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BARRY BRAUD OF BATON ROUGE WINS LOUISIANA GOLF ASSOCIATION NET AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP

Baton Rouge, Louisiana -- May 17, 2009 -- Barry Braud of Baton Rouge fired his second straight 2-under par 70 on Sunday to win the 2009 Louisiana Golf Association Net Amateur Championship by two shots over Slidell’s William Johnson. Braud, playing in the next-to-last group, parred the last three holes to hold off Johnson. Finishing alone in third place after a closing round of 70 was Jarrod Babin of Zachary. Rounding out the top five were William Duncan of Baton Rouge and Al Wyche of Shreveport, both firing identical rounds of 75/71-146.

Flight winners included: Noel Gauthreaux of Loranger in the Carnoustie flight; A.J. Dupree of Baton Rouge in the Troon flight; Sid Wilde of Ponchatoula in the Prestwick flight; and Steven Garcia of Baton Rouge in the St. Andrews flight.

This year’s event was held for the second consecutive year at the Robert Trent Jones, Sr., designed Santa Maria Golf Club in Baton Rouge, which played to a par of 72 at 6,600 yards. Sunday’s play was conducted in unseasonably cool conditions and swirling winds. The Santa Maria venue again proved to be an extremely popular venue with the Net Amateur competitors.

The LGA conducts this event to provide a Championship for the higher handicap player with procedures in place to assure that consistency and integrity are benchmarks for the event. The LGA utilizes the USGA Tournament Score Probability Table to adjust any handicap indexes when a player’s score exceeds normal probability.

In the seventh annual Net Club Team Championship, conducted concurrently with the Net Amateur, the team from ExxonMobil Golf Club in Baton Rouge took a six-shot win over Abita Springs Golf & Country Club. ExxonMobil teammates Bubba Anselmo, Barry Braud, A.J. Dupree, and Darrell Gerald combined to shoot a 17-over par score of 449 to capture the club’s first Net Club Team title.

Top Three Flight finishers are as follows:

*Flight*	*Name/Hometown*	*Net Score*

St. Andrews	1. Steven Garcia/Baton Rouge	147
	2. Dan Jumonville/Baton Rouge	148
	3. Bobby Allen/Geismar	149

Prestwick	1. Sid Wilde/Ponchatoula	147
	2. Lonnie Ford/Benton	151
	3. Ronald King/Mandeville	152


Troon	1. A.J. Dupree/Baton Rouge	148
	2. Charles Calvi/Baton Rouge	153
	3. J.R. Fields/New Orleans	154

Carnoustie	1. Noel Gauthreaux/Loranger	153
	2. Justin Muller/Scott	154
	3. Herbert Whitlow/Mandeville	158

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