May 20, 2004

EBENSBURG, PA — The On Tour Leaderboard, in some circles known as the "Spacklerboard", is as tight as it has ever been since its inception.  Patrick Boland, currently in fifth place, trails by a mere 1.6 points behind the leader, Kevin Long, Sr.  The last of Long's 6 entries came on May 5, while Boland last posted a score on May 1.  Boland leads the On Tour Championship with the most scorecards posted at 13.

Rounding out the rest of the top five is Matt Davis in second place, just .9 behind Long, Jay Dilks in third trailing by 1 point, and John McAnich sits comfortably in fourth place just 1.5 points out of first place.  The logjam does not stop there, however, as the tenth place golfer, Jeremy Myers lurks behind Boland by only 3.1 points and the leader by just 5.7 points.

We?re not finished yet.  Joe Caridi, the player taking up twentieth place on the Spacklerboard is stalking Myers by 2.6 points, making this the tightest and most competitive On Tour Championship in history.  Every player has a chance to drastically move up or down in the standings with each scorecard entry, a scenario that Carl Spackler dreamed of in 2001 with the birth of www.carlspackeropen.com.  (All standings reflect the status of the leaderboard at the time this article was written.)

"I'm just tickled pink, there's no describing the kind of joy that I'm feeling right now," said Spackler, being interviewed by SNN in his lush, garage home at his country club.  "It's almost as thrilling as the time the Dalai Lama told me I would receive total consciousness on my deathbed for loopin," his sticks for him, you know, up there in the mountains of Tibet.  So now I've got both of those things going for me."