Team Shawn "The Love Sponge" Putnam Pro-Am Qualifier
Pro Tyme - Orland - October 11-12, 2008
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The International Pool Tour presents the IPT 2008 Pro Am Tournament, an innovative new concept in pool, where amateurs can qualify to play on a team with a pro! There will be a total of 16 qualifying tournaments held in the Chicagoland area. The top 6 players from each of these qualifying tournments will earn a spot on a team with the assigned pro, and advance to the Pro-Am Tournament held on November 8 & 9 at Palace Billiards in Villa Park, IL. A total of 16 teams will compete in a single-elimination winner take all format. Everyone competes individually and if anyone on your team finishes in first place, you win! The $50,000 prize fund will be divided evenly amongst the winning team, including a $2,000 bonus to the overall winner of the tournament. Click here for more information
About Shawn Putnam
Shawn “The Love Sponge” Putnam was born in Newcastle, Pennsylvania on May 30, 1971. At the mere age of six, Putnam would sit on a bar stool, eating pretzels and drinking soda, silently absorbing the shots made by all the local hustlers. After letting all of the knowledge soak in, Putnam finally got serious about the sport of pool at the age of seventeen. Although he participated in his first professional tournament at nineteen, Shawn feels he really became professional in 1999. The Love Sponge was a six-time consecutive Viking Tour Player of the Year, and this year has won the Pittsburgh Open and the Valley Forge Players Championship, making him one of the only competitors to ever win back to back professional events.
Pro Tyme - Orland
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15605 S 94th Avenue
Orland Park, IL 60462
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Qualifier Results
The following are the top six players that qualified to play on Shawn Putnam's team:
1. Mark Ritter
2. Steve Friesen
3. Melissa Winkler
4. Alfonso Martinez
5-6. Robert Treffeisen
5-6. Mike Walsh
Buy-in Spot: Brad Engle
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