Sanford, NC (August 9, 2008) - It was barely 2 months ago that Joe Durrance of Carrboro was having a hard time breaking into the top 3 in the B Flight, but since a narrow loss in a playoff at the Egolf Tour's last "Major" at Chapel Ridge GC in Pittsboro, Durrance has been on a tear. His consistency enabled him to win a number of times, and due to the low scores he generated, his Tour handicap dropped into A Flight range coming into this week's event at Carolina Trace (The Creek Course). Undaunted by any pressure that might accompany a promotion of this sort, Durrance calmly went out and recorded a win in his first A Flight start. Durrance's 76 on the par 72, 6,336 yard track was 4-strokes better than a couple of Tour A Flight veterans - Raleigh's Rob Reynolds and Kenny Smith of Randleman. Both of whom have enjoyed winning starts "on-Tour" in past events. "He handled the pressure beautifully", said Tour Director Bruce Hallenbeck. "Most guys generally don't get off to a quick start in their new flight after a promotion of this nature, but it didn't seem to bother Joe a bit". As it turned out, Durrance's margin of victory in the A Flight was the largest of the 4 flights in the field today as 2 flights had to go to extra holes for a sudden death playoff to determine the winner, while the remaining flight saw a single stroke victory. In the Championship Flight Nathan Bailey of Greensboro took one extra hole to nip Selma's Tracey King after both posted regulation 74s. It was also a single hole playoff that deteremined the B Flight winner as Apex' David Schmanke shot 82 and then prevailed over Greensboro's Tim Ward in that playoff. Mike Thomas of Pittsboro continued his impressive play of late, grabbing a C Flight win over Madison's Rus Rilling - 85 to 86. THE EGOLF AMATEUR GOLF TOUR CAROLINA TRACE (CREEK COURSE) EVENT TOP FIVE SCORES BY FLIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP (6,850 YDS) Nathan Bailey, Greensboro 74 Tracey King, Selma 74 Brad Morris, Raleigh 84 A FLIGHT (6,336 yds) Joe Durrance, Carrboro 76 Rob Reynolds, Raleigh 80 Kenny Smith, Randleman 80 Bobby Elder, Randleman 87 Bill Barnes, Aberdeen 89 B FLIGHT (6,336 yds) David Schmanke, Apex 82 Tim Ward, Greensboro 82 Richard Pfister, Pittsboro 86 Mike Hawkins, Pittsboro 87 Richard McMinis, Raleigh 89 C FLIGHT (6,336 yds) Mike Thomas, Pittsboro 85 Rus Rilling, Madison 86 Jack Frazier, Clemmons 88 Jesse Ingle, Gibsonville 92 Charles Powell, Pittsboro 92