Durham, NC  (November 3, 2011)  -  Jim Stanley of Raleigh, a 13 year veteran of the Senior Amateur Golf Tour, and Durham's Bill McGee, a Tour rookie this season who has enjoyed recent success in the C Flight, finished tied at the Duke University Golf Club after 18 holes with identical 90s for the Flight lead.  As in all Senior Tour events, these combatants headed out for extra holes in a sudden-death format.

Both bogied the 1st playoff hole and it looked like Stanley was in good shape to come away with the win as they both reached the green on their 2nd hole in the same number of strokes - Stanley 12 feet away and McGee barely on the green with a putt of over 60 feet.  But as happens all the time in golf, the tables can turn quickly.  McGee hit his lag putt to within 2 feet.  Stanley said "I just got greedy then - I went to firm in my 12 footer and ran it 4 feet past, missed the comebacker and just handed the win to Bill".

Franklinton's Bob Williams cruised to a 2-shot win in the Championship Flight with a 73, edging out Cary's James Dill and Jim Guidici of Carrboro.  By far the widest margin of victory came in the B Flight competition, as Durham's Twig Avent fired the second lowest round of the event with a 75, good for a 5 stroke margin over Charles Smith, another Durham resident.  "Both of these guys have placed well recently in Tour play" stated Tour Director Bruce Hallenbeck, but Twig's score today was still pretty remarkable, considering how scores were up all over the board.  This course was in perfect shape, but it did play tough".

In A Flight play Zebulon's Gus Alford continued his stellar play of late with a 77 that nipped John East of Rockingham by a single stroke.  "Alford has come around late in the season and is a factor in every event he enters" noted Hallenbeck.

The Seniors will wrap up the 2011 season on November 15th & 16th in  Pinehurst with the National Senior Amateur Golf Tour Finals which will bring the top players together from the 12 Senior Tours up and down the East Coast.  "Our guys are ready" stated Hallenbeck. "We're gonna show 'em how we play golf in Carolina".

THE SENIOR AMATEUR GOLF TOUR

DUKE UNIVERSITY GOLF CLUB EVENT

TOP FIVE SCORES BY FLIGHT

CHAMPIONSHIP  (6365 yrds)

Bob Williams, Franklinton  73

James Dill, Cary  75

Jim Guidici, Carrboro  75

Doug Michal, Raleigh  77

Chuck Taubersmith, Pinehurst  78

A  FLIGHT  (6002 yards)

Gus Alford, Zebulon  77

John East, Rockingham  78

Joe Cox, Apex  79

Turner Church, Gibsonville  81

Dexter Barbee, Burlington  81

B  FLIGHT  (6002 yards)

Twig Avent, Durham  75

Charles Smith, Durham  80

Tim Ward, Grensboro  83

Mark Campanella, Greensboro  84

James Herndon, Hamlet  86

Travis Jones, Greensboro  86

Tom Whatley, Durham  86

C  FLIGHT  (6002 yards)

Bill McGee, Durham  90

James Stanley, Raleigh  90

Barry Whitesell, Greensboro  92

WE Heasley, Denton  93

James Eatmon, Sims  95