83rd Junior Championship Taylor Bromley & Lauren Kim | Spyglass Hill | July 2-3
The final round of the 2012 NCGA Junior Champi-
onship provided plenty of dramatic golf as both the boys’ and girls’ margin of victory came down to a single shot. Taylor Bromley of Dublin, the overall boys winner, needed one hole of a sudden-death playoff to win the title. Lauren Kim of
Taylor Bromley and Nancy Xu
Los Altos edged out fellow 18-hole co-
leader Nancy Xu by one stroke after her double-bogey 6 on the 36th hole brought the lead to the narrowest of margins. But the freshman at Stanford had just enough in her bag to win the tournament.
Quick Facts FIELD AND FORMAT: Boys 14-18 – 80 boys; 54 holes of stroke play; cut after 36 holes at 153 with 38 players advancing; Boys 13 and under – 8 boys; 36 holes of stroke play; Girls – 35 girls; 36 holes of stroke play
FLIGHT WINNERS: Boys 16-18 – Bromley; Boys 14-16 – Jacob Solomon, 72-76-70–218; Boys 13 and under – Ashkaan Hakim, 71-71–142; Girls – Kim
OVERALL ROUND-BY-ROUND LEADERS: Boys – Round 1: Pereira & Andrej Bevins, Round 2: Bromley; Girls: Kim and Xu
PREVIOUS CHAMPIONS: Michael Grenz and Clare Sorensen
HISTORIC HEAVY-HITTERS: Some distinguished former winners include Ken Venturi (1949), Bobby Clampett (1976), Joel Kribel (1993) and the father-son duo of Johnny Miller (1963) and Todd Miller (1996).
STAT OF SIGNIFICANCE: Bromley was the only player to shoot three even-par or better rounds.
WORDS OF A CHAMPION: “It definitely helped me out a lot [to see Corey hit the approach shot first], it showed me that the green was really firm and that I needed to land it short of the hole,” said Bromley on the playoff victory.
UNTIL NEXT TIME: July 8-9, 2013, at Spyglass Hill 54 / NCGA.ORG / FALL 2012
9th Amateur Stroke Play Championship Ben Geyer | Poppy Hills | July 13-15
Going into Sunday’s final round, all indications pointed to a win likely to come from a young up-and-coming NCGA player named Ben. El Macero resident Ben Corfee and Ben Geyer of Arbuckle separated themselves from the field after 36 holes with Corfee standing at 140 and Geyer at 141, with their nearest competi- tors at 144. After Sunday’s round was complete, the odds turned out correct as the 20-year-old Geyer posted his third straight
under-par score to win by four shots. A second consecutive day of 71 put him at a 54-hole score of 212, four-under par, giving him the title of NCGA Stroke Play champion.
Quick Facts FIELD AND FORMAT:
152 players; 54 holes of stroke play; top 43 players made the 36-hole cut set at 152
FIRST- AND SECOND-ROUND LEADER: Ben Corfee
WINNING PERFORMANCE: 70-71-71—212
PREVIOUS CHAMPION: Scott Hardy
Ben Geyer
HISTORIC HEAVY-HITTERS: Previous tournaments have been won by the likes of Ken Venturi (1951, 1952) and Johnny Miller (1964).
IN THE TROPHY CASE: The sterling silver perpetual trophy was donated by the San Francisco Examiner in 1944.
STAT OF SIGNIFICANCE: Geyer was the only player in the field to post an under par total score.
WORDS OF A CHAMPION: “I was eager to get a win. I texted my brother on the plane coming back from the U.S. Amateur Public Links that I wanted to get a win. Whether it’s the NCGA Stroke Play or the U.S. Amateur, I just want to get a win. So it feels good.”