KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. (March 11, 2008)-- Keith Holmes and Rocky Costa of Georgia grabbed a share of the first-round lead at the amateurgolf.com Kiawah Island Two-Man courtesy of their 64 at the Osprey Point Golf Club and never looked back, eventually finishing with a tournament-record 54-hole score of 15-under-par 202, good for a 15-stroke victory.

"We brother-in-lawed it really well today," said Holmes after their finishing round 71 at the Ocean Course, ranked by Golf Digest as the toughest track in the country.

The Mississippi tandem of Jud Grace and Stan Hall briefly cut the pair's lead to three strokes after a birdie on the first hole of the last round, but eventually fell victim to the Dye-abolical course, and finished in third place at 218.

Greg Wardle and Gary Young of California took second at 217.

"Not only are they long, but they didn't miss any fairways all day," said Jeff Corken, one of the winning team's Day 2 playing partners. "And they also converted a few 30-foot putts."

In the net flight Gary Meadors and Roy Paxson of Jacksonville Beach showed why winter weather has little effect on golfers from Florida. They carded an opening-round 59, then held the rest of the field at arm's length to finish with a seven-stroke victory at 22-under 195. Sandy Burgess and Chris Wilson played solid golf througout, finishing in second at 202, but could never go quite low enough to catch the frontrunners.

Texans Michael Pierce and Roger Wagner may have been frustrated after carding a team double-bogey at the brutally tough par-3 17th at the Ocean Course (the same hole ate up Mark Calcevecchia in the '91 Ryder Cup), but it still wasn't enough to unseat them from their perch atop the senior leaderboard.

The team finished at 7-under 210 to win the tournament by two strokes over Sherman Haggerty and Ben Whipple, who joined them in shooting a 69 in Rd. 3.

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Full results from the amateurgolf.com Kiawah Island Two-Man follow:

Championship Flight
First	Last	City	State	Rd 1	Rd 2	36	Rd 3	Tot
Keith	Holmes	Macon	GA	64	67	131	71	202
Rocky	Costa	Alpharetta	GA
Greg	Wardle	San Francisco	CA	74	67	141	76	217
Gary	Young	Palm Desert	CA
Stan	Hall	Madison	MS	64	71	135	83	218
Jud	Grace	Jackson	MS
Eddie	Fields	Duluth	GA	70	74	144	78	222
Norm	Patterson	Duluth	GA
Robert	Goodwin	Atherton	CA	73	74	147	75	222
Brad	Freeman	Raleigh	NC
Gregory	Bales	glen allen	VA	73	76	149	75	224
Rick	Lareau	Glen Allen	VA
Jeff	Evans	McLean	VA	79	80	159	70	229
Nathan	Dean	McLean	VA
Dan	Daily	Cadiz	OH	77	78	155	75	230
Chris	Daily	Murrells Inlet	SC
Rick	Helling	Excelsior	MN	77	77	154	79	233
Todd	Walker	Shreveport	LA
Jon	Robinson	Devon	PA	75	82	157	79	236
Tom	Piersanti	Malvern	PA
Alan	Costa	Nantucket	MA	78	85	163	79	242
Stephen	Visco	Nantucket	MA
Peter	Davison	West Hartford	CT	WD		WD		WD
Pete	Wlodkowski	Carlsbad	CA
Senior Flight
First	Last	City	St	Rd 1	Rd 2	36	Rd 3	Tot
Michael	Pierce	Houston	TX	71	70	141	69	210
Roger	Wagner	Tomball	TX
Sherman	Haggerty	El Dorado Hills	CA	69	74	143	69	212
Ben	Whipple	El Dorado Hills	CA
Dann	Merrell	West Palm Beach	FL	70	71	141	77	218
David	Merrell	Palm Beach Gardens	FL
Allan	Holmes	Charleston	SC	76	74	150	73	223
Eben	Cockley
Jeff	Bowman	Ijamsville	MD	76	75	151	72	223
Milton	Hendrickson	Shepherdstown	WV
Eric	Silver	West Chester	OH	73	77	150	74	224
Jon	Lipton	Hedgerley	England
George	Adams	Houston	TX	80	75	155	72	227
Mickey	McDonald	Houston	TX
Charlie	Causey	Arlington	VA	79	81	160	72	232
Wayne	McAllister	Rockville	MD
Net Flight
First	Last	City	St	Rd 1	Rd 2	36	Rd 3	Tot
Gary	Meadors	Jacksonville Beach	FL	59	67	126	69	195
Roy	Paxson	Jacksonville Beach	FL
Sandy	Burgess	Macon	GA	63	70	133	69	202
Chris	Wilson	Macon	GA
Larry	Fillmore	Brentwood	CA	67	69	136	67	203
Mike	Brown	Brentwood	CA
Mike	Casey	Brentwood	CA	66	73	139	69	208
Bob	Paulson	Oakley	CA
Steve	Warren	Newburgh	IN	68	72	140	69	209
Rick	Friedman	Ponte Vedra Beach	FL
Eric	Czarnecki	Mt. Pleasant	SC	70	70	140	69	209
Kevin	Czarnecki	Marlborough	CT
Gene	Lauffer	Columbia	SC	73	67	140	72	212
Jacques	McCormack	Columbia	SC
Jay	Czarnecki	New Hope	PA	74	70	144	72	216
Jack	Czarnecki	Sanibel	FL
Richard	Underman	Westerville	OH	71	75	146	70	216
Tom	Underman	Avon	OH
Mike	Kaplan	Macon	GA	68	77	145	74	219
Leonard	Bevill	Macon	GA
Ernest	Humphreys	Barrington	RI	71	75	146	76	222
Lacy	Hayes	Charlotte	NC
Jeff	Corken	Florence	KY	82	74	156	72	228
Don	Corken	Florence	KY
Jeff	Maurer	Akron	OH	78	82	160	75	235
David	Sot	Uniontown	OH
Barry A.	Wade Sr.	Roswell	GA	75	85	160	77	237
Charles	Hubbard	los angeles	CA
William	Ross	Alpharetta	GA	72	86	158	81	239
Alan	Trammell	Peachtree City	GA

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