	20.50
	Steve Lyon	29	27	30	86	20.50
20	Darrell Britt	29	29	29	87	18.00
	Jay Klapper	31	29	27	87	18.00
	Allen Wall	30	27	30	87	18.00
23	Gary English	28	28	32	88	16.00
24	Tony Jackson	30	34	29	93	15.00

		Round				SC Tour	Expense
	Player	1	2	3	Total	Points	Reimb.
1	Russell Taylor	25	28	26	79	20.00	$10.00
2	Brian Hutchins	26	29	27	82	17.00	$10.00
3	Todd Trent	29	28	26	83	16.00	$10.00
4	Chris Hudson	28	30	26	84	15.00
5	Christopher Alley	28	27	30	85	13.50
	Larry Hoover	30	28	27	85	13.50
7	Walter Kolb	29	29	31	89	12.00
8	Jeff Carr	29	28	34	91	10.50
	Terry Hendrix	29	31	31	91	10.50
10	Ricky D. Schults	33	28	32	93	9.00
11	Lynn Self	31	34	29	94	7.50
	Larry Smith	29	35	30	94	7.50
13	J. L. Coffey	33	31	31	95	6.00
14	Darren Harvey	37	46	37	120	5.00