News >> O'Hair Claims PODS Championship
Former Hooters Tour Member Wins 2nd PGA Title
Palm Harbor, FL (March 9, 2008)…With a final round two-under par 69, former Hooters Tour member Sean O’Hair, captured his second PGA TOUR title Sunday in The PODS Championship. (picture left courtesy of WireImage)“When I won (the first time), it just kind of happened,” O’Hair said, wiping tears from his eyes. “I didn’t really appreciate it. I thought I was good enough to do this every year. But it has been such a struggle to get to this point again. This is awesome and I am going to enjoy it.”
The Lubbock, Texas native clicked this week by firing rounds of 69-71-71-69 for a four-under par 280 and a two stroke victory over Stewart Cink, Ryuji Imada, John Senden, Troy Matteson, Billy Mayfair and George McNeil at the Copperhead Course at Innisbrook.
With his win, the twenty-five year old pockets $954,000 and earns spots in the World Golf Championships-CA Championship at Doral in two weeks and The Masters next month.
O’Hair played the Hooters Tour in 2001, playing six events and making the cut in two of them. His best finish was a T-42 in Hawkinsville, Georgia.
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 2007 Masters Winner Zach Johnson, 2003 PGA champion Shaun Micheel, 2003 British Open champion Ben Curtis, 2003 US Open champion Jim Furyk, British Open and PGA champion John Daly, two-time US Open winner Lee Janzen, British Open champion Tom Lehman, as well as PGA champion David Toms, Tour Championship winner Chad Campbell and back to back Reno Tahoe Open winner Vaughn Taylor to name just a few. All told, the NGA/Hooters Tour alumni have an incredible TEN Majors to their credit. The NGA Hooters Tour has helped more than 100 golf professionals acquire their PGA, Nationwide and Champion’s Tour card. In fact, 42% of the players that earned their 2008 PGA Tour cards, and 47% of the players that earned full exempt status on the Nationwide Tour started their careers on the NGA Hooters Tour.
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