Team Weaver Goes Wire to Wire to Win the 32nd Nebraska PGA Vegas Classic; Shane Zywiec Captures Low-Professional Honors

Las Vegas, NV. – Presented by Callaway Golf, Harris Golf Cars and Vinnie Krikac’s State Farm Insurance Agency, Nebraska PGA Professionals and their teams of Amateurs teed it up at Cascata for the final round of the 32nd Nebraska PGA Vegas Classic. The private facility and Rees Jones Design featuring a 3,600-foot Red Mountain set up for a fantastic finish to the 32nd edition of the event. After an extremely tough day at Rio Secco Golf Club due to high winds, scoring conditions were much better during the final round of the event resulting in great scores and late drama. Like past years, the 32nd NEPGA Vegas Classic played through a Stableford format featuring point totals for each hole rather than stroke-play.

The day began with nearly 10 teams in contention for the team division but a familiar name found themselves at the top of the leaderboard yet again. James Weaver, PGA of Southern Hills GC and his team of Amateurs (Scott Lodes, Adam Sautter, Scott Sautter and Brian Palmer) hung on to their wire-to-wire lead and capture the team division by just one stroke. After scoring 111 and 115 in the first two rounds, Weaver and company grinded out 106 points which was just enough to top Tim Kruse, PGA’s team by one.

Jumping to the Professional division, Shane Zywiec, PGA of Highlands Golf Course came into today with the lead after two rounds thanks to brilliant play to begin the week. Coming down the stretch, Zywiec had numerous Professionals on his tail all the way till his final hole. Zywiec birdied three of his final four holes in route to 14 points during that stretch which proved to be huge. Zywiec led the Professional field with 15 birdies on the week and shot a single-round field best 68 at DragonRidge Country Club.

We would like to thank the Professional staffs at DragonRidge CC, Rio Secco GC and Cascata for hosting each of our three rounds this week. We would also like to thank Callaway Golf, Harris Golf Cars and Vinnie Krikac’s State Farm Insurance Agency for making this event possible once again. We are already looking forward to next year’s event and hope to see new faces when the time comes around.

1 Shane Zywiec (p) Highlands GC
2 Ted DiGiacomo (p) Golf Galaxy – Omaha
3 Steve Friesen (p) Firethorn Golf Club
4 Scott Holly (p) UNL PGM Program
5 Nick Wanderscheid (p) Morningside University
6 James Kinney (p) GolfTEC – Omaha
7 Trevor Chesnut (p) Scottsbluff CC
8 Jonathan Moore (p) Platteview Country Club
T9 Jonathan Beaver (p) Landsmeer Golf Club
T9 Kevin Drew (p) Field Club of Omaha
T9 Greg Gilg (p) Field Club of Omaha
12 Tony Pesavento (p) Omaha Country Club
13 Anthony Driscoll (p) Bent Tree Golf Club
14 Dominick Mitchum (p) Omaha CC
15 Tim Kruse (p) Golf Galaxy – Omaha
16 Jim White (p) Fairways at Lincoln
17 James Weaver (p) Southern Hills Golf Course
18 Austin Miller (p) Omaha Country Club
19 Joe Finnegan (p) Shadow Ridge Country Club
20 Jacob York (p) Field Club of Omaha

F 35 45 41 35 121
F 38 40 39 38 117
F 36 43 37 36 116
F 42 43 30 42 115
F 40 39 33 40 112
F * 36 36 38 36 110
F 38 37 32 38 107
F 31 38 34 31 103
F 34 33 30 34 97
F 31 33 33 31 97
F 34 31 32 34 97
F 33 32 31 33 96
F 31 30 31 31 92
F 27 34 30 27 91
F 27 28 30 27 85
F 28 25 31 28 84
F 18 25 33 18 76
F 30 22 18 30 70
F 16 21 28 16 65
F 11 20 14 11 45

