Kelly backs up Sony win at Western Open

BY Bruce Young | US PGA Tour | 2002 Advil Western Open | Wrap | 08 Jul 2002

There are some parallels in the last two weeks between Jerry Kelly and Len Mattiace. Both players had threatened to win on occasions in their several seasons and had made a comfortable living on tour but a win had eluded both until this season.

Kelly broke the ice at the Sony, Mattaice followed at the Nissan and won again at last week’s Fed Ex, and now Kelly wins here in Chicago. Kelly is now third on the money list with $2,400,000 with Mattiace in fifth at $1,900,000. When you consider that Mattiace’s best previous season had been 61st and Kelly’s 35th it has been a turnaround season for both. Previous winner Robert Allenby, coming off a ninth place last week in Memphis, took a two shot lead over Neil Lancaster into the last round. He found birdies hard to come by as he again struggled with his putter. Despite the fact that he had led the event he had not putted well all week and that was further compounded by 30 putts on Sunday. Not bad, but not great, at this level and his three bogies and no birdies had him heading for a round of 75 and tenth place.

Kelly, however, had positioned himself with a front nine of three under, for a final nine charge and then reeled off four birdies early in the back nine to take a lead that he would not relinquish. Davis Love and Brandt Jobe produced last rounds of 66 to finish second and third respectively, the second runner up spot for Love in consecutive years here at Cog Hill.

John Cook was fourth, ahead of a return to Muirfield, the scene of perhaps his greatest disappointment in golf, when he let a lead slip as Faldo charged past him to win the 1992 British Open. Cook’s form of late has been interesting. In his last six starts he has been inside the top five on three occasions and missed the cut three times.

For Peter Lonard yet another great week, finishing with a last round 65 to get a share of fifth and another $US135,000. His earnings in his first season now top $US1,000,000, simply stunning. He actually threatened the leaders birdieing six of the first ten holes but a bogey at the twelfth slowed him down a somewhat.

Appleby also tied with Lonard for fifth his best finish of the season. He has made much of his $540,00 in the last two months after a slow start to the year. Allenby was 10th, Gow 20th (his best of the year), Senden also 20th, Hughes 27th, Chalmers and Elkington 38th, Allan 43rd, Ogilvy 58th, New Zealanders Waite 61st and Nobilo and Perks 68th. The only Australian to miss the cut was Pampling with New Zealander Michael Long also having another weekend break.

