Aberdeen, NC – (January 26, 2008) - Chilly temperatures greeted 113 golfers at The Legacy Golf Links today as The egolf Amateur Golf Tour and The Harris Teeter Senior Amateur Tour got off to a flying start on the 2008 season. Due to a heavy cloud cover, conditions didn’t change much as the round progressed. However, a number of Tour members posted mid-season scores despite the cold. In the Championship Flight Gene Queen of Advance and Charlotte’s Dave Schmidt, playing from the 7,018 yard back tees, both shot 1-over 73s to tie for the top spot in the Flight. Queen survived the playoff on the 432 yard, par 4, 18th hole, acknowledged as one of the toughest finishing holes in the entire Pinehurst area. Schmidt had a tough time on the hole, finishing with a double bogey, while Queen’s 5 was enough to take the win. Two Greensboro golfers finished 1 – 2 in the A Flight as Tim Thilo edged Eddie Trent by a single stroke with a 75. Both played from shorter tees than the Championship boys. Chris Hensley of Wake Forest was the only B Flight member to break 80, and he managed that feat by the narrowest of margins with a 79. That single stoke was all that separated him from Winston-Salem’s Butch Clark, who was competing in his first Tour event. Another Tour “rookie” who enjoyed great success Saturday was Burlington’s Jerry Weldon. He not only won his inaugural event “on-Tour”, but his 82 enabled him to be the only Harris Teeter Senior Tour member to take home a victory at The Legacy. Clayton’s Paul Haydon shot his best score in 26 Tour events over the last two years to capture 2nd with an 83. One of the fun features of this event, which is the only one all season that is comprised of both Harris Teeter Senior Tour members as well as egolf Tour guys, is the team competition between the two Tours. To figure a winner in this contest, the scores of the top two finishers in each flight from both of the respective Tours are added, with the lowest total emerging with “bragging rights” for the entire season. In an unprecedented result, the team competition wound up in a tie, with the 8 best scores used to calculate a winner adding up to exactly 633 strokes for each of the Tours! “Because of the tie, I’m going to put an extra $100.00 into the skins pool of each Tour at their first regular season event”, said Tour Director Bruce Hallenbeck. “These guys played too hard in pretty tough conditions to not be rewarded in some way for their efforts”. TOP FIVE SCORES BY FLIGHT EGOLF AND HARRIS TEETER SR TOURS THE LEGACY – PRESEASON EVENT – 1/26/08 CHAMPIONSHIP Gene Queen, Advance 73 Dave Schmidt, Charlotte 73 Dave Williams, Raleigh 75 Ken Eichele, Pinehurst 75 MacShane Bateman, Aberdeen 77 A FLIGHT Tim Thilo, Greensboro 75 Eddie Trent, Greensboro 75 William Hiner, Pinehurst 77 Wiley Barrett, Southern Pines 77 Ed Reese, Aberdeen 78 Eddie Sanderlin, Pinehurst 78 Bob McQueen, Hope Mills 78 B FLIGHT Chris Hensley, Wake Forest 