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Former Member Holds One Stroke Lead
 
Augusta, GA (April 9, 2009)…Former Hooters Tour member Chad Campbell made history at The Masters on Thursday. The Andrews, Texas native opened with five straight birdies en route to a seven-under par 65 and a one stroke lead over fellow Hooters alum Jim Furyk and Hunter Mahan.
 
The former UNLV golfer opened with the record breaking five birdies before making six pars in a row and then a stretch of four more birdies before closing with a par and two bogeys over his last three holes to card nines of 31-34.

“Definitely happy the way the round started. Got off on a roll, and it's always nice to make a couple of birdies to start, much less five. It was definitely the way I wanted to start,” said Campbell.
 
“Felt like I was hitting it good all day. I think one of most important things today was making those two saves on 10 and 11, the par saves on 10 and 11 kind of kept the round going. Unfortunately I ended up with two bogeys to finish, but overall, pretty happy with the round.”
 
Campbell played the Hooters Tour from 1997-2000. In eighty-six career starts on the Hooters Tour, Campbell made the cut in seventy-eight and collected thirteen wins (eight in the 2000 season) and $776,976 in career earnings. Campbell is the career leader in wins and earnings.
 
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, 50% of the players that earned their 2007 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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