Top 10
AUS/NZ

Position	Score	Player	R 1	R 2	R 3	R 4	Total
1	-19	Jerry Kelly	67	69	68	65	269
2	-17	Davis Love Iii	67	70	68	66	271
3	-15	Brandt Jobe	69	69	69	66	273
4	-14	John Cook	67	66	72	69	274
T5	-13	Chris Riley	70	70	66	69	275
T5	-13	Duffy Waldorf	70	70	66	69	275
T5	-13	Neal Lancaster	68	68	67	72	275
T5	-13	Peter Lonard	71	71	68	65	275
T5	-13	Stuart Appleby	70	65	71	69	275
T10	-12	Bob Estes	66	70	68	72	276
T10	-12	Nick Price	73	68	66	69	276
T10	-12	Robert Allenby	69	67	65	75	276
T13	-11	Scott Verplank	67	69	70	71	277
T13	-11	Steve Stricker	74	67	71	65	277
T15	-10	Bob Tway	70	72	65	71	278
T15	-10	David Frost	67	73	66	72	278
T15	-10	David Toms	68	73	70	67	278
T15	-10	John Riegger	74	69	66	69	278
T15	-10	Vijay Singh	68	67	72	71	278
T20	-9	Briny Baird	71	69	70	69	279
T20	-9	John Senden	71	70	66	72	279
T20	-9	Jonathan Byrd	67	68	75	69	279
T20	-9	Luke Donald	68	70	71	70	279
T20	-9	Paul Gow	69	68	70	72	279
T25	-8	Brent Geiberger	73	68	72	67	280
T25	-8	Stephen Gangluff	69	70	74	67	280
T27	-7	Bradley Hughes	68	74	70	69	281
T27	-7	David Gossett	65	73	71	72	281
T27	-7	J.j. Henry	70	70	71	70	281
T27	-7	Jess Daley	74	67	67	73	281
T27	-7	Joe Durant	68	68	73	72	281
T27	-7	Joel Edwards	69	71	72	69	281
T27	-7	John Rollins	73	68	73	67	281
T27	-7	Jonathan Kaye	71	70	71	69	281
T27	-7	Lee Janzen	72	67	70	72	281
T27	-7	Rory Sabbatini	71	70	70	70	281
T27	-7	Tom Byrum	68	71	72	70	281
T38	-6	Carl Paulson	71	68	72	71	282
T38	-6	Greg Chalmers	71	72	69	70	282
T38	-6	Joey Sindelar	69	70	69	74	282
T38	-6	Mike Weir	71	72	68	71	282
T38	-6	Steve Elkington	71	67	72	72	282
T43	-5	Brian Gay	69	73	70	71	283
T43	-5	Cameron Beckman	73	66	71	73	283
T43	-5	Carlos Franco	71	71	72	69	283
T43	-5	Harrison Frazar	71	68	71	73	283
T43	-5	Loren Roberts	71	72	68	72	283
T43	-5	Rocco Mediate	69	68	74	72	283
T43	-5	Shaun Micheel	69	70	71	73	283
T43	-5	Steve Allan	72	71	71	69	283
T43	-5	Steve Flesch	73	69	69	72	283
T43	-5	Tim Clark	70	71	73	69	283
T53	-4	Glen Day	69	72	72	71	284
T53	-4	Jeff Sluman	70	71	71	72	284
T53	-4	Kevin Sutherland	75	65	68	76	284
T53	-4	Steve Lowery	70	71	70	73	284
T53	-4	Tommy Armour Iii	74	68	68	74	284
T58	-3	Geoff Ogilvy	70	72	67	76	285
T58	-3	Glen Hnatiuk	71	72	71	71	285
T60	-2	Blaine Mccallister	69	72	73	72	286
T60	-2	Bo Van Pelt	73	69	72	72	286
T60	-2	Bob Burns	73	70	70	73	286
T60	-2	Chad Campbell	72	70	72	72	286
T60	-2	Grant Waite	70	72	73	71	286
T60	-2	Justin Leonard	69	72	70	75	286
T60	-2	Michael Muehr	71	72	70	73	286
T67	-1	Craig Perks	71	72	72	72	287
T67	-1	Frank Nobilo	71	70	78	68	287
T67	-1	Matt Gogel	70	70	69	78	287
T67	-1	Mike Sposa	71	72	69	75	287
T67	-1	Skip Kendall	74	69	72	72	287
T67	-1	Tom Pernice Jr.	69	72	76	70	287
T73	Ev	Craig Barlow	70	71	77	70	288