79 Butch Clark, Winston-Salem 80 Jerry Williams, Mt Gilead 81 Tom Kubla, Pinehurst 82 Jeff Posey, Greensboro 82 C FLIGHT Jerry Weldon, Burlington 82 Paul Haydon, Clayton 83 Jim Hestikind, Myrtle Beach 84 Danny Keever, High Point 87 Jack Frazier, Clemmons 88 CHAMPIONSHIP FLIGHT E 1 Queen, Gene(T) 73 E 1 Schmidt, Dave 73 E 2 Eichele, Ken(F) 75 E 2 Williams, David (R) 75 E 3 Bateman, MacShane(T) 77 E 4 Shackelford, David 78 E 5 Baker, Johnny(R) 79 E 6 King, Tracey(R) 80 E 6 Shaver, Larry(F) 80 E 7 Allison, Curtis(T) 81 E 7 Hagstrom, Todd(R) 81 E 7 Shadwick, George 81 E 8 Cotton, David 83 E 8 Hundley, Deane(F) 83 E 8 Tabat, Don 83 E 9 Moore, James 85 E 10 Norris, Gary(R) 87 E 10 Rose, Mike 87 E 11 Thomas, Jared(R) 88 "A" FLIGHT Flight Pos Name Score A 1 Thilo, Tim(T) 75 A 2 Trent, Eddie 76 A 3 Barrett, Wiley 77 A 3 Hiner, William(F) 77 A 4 McQueen, Bob(F) 78 A 4 Reese, Ed(F) 78 A 4 Sanderlin, Eddie 78 A 5 Baez, Ben 79 A 5 Barnette, Dudley(R) 79 A 6 Dockery, James(F) 80 A 6 Harmon, Paul(R) 80 A 6 Hollinger, Fred(R) 80 A 7 Greenawalt, Gene 81 A 8 Harlow, Dick 82 A 8 Neverve, Robin(F) 82 A 9 Clougherty, Conor(R) 83 A 9 Lockley, Cecil(R) 83 A 9 Messner, John(R) 83 A 9 Morrelli, Steve(F) 83 A 9 Walker, Greg(R) 83 A 10 Miranda, Ray 84 A 10 Ro, Gil 84 A 11 Randolph, Ron 85 A 12 Gerhard, Chris 86 A 13 Moriarty, Moe 87 A 14 Skobo, Dick 89 A 15 Grabus, Greg (R) 90 A 15 Inoue, Noriyoshi 90 A 16 Blowe, John 91 A 17 Grendel, Doug 98 A 17 Howard, Steve 98 "B" FLIGHT B 1 Hensley, Chris (R) 79 B 2 Clark, Butch 80 B 3 Williams, Jerry 81 B 4 Kubla, Tom(F) 82 B 4 Posey, Jeff(T) 82 B 5 Andrews, Rob(T) 83 B 5 Martin, Gene(R) 83 B 5 Randall, David(F) 83 B 6 Brown, Jeff 84 B 6 Ward, Tim(T) 84 B 7 Bleau, Neil 86 B 7 Knowles, Jaime 86 B 8 Ackley, Wayne(R) 88 B 8 Hill, Carl(R) 88 B 9 Hagwood, Darrell 89 B 9 Hawkins, Mike (R) 89 B 9 Whalen, Dan(T) 89 B 10 Harwood, Ralph 90 B 10 Schmitz, Mike(R) 90 B 10 Tracey, Steve 90 B 11 Blakely, Steven(T) 91 B 11 Hinson, Mike(C) 91 B 11 McMinis, Richard(R) 91 B 11 Schmanke, David(R) 91 B 11 Turbeville, Wayne(F) 91 B 12 Couick, Bill(T) 92 B 12 Germain, Mike(R) 92 B 13 Baker, Arthur 93 B 13 Snow, Ron(T) 93 B 14 Upchurch, Darien 94 B 15 Conway, Mike 96 B 16 Murphy, Clark 98 B 17 Patton, Kent 99 "C" FLIGHT C 1 Weldon, Jerry 82 C 2 Haydon, Paul(R) 83 C 3 Hestikind, Jim 84 C 4 Keever, Danny(T) 87 C 5 Frazier, Jack 88 C 6 Bradley, Jeff(R) 91 C 6 McKean, George(R) 91 C 7 Robertson, Joe 92 C 7 Smith, Jason(T) 92 C 8 Dollar, Jimmy(R) 94 C 8 Thomas, Mike(F) 94 C 9 Carr, Randy(R) 95 C 9 Davis, Shirral(R) 95 C 10 Rucker, Dale(F) 96 C 10 Williams, Howard(T) 96 C 11 Postlethwait, Greg 97 C 12 Carson, Corey(T) 98 C 12 Schenkel, Ray 98 C 13 Rilling, Rus(T) 99 C 14 Burke, Art(R) 100 C 15 Eatmon, James 102 C 15 Wilkes, Landon(R) 102 C 16 Green, Greg(R) 103 C 17 Carpenter, Phil 104 C 17 Thomas, Keith(T) 104 C 18 Ransom, Gary(R) 105 C 18 Rodriguez, Howard 105 C 19 Workman, Mike(T) 109 C 20 Mills, Michael 124