SOUTHERN AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP
2008


Stanley Wins 102nd Southern Amateur In Playoff

 

ORLANDO, FL --  In a comeback of heroic proportions, Clemson junior Kyle Stanley overcame an 8-shot deficit over the final two rounds and holed a 35-foot birdie on the first playoff hole to win the 102nd Southern Amateur Championship at Lake Nona C.C.

    

Ranked No. 3 among the world's amateurs, Stanley posted a 14-under-par 274 and was the leader in the clubhouse for nearly two hours waiting to see if that score would hold up. He was tied at 274 by Florida amateur champ Jude Eustaquio of Lake Worth and Pennsylvanian Mike Van Sickle. While the latter pair could manage only pars on the hole, Stanley rolled in his birdie to join such elite golf names as Bobby Jones, Lanny Wadkins, Vinny Giles and Justin Leonard on the short list of players who have won the storied old tournament more than once. "That's such an honor to join that list," said Stanley, who won the Southern Am two years ago in Birmingham.

      

The victory also earned him a return trip next spring to play in the PGA Tour's Arnold Palmer Invitational, which awards a berth to the Southern Am winner each year.

      

 "I can hardly describe the feeling. Winning a tournament like this is so great," said Stanley, who was not as chipper after bogies on two of the first three holes in his third round, dropping him 8 shots behind the leaders. From that point on, he was 13-under par over his closing 34 holes, including the playoff.

     

South Carolina All-SEC golfer George Bryan, FSU's Matt Savage and Australian Tim Stewart finished two shots back at 276. Bryan tied the Lake Nona course record with a sizzling, 9-under-par 63, becoming the first amateur to go that low. Blake Trimble of San Diego had lowered the amateur mark to 64 a day earlier. As a measure of the field's strength, the previous Lake Nona amateur record of 65 was matched or bettered eight times during the tournament. .

    

The 103rd Southern Am will be played at Colonial C.C. in Memphis next July.

102nd Southern Amateur, Lake Nona Club, Par 72, 7,165 yards.

Complete Results.

