300 Thwaitecroft Melanian Open
Club Golfing de San Patricio Cliffs Course, Weeriver, San Patricio 

WEERIVER, SAN PATRICIO --- On a day when Philippe Larocquette played well enough to beat
Pancho McFeeley, Vinitor Kalviack was even better. He blew past both of them Sunday with a career-low 62 to win the Thwaitecroft Melanian Open. 

Playing in the threesome ahead of Laroquette and McFeeley and six strokes behind the
Davenportian to start the day, Kalviack birdied six of his first seven holes to zoom into contention, then turned back a late bid from Larocquette by holing a 12-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole for a one-stroke victory. 

"Obviously, it's a surprise to me," Kalviack said after his first career victory. "Today, I got everything I could out of the round.  I guess I was really fired up after my poor showing at the Golden Chalice last week.  I hope that this will silence the critics!" 

Kalviack earned $540,000, the largest paycheck of his career. 

Larocquette, trying to go wire-to-wire for his first victory, had a 69 and matched
McFeeley for the second straight day. He made two key putts on the back nine, a 12-footer on No. 13 to pull into a tie with Kalviack and a 10-footer on the 17th to again share the lead. 

>From the middle of the 18th fairway, he heard the roar as Kalviack sank his 10th birdie
putt of the day. Larocquette calmly hit his approach into 7 feet, but his birdie putt to
force a playoff stayed high of the hole. 

"I knew what I had to do," Larocquette said. "I just couldn't get it to go. I figured
somebody might come from behind because Pancho and I weren't playing that good." 

McFeeley made a bogey with a three-putt from 35 feet on the par-3 sixth. When Kalviack
sank his winning putt, it ended the heavy home crowd favorite's hopes of winning at home
for the first time. 

Pancho finished with a 69, three strokes back alone in third. 

McFeeley fought the one flaw he has in his game -- getting stuck on his downswing, which
usually sends the ball off to the right. A 20-foot putt on the 16th hole that would have
brought him to within one of the lead hung on the edge of the cup. His 10-footer on the
last hole also caught the lip, and McFeeley could do nothing but smile. 

"It was one of those days where I didn't have much," he said. "But I hung in there and
gave myself a chance." 

If nothing else, McFeeley proved to be a prophet. Hounded by questions about a Sunday duel with Larocquette, he kept reminding anyone who would listen that other players were still a factor if conditions were calm. 

He said Saturday afternoon: "Anyone can shoot 62 out here without batting an eye." 

He made the turn in 30 and was just one off the lead. As Larocquette cleaned up a two-putt from 8 feet on the 11th hole for par, he heard a cheer across the pond and saw Kalviack in a familiar position -- reaching down to pluck the ball from the cup, waving to the crowd. 

"That's the first time I started looking at the (leader) boards," Larocquette said. 

It was the first time all weekend Larocquette no longer had the lead. Kalviack again took the lead with a 3-foot birdie putt on the 15th hole, then escaped trouble on the 17th hole by hitting around the trees on his approach and two-putting from 35 feet. 

The final results and earnings, in Christiana Crowns:

  Kalviack (KAL)       $540,000   65-66-69-62--262   26-under

  Laroquette (DAV)     $324,000   63-65-66-69--263   25-under

  McFeeley (SPA)       $204,000   63-67-66-69--265   23-under

  Ferhentodo (EDE)     $132,000   66-69-66-65--266   22-under
  Beobidhenhe (EDE)    $132,000   69-67-65-65--266

  Burchard (CHR)       $108,000   66-68-66-67--267   21-under

  Parsley (DAV)        $100,500   68-64-67-70--269   19-under

  Cates (DAV)           $90,000   67-71-66-66--270   18-under
  Boulabi (ALL)         $90,000   68-71-65-66--270

  Galinheira (ORD)      $75,000   67-69-67-68--271   17-under
  Norling (ALT)         $75,000   65-66-71-69--271
  Dahlista (CAB)        $75,000   66-69-70-66--271

  Sorithzy (WMC)        $54,600   65-70-70-67--272   16-under
  Sinclair (FRW)        $54,600   69-67-65-71--272
  Tay (WMC)             $54,600   65-69-66-72--272
  Oostingverde (WES)    $54,600   66-70-67-69--272
  Boyd (FRW)            $54,600   66-71-69-66--272

