It seldom happens this way, but this weekend a CGA championship will be held for the second time in less than seven months.
Last year’s CGA Four-Ball was conducted in October after a May snowstorm caused it to be postponed. And now the 2017 edition of the tournament is on tap Friday through Sunday (May 5-7) at CGA-owned CommonGround Golf Course in Aurora.
A full field of 60 two-man teams is set to compete, though 2016 champions Steve Irwin and Barry Erwin are not in the field. In fact, only one team of former champions is back intact for this week’s tournament — 2015 winners James Richardson and Sam Marley.
Other former champions — competing with different partners this year than when they won — playing this week include Keith Humerickhouse (2014), Jon Lindstrom (2002 and ’12), Alex Buecking (2009) and Owen Ellis (2003). Buecking and his then-partner Jason Enloe advanced to the quarterfinals of the 2016 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship.
This year’s CGA field in the scratch better-ball stroke-play event features impressive players from the high school, college and mid-amateur ranks.
In addition to the forementioned, they include Colorado State University golfers Jake Staiano and Blake Cannon; Alex Kephart and Kurtis Lucas, who will play in this year’s U.S. Four-Ball later this month; 2015 CGA Match Play champion Nick Nosewicz and 2016 U.S. Mid-Amateur qualifier Tom Krystyn; Lindstrom, a three-time CGA Mid-Am champ, and Richard Bradsby, winner of the 2016 Broadmoor Invitation with Irwin; NCAA Division I signees Jackson Solem and Daniel Pearson; two-time CGA Junior Amateur champ Ross Macdonald and Behrod Keshtavar; two-time U