Loar Wins Sunnehanna Amateur

June 13, 2000 | Cowboy Golf

June 13, 2000

Just one week after closing out his collegiate career with an NCAA team championship, Edward Loar ended his amateur run on a winning note as well as he won last week's Sunnehanna Amateur in Johnstown, Pa.

After leading by three strokes heading into the final round, Loar won the tournament by scraping through on the fourth playoff hole. The Rockwall, Texas, native made bogey on the hole, but it was enough to outlast Erik Compton, who missed a four-footer to give Loar the title. Like Compton and Loar, David Eger had finished at 1-under for the tournament, but his bogey on the first playoff hole made it a two-man race.

Loar became just the third player in the prestigious tournament's history -- but the second Cowboy -- to win back-to-back titles. Fellow OSU alum Scott Verplank accomplished the feat in 1984 and '85.

Loar's OSU teammate, NCAA champion Charles Howell, finished 11th after playing Sunnehanna Country Club's par-70 course in 7-over-par.