News >> Hooters Tour Well Represented At Fresh Express Classic

Fresh Express Classic
Hayward, California
April 15-18, 2010
 
The NGA Hooters Tour is taking a week off from competition but that doesn’t mean that its players are taking a week off from action. Current member Michael Welch of Quincy, Massachusetts will be making his first start on the Nationwide Tour since a solo start at the Xerox Classic in 2008 this week at Fresh Express Classic in Hayward, California. Welch earned the Fresh Express Classic exemption by earning the most money ($40,994) in the first four events of the NGA Hooters Tour season. (Michael Welch Pictured Left)
 
Welch will not be alone this week in California as a large group of NGA Hooters Tour alumni will be in the field at TPC Stonebrae as well as current members Roberto Castro (Alpharetta, GA) and Philip Pettitt Jr. (Murfreesboro, TN). Castro and Pettitt qualified on Monday in California. All told, the NGA Hooters Tour will be represented by 62 of the 156 man field in California.
 
Major Manning
Tag Ridings
Scott Sterling
D.J. Brigman
Andrew Svoboda
Ron Whitaker
Scott Gutschewski
David Mathis
Darron Stiles
Tommy Gainey
Matthew Borchert
J.L. Lewis
Brendon Todd
Bryan DeCorso
Michael Sims
Wil Collins
Bubba Dickerson
Rick Price
Kyle Thompson
Bronson La’Cassie
Skip Kendall
Len Mattiace
Paul Claxton
Luke List
Stephen Poole
Jay Delsing
Keoke Cotner
Josh Broadaway
Ty Harris
Gary Woodland
J.J. Killeen
Scott Stallings
Casey Wittenberg
Keegan Bradley
Bob May
Scott Dunlap
John Kimbell
Aron Price
Chris Kirk
Nathan J. Smith
Roberto Castro
Casey Clendenon
Craig Barlow
Justin Hicks
Brad Adamonis
Ken Duke
Joe Affrunti
Ted Brown
Adam Meyer
Bob Heintz
Bobby MacWhinnie
Scott Brown
Rob Oppenheim
Kent Jones
Dave Schultz
Nick Flanagan
B.J. Staten
Ryan Armour
Sal Spallone
Ryan Thornberry
Philip Pettitt Jr.
Michael Welch
 
 
 
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 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, 48% of the players that earned their 2010 PGA Tour card, and 53% of the players that earned full exempt status on the Nationwide Tour started their careers on the NGA/Hooters Tour.
 
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