Savannah, GA – August 29, 2009 – After three days of sun-up to sun-down golf, the eGolf Professional Tour's inaugural Championship at Savannah Harbor finally came to a close on Saturday afternoon with Roberto Castro claiming his second 2009 title and ascending to the top of the tour's money list.

At the close of 54 holes, Castro sat at 16-under 200 and held a one-shot lead over Blaine Peffley and Matt Davidson, who were each tied at 15-under. Due to the numerous weather delays, players were forced to remain in their third-round pairings; therefore, Castro was paired with Chris McCartin and Kyle Dobbs, while Peffley and Davidson played in the groups ahead of him.

Making the turn at 2-under 34, Castro looked as though the tournament was borderline over. Peffley and Davidson both entered the back nine after turning at 1-over 37, and out of nowhere Castro had a four-shot cushion.

Matt Davidson"There were three pretty easy birdies on the back, and a couple more you could get at," said Castro, who lives in Alpharetta, GA. "I didn't look at the board until No. 17, but I knew someone was going to be making a move."

Someone certainly was. Actually, a few people were.

First up to toss his name in the hat was Peffley – a former junior phenom from Lebanon, PA who has been one of the tour's most consistent players in 2009.

Birdies at Nos. 10 and 11 quickly put Peffley back into the red on his final round, but the real push for the former Maryland Terrapin came at Nos. 13-15, where he went birdie-birdie-birdie. But for Peffley, the final-round charge would fall short.

"Those guys better hope they don't do what I just did," said Peffley at the scoring table, referring to back-to-back bogeys on Nos. 16 and 17 – a disastrous 30-minute stretch that took him from 19-under to 17-under.

The "guys" he was referring to were Castro and Davidson.

Playing in the threesome ahead of Castro, Davidson put some pressure on the former Georgia Tech star with birdies at 11 and 12 to get to 16-under for his round. After matching a par at No. 13 to Castro's birdie, Davidson trailed by three with five holes to play.

A birdie at 14 and then a follow-up birdie at 15 put Davidson within one. While Castro recorded par after par, Davidson dropped another birdie at the par-3 17th. Suddenly, there was a golf tournament.

After pushing his tee shot at the par-4 18th into the right rough, Davidson's approach launched from a flyer lie over the green and into the thick Bermuda rough. His quandary was worsened by the fact that the green had a rare false back, meaning the back of it sloped away from the middle.

"The ball just nestled down in the rough, right on the line between the first cut and the second cut," said Davidson, who resides in Chapel Hill but is a New Jersey native by birth. "I blasted it out, but it hit straight into the grain and came up 10 feet short."

Watching the whole time was Castro, who got a first-hand view of the situation when he saw Davidson's par attempt slide past the hole.

"I saw him in the right rough, and then I saw him hit it left (over the green). You've got nothing from the right rough," said Castro, who now needed a par to win.

After hitting his approach shot safely on the back left of the green, Castro managed to two-putt from 50 feet for the win as Davidson watched from the scoring area, wondering when his 2009 victory would appear.

"I played well. There was really nothing more I could do. Roberto just played great this week," said Davidson, whose runner-up effort was his third of the year.

Will McGirtFor Castro, the win is his second of the season and the third of his career. He won the tour's Spring Creek Championship in June, after winning the 2007 Spring Creek Classic in his second start as a professional. The win and the $40,000 first-place check move Castro to No. 1 on the tour's 2009 money list with $108,395 in earnings. He joins Kyle Dobbs, Tom Gillis and Scott Brown as the only players to sit atop the list this season. In addition, he joins Brown as the only players to have broken the $100,000 mark this year.

"I always say that you've got to shoot the low round of the day, on the last day, to win. Even if you're leading, it doesn't matter, because someone is always trying to catch you," said Castro. "I didn't do that, but I didn't have any bogeys either, so it evened out."

Outside of his two wins, it has been a banner season for Castro. At the tour's River Run Championship two weeks ago, he set the course record at host River Run Country Club with a second-round 62 that featured a bogey on his 16th hole. He has made eight out of eight cuts on the eGolf Tour and won the Georgia State Open three weeks ago.

"It has been good. The last two and a half months have been good. I was playing the best I've ever played heading into this week," Castro said.

Davidson's third runner-up of the season netted him $21,000. The former PGA TOUR player now has over $88,000 in 2009 earnings without a single victory. Perhaps a defense of his 2008 Tour Championship will end the winless streak. That event lies roughly six weeks away, nestled between the towering pines of the Pine Needles and Mid Pines Resorts in Southern Pines, NC.

Peffley's 17-under 271 effort gave him $13,000 on the week and his sixth top-5 finish in seven starts this year on tour. Almost more amazing than that statistic is this: In seven starts this year, Peffley has made over $10,000 five times. Only twice has he dipped into a four-digit weekly earning.

William McGirt, Derek Watson, Kyle Dobbs and Chris McCartin each tied for fourth, three shots behind Castro at 16-under 272. They each earned $9,375.

For McGirt, the top-5 finish was a long time coming. Having made 14 of 15 cuts this year, the former amateur standout and Wofford College star was a study in consistency, but only had two top-10s to his name. The T4 effort marked his first top-5 since a T5 finish at the 2008 Spring Creek Classic.

• A special thanks goes to the members of The Club at Savannah Harbor for allowing the tour to use their fantastic course for the week. The tour would like to thank Director of Sales Peyton Grimes, Club Manager Dana Schultz and their staffs for all their hard work in arranging this tournament and assisting the tour during the week. Without a doubt, the hardest working staff in Savannah, GA this week was Head Golf Course Superintendent Lynn Childress and his crew. After countless storms, this event would never have happened without their tireless efforts to get the course ready for play.

• The tour will take two weeks off before heading to Eastern North Carolina for the Walnut Creek Open in Goldsboro, NC on September 16-18.