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Canadian Tour Spring Q-School Grads For 2009
It was graduation day for six players at the Canadian Tour's Spring Qualifying School on Vancouver Island and leading his class from wire-to-wire was Brady Schnell, whose valedictorian speech was simply, " It’s always fun to win.”
Schnell, the son of an Omaha golf club professional, finished four rounds at (67-70-70-70--277) 11-under par over the Mornigstar Course at Parksville, BC, one stroke better than Matt Marshall who fired a tournament low 66.
“I wanted to keep playing how I had been playing but when Todd (Killingsworth) and Mike (Roters) got into some trouble and went backwards, it took a lot of the pressure off,” said the Nebraska Cornhusker grad.
Schnell, who pocketed $2,000 for the win, began his day with four consecutive pars before bogeying the fifth. He then reeled off birdies at eight, nine, and ten before parring his way in.
“I sort of put it on cruise control after those birdies. My goal was to shoot two under on the back side but then I saw Matt coming up fast and giving me a run,” he continued. “I didn’t quite get to two (under) on the back but it was still enough to win. It’s always fun to win.”
Canadian Jordan Irwin bounced back from yesterday’s 76 with a closing 68 to grab solo third at four under 284 with Mike Rotors (76) and Dave Williamson (74) sharing fourth spot at 285. Despite a final round 74, Jason D’Amore captured the sixth and final exempt spot at 286.
Finishing seventh, eighth, and ninth and earning non-exempt cards were Greg Machtaler (287), Jae Woo Im (288), and Todd Killingsworth (289) who fell to a final round 79. Erik Olson was another stroke back at 290 while the final non-exempt cards at 292 went to Caesar Coello, Mitchell Fox, Brenton Fowler and Kory Storer.
The Canadian Tour begins its Canadian campaign this coming week, stadrting off with the playing of $200,000 Times Colonist Open at Uplands Golf Club in Victoria June 4-7. The following week The West Coast Golf Group will welcome the Tour to the inaugural $150,000 City of Surrey Invitational at Hazelmere Golf & Country Club in South Surrey.
PLAYERS EARNING EXEMPT CARDS
Canadians in BOLD
Brady Schnell
Matt Marshall
Jordan Irwin
Mike Roters
David Williamson
Jason D’Amore
PLAYERS EARNING NON-EXEMPT CARDS IN ORDER OF RANK
Greg Machtaler
Jae Woo Im
Todd Killingsworth
Erik Olson
Caesar Coello
Brenton Fowler
Kory Storer
Mitchell Fox
COMPLETE Q SCHOOL SCORING
MORNINGSTAR GOLF CLUB - - PAR 72, 7,018 yards
Brady Schnell, $2,000 67-70-70-70-----277
Matt Marshall 70-72-70-66-----278
Jordan Irwin 69-71-76-68-----284
Mike Roters 69-69-71-76-----285
David Williamson 69-71-71-74-----285
Jason D’Amore 70-73-69-74-----286
Greg Machtaler 73-75-74-72-----287
Jae Woo Im 68-73-75-72-----288
Todd Killingsworth 68-70-72-79-----289
Erik Olson 69-76-73-72-----290
Mitchell Fox 70-77-71-74-----292
Cesar Coello 79-71-72-70-----292
Brenton Fowler 73-74-70-75-----292
Korey Storer 72-71-73-76-----292
Clint Schiller 77-71-75-71-----294
Roger Sloan 70-71-77-76-----294
Thomas Petersson 70-78-69-77-----294
Trent Peterson (a) 73-84-68-70-----295
Chris Griffin 76-77-71-71-----295
Andrew Jensen 70-75-73-77-----295
Justin Hyun 74-76-75-72-----297
Greg McAuley 76-74-74-73-----297
Daniel Kush 72-71-78-76-----297
Kyle Hansen 75-73-77-73-----298
Justin Madison 73-78-71-76-----298
David Cao (a) 75-68-78-78-----299
Marc Bourgeois 70-79-78-73-----300
James Lee 76-76-75-73-----300
Mark Kitts 73-76-79-72-----300
Jacob Scriven 77-73-75-75-----300
Travis O’Connell (a) 75-74-75-77-----301
Morten Orveland 76-71-78-77-----302
Cody Wolfenbarger (a) 79-78-78-68-----303
Chase Cronk 76-75-74-79-----304
Rhett Colbrese 74-76-74-80-----304
Mark Sider 76-78-77-74-----305
Leonardo Machado 84-73-73-76-----306
Franny Suits III 76-79-76-76-----307
Carl Wakely 81-79-72-75-----307
Todd Ziniuk (a) 74-79-80-75-----308
Nick Kenney 75-76-81-78-----310
Michael Hospodar 79-80-78-73-----310
Dean Gultula 81-80-73-77-----311
Jason Humphrey 73-80-76-82-----311
Stu Dunaway (a) 76-88-78-70-----312
Jeff Mullen 81-82-79-75-----317
Rene Lopez II 76-86-75-83-----320
Jonathan Wiegner (a) 83-85-82-77-----327
Scott Brozena (a) 82-81-92-78-----333
Matt Seifert 77-91-88-81-----337
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