Warren edges Egloff for first win as a pro Windham native collects $11,000

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BANGOR – Windham native Shawn Warren won the 42nd Hollywood Slots Greater Bangor Open golf tournament by a stroke Saturday to claim his first victory as a pro.

Warren, who now lives most of the year in Tampa, Fla., shot a 3-under-par 66 Saturday at Bangor Municipal Golf Course for a two-day total of 130 and a one-shot edge over Eric Egloff of Sandy Springs, Md. Egloff, the 1995 GBO champion, posted the day’s best round, a 64, for a 131 total. The tournament was shortened to 36 holes when Thursday’s opening round was canceled due to rain that made the course unplayable.

“It feels like the long days and hard work I have under my belt have finally paid off,” said the 23-year-old Warren, in his second year as a pro.

It’s actually his second open tournament victory because he won the Maine Open in 2004, when he was still an amateur.

For this victory, though, Warren collected an $11,000 paycheck out of the total purse of $50,000.

Joe Cioe of Homosassa, Fla., who won in ’98, birdied the last hole for a 66 and third-place finish of 133. He was followed by Michael Carbone of Brewster, Mass., at 68-134, and Mark Alizzeo of Shrewsbury, Mass., at 68-136.

Keith Decker of Martinsville, Va., was low amateur after shooting a 70 Saturday for 144, and Kerry Johnston of Indio, Calif., repeated as senior champion with a second straight 73 for 146.

Warren, the first-round leader by two strokes after an opening 64 on Friday, parred his first two holes and bogeyed his third (Nos. 10 through 12 as the nines were reversed for Saturday’s final round).

“When I bogeyed 12, I played it conservatively, hitting to the middle of the green,” said Warren, who three-putted for his bogey.

He posted his first birdie on 13 and never bogeyed another.

“That [birdie] settled my nerves,” he said. “From there I started to hit the ball solid.”

And was never caught.

That’s because Warren’s challengers were having their own troubles.

Samoset Resort of Rockport pro Jeff Seavey, of Homosassa, Fla., bogeyed his first hole, and Billy Maguire of Kingston, R.I., playing in the last group with Warren and Seavey, triple-bogeyed it after hitting his opening drive out of bounds.

Seavey also bogeyed the next hole to fall five strokes behind and couldn’t make up the difference.

Carbone, playing two groups in front of Warren, technically tied Warren at 4 under par when he birdied 13, but that only lasted until Warren made birdie there. Carbone parred out the front, but Warren added another birdie on 17 to make the turn at 6 under.

In fact, Carbone parred every hole on the back as well while Warren and Egloff picked up birdies on their 10th holes and started to pull away from the field.

Egloff, playing in the next-to-last group, could only pull within one, though, and no closer.

“I had my chances coming,” said Egloff. “I made a few putts and missed a few, but I was glad to throw a challenge at him.”

They both parred the next two holes and both birdied 13, the only par 5 on the course, as Warren maintained his two-stroke edge. Egloff cut that in half with a birdie on 14 while Warren just missed his birdie try.

They both parred out, but Warren had to make a big two-putt on 15 to preserve his lead.

“The big one for me was [15],” he said. “I told Todd [Bacon, his caddie] this was a big putt.”

The pin was on the back left shelf of the 199-yard downhill par-3 and Warren left his tee shot on the far right, about 50 feet away.

He drilled his first putt, but it missed the cup and rolled well past.

“It was about 6 or 7 feet. It just caught the lip,” Warren said of the par-saving putt.

He didn’t start playing it safe.

“I was trying to get to 10 [under],” he said. Although, he could sort of keep track of Egloff based on the leader boards that were used for the last three groups, he wanted to make sure to squelch any challenges.

At the last hole, he hit his approach shot to the middle of the green and two-putted for the par that clinched his victory.

“On 18, I played conservatively and lagged my [first] putt up there,” said Warren. “That’s the only time I changed my plan.”

His mindset now is to keep riding the wave.

“These are the times when you’ve really got to keep on playing, take advantage of playing well,” said Warren.

“This is the pinnacle,” he added. “Now I’ve just got to keep on doing it.”

dbarber@bangordailynews.net

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GREATER BANGOR OPEN

At Bangor Municipal GC, par 69

Saturday’s final results

Shawn Warren, $11,000 64-66-130

Eric Egloff, $6,000 67-64-131

Joe Cioe, $3,800 67-66-133

Michael Carbone, $3,500 66-68-134

Mark Alizzeo, $2,200 68-68-136

John Elliott, $1,375 67-70-137

Kyle Bilodeau, $1,375 68-69-137

David Schuster, $963 69-70-139

Jeff Seavey, $963 67-72-139

Mark Baldwin, $963 71-68-139

Matt Donovan, $963 68-71-139

Kyle Gallo, $725 70-70-140

Dave Kelly, $725 67-73-140

James Fuller, $638 68-73-141

Steven Jenkins, $638 69-72-141

Pier Roy, $638 73-68-141

Abbie Valentine, $638 69-72-141

David Field, $525 72-70-142

Ross McGee, $525 69-73-142

Adam Rainaud, $525 73-69-142

Denny Rasku, $525 69-73-142

Andrew Morse, $525 70-72-142

Donald Troy, $525 69-73-142

James Gilleon, $483 67-76-143

Billy Maguire, $483 67-76-143

Toby Spector, $483 71-72-143

Geoffrey Fisk, $360 72-72-144

Alex Knoll, $360 69-75-144

Ryan Ouelette, $360 74-70-144

Jason Parajeckas, $360 73-71-144

David Bowyer, $360 73-71-144

Keith Decker, $360 74-70-144

Bryan O’Melia 74-71-145

John Arnette 72-73-145

Marc-Andre Champagne 71-74-145

Kerry Johnston 73-73-146

Renaud Langevin 71-75-146

Ricardo Ronderos 74-72-146

Keegan Bradley 75-71-146

Hal Jacobs 75-72-147

Robert Kalinowski 76-71-147

Ben Estabrook 73-75-148

Joe Finemore 72-76-148

Ricardo Petillo 77-71-148

Derick Fors 71-78-149

Marc Hurtibise 75-74-149

Pete Matthews 72-77-149

Jerry Wood 76-73-149

Jeff Cochran 74-75-149

John Hickson 72-78-150

Dan Janton 75-75-150

Jim Knowles 75-75-150

Don Robertson 76-74-150

Neil Lyons 76-74-150

Dewey Arnette 75-75-150

Rick Sinclair 75-76-151

George Zolotas 76-75-151

Nick Clark 76-75-151

Mark Hall 77-75-152

Matt Saglio 73-79-152

Brent Wilber 74-78-152

Joe Clark Jr. 74-78-152

Justin Barkeley 74-79-153

Mark Paine 77-77-154

Simon Camirand 81-73-154

Eric Cogorno 79-75-154

Brendon Ray 77-79-156

Adam Carlucci 81-75-156

John Royal 75-82-157

John Wachtler 78-79-157

Lemuel Clement 78-79-157

Jeff Cox 78-79-157

Jaymis Dugans 80-79-159

Gabriel Dubois 79-81-160

Charlie Rutledge 71-89-160

Rob Jarvis 80-82-162

Chris Carr 83-79-162

Brian Johnson 81-82-163

Scott Davis 82-81-163

Jerry Glidden 82-82-164

Tovie St. Louis 82-83-165

Nick Paolucci 86-79-165

David Dubois 83-83-166

Stuart Cady 73-93-166