Former Hooters Tour Member Earns Third PGA Tour Win

Palm Desert, CA...Former Hooters Tour Player of The Year, Chad Campbell, captured his third career PGA Tour title Sunday at The Bob Hope Chrysler Classic and first since winning the Bay Hill in 2004.

The Andrews, Texas native fired rounds of 63-66-68-67-71 for a five day total of 25-under 335, three shots in front of Scott Verplank and 2000 Bob Hope Chrysler Classic champion Jesper Parnevik.

 "It's nice to come back after the way things worked out last Sunday, to come out today and get the job done," said Campbell, who was tied with David Toms for the lead in Hawaii last week before shooting a closing 70 to Toms' winning 65.

Campbell took the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic lead in the second round of the 90-hole tournament and never gave it up, although Verplank briefly drew even early in the closing round.

 In four full seasons on the Hooters Tour, Campbell collected 13 wins and a $776, 976 including a 2000 season that saw him win eight times in the first sixteen events. Campbell is the career leader in both wins and money earned on the Hooters Tour.

After leaving the Hooters Tour, Campbell moved up to the Nationwide Tour, where he won three times in 2001 and got a battlefield promotion to the PGA Tour. Campbell set the single season earnings with $394, 552, which was broken in 2003 by Zach Johnson, a fellow Hooters Tour Alumni.

The NGA/Hooters Tour is the 3rd largest men’s 72-hole professional golf tour in the country behind the PGA and Nationwide Tours, and boasts alumni like 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 BellSouth Classic winner Zach Johnson, 2004 and 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 9 “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, 34% of the players that earned their 2006 PGA Tour card, and 43% of the players that earned full exempt status on the Nationwide Tour started their careers on the NGA/Hooters Tour.

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