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10th Amateur Stroke Play Championship Ben Geyer | Bayonet | July 12-14


If there was any question as to why Ben Geyer is turning pro, he gave a pretty convincing answer at the Stroke Play Championship. Geyer defended his Stroke Play title in


emphatic style, beating Robby Salomon and Matt Williams by nine strokes. Geyer played Bayonet in a 54-hole total of 11-under 205, tying the scoring record. Geyer is the first player to successfully


defend his title in the 10 editions of the rebooted Stroke Play Championship. The tournament went on hiatus from 1967 to 2003, making Geyer the first


Ben Geyer


repeat champion since Verne Callison in 1958-59. Geyer, who was the 2012


NCGA Player of the Year, won the tournament last year at Poppy Hills. “I’m going to miss playing amateur golf,” said the


21-year-old Geyer, who graduated from St. Mary’s. “Meeting the NCGA (volunteers and staff), they are all really nice people and very generous with their time.” After shooting rounds of 2-under 70 and 5-under 67,


Geyer held a three-shot lead going into the final round. He closed with a 68, capped by an incredible stretch on Nos. 8-11, where Geyer went birdie-birdie-eagle-birdie. “I was playing not to lose for a little bit, and then all of a sudden I woke up out there,” Geyer said. Other back-to-back Stroke Play champions include


Talbert Smith in ’56-57, and recently inducted World Golf Hall of Famer Ken Venturi in ’51-52. “Those are some pretty good names to be in the com- pany of,” said Geyer. “It feels awesome.”


Quick Facts  FIELD AND FORMAT: 48 players, 54 holes


 FIRST- AND SECOND-ROUND LEADER: Matthew Crawford (first-round 68); Ben Geyer (70-67-137)


 WINNING PREFORMANCE: Ben Geyer (70-67-68–205)


 PREVIOUS CHAMPION: Ben Geyer


 STAT OF SIGNIFICANCE:


Ben Geyer was the only player in the field to post under par rounds all three days.


 UNTIL NEXT TIME: July 11-13, 2014 at Poppy Hills GC Morse Cup Champions: (L-R) Nick Moore, Cory McElyea and Pace Johnson


Quick Facts  FIELD AND FORMAT: 84 players over 72 holes  PREVIOUS CHAMPION: David Fink of Honolulu, Hawaii  STAT OF SIGNIFICANCE: Raber just missed tying the competitive course record in the first round. His 7-under 63 was one off the mark set in 2003.


 UNTIL NEXT TIME: July 22-25, 2014 at Pine Canyon GC in Flagstaff, Ariz.


Tyler Raber


47th Pacific Coast Amateur & Morse Cup Tyler Raber & the NCGA Team | Capilano | July 23-26


Tyler Raber sprinted out to the first-round lead with a 7-under 63 and couldn’t be caught, going wire-to-wire to clinch the Pacific Coast Amateur at Capilano in West Vancouver, British Columbia. “When you play that


well, it feels nice to be able to look at the lead- erboard and go, ‘OK, I beat by the field today


by a couple,’ but to do it in the first round, you still have to remember that there are three rounds to go,” Raber said. The El Macero native shot 63-67-70-72 to finish at 8 under and win by three, although his lead was never in seri- ous jeopardy. Raber began the final round up by five strokes, eventually holding off California State Amateur champion Cory McElyea. Raber, a recent grad of the UC Davis golf team, joins a list of champions that includes Billy Mayfair (1987-88) and Ben Crane (1998). The NCGA team won the Morse Cup without the help


of Raber, enlisting McElyea, Pace Johnson and Nick Moore to play on its three-man team. The NCGA team finished the two-day competition at 7 under, beating the defending champion Pacific Northwest Golf Association by two. The NCGA rallied with a second-round score of 8 under to surge to the top.


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