May 24, 2004

GAHANNA, OH — There were no eagles circling the Bent Tree course at Sunbury until Jason Ridgeway carded the 1st Spackler eagle on Sunday evening.  "His 310 yard drive up the fairway and 3-wood from 242 yards set up his putt from 30 feet", said Matt Pritchard as he looked in amazement.

"He only gets 2 for par and kicked my ass today", said Pritchard that shot 20 points before slope was added.  "He missed a few birdies from close range that would have taken our outing to embarrassment.  Someone needs to take away his par points.  This is quite ridiculous."

Jason Ridgeway carded a 73 last weekend at Cook's Creek.  He carded a terrible 76 at Bent Tree after taking a triple-bogey 8 on Hole #3.

"These guys are over-reacting", said Ridgeway after his round.  "That eagle was lucky and as you can see, I only made a few putts yesterday."  Ridgeway is in 6th place on the On Tour Championship Leaderboard despite his zero points for bogey and two point par.