12th Annual NCGA Amateur Stroke Play Championship Poppy Hills | July 10-12
It had been three years and a swing change ago
since Robby Salomon had tasted victory. The 26-year- old senior at CSU-Monterey Bay changed that with a final-round 3-under 68 at Poppy Hills to win NCGA Amateur Stroke Play by five over runner-up Patrick Soli of San Carlos. “It’s a relief,” said Salomon, who finished the three-
day, 54-hole event at 4-under 209. “It’s a lot of frustra- tion to overcome.” St. Mary’s senior Jonathan De Los Reyes began the
day nine shots behind Salomon, but charged up the leaderboard to a third-place finish at 215 after carding a course record 6-under 65. Salomon only began playing competitive golf
four years ago after pursuing a career in baseball. He clinched the Stroke Play title with back-to-back birdies Nos. 13 and 14, and finished in style with a closing birdie on No. 18. Solomon got around Poppy Hills three times with- out making anything worse than a bogey. “That’s the key on this course,” Solomon said. “You
know you’re going to make bogeys. When you do have a bad hole, you have to limit the damage.” Poppy Hills played to a stroke average of 78.9 for
the championship. Salomon’s 209 total was 10 shots lower than 2014 champion Bobby Bucey’s winning total of 219.
Corey Pereira, Bryson DeChambeau and Maverick McNealy
49th Annual Pacific Coast Amateur Eugene CC (Eugene, Ore.) | July 28-31
College stars Maverick McNealy, Bryson DeChambeau
and Corey Pereira teamed up to form one of the NCGA’s most formidable teams ever, capturing the Pacific Coast Amateur’s Morse Cup at Eugene CC in Oregon by four strokes over the defending champion Southern California Golf Association contingent. The NCGA team was an all-star cast on paper,
with Pereira the 2014 Pacific Coast Amateur Cham- pion, McNealy the reigning Collegiate Player of the Year, and DeChambeau the NCAA individual national champion. All three finished in the top 10 for the championship to clinch the NCGA’s second Morse Cup in the last three years. Oregon sophomore Aaron Wise ultimately won the individual title with a closing 4-under 66 to finish at 6-under 274. McNealy finished two stokes back after a closing 69 to tie for second with University of Texas junior Beau Hossler. Texan Will Zalatoris and Clovis resident Bryson DeChambeau, who had entered the final round tied for the lead, finished tied for fourth after closing 72s, four back of Wise. The other NCGA players to finish in the Top 10
were Cal senior Shotaro Ban, who came in 9th after a 71, and defending champion Corey Pereira, also finished in the top 10.
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