Bingaman Powers Through Rainy Conditions to Take the Lead After Round One of the Prize Possessions | E-Z-GO Eastern Championship

PROSPER, TEXAS - Brandon Bingaman, PGA assistant professional at Bent Tree Country Club leads after Round One of the Prize Possessions | E-Z-GO Eastern Championship. Bingaman fired an opening round 66, 6-under-par at Gentle Creek Country Club.
Bingaman is fresh off a win at the TPx Communications Western Championship, and is looking to win his third consecutive individual Section Major Championship. “I hit it a lot better today than I did at the Western, that’s for sure. I had a good feel going,” said Bingaman.
Nine players are within three shots of the lead heading into the Final Round tomorrow.
The Championship includes a Senior Division that is made up of 41 professionals aged 50 or older who are competing for a separate purse and playing at a modified yardage. Three players sit atop the senior division at 2-under-par 70. Dan Walden, PGA head professional at Texas Star Golf Course, Jim Henderson, PGA Director of Golf at Stevens Park Golf Course and Bruce Smith, PGA Director of Instruction at Black Belt Golf Academy.
This 36-hole NTPGA major championship is the second of four individual stroke play events that comprise the Yamaha Golf-Car Company | Srixon / Cleveland Golf / XXIO / ASICS Player of the Year Points Challenge presented by Adventures In Golf and Cyber Group.
131 Northern Texas PGA Members and Associates are competing for an Eastern Championship record overall purse of $43,000.The Open Division champion will take home $3,300 and the Senior Division Champion will take home $1,500. The first wave of play in the Final Round will begin at 8:00 a.m. with tee times off of the #1 and #10 tees. This will feature the Senior Division, followed by the leaders of the Open Division in the afternoon wave.
The Prize Possessions | E-Z-GO Eastern Championship is presented by 1st and 10th Tee Golf Energy Bar, AT&T Byron Nelson, Golf Pro Payments, Nexbelt, PGA TOUR, PXG, Rapsodo, and Strike Visuals.
Round One results
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