SBC Senior Classic breakdown



ESPN Golf Online
Sunday, October 29

Details
When Friday-Sunday
Course Wilshire Country Club, Los Angeles
Par/Yardage Par 71; 6,583 yards
Purse $1.4 million (Winner: $210,000)
1999 champion Joe Inman
Tournament record 18-under 195 (Ray Floyd, 1992)
Television Friday: 4-6 p.m. ET (ESPN)
Saturday-Sunday: 5:30-7 p.m. ET (ESPN)

The tournament
  Hole by hole
  Hole Par Yards
  1 4 394
  2 5 532
  3 4 351
  4 3 197
  5 4 379
  6 4 437
  7 3 144
  8 4 388
  9 4 429
  Out 35 3251
  10 4 360
  11 4 411
  12 3 194
  13 5 514
  14 4 321
  15 5 555
  16 4 371
  17 4 444
  18 3 162
  In 36 3332
  Total 71 6583
There's plenty on the line for a handful of players at the final full-field event of the 2000 season.

With the season-ending Tour Championship next week in Myrtle Beach, S.C., the battle will be intense in Los Angeles to finish in the top 31 on the money list and earn a place in the field.

One of those in the thick of the battle is Gary McCord, the 1999 Tour Championship winner who must move up the money list if he hopes to defend his title. McCord sits at No. 32 on the money list, a little more than $8,000 behind Graham Marsh.

Both are in the field this week in Los Angeles, along with everybody else just above and just below the magic No. 31. That number will not only get players into the Tour Championship, but it will guarantee them a playing card for 2001.

McCord is also chasing a piece of history. Should he fail to crack the top 31, he would become the first Tour Championship winner unable to defend his title the following year.

While the tournament within the tournament will garner plenty of attention, there are other storylines this week in Los Angeles.

Joe Inman will be chasing his third consecutive title of this event, which had been known as the Pacific Bell Classic in recent years. Those wins mark the only two victories of his Senior Tour career.

Inman is closing in on a Senior Tour record as the week begins. He starts the week with a remarkable string of playing 91 consecutive holes without a bogey. The all-time Senior Tour record is 97, set by Jack Kiefer in 1994.

Another two-time champion of this event, Gil Morgan, brings his own streak into the tournament. Morgan has played 30 consecutive rounds under par, a Senior Tour record. He also has a shot over the next two weeks to reach $2 million in earnings for the season, joining Larry Nelson, Bruce Fleisher and Hale Irwin at that figure.

With Fleisher taking the week off, Nelson will all but wrap up the money title this week. Should he earn at least $18,000, he will build a lead larger than Fleisher can catch at the Tour Championship.

Nelson will also try to continue his own streak in Los Angeles. He brings a Senior Tour record of 32 consecutive rounds at par or better into the tournament.

And Irwin will be chasing the Senior Tour record for all-time victories. His win at Kaanapali last week was the 29th of his career, matching Lee Trevino for the most.
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