  Siggis (BOB)          $37,800   71-66-65-71--273   15-under
  Oberth (WES)          $37,800   67-71-64-71--273
  D'Oliveira (ORD)      $37,800   65-70-70-68--273
  Sunilam (WMC)         $37,800   65-68-69-71--273
  Nithz (OOO)           $37,800   67-69-67-70--273
  Lumle (LEX)           $37,800   69-70-66-68--273

  Caldaravo (LEN)       $22,200   68-71-66-69--274   14-under
  Fornende (CAB)        $22,200   69-70-66-69--274
  Nagy (SPA)            $22,200   69-65-71-69--274
  Falangio (EKZ)        $22,200   66-70-69-69--274
  Aretasuna (UTA)       $22,200   66-68-71-69--274
  Collino (ALT)         $22,200   67-69-66-72--274
  Fletcher (ARM)        $22,200   67-69-71-67--274
  Fagundes (EST)        $22,200   64-69-70-71--274
  Straswell (WES)       $22,200   67-69-71-67--274
  Uroja (UTA)           $22,200   70-65-66-73--274

  Bobmatz (ALT)         $15,480   67-73-68-67--275   13-under
  DePoort (WES)         $15,480   69-70-69-67--275
  Pots (ALT)            $15,480   68-68-71-68--275
  Tahoma (CHR)          $15,480   69-69-69-68--275
  DuBraal (KTZ)         $15,480   73-66-72-64--275

  Kepparketl (ALT)      $13,200   64-72-69-71--276   12-under
  Holland (CHR)         $13,200   69-68-69-70--276

  Von Chicken (WES)     $10,500   71-67-73-66--277   11-under
  T. Rothies (WES)      $10,500   70-69-69-69--277
  Merch (REZ)           $10,500   65-72-71-69--277
  Pescitel (ALT)        $10,500   71-65-68-73--277
  Orford (FRW)          $10,500   70-69-69-69--277
  Muhammad (ORD)        $10,500   68-71-71-67--277
  Kessel (KTZ)          $10,500   72-68-67-70--277

  Kossuth (SPA)          $7,860   69-69-71-69--278   10-under
  Peacock (UNT)          $7,860   71-69-69-69--278
  Ouesreche (BRO)        $7,860   69-70-71-68--278

  Von Trasnau (ALB)      $7,060   73-66-68-72--279    9-under
  Kilet (BOW)            $7,060   69-71-69-70--279
  Tznook (LEX)           $7,060   68-71-72-68--279
  Hassadd (DJR)          $7,060   69-70-70-70--279
  Senaduro (CAB)         $7,060   68-71-71-69--279
  Walker (BOW)           $7,060   72-67-70-70--279

  Huyfrino (BRO)         $6,660   70-68-76-66--280    8-under
  Bin'Weri (FNZ)         $6,660   70-68-72-70--280
  McGurk (SPA)           $6,660   66-72-72-70--280
  Disbach (ARO)          $6,660   66-71-74-69--280
  Novello (ALT)          $6,660   69-69-70-72--280

  Harvey (CHR)           $6,390   69-71-70-71--281    7-under
  Chelzes (SCK)          $6,390   68-72-71-70--281
  Joyce (SPA)            $6,390   67-73-68-73--281
  Zoek (WES)             $6,390   72-68-69-72--281

  Pennenton (UTA)        $6,090   69-71-71-71--282    6-under
  Zirandria (NAM)        $6,090   71-69-69-73--282
  Gutierrez (SPA)        $6,090   69-69-71-73--282
  Lubjana (DRA)          $6,090   68-70-73-71--282
  Horsnell (UNT)         $6,090   70-67-75-70--282
  Lamar (LCP)            $6,090   70-70-70-72--282

  Osicra (RAN)           $5,850   69-70-73-71--283    5-under
  V. Toschamerton (DEY)  $5,850   70-70-69-74--283

  Protheroe (FRW)        $5,760   70-67-74-73--284    4-under

  Werkem (BOW)           $5,700   72-68-73-72--285    3-under

  Fittler (FRW)          $5,610   68-72-69-79--288    Even
  Havrillak (ALB)        $5,610   71-69-68-80--288

  Feoddu (KTZ)           $5,520   70-69-76-76--291    3-over 
 

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