Concord, NC – Long-hitting Jason Kokrak of Warren, Ohio entered the final round of the eGolf Tour's $233,847 Cabarrus Classic presented by VisitCabarrus.com trailing overnight leader David Robinson by two shots. A fast start on a windy Saturday in Concord, NC gave Kokrak the momentum needed to card a final-round 66 and claim his first career tour title.

Kokrak, known as one of the longest players in all of developmental golf, let alone the eGolf Tour, was faced with a tall task on Saturday morning. Robinson was known to grab a lead and not let go, as evidenced by his three career wins on tour – all of which came in 2008. Playing in the penultimate threesome, Kokrak was able to set the pace early, and he wasted no time in doing just that.

"I know David's a great player and I knew he was going to put together a pretty good round, so I had to get off to a hot start early," said Kokrak. "I went out and immediately birdied the first two."

David RobinsonBirdies on his first two holes of the day were quickly offset with a three-putt bogey at the par-4 third, but he made up for it on Nos. 4 and 5 with back-to-back birdies to get to 3-under on his round through five holes. Follow-up birdies at Nos. 8 and 10 moved the former Xavier Musketeer to 5-under on the day and just one-shot shy of Robinson. But all of that would change in the blink of an eye at the downhill par-3 12th.

Robinson pulled his tee shot left into a greenside bunker and promptly skulled his bunker shot over the other side of the green. An over-aggressive comeback chip drifted past the hole and onto the fringe, where he would two-putt for his double-bogey. Up until that point, Robinson had played flawless, bogey-free golf. The hunted had become the hunter in the course of 15 minutes. Kokrak was in the lead.

"It wasn't until the 16th tee that I knew I was one shot ahead of David," said Kokrak. "I just kept to my game plan and blasted a driver down the middle like I had been doing all day."

A two-putt par at 16 brought Kokrak to the par-4 17th; where unbeknownst to him he had fallen back into a tie for the lead following a Robinson birdie at 16 in the group behind him.

"On 17, I hit a nice 3-wood off the tee after doing that all week, then hit a nice wedge to 6 feet and made it for birdie," Kokrak said, referencing the clutch putt that gave him his final outright lead.

On the lengthy par-5 18th, Kokrak's layup shot clipped a rogue tree branch and drifted right of the fairway, albeit into a good lie in the Cabarrus rough. With 180 yards to go for his third shot on the 613-yard hole, Kokrak blocked his approach into the right greenside bunker, thus leaving himself very little green with which to work. A clutch bunker shot to 5 feet set up a par putt that would solidify his one shot lead with Robinson eyeing from the fairway.

"I saw (playing partner Brandon Knaub) Brandon's putt roll by, and he was the first to putt, so I knew what the ball was going to do," Kokrak said. "It was just whether or not I could put it together."

The ball never had a chance of missing the hole, and when Robinson's third wound up nearly 60 feet from the hole, a miracle was all that stood between Kokrak and his first win. After Robinson's putt missed the hole, Kokrak was finally the last man standing in an eGolf Tour event with his first career title.

"It's a big thing for me. I played well last year on other tours, but not out here. It sets me at ease because I finally have enough money for the year, which helps a lot," said Kokrak, who bested a field of 203 players to claim the victory.

Brian HarmanWith a winner's check of $34,726, Kokrak moves to No. 1 on the tour's money list with $41,596 in earnings after only three events.

For Robinson, the runner-up finish was his best on tour since a win at the 2008 Charlotte National Open. With three wins that year, this was the closest Robinson has come to winning since. A conditional Nationwide Tour player this year, he will split time between the two tours in hopes of bettering his status this season. Robinson's second-place finish netted the former Georgia State & College star $18,240 and moved him up to No. 6 on the tour's money list.

Two-time Walker Cup star Brian Harman and former PGA TOUR player Joe Daley tied for third at 11-under 277.

For Harman, a native of Savannah, GA, the T3 finish marks the second top-5 effort in three starts on the eGolf Tour this season. The former Georgia Bulldog "All American" notched a T5 result at the season-opening Palmetto Hall Championship. Harman is in his first full season on the eGolf Tour after a standout junior and amateur career that saw him climb as high as No. 1 in the world amateur rankings and represent the United States on the 2005 and 2009 Walker Cup teams.

Daley, who joined the eGolf Tour in 2010 after spending 12 of the past 14 years on the PGA and Nationwide Tours, has quickly become one of the tour's top players with a fourth-place finish at the Palmetto Hall Championship and a T3 this week. The Scottsdale, AZ resident has two Nationwide Tour wins to his credit at the 1997 Louisiana Open and the 2005 Preferred Health Systems Wichita Open.

Beginning the final round trailing Robinson by a single shot, Daley had a chance to catch Kokrak throughout the round, but could not rid himself of bad holes. A final-round 71 was punctuated by three bogeys and a crushing double-bogey six at the par-4 sixth hole. Both Harman and Daley earned $12,803 for their efforts this week.

Scott Weatherly (Fort Payne, AL), Tadd Fujikawa (Honolulu, HI) and Ryan Carter (Hacienda Heights, CA) each tied for fifth at 10-under 278 and earned $8,083 on the week.

The T5 result marked the best of the 2010 season for Fujikawa following T32 and T39 finishes in the first two events of the year, respectively. Playing as an amateur at age 15, Fujikawa qualified for the 2006 U.S. Open, in turn becoming the youngest golfer ever to do so. In 2007, he made the cut in a PGA TOUR event at the Sony Open in Hawaii. At the age of 16 years, 4 days, he was the second youngest player to ever achieve that feat.

• With his win, Kokrak earned an exemption into the Nationwide Tour's South Georgia Classic presented by First State Bank and Trust on April 22-25, 2010. The exemption represents the first of four Nationwide Tour exemptions granted to the eGolf Tour for the 2010 season. The other three will come at the BMW Charity Pro-Am in May (one spot) and the Price Cutter Charity Championship presented by Dr Pepper in August (two spots).
• The tour would like to thank Cabarrus Country Club Head Golf Professional Ken Guilford, River Run Country Club Director of Golf David Ross and their staffs for their outstanding help in conducting this tournament. Special thanks to Cabarrus Head Golf Course Superintendent Tim Davis, River Run Head Golf Course Superintendent Ron Ritchie, and their respective crews for putting in long hours to prepare each course for tournament play this week. Both courses featured some of the best putting surfaces in all of Charlotte. A special thanks goes to the members of each club for allowing the tour to use their facility for the week.
• The tour moves down I-77 to the greater Columbia, SC area next week for the Golf in Morocco Classic, contested at Columbia Country Club and Cobblestone Park Golf Club on March 24-27. The top eight tour members, in order of finish, will be granted complimentary spots in the Challenge Tour's Moroccan Golf Classic on April 21-24, 2010.