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Sunday 26 April 1998PGA TourYear in Review
Dodds wins Greater Greensboro Chrysler Classic
Forest Oaks Country Club, Greensboro, North Carolina · Thursday 23 to Sunday 26 April 1998 · Trevor Dodds’s win no. 1 on the PGA Tour · purse $2,200,000 USD · Chrysler
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
13 h 19 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 67° up at noon, and that night a new moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R116°/9°C · wind 13 km/h N, gusts 28 · 3.7 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R221°/8°C · wind 15 km/h W, gusts 37 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R324°/12°C · wind 14 km/h W, gusts 29 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R425°/13°C · wind 23 km/h SW, gusts 53 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
Not yet traced: its earlier names, sponsors and courses come with research.
The ones it got away from
- Scott Verplank USA · 276Holed a long putt at the 72nd hole to force a playoff, then drove into the deep right rough on the first extra hole and bogeyed GOLFonline (AP, David Droschak): Dodds defeats Verplank in playoff for first PGA Tour win, 1998-04-26 (Wayback Machine)
151 started, 77 made it
Same week
PGA Tour event
Greater Greensboro Chrysler Classic
Forest Oaks Country Club, Forest Oaks Country Club, Greensboro, North Carolina
4 of 5 researched
Winner
Trevor Dodds
Runner-up not yet researched.
From the papers
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
26 April 1998
You know, life is funny. The cancer made me -- changed a lot of my approach, a lot about life in the sense that I put golf in the proper place.
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
26 April 1998
I promised myself I would never set foot in there until I go there to play in the tournament and I have kept that promise.
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
26 April 1998
I kind of fell asleep there in the playoff. I should have taken a deep breath and thought about what I was doing
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trevor Dodds | 68 · 69 · 70 · 69 | 276 | −12 |
| 2 | Scott Verplank | 67 · 71 · 66 · 72 | 276 | −12 |
| 3 | Bob Estes | 67 · 65 · 72 · 73 | 277 | −11 |
| 4 | Neal Lancaster | 70 · 67 · 70 · 71 | 278 | −10 |
| 5 | Frank Nobilo | 71 · 65 · 71 · 72 | 279 | −9 |
| T6 | Fred Funk | 72 · 69 · 67 · 72 | 280 | −8 |
| T6 | Phil Mickelson | 74 · 65 · 71 · 70 | 280 | −8 |
| T8 | Lennie Clements | 68 · 68 · 72 · 73 | 281 | −7 |
| T8 | Hal Sutton | 65 · 67 · 74 · 75 | 281 | −7 |
| T8 | Michael Bradley | 69 · 71 · 72 · 69 | 281 | −7 |
The golfer
born 1959-09-26, Windhoek, South West Africa; NAM; turned pro 1985; age 38 that week; tour wins to date: 1; world No. 208 that week (OWGR rankBefore as stated by the OWGR player profile events table (Greensboro Chrysler, week 17 of 1998)).
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet