The Rex Hospital Open

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The Rex Hospital Open is a regular golf tournament on the Nationwide Tour. It is played annually at the TPC Wakefield Plantation in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.

The 2009 purse was $525,000, with $94,500 going to the winner

 

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Past Winners

2009 Kevin Johnson
2008 Scott Gutschewski
2007 Kyle Thompson
2006 Brenden Pappas
2005 Eric Axley

SAS Carolina Classic

2004 Chris Anderson
2003 David Morland IV
2002 Zoran Zorkic

BUY.COM Carolina Classic

2001 John Maginnes
2000 Mark Hensby

NIKE Carolina Classic

1999 Vance Veazey
1998 Brian Bateman
1997 Ahmad Bateman
1996 Glen Hnatiuk
1995 Michael Christie
1994 Skip Kendall

 

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Brown grabs Rex Hospital lead, ties course record

-- Scott Brown and Stephen Poole have a lot in common. The two are good friends, share May birthdays, room together on the road and haven't put together the best of seasons to date. Poole lives in Aiken, S.C., Brown attended the University of South Carolina-Aiken. The pair also happens to be 1-2 on the leaderboard after the opening round of The Rex Hospital Open, the 11th stop on the 2010 Nationwide Tour schedule.

Brown went out in the morning and equaled the TPC Wakefield Plantation course record with a 9-under 62. As the afternoon progressed, nobody got closer than Poole, who posted his season-low score, a 7-under 64.

"We'll have a good little skins game when we call off scores tonight," joked Poole, who tallied seven birdies during his bogey-free round.

http://www.pgatour.com/2010/tournaments/h048/05/20/rex-hospital/

 

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RIEGGER SETS 54-HOLE RECORD AT REX HOSPITAL OPEN; LEADS BY 5

John Riegger fired an eight-under-par 63 on Saturday to extend his lead after the third round of the Rex Hospital Open.

Riegger established a new tournament 54-hole record at 20-under 193. That smashed Jimmy Green's 1998 mark by four shots and gave Riegger a five-stroke cushion at the TPC Wakefield Plantation.

Riegger, 46, has only one Nationwide Tour victory and that came at the 2007 La Salle Bank Open. Riegger, who was ahead by two after round two, is 53rd on the current money list.

http://www.tsn.ca/golf/story/?id=322377

 

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After playing nearly flawless golf for three rounds, John Riegger won the Rex Hospital Open Sunday after rain washed out the final day of play in Raleigh.

Riegger’s final score of 20-under is a tournament record for 54 holes. He had 25 putts per round on both Friday and Saturday,

The 46-year-old had yet to tee off Sunday when officials made the call to end the tournament. Chris Nallen, at 15-under, finished second.

http://www.examiner.com/x-41107-Ral...-Riegger-wins-rainshortened-Rex-Hospital-Open