1   Kyle Stanley   -14 70 71 67   66   274
2   Mike Van Sickle   -14 69 69 69   67   274
3   Judson Eustaquio   -14 66 70 71   67   274
4   Matt Savage   -12 70 66 70   70   276
5   George Bryan   -12 70 70 73   63   276
6   Tim Stewart   -12 68 69 70   69   276
7   Mark Harrell   -10 70 65 72   71   278
8   Jay Moseley   -10 71 69 68   70   278
9   Matt Jager   -10 69 67 70   72   278
10   Blake Trimble   -10 71 69 64   74   278
11   Sam Saunders   -9 69 68 71   71   279
12   Andres Echavarria   -9 71 65 72   71   279
13   Hunter Hamrick   -9 70 68 71   70   279
14   Rory Hie   -7 69 68 71   73   281
15   Kyle Ellis   -6 70 69 71   72   282
16   Tyson Alexander   -6 71 65 71   75   282
17   Scott Arnold   -5 71 69 70   73   283
18   Taylor Hall   -5 70 66 73   74   283
19   Justin Roach   -5 68 67 74   74   283
20   Andrew Georgiou   -5 72 69 65   77   283
21   Daniel Meggs   -4 70 72 71   71   284
22   Matthew Swan   -4 70 70 68   76   284
23   Tim Schaetzel   -4 65 72 72   75   284
24   Carl Santos-Ocampo   -3 70 70 75   70   285
25   Matthew Giles   -3 72 71 72   70   285
26   Josh Gallman   -3 69 74 69   73   285
27   Russell Henley   -2 71 71 75   69   286
28   Greg Forest   -2 75 69 70   72   286
29   Jhonattan Vegas   -2 72 69 72   73   286
30   Tim McKenney   -2 65 74 73   74   286
31   Danny Lee   -1 70 74 74   69   287
32   Nico Geyger   -1 69 72 74   72   287
33   Sihwan Kim   -1 71 72 70   74   287
34   Mu Hu   -1 70 73 71   73   287
35   Seung-su Han   Even 73 71 75   69   288
36   Rob Butler   Even 74 70 73   71   288
37   Jordan Payne   Even 73 72 70   73   288
38   Roberto Diaz   +1 73 72 71   73   289
39   Trey Denton   +1 75 66 75   73   289
40   Travis Woolf   +1 70 73 71   75   289
41   Robert Lindstrom   +2 71 73 79   67   290
42   Cheng-Tsung Pan   +2 75 70 72   73   290
43   Samuel Chavez   +2 71 69 76   74   290
44   Caleb Marsh   +3 70 70 76   75   291
45   Michael Foster   +3 72 71 69   79   291
46   Bank Vongvanij   +3 71 74 70   76   291
47   Robbie Wight   +3 72 72 72   75   291
48   Mark Johnson   +3 69 70 73   79   291
49   Marc France   +4 70 72 76   74   292
50   Blake Trimble   +4 71 71 72   78   292
51   Jeff Golden   +4 73 71 73   75   292
52   Seath Lauer   +5 75 69 75   74   293
53   Byron White   +5 72 73 75   73   293
54   Jonathan Mathias   +5 74 70 71   78   293
55   Rhys Enoch   +6 71 73 79   71   294
56   Chandler Cocco   +6 71 72 77   74   294
57   Matt Hughes   +6 74 66 80   74   294
58   Gregory Huxman   +6 71 74 73   76   294
59   Hunter Townsend   +6 75 69 70   80   294
60   Hudson Swafford   +6 65 71 77   81   294
61   Jason Flowers   +7 72 73 82   68   295
62   Ray Beaufils   +7 71 72 75   77   295
63   Logan Blondell   +8 72 72 76   76   296
64   Andrew Noto   +8 69 76 72   79   296
65   Nick Mullhaupt   +11 71 73 79   76   299
Failed to Make Cut
66   Darren Blair   DQ 72 73 77   DQ   DQ
67   J.T. Griffin   WD 70 75 WD       WD
T68   Clay Homan   +2 76 70         146
T68   Michael Jensen   +2 73 73         146
T68   Jin Jeong   +2 73 73         146
T68   Derek Rende   +2 71 75         146
T68   J. Schoolmeesters   +2 74 72         146
T68   Will Strickler   +2 74 72         146
T68   Peter Uihlein   +2 77 69         146
T68   Harrison Cuevas   +2 73 73         146
T68   Dylan Raines   +2 74 72         146
T68   Ryan LeFevre   +2 73 73         146
T68   Robert Burrow   +2 73 73         146
T68   Jarrod Barsamain   +2 74 72         146
T68   Michael Buttacavoli   +2 76 70         146
T81   Wesley Graham   +3 75 72         147
T81   Luke Guthrie   +3 78 69         147
T81   Phillip Mollica   +3 75 72         147
T81   Aaron Stewart   +3 77 70         147
T81   Brian Whittle   +3 77 70         147
T81   Sean Goshert   +3 74 73         147
T81   Ken Looper III   +3 71 76         147
T81   Michael Barbosa   +3 75 72         147
T89   Tom Glissmeyer   +4 71 77         148
T89   Mark Ogren   +4 70 78         148
T89   Will Swift   +4 73 75         148
T89   Austin Hannah   +4 79 69         148
T89   Justin Walker   +4 73 75         148
T89   Paul Haley   +4 75 73         148
T89   Wes Carter   +4 75 73         148
T89   Cole Willis   +4 75 73         148
T89   Michael Mulieri   +4 77 71         148
T89   Robert Robertson   +4 73 75         148
T89   Bryan Haase   +4 72 76         148
T89   Freddie Janneck   +4 72 76         148
T89   Nicholas Smith   +4 77 71         148
T89   Cedric Scotto   +4 73 75         148
T103   Dan Crockett   +5 76 73         149
T103   Shaun O'Meara   +5 74 75         149
T103   Grant Scott   +5 72 77         149
T103   John Fox   +5 72 77         149
T103   Bradley Ruch   +5 71 78         149
T103   Scott Kelly   +5 76 73         149
T103   Paul Apyan   +5 74 75         149
T103   Spence Fulford   +5 77 72         149
T103   Brent Paul   +5 77 72         149
T103   Bill Jones   +5 75 74         149
T103   Ferdinand Aunzo   +5 73 76         149
T103   Rocky Cleland   +5 75 74         149
T115   Julian Etulain   +6 72 78         150
T115   Drew Kittleson   +6 77 73         150
T115   Mike McRae   +6 79 71         150
T115   Adam Weinstein   +6 74 76         150
T115   David Tobon   +6 75 75         150
T115   John Stembridge   +6 74 76         150
T121   David Holmes   +7 72 79         151
T121   Glenn Northcutt   +7 77 74         151
T121   Thomas Lathrop   +7 76 75         151
T121   Kenny Wilson   +7 77 74         151
T121   Kelly Manders   +7 81 70         151
T121   Robert Plucienski   +7 74 77         151
T121   Brad Simons   +7 73 78         151
T128   Juan Carlos Cortes   +8 73 79         152
T128   Scott Pralle   +8 76 76         152
T128   Michael Saari   +8 77 75         152
T128   Ed McDugle   +8 79 73         152
T132   Michael Hicks   +9 77 76         153
T132   John Robinson   +9 79 74         153
T132   Gator Todd   +9 74 79         153
T132   Jeff Warren   +9 77 76         153
T132   Warren Thomas   +9 74 79         153
T132   Cody Klein   +9 77 76         153
T132   Henry Zaytoun III   +9 78 75         153
T139   Jason Scrivener   +10 79 75         154
T139   Justin Jones   +10 77 77         154
T139   Charlie Harrison   +10 78 76         154
T139   Bryan Harris   +10 76 78         154
T139   Mitch Krywulycz   +10 73 81         154
144   James Sacheck   +11 80 75         155
T145   Bud Cauley   +12 74 82         156
T145   Jack Freeman   +12 81 75         156
T145   Clark Taylor   +12 74 82         156
T145   Carter Newman   +12 78 78         156
T149   Joey Davis   +13 79 78         157
T149   Travis Wadkins   +13 76 81         157
T149   Kyle Pritchard   +13 82 75         157
T149   Sam Beach   +13 75 82         157
T153   Eddie Craven   +14 75 83         158
T153   Will Oldham   +14 72 86         158
T153   Tyler Hock   +14 72 86         158
T153   Chadd Reynolds   +14 77 81         158
T157   Jordan Wynn   +15 78 81         159
T157   Colin List   +15 78 81         159
T159   Michael Levy   +16 87 73         160
T159   Olin Browne   +16 79 81         160
161   Matthew Langan   +17 82 79         161
162   Parker Beck   +25 80 89         169
163   Broc Raymond   +33 90 87         177
164   Patrick Reed   WD 74 WD         WD
T165   Dylan Waters   WD 78 WD         WD
T165   Mike Stern   WD 78 WD         WD
T166   Greg Norman   WD WD           WD
168   Zach Lee   WD WD           WD