Tournament Central
NCGA Team Match Championship Whitney Oaks | Oct. 25-26, 2013 | Carmel Valley Ranch GC
CGA Senior Championship Jim Knoll | San Gabriel CC | Nov. 4-6, 2013
Through two rounds of the CGA
Senior Amateur, three-time NCGA Player of the Year Jim Knoll built a seven-shot lead. Knoll used up just about all of that cushion in the fi nal round, but ultimate- ly captured his fi rst State Senior title by
two strokes over Gary Vanier. “This one really does mean a lot,”
Whitney Oaks Team
The NCGA Team Match Play began with 225 clubs gunning for defending champion Whitney Oaks. But Whitney Oaks fi nished off every last challenger
to the throne. Whitney Oaks defended its Team Match Play title with a 26-10 win over Lake of the Pines at Carmel Val- ley Ranch in the 25th anniversary of one of the NCGA’s most popular events. Whitney Oaks is just the third team to navigate the maze that is the Team Match Play and defend its title. “There’s a lot of camaraderie,” said Whitney Oaks
captain Gary White, who won both his matches in the overall fi nals. “It’s a really good group. “Next year we want to come back and win it a third time.” The Rocklin-based Whitney Oaks reached the fi nals by winning the Thursday bracket, beating Tehama 29-7 to advance to the overall fi nal. Lake of the Pines won the Saturday bracket by beat-
ing Green Hills CC 24-12. Whitney Oaks will go after its third Team Match
Play title next year at Poppy Hills. No club has ever won this event three years in a row. In the consolation match, Tehama GC beat Green
Hills CC, 20-16.
Quick Facts FIELD AND FORMAT: More than 225 clubs compete
throughout the summer and fall, with the top two teams from the Saturday and Thursday Leagues reaching the fi nals. The 12-person teams compete in four-ball (best ball) matches concurrently with singles matches. Each match is worth two points, for a total of six in each group.
STAT OF SIGNIFICANCE: More than 15,000 rounds were played to bring the fi nal four teams to Carmel Valley Ranch for the fi nals, making the Team Match program the largest the NCGA offers.
UNTIL NEXT TIME: Oct. 24-25, 2014 at Poppy Hills Jim Knoll
Knoll said. “A lot of my very, very good friends have won this, and to have my name put on that trophy with theirs is really special.” Knoll fi nished with a three-day total of 1 under at San Gabriel CC in Southern California, opening with rounds of 1-un- der 70 and 5-under 66, before closing with a 5-over 76.
Vanier cut the lead to just one stroke with two holes
to go, but Knoll parred out to fi nish out of harm’s way. Vanier, the 2007 champ, fi nished alone in second at
1 over. Defending champion Casey Boyns took third, eight shots back, while three-time Senior Am winner Jeff Burda tied for fourth with Iain McDonald, one shot back of Boyns. Knoll, Boyns and Vanier also teamed up to help the
NCGA win the CGA Senior Cup for the sixth straight year. In the two-day competition, the NCGA beat the SCGA, 423-458. Terry Foreman played for the NCGA team, but missed the cut individually. The Senior Am will return to Northern California and the newly renovated Poppy Hills.
Seaver Cup
The NCGA retained the Seaver Cup in a dominating 33.5–14.5 victory over the SCGA in December at La Quinta CC. The win means the NCGA swept all three NCGA/SCGA team competitions in 2013.
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