Net Amateur & Net Club Team Championships

May 17, 2008

Santa Maria Golf Club

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JARED FONTENOT LEADS LOUISIANA GOLF ASSOCIATION NET AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP AFTER FIRST ROUND OF PLAY

Baton Rouge, Louisiana May 17, 2008

Jared Fontenot of Washington fired a four-under par 68 on Saturday to lead after first round play in the 2008 Louisiana Golf Association Net Amateur Championship. William Johnson of Slidell, Augie Brune of Folsom, and William Haygood of Gonzales are tied for second two shots back. Another shot back are Sedrick Gregory of Sulphur and Jason Pounds of Bogalusa. Fontenot, who carries a USGA Handicap Index of 7.9 (course handicap of 9), shot a gross score of 77. Johnson (16.1 index/19 course handicap), Brune (15.4/18), Haygood (14.0/16), Gregory (9.5/11, and Pounds (7.7/9) will make up the final two pairings on Sunday for this Championship that uses Net scores to crown its winner.

This year’s event is being held at the Robert Trent Jones, Sr., designed Santa Maria GC in Baton Rouge, which played to a par of 72 at 6,600 yards on Saturday. The course was inundated with over five inches of rain earlier in the week and was playing long as a result.

The LGA is attempting to provide a true championship event for the higher handicap player with procedures in place to assure that consistency and integrity are benchmarks for the event. The LGA is utilizing the USGA Tournament Score Probability Table to adjust any handicap indexes where a player’s score exceeds normal probability. In addition to the Overall Net Championship, the field is divided into four flights with the top-three finishers in each flight also receiving awards.

In the sixth annual Net Club Team Championship, conducted concurrently with the Net Amateur, the team from Oak Knoll Country Club in Hammond leads after the first round with a net score of six-over par 222. Oak Knoll teammates Augie Brune, Paul Tyrney, Noel Gauthreaux, and Gregg Smith lead the team from Pine Shadows Golf Club of Lake Charles by one shot with 18 holes to play.

Flight leaders after day one are as follows:

Flight	Name/Hometown	Net Score

St. Andrews	1. Mark Barnwell/Bogalusa	72
	2. Perry Hudson/Baton Rouge	73
	3. Dave Ray/Slidell	74

Prestwick	1. Jared Fontenot/Washington	68
	2. Jason Pounds/Bogalusa	71
	2. Sedrick Gregory/Sulphur	71

Troon	1. William Haygood/Gonzales	70
	2. Julius Courville/Lake Charles	75
	2. A.J. Dupree/Baton Rouge	75


Carnoustie	1. Augie Brune/Folsom	70
	1. William Johnson/Slidell	70
	3. Paul Tyrney/Folsom	72

All scores to follow:

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