TOURNAMENT CENTRAL
14th Senior Four-Ball Championship Casey Boyns and Mark Miller | Poppy Hills | June 13-15
After entering the final round five strokes out of the
lead, Casey Boyns and Mark Miller secured a masterful come-from-behind victory in the 14th Senior Four-Ball Championship with a closing 7-under 65. Boyns and Miller, playing in the final group with Mel Col- lins and David Ujihara, overtook the first and second-round leaders on the 11th hole after Collins and Uji- hara bogeyed the par 3. Boyns and Miller capped off their bogey-free round with a
Casey Boyns and Mark Miller
closing birdie to come away with a three-stroke victory. This marks Miller’s second Senior Four-Ball Cham-
pionship after taking the trophy in 2006 with partner Herb Jensen. Boyns added yet another NCGA major to his playing resume; this was his ninth unique NCGA major championship and 16th overall.
Quick Facts FIELD & FORMAT: 60 teams; players must have reached their 55th birthday by the start of the tourn- ment; 54 holes of four-ball stroke play; the top 30 and ties made the 36-hole cut after posting a cumulative 145 through two days.
FIRST AND SECOND-ROUND LEADERS: Mel Collins and David Ujihara
WINNING PERFORMANCE: 67-67-65–199 STAT OF SIGNIFICANCE: Boyns and Miller carded but two bogeys in the 54 holes of play and gained most of their ground on the par 5s, where the duo was 12-under for the tournament.
WORDS OF A CHAMPION: “To sum up the tourna- ment, my partner didn’t show up on the first hole, but he showed up on the last, and that’s what matters. Casey hit it really well today.”–Mark Miller on partner Casey Boyns, who arrived late and missed the first hole of competition
PREVIOUS CHAMPIONS: Jim Knoll and Jeff Burda UNTIL NEXT TIME: To be determined
Andrea Wong displayed calm and consistent play on the final day of the 8th Women’s Championship to secure a one-stroke victory in come-from-behind fashion. Wong, a recent graduate of Saint Ig- natius College Prep in San Francisco and future golfer at UC-Davis, saw her fellow-competitors falter but kept her wits about her and crept into the lead after back-to-back birdies on the eighth and ninth holes at Spyglass Hill. For the tournament, Wong rolled in 25 pars, six bogeys and five birdies to attain the top spot on the leaderboard.
8th Women’s and Senior Women’s Championship Andrea Wong and Marianne Towersey | Poppy Hills & Spyglass Hill | June 18-19
Marianne Towersey, the tourna-
ment’s first winner of the senior division in 2007, sailed to her second NCGA championship after posting a 73-76–149 in the wire-to-wire win. She set tournament records with her seven-stroke margin of victory and two-day total of 149.
Quick Facts FIELD & FORMAT: 99 total players; 36 holes of stroke play; senior division for women 50 and over
FIRST-ROUND LEADER: Hayley Andreas
WINNING PERFORMANCE: 72-74–146
Marianne Towersey
STAT OF SIGNIFICANCE: Sagee Palavivatana aced the 172-yard par-3 15th hole at Poppy Hills during the first round of play. Her eagle was the only one for the championship.
WORDS OF A CHAMPION: “Yesterday, I shot even par and I just hit lots of greens both days, so it was just a really solid two rounds of golf. My speed was really good. These greens are really tough, so I definitely think it was the putting,” said Wong.
PREVIOUS CHAMPION: Devon Brown (Senior division: Sandra Woodruff)
UNTIL NEXT TIME: June 10-11, 2013 at Spyglass Hill and Spanish Bay
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