By Greg Robertson
ESPN Golf Online
Sunday, October 8

Details
When	Friday-Sunday
Course	Silverado Resort (South course), Napa, Calif.
Par/Yardage	Par 72; 6,640 yards
Purse	$1.1 million (Winner: $165,000)
1999 champion	Bruce Fleisher
Tournament record	17-under 199 (Bruce Fleisher, 1999)
Television	Friday: 2:30-4 p.m. ET (ESPN) Saturday: 5:30-7 p.m. ET (ESPN) Sunday: 5-7 p.m. ET (ESPN)

The tournament

	Hole by hole
	Hole	Par	Yards
	1	4	366
	2	4	418
	3	3	197
	4	4	372
	5	4	359
	6	4	380
	7	3	191
	8	4	422
	9	5	512
	Out	35	3217
	10	4	361
	11	5	569
	12	4	428
	13	5	495
	14	4	382
	15	3	185
	16	4	330
	17	3	173
	18	5	500
	In	37	3423
	Total	72	6640

Bruce Fleisher has a golden opportunity to make up some ground on red-hot Larry Nelson this week at the Transamerica, the start of the West Coast swing that wraps up the 2000 Senior Tour season.

Nelson has won four of his last five starts to assume the lead on the season money list and an advantage for player of the year. But Nelson is taking the week off, giving Fleisher a chance to make a move on the two marks he earned as a rookie last year.

Fleisher has to like his chances at Silverado. He won this event last year, setting a tournament record of 17-under 199 in the process. His rounds of 66-66-67 gave him a one-shot win over Allen Doyle, and he became the first player since Hugh Baiocchi in the 1998 Comfort Classic to play an entire 54-hole event without making a bogey.

Fleisher trails Nelson on the money list by more than $270,000, so a victory this week would still leave him more than $100,000 shy of Nelson. Both are the only players to surpass $2 million this season so far.

Nelson is taking a break after another win last week in the Vantage Championship, his sixth of the season. It came in a six-hole playoff with Gil Morgan, a fitting pairing since both are on incredible runs of late.

Nelson set a Senior Tour record last week which now stands at 29 consecutive rounds at par or better. Morgan set his own Senior Tour mark as well with 27 consecutive sub-par rounds.

Morgan, who is fourth on the money list, and Hale Irwin, who is third, are joining Fleisher on the sidelines this week. Irwin played his 127th Senior Tour event last week and recorded his 100th top-10 finish.

The Transamerica starts a four-week swing out west, with the tour heading 100 miles east to Sacramento next week for the Raley's Gold Rush Classic. Then it's on to Hawaii for the Kaanapali Classic, followed by the final full-field event of the season in Los Angeles, the Pacific Bell Senior Classic.

Those four events will determine who gets into the season-ending Senior Tour Championship, which takes the top 31 players on the money list. Graham Marsh is the man on the bubble this week with $525,940 in earnings, and he is in the Transamerica field.