T73	Ev	Franklin Langham	68	70	75	75	288
T73	Ev	Heath Slocum	72	71	72	73	288
T73	Ev	Jerry Smith	71	72	74	71	288
T73	Ev	Scott Dunlap	73	70	73	72	288
T78	+2	Bryce Molder	71	72	74	73	290
T78	+2	Jeff Gove	73	70	72	75	290
T78	+2	Rich Beem	71	72	74	73	290
T81	+3	Bubba Dickerson	72	71	76	72	291
T81	+3	Notah Begay Iii	68	74	74	75	291
83	+4	Robert Damron	75	68	76	73	292
84	+5	Scott Mccarron	69	72	76	76	293
85	+7	Mark Brooks	73	69	77	76	295
86	+8	Ben Crane	71	72	72	81	296
Cut -1
CUT	Ev	Bob May	73	71	-	-	144
CUT	Ev	Brandel Chamblee	74	70	-	-	144
CUT	Ev	Craig Stadler	71	73	-	-	144
CUT	Ev	Curtis Strange	74	70	-	-	144
CUT	Ev	Danny Ellis	73	71	-	-	144
CUT	Ev	David Morland Iv	75	69	-	-	144
CUT	Ev	Dennis Paulson	71	73	-	-	144
CUT	Ev	Greg Kraft	72	72	-	-	144
CUT	Ev	Jay Don Blake	75	69	-	-	144
CUT	Ev	Jeff Brehaut	71	73	-	-	144
CUT	Ev	Kent Jones	73	71	-	-	144
CUT	Ev	Paul Claxton	74	70	-	-	144
CUT	Ev	Raymond Floyd	72	72	-	-	144
CUT	Ev	Rod Pampling	71	73	-	-	144
CUT	Ev	Scott Hoch	72	72	-	-	144
CUT	Ev	Tim Petrovic	74	70	-	-	144
CUT	+1	Billy Mayfair	70	75	-	-	145
CUT	+1	Chris Smith	71	74	-	-	145
CUT	+1	Garrett Willis	72	73	-	-	145
CUT	+1	Hal Sutton	76	69	-	-	145
CUT	+1	J.l. Lewis	75	70	-	-	145
CUT	+1	Jim Carter	70	75	-	-	145
CUT	+1	Kenny Perry	68	77	-	-	145
CUT	+1	Lee Porter	68	77	-	-	145
CUT	+1	Pat Bates	71	74	-	-	145
CUT	+1	Pete Jordan	68	77	-	-	145
CUT	+1	Robert Gamez	74	71	-	-	145
CUT	+1	Stephen Ames	72	73	-	-	145
CUT	+2	Brenden Pappas	70	76	-	-	146
CUT	+2	Charles Howell Iii	77	69	-	-	146
CUT	+2	D.a. Weibring	76	70	-	-	146
CUT	+2	Frank Lickliter Ii	76	70	-	-	146
CUT	+2	Ian Leggatt	73	73	-	-	146
CUT	+2	K.j. Choi	74	72	-	-	146
CUT	+2	Matt Peterson	73	73	-	-	146
CUT	+2	Paul Stankowski	73	73	-	-	146
CUT	+2	Richard Zokol	75	71	-	-	146
CUT	+3	Bob Heintz	73	74	-	-	147
CUT	+3	J.p. Hayes	74	73	-	-	147
CUT	+3	Michael Pearson	73	74	-	-	147
CUT	+3	Olin Browne	72	75	-	-	147
CUT	+3	Pat Perez	72	75	-	-	147
CUT	+3	Woody Austin	74	73	-	-	147
CUT	+4	Brad Elder	77	71	-	-	148
CUT	+4	Brett Quigley	75	73	-	-	148
CUT	+4	Dan Forsman	73	75	-	-	148
CUT	+4	Esteban Toledo	76	72	-	-	148
CUT	+4	Gary Nicklaus	77	71	-	-	148
CUT	+4	Kaname Yokoo	73	75	-	-	148
CUT	+4	Michael Long	76	72	-	-	148
CUT	+5	Jim Sobb	75	74	-	-	149
CUT	+5	Brett Wetterich	74	75	-	-	149
CUT	+5	Brian Bateman	76	73	-	-	149
CUT	+5	Edward Fryatt	75	74	-	-	149
CUT	+5	Larry Mize	77	72	-	-	149
CUT	+5	Russ Cochran	76	73	-	-	149
CUT	+5	Scott Simpson	77	72	-	-	149
CUT	+6	Kenneth Staton	74	76	-	-	150
CUT	+7	David Howser	78	73	-	-	151
CUT	+7	Tom Scherrer	74	77	-	-	151
CUT	+7	Tripp Isenhour	79	72	-	-	151
CUT

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Kelly backs up Sony win at Western Open

BY Bruce Young | US PGA Tour | 2002 Advil Western Open | Wrap | 08 Jul 2002