List Keeps Playing and Fires First-Round 65  

Gordonsville & Wintergreen, VA – The EGOLF Tarheel Tour Championship got underway today at Spring Creek Golf Club and Stoney Creek Golf Club as a field of 147 players set out to gain their share of a $200,000 purse – namely the winner’s share of $34,000. With half of the field in Gordonsville and the other half in Wintergreen, Luke List of Nashville, TN set the early mark with a 7-under 65 at the Wintergreen Resort’s Stoney Creek course and will take a one-shot lead into Friday’s second round.

List began his round on the back nine at Stoney Creek and set the picturesque Shamokin side ablaze with seven birdies, one bogey and one par for a 6-under 30. While he was forced to suffer through six pars on his closing nine, he still managed to shoot 35 and find a spot atop a leaderboard loaded with talent.

“I was putting really well and hit some good shots and drove it really well,” said List. “I didn’t take advantage of anything on the back (nine) and just kind of coasted. I had some opportunities to shoot something special, the putts just didn’t go in.” List, who ended a heralded amateur career when he turned pro during the week of the 2007 U.S. Open, is making his ninth start of 2008 on the EGOLF Tarheel Tour, where he has recorded five top-10 finishes including each of his last two starts. While he has yet to ascend to the PGA Tour, the expectations are there for a player who decided that less play is not better with Q-School on the horizon.