PALM CITY, FL (January 14, 2007) – Former Walker Cuppers Trip Kuehne and Danny Green went wire-to-wire to win the title in the 73rd Southern International Four-Ball by three strokes Sunday at The Fox Club. Fighting off a pair of challenges by runners-up Duke Delcher and Chris Stutts, the winners pulled away to as many as a five-shot margin coming down the stretch.
Kuehne-Green posted a final-round 67 to finish at 21-under par 195. Kuehne birdied the 8th and 9th hole – the latter on a 52-foot putt – to open a 4-shot margin at the turn. After Stutts birdied the 10th and Delcher added another at the 11th to pull within two, Kuehne, a Dallas investments exec, turned the matter into a foregone conclusion on the downwind, 540-yard, par-5 12th. He reached the green with a driver, 7-iron, and canned the 10-foot eagle putt.
Green, from Jackson, TN, birdied the next hole to stretch the champs’ lead to five to assure the pair’s first victory in the venerable tournament’s featured Mid-Am division after two near-misses in recent years.
In the Senior Division, John Dennis of Greenville SC and Norman Swenson of Linville NC wiped out the 2-shot overnight lead of Georgians Mike Sprouts and Ron Waeghe to force an extended playoff. Dennis wedged to within a foot on the sixth extra hole for the winning birdie.
Article Courtesy Southern Golf Association
2007 Southern International Four-Ball Championship
Mid-Amateur Division
1 Green/Kuehne -5 F -21 62 66 67 195
2 Delcher/Stutts -3 F -18 63 66 69 198
3 Abell/Norton -7 F -15 67 69 65 201
4 Newsom/Tallent -3 F -13 66 68 69 203
T5 Fadel/O'Connell -3 F -12 70 65 69 204
T5 Crawford/Homan -3 F -12 68 67 69 204
T7 Davis/Jackson -4 F -11 66 71 68 205
T7 Decker/Strange -2 F -11 68 67 70 205
T9 Hall/Noll -6 F -10 71 69 66 206
T9 Elliott/Gerwin -4 F -10 68 70 68 206
T9 Berkmeyer/Hoit Even F -10 66 68 72 206
12 Brame/Brennan Even F -9 68 67 72 207
13 Nichols/Runnels -2 F -8 69 69 70 208
T14 Meares/Parker -3 F -7 70 70 69 209
T14 Wilder/Williamson -2 F -7 69 70 70 209
T16 Nelson/Young -2 F -6 70 70 70 210
T16 Hudson/Hudson Even F -6 68 70 72 210
18 Johnson/Steen -1 F -5 69 71 71 211
Senior Division
* - Won Sudden Death Playoff on 24th Hole.
T1 Dennis/Swenson -* -3 F -14 66 67 69 202
T1 Sprouts/Waeghe -1 F -14 68 63 71 202
T3 Foster/Ploeger -5 F -13 70 66 67 203
T3 Greene/Strawn -2 F -13 66 67 70 203
T5 Boswell/Grove -6 F -12 69 69 66 204
T5 Keller/Woulfe -6 F -12 70 68 66 204
T5 Kozloff/McCool -1 F -12 63 70 71 204
8 Boles/West -3 F -11 68 68 69 205
T9 Earsley/Hudgins -5 F -10 68 71 67 206
T9 Jabaley/Lester -2 F -10 67 69 70 206
T11 Silver/Smith -5 F -9 71 69 67 207
T11 Gerard/Morris -2 F -9 69 68 70 207
T13 Metcalfe/Tuke -6 F -8 74 68 66 208
T13 Burris/Jackson -4 F -8 70 70 68 208
15 Edgemon/Sanchez -5 F -7 75 67 67 209
T16 Fischer/Green -4 F -6 72 70 68 210
T16 Ferrel/Shackelford -4 F -6 72 70 68 210
T16 Penniman/Rubin -1 F -6 72 67 71 210
T19 Greenbaum/McKey -3 F -5 70 72 69 211
T19 Lefferdink/Richey -1 F -5 68 72 71 211
T21 Maletis/Sisco Even F -4 71 69 72 212
T21 Bagby/Moor +1 F -4 70 69 73 212
T23 Miller/Pelham +1 F -1 72 70 73 215
T23 Sloan/Stanford +1 F -1 70 72 73 215