Coldwell Banker Burnet Classic breakdown



ESPN Golf Online
Sunday, August 6

Details
When Friday-Sunday
Course Bunker Hills Golf Club, Coon Rapids, Minn.
Par/Yardage Par 72; 6,909 yards
Purse $1.6 (Winner: $240,000)
1999 champion Hale Irwin
Tournament record 17-under 199 (Hale Irwin, 1997)
Television Friday: 3-5 p.m. ET (ESPN)
Saturday: 2:30-4 p.m. ET (ESPN)
Sunday: 5:30-7 p.m. ET (ESPN)

The tournament
  Hole by hole
  Hole Par Yards
  1 4 425
  2 5 530
  3 3 180
  4 4 365
  5 5 550
  6 4 420
  7 4 400
  8 3 215
  9 4 384
  Out 36 3469
  10 4 410
  11 4 370
  12 5 515
  13 3 200
  14 4 430
  15 4 410
  16 4 410
  17 3 180
  18 5 535
  In 36 3440
  Total 72 6909
Defending champion Hale Irwin looks to tie Lee Trevino's all-time record for Senior Tour victories and regain the top spot on the season money list at the Coldwell Banker Burnet Classic.

After tying for second three times early in the season, Irwin has won three of the last seven tournaments he has entered, giving him 28 Senior Tour victories.

Currently second on the money list, Irwin is in a three-way battle with Bruce Fleisher ($1,837,906) and Larry Nelson ($1,517,150) for the 2000 Arnold Palmer Award, which goes to the Senior Tour money leader.

Irwin, who is coming off a tie for eighth at the Internet Classic two weeks ago, is just behind Fleisher with $1,647,948. He returns to one of his favorite stops on Tour.

He posted a two-stroke victory over Jim Dent last year, winning the Burnet Classic for the second time in three years. He also won in 1997 with a tournament-record 17-under par 199.

Irwin has posted eight straight sub-par rounds at Bunker Hills, recording two wins and a tie for third in 1998 in his last three trips to the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.

Irwin's wins this year have come at the Nationwide Championship, BellSouth Championship and the U.S. Senior Open in early July. He is enjoying another stellar season, finishing out of the top 10 in only three of his 16 tournaments.

Other former Burnet Classic winners entered include Leonard Thompson (1998) and Vicente Fernandez (1996), who has posted 11 consecutive sub-par rounds at Bunker Hills and has never been out of the top 15.

Nelson is entered, but Irwin will not have to battle Fleisher, who is skipping the Burnet Classic after posting a wire-to-wire win last week at the Long Island Classic.

Fleisher has four victories and joins Irwin as the only players with more than two wins this year. Nelson, Gil Morgan, Tom Kite and Doug Tewell are the only two-time winners. Of that latter group, only Kite is not participating this weekend. This is the final Burnet Classic at Bunker Hills. Next year, the tournament moves to the TPC of the Twin Cities in nearby Blaine, Minn. Irwin got a preview of that course on Wednesday when he played in the Senior Slam, an 18-hole event for the previous year's major champions. Allen Doyle won with a 5-under 67.

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