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NCGA Senior Championship Spyglass Hill | March 30-31
Casey Boyns finally captured the title that kept getting away. Monterey’s Boyns shot a
final-round 3-over 75 at Spyglass Hill to hold off a slew of challengers, ultimately finishing at 2-over 146 to win the NCGA Senior Championship by one over two-time champion Jeff Burda of Modesto. With the win, Boyns
increased his record for overall NCGA Amateur Tour titles to 21 (five Senior, 16 Men’s). But the NCGA
Casey Boyns
Senior Championship might be the sweetest of them all. “I’m pretty content now in
regards to bucket-list items,” the 59-year-old said. “It feels good to scratch this one off.” In 2013, Boyns appeared to have his first Senior
Championship title locked up. But that was before a disastrous quintuple-bogey 10 on the par-4 14th at Spy- glass Hill. He ended up losing in a playoff to Gary Vanier. “That loss in 2013 really hurt,” Boyns said. “I thought I had it won. After that I remember thinking, ‘I’m never going to win it.’ I know the older you get, the harder it gets.” This time around, Boyns entered the final
round one shot behind leader Conrad Nil- meier after opening with a 1-under 71, but grabbed the lead with birdies on Nos. 3 and 5. Boyns built a big enough cushion that he could bogey the final two holes to win by one. Defending cham-
pion Jim Knoll shot 74-79-153 to finish 15th.
–J.S.
NCGA Amateur Tour Update Boyns’ First NCGA Senior Title
has Him on Track for Another First Through April 1, 2015
Now that he’s scratched a victory in the Senior
Championship off his bucket list, Casey Boyns can take aim at adding another feat to his NCGA portfolio. With his win at Spyglass Hill on March 31, Boyns
took over the lead in the race for NCGA Senior Player of the Year honors. The 59-year-old, who won four NCGA Player of the Year titles but has yet to capture the Senior points race, moved to 997 points, giving him a 115-point edge over three-time Senior Player of the Year Mark Miller (2007, 2009 and 2010). In third place with 715 points is 2008 Player of the
Year and Senior Championship runner-up Jeff Burda. Record four-time defending Senior Player of the Year Jim Knoll is in fourth place at 615. With a fourth place finish at the NCGA Senior, Herb
Jensen, who turns 66 in June, increased his leading total in the inaugural Super Senior standings to 767 points. Jensen, who shot to the top of the standings with his
victory in October at the NCGA Super Senior Cham- pionship, leads second-place Ron Johnson by 461 points. Dennis Younglove sits in third, 51 points behind Johnson. In the race for NCGA Player of the Year honors,
things have yet to really heat up. Thanks in part to a win at this year’s Stockton City Four-Ball, Fairfield resident Jason Anthony continues to lead the standings with a total of 200 points. In second place, Castle-
wood CC member and
AmateurGolf.com Silicon Valley Classic winner Jonny Baxter has 168 points. Among the events on
the April calendar poised to shake up the Player of the Year standings were the San Francisco City, Alameda Commuters and NCGA Public Links Championship. –J.S.
See
NCGA.org/TournamentCentral for complete results and updated points race standings.
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NCGA.ORG / SPRING 2015 Herb Jensen Jason Anthony
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