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News >> Successful Weekend For Alumni

North Myrtle Beach, SC.– July 27, 2009 – With his second place finish at The Cox Classic presented by Lexus of Omaha on Sunday, former Hooters Tour member Tom Gillis looks to have secured his PGA Tour card for 2010 after moving up seven spots on the money list to 4^th and over the $200,000 mark with $212,929 for the season. Gillis wasn’t the only former Hooters Tour member to have a successful week in Nebraska as a handful of golfers finished strong to earn Top 10 finishes.

Former Hooters tour member Brent DelaHoussaye made the biggest jump of the week in Nationwide Tour standings after finishing 3^rd all alone in Omaha moving from 130^th on the list to 47^th with $64,925 in earnings. After a T-5 finish on Sunday, former member Matt Every inched his way closer to the Top 25, moving from 49^th to 30th.

Former member Blake Adams looks to have locked his way onto the PGA Tour as well on Sunday with an eighth place finish, his fourth top ten of the season and third in his last five tournaments. The Eatonton, GA native moved from 7^th to 5^th on the list with over $208,000 in earnings.

While Gillis, DelaHoussaye, Every and Adams finished in the top 10 , these former members finished in the top 25 on Sunday: Camilo Benedetti (T-15), Chad Collins (T-19), Derek Lamely (T-19), Bubba Dickerson (T-19), B.J Staten (T-25), Bob May (T-25) and Garrett Willis (T-25).

This past weekend also saw successful weekends for former Hooters Tour members on the PGA Tour. At The RBC Canadian Open, former members Lee Janzen and Jerry Kelly finished T-5 on Monday after each finished the week at thirteen-under par 275, while past members Scott McCarron and Michael Letzig finished T-8^th. Letzig started the final round on Monday one stroke behind the leaders but a disappointing two-over 74 left him out of contention.

While those four golfers finished inside the top ten for the week, these four former members finished in the top 25: Mark Wilson, Scott Sterling and Camilo Villegas all finished T-24 on Monday afternoon after weather forced the Canadian Open to Monday finish for the first time since 1988.

The NGA/Hooters Tour is the 3^rd largest men’s 72-hole professional golf tour in the country behind the PGA and Nationwide Tours, and boasts alumni like 2009 British Open Champion Stewart Cink, 2007 Masters Champion Zach Johnson, 2003 PGA Champion Shaun Micheel, 2003 British Open winner Ben Curtis, 2003 US Open winner Jim Furyk, two time U.S. Open winner Lee Janzen, British Open and PGA Champion John Daly, as well as British Open winner Tom Lehman, PGA Champion David Toms, 2003 Tour Championship Winner Chad Campbell, 2004 & 2005 Reno Tahoe Open winner Vaughn Taylor and TPC winner Craig Perks to name just a few. All told, the NGA/Hooters Tour’s alumni have an incredible 11 “Majors” to their credit. The NGA/Hooters Tour has helped more than 100 professionals acquire their PGA, Senior PGA, and Nationwide Tour cards. In fact, 32% of the players that earned their 2009 PGA Tour card, and 42% of the players that earned full exempt status on the Nationwide Tour started their careers on the NGA/Hooters Tour.

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