WEB.COM TOUR STORYLINES – Week of July 16th

The Web.com Tour is off this week. Next week begins a run of 13 tournaments in 14 weeks that will culminate in late October at the season-ending Web.com Tour Championship at TPC Craig Ranch near Dallas, Texas.

WIN NO. 9 FOR ZACH, NO. 336 FOR TOUR – 2003 Web.com Tour Player of the Year ’s win on Sunday at the John Deere Classic was his second of 2012 and ninth career PGA TOUR title. It was the 16 th time a Web.com Tour alum has won on TOUR this year, raising the all-time alumni win total to 336. With two wins on the year, the Iowa native enters the Player of the Year conversation. (1996) and Jim Furyk (2010) were the first two players to earn the honor on both tours.

DOUG LABELLE II WINS FOR SECOND TIME IN 200 th EVENT – With his win on Sunday at the Championship, Doug LaBelle II played his way into the picture to return to the PGA TOUR next year. The Michigan native improved 78 spots to 14 th on the Web.com Tour money list. It was his 200 th Tour start. LaBelle’s first Tour win came in 2006 at the Price Cutter Charity Championship in Springfield, Mo. He played the PGA TOUR full time in 2007 and 2008, earning nearly $1 million.

BEST WEEK EVER FOR – Sam Saunders enjoyed his best finish in a PGA TOUR- sanctioned event at Willow Creek Country Club on Sunday, a T2. The 24-year-old’s previous top performance was a T5 in May at the BMW Charity Pro-Am. Saunders is now 34 th on the money list with 11 starts under his belt, up from 67 th last week. “Even though I didn’t get the win, to make that putt was big for the rest of the year,” he said of his eight-foot come backer for par on the 72 nd hole.

MORGAN HOFFMANN CLIMBING THE LADDER – Non-member Morgan Hoffmann continued to take advantage of his Web.com Tour opportunities last week in Utah. The former Oklahoma State University All- American and 2009 Walker Cup team member Monday qualified to get in the Tour’s last event, the United Leasing Championship, where he finished T4. Four birdies over the last seven holes on Sunday led to a T9 finish. Players who have top-25 finishes on the Web.com Tour earn spots into the next tournament. Thus, Hoffmann is entered in next week’s Nationwide Children’s Hospital Invitational at Ohio State University’s Scarlet Course. The 22-year-old from New Jersey has already competed in the event as an All-American invitee with success – in 2009 (T8) and 2010 (T9). Hoffmann has made the cut in all five of his 2012 starts. He is 69 th in earnings.

FIVE DESTINED TO EARN WEB.COM TOUR STATUS VIA NEW PGA TOUR LATINOAMÉRICA – The PGA TOUR Policy Board recently announced that the top-five players on this year’s final PGA TOUR Latinoamérica Order of Merit will earn Web.com Tour status for the 2013 season. The Tour’s leading money winner will be fully exempt, with the next four earners receiving highly-placed conditional status. The 11-event 2012 season begins in September. The new tour will afford players in the region an opportunity to improve and advance to the Web.com Tour, which, beginning in 2013, will be the pathway to earn access to the PGA TOUR via its 50 available TOUR cards. The Web.com Tour first brought PGA

TOUR-level golf to the region in 2004. The upcoming PGA TOUR Latinoamérica qualifying school will be held July 30-Aug. 3 at the White Course at Doral Golf Resort & Spa in Miami.

TRUE SOUTH CLASSIC ROLL CALL - This week’s True South Classic on the PGA TOUR has a field of 132 players. Of those 132, all but 16 have Web.com Tour roots. The past champions list for the Jackson, Miss.-based event features numerous Tour alumni, including the last six champions, beginning with defending champion .

MID-YEAR LEADERS – The was the 14 th of 27 events, effectively bringing us to the halfway mark of the 2012 Web.com Tour season. The following players lead their respective category:

• Money Leader – Paul Haley II ($245,898) • Driving Distance – Luke List (324.3 yards) • Driving Accuracy – Craig Bowden (78.52%) • Total Driving – Nicholas Thompson (36) • Putting Average – B.J. Staten (1.720) • Scoring Average – (69.49) • Greens In Regulation – (75.49%) • Top-10 Finishes – Justin Hicks (5) • Birdie Average – (4.23) • Longest Drive – Christopher DeForest (380 yards) • YTD Consecutive Cuts – Justin Hicks, (7) • All-Around Ranking – Scott Gardiner (177)

In addition: • Tyrone Van Aswegen is the midseason “bubble boy” at No. 25. • , who nearly earned his card last year but finished 27 th on the money list, currently sits on the same number. • With one fewer event last year (26 vs. 27 this year), the 25 th and final card went to Billy Hurley III , with earnings of $180,191. Currently, five players have earnings exceeding that figure (5- , $194,695). With one more event on the 2012 schedule, there is an additional $525,000 in prize money to play for in “The 25” quest. • Of the 14 winners this year, seven have been in their 20s (including two-time winner ), five in their 30s and one in his 40s. Paul Haley II is the youngest (24 years, 1 month, 21 days) and Skip Kendall the oldest (47 years, 5 months, 10 days). • The leading money winners this year have been Skip Kendall (four weeks), (3), Luke List (3) and Paul Haley II (4). • There have been nine first-time winners and two rookie winners ( Paul Haley II and Hudson Swafford ). • The margin of victory has been: three events won in a playoff, six by 1 stroke, three by 2 strokes, one by 3 strokes and one by 8 strokes. • The low 18-hole score of the year is 61 (-9) by Matt Harmon at the TPC Stonebrae Championship. Five other players shot 62 (also -9). • The low 72-hole score is 260 (-24) by Casey Wittenberg at the Chitimacha Louisiana Open. • The largest winning margin is eight by Casey Wittenberg at the same tournament. • There have been 13 aces this year and four double eagles.

JAMIE LOVEMARK – In 2010, enjoyed one of the best seasons in Web.com Tour history. As a 22-year-old rookie he became the Tour’s youngest Player of the Year and its youngest leading money winner. His joy did not carry over to the PGA TOUR though. Back issues, which he began experiencing at the end of his 2010 Web.com Tour season, led to back surgery in his rookie season. He was sidelined from April 2011 until January of this year. The 2007 NCAA individual champion and Award winner (college golf’s best player) out of the University of Southern California made 16 starts on a Major Medical Extension this year but fell short of the $633,473 he needed to retain his PGA TOUR playing privileges. Look for Lovemark to return to the Web.com Tour where he’s already made two starts this year.

MUSTACHE WEEK – And the winner is…. James Nitties ! The Aussie won the sixth annual Mustache Week contest held last week at the Utah Championship. How in the world did Andres Gonzales not win!?

NCHI UPDATE – Former U.S. Open champion and 2011 Walker Cupper Peter Uhlein has withdrawn from next week’s Nationwide Children’s Hospital Invitational due to a scheduling conflict. He will be replaced in the field by Second-Team All-American Ben Kohles of the University of Virginia.

DID YOU KNOW? – Sam Saunder ’s grandfather, , also tied for second in a TOUR- sanctioned event in Utah, played about 10 miles from Willow Creek Country Club. In 1958, Palmer finished second by a shot to Dow Finsterwald at the Utah Open.

BIRTHDAY BOYS – Celebrating birthdays this week are Jason Enloe (16 th /turns 39), Peter Lonard (17 th /45), Aaron Goldberg (19 th /27), Robert Gamez (21 st /44) and David Lingmerth (22 nd /25).

NEXT WEEK – Ohio State University’s Scarlet Course in Columbus will host the sixth Nationwide Children’s Hospital Invitational (July 26-29). As it has every year, the event will feature a select group of this year’s college All-American golfers, plus reigning U.S. Amateur champion Kelly Kraft .

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