9th NCGA Senior Match Play Championship Poppy Hills and Spyglass Hill | Aug. 10-14
Jim Knoll stood over his ball on the 18th hole at
Spyglass Hill, arms crossed, examining his lie that was precariously close to the lip of the fairway bunker. With the finals of the NCGA Senior Match
Play at all square, and opponent Casey Boyns sitting pretty 30 yards ahead, Knoll went for an all-or-nothing shot and took a rip at the green. Knoll flushed his 7-iron, and admitted to hearing his ball skim the edge of the rough before soaring unscathed and thumping down on the front of the green. “I hit it really good,” Knoll said. “That was
probably the shot of the day.” Knoll salvaged his par, and took advantage of
the extra life, striping his drive and an approach that covered the flag on the 19th hole before winning his first NCGA Senior Match Play Championship with a conceded birdie. “I kid myself. I’m 63 now. I don’t think I’m play-
ing as good as I have the past two or three years, and I think that has to do with age,” said Knoll, the four-time defending NCGA Senior Player of the Year who wrapped up his fifth straight title with this win. “I was so happy that Casey and I were playing today, because there’s not a better person to be playing against than Casey. You are testing yourself against the best.” On the 19th hole—Spyglass
Hill’s No. 10—Boyns stymied his drive behind the tree that
protects the left edge of the fair- way, and overcooked the slice he was forced to play. His approach found the downslope of the right greenside bunker, and he splashed out into the rough. His chip shot for par cruelly burned the edge of the hole, and Boyns conceded Knoll’s 10-footer for the win. “I really wanted to win a third one,” Boyns said. “We
were having a good battle.” It was a match where
nothing came easy. Jim Knoll FALL 2015 /
NCGA.ORG / 55
17th NCGA Senior Four-Ball Net Championship Poppy Hills | Aug. 31-Sept. 1
Madera Municipal: Eddie Williams and Frank Kerby
NCGA Women’s Amateur Tour FEATURED EVENTS
(A complete schedule with allotted points will appear on
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Oct. 3-8, 2015–U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship, Squire Creek CC, Choudrante, LA
May 9-13, 2016–U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship, Bandon Dunes, Bandon, OR July 7-10–U.S. Women’s Open, CordeValle, Morgan Hill, CA
Aug, 1-7, 2016–U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship, Rolling Green GC, Springfield PA
July 18-23, 2016–U.S. Girls’ Junior Amateur Championship, The Ridgewood CC, Paramus, NJ March, 2016–San Francisco City Women’s Championship
June 13-14, 2016–NCGA Women’s Amateur, Poppy Hills GC, Pebble Beach, CA and Black Horse GC, Seaside, CA
July 26-30, 2016–CWAC California Women’s Amateur Championship, Quail Lodge Resort, Carmel, CA CWC California Women’s Championship, TBD Sacramento County Women’s Championship, TBD State Fair Women’s Championship, TBD Oakland City Amateur Golf Championship/Senior Amateur, TBD
SENIOR WOMEN’S TOURNAMENTS Sept. 26-Oct.1, 2015–U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur Championship, Hillwood CC, Nashville TN
June 13-14, 2016–NCGA Senior Women’s Amateur Championship, Poppy Hills GC, Pebble Beach, CA and Black Horse GC, Seaside, CA
May 16-17, 2016–CWAC California Senior Women’s Amateur Championship, Poppy Hills GC, Pebble Beach, CA
CWC California Women’s Championship, TBD
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