1 James Weaver (p) Southern Hills Golf Course
Scott Lodes (a)
Adam Sautter (a)
Scott Sautter (a)
Brian Palmer (a)
F 111 115 106 332

2 Tim Kruse (p) Golf Galaxy – Omaha
Jeff Wessel (a)
Bob Klopnieski (a)
Brock Peters (a)
Bret Kumpf (a)
F 101 110 120 331

3 Steve Friesen (p) Firethorn Golf Club
Tim Conzemius (a)
Dave Jarecke (a)
Rex Largen (a)
Doug Johnson (a)
F 101 116 110 327

4 Shane Zywiec (p) Highlands GC
Bob Benes (a)
Eric Wilson (a)
Brook Darnell (a)
John Reiss (a)
F 98 106 114 318

5 Scott Holly (p) UNL PGM Program
Kirt Nolde (a)
Ernie Johnson (a)
Dean Troester (a)
Heath Franzen (a)
F 107 91 113 311

6 James Kinney (p) GolfTEC – Omaha
Kevin Kalil (a)
Chris Sullivan (a)
Kurt Boustead (a)
Tim Riha (a)
F * 93 96 112 301

7 Jonathan Moore (p) Platteview Country Club
Tim Diehm (a)
Kevin Busch (a)
Steve Mikkelsen (a)
Ray Schulte (a)
F 99 99 102 300

8 Joe Finnegan (p) Shadow Ridge Country Club
Jim Eggers (a)
Rod Kush (a)
Kirby McDonald (a)
Ron Kelpe (a)
F 102 97 95 294

T9 Austin Miller (p) Omaha Country Club
Rich Manning (a)
Mike Bailey (a)
Matt Hickey (a)
Joe Konopa (a)
F 94 88 109 291

T9 Ted DiGiacomo (p) Golf Galaxy – Omaha
John Halverson (a)
Mark Hart (a)
Gene Wendt (a)
Tim Marchese (a)
F 100 88 103 291

11 Trevor Chesnut (p) Scottsbluff CC
Nic Haun (a)
Bryce Liptac (a)
Kevin Patterson (a)
John Schlothauer (a)
F 105 89 92 286

12 Jim White (p) Fairways at Lincoln
Jay Winter (a)
Tom White (a)
Josh White (a)
Scott Davis (a)
F 86 108 86 280

13 Jonathan Beaver (p) Landsmeer Golf Club
Vinnie Krikac (a)
Tim Bixenmann (a)
Justin Roach (a)
Mike Puckett (a)
F 88 82 109 279

14 Greg Gilg (p) Field Club of Omaha
Superdave Oetken (a)
Hayden Renter (a)
Brian Lundin (a)
Darin Taylor (a)
F 84 94 99 277

15 Kevin Drew (p) Field Club of Omaha
Trevor Austin (a)
Adam Johnson (a)
Mel Bull (a)
Brett Lundin (a)
F 85 96 94 275

16 Tony Pesavento (p) Omaha Country Club
Bill Cutler (a)
Scott Semrad (a)
Bill Roskens (a)
Mike Kubat (a)
F 83 90 98 271

17 Anthony Driscoll (p) Bent Tree Golf Club
Sean Witecy (a)
Kyle Reznicek (a)
Steve Hogan (a)
Ben Starkel (a)
F 93 88 86 267

18 Nick Wanderscheid (p) Morningside University
Spencer Christian (a)
Brandon Mahoney (a)
Mike Gregg (a)
Craig Manker (a)
F 90 80 96 266

19 Dominick Mitchum (p) Omaha CC
Steve Ritzman (a)
Tim Kerrigan (a)
Nick Mazgaj (a)
Ken Stoll (a)
F 89 89 87 265

20 Jacob York (p) Field Club of Omaha
Doug Peters (a)
Brett Nice (a)
Brandon Wilkinson (a)
Nate Munford (a)
F 88 76 90 254

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