NCGA Senior Four-Ball Championship Bayonet GC | April 4-6
Randy Haag and Chip Lutz Record six-time NCGA Player of the Year Randy Haag
and world top-ranked senior amateur Chip Lutz were the heavy favorites. They’d be pushed to the brink. Lutz, the defending U.S. Senior Amateur champion,
sank a three-foot putt on the 5th hole of a sudden-death playoff, lifting him and Haag to a tight win over Doug and Jim Williams at par-72 Bayonet GC. The winning putt was set up by a nearly perfect 54-
yard pitch shot from just beyond the greenside bunker on the par-4 5th. Even the last putt didn’t come easy though, as it horseshoed around the cup before finally falling in. “I love being in the hunt, coming down the stretch and making shots,” said Lutz, whose resume also in- cludes a win at the 2011 Senior British Amateur. “The Williams brothers played really well. We were fortunate to get by them.” Haag, who plays out of the Olympic Club, and Lutz, a member of
AmateurGolf.com, shot a 68 to come from two strokes back to tie the Williams brothers after
CORRECTIONS
In the Winter edition of NCGA Golf, Carl Selkirk was not listed in the NCGA Record Book. Selkirk has won two NCGA Senior Player of the Year titles.
NCGA Associate Club Net Amateur Championship Chardonnay Flight winner Eric Jarvis was misidentified in a photo. Here is the correct photo of Jarvis.
Eric Jarvis
Dave Sheff and Bruce Loman
regulation at 13-under 203. Lutz made key putts on both the 15th and 17th holes to keep the duo within striking distance. On the 18th, both Williams brothers had putts to
win outright, but missed. Last year, the duo missed an agonizing short putt on the 18th hole at Poppy Hills that would’ve forced a playoff with eventual champs Casey Boyns and Terry Foreman. “We were so close last year and we got to five playoff holes this year. We had our chances,” Jim Williams said. “Chip made a great birdie on the 17th and his shot on the 5th playoff hole was great too. We stood up pretty well with them.” Third place went to the team of Mark Miller and
Mitch Harrison, who finished at 207. In the Super Senior Championship, Bruce Loman
and Dave Sheff carded a 68 to finish at 207, defeating runner-ups Dennis Younglove and David Hemrick by three strokes.
–J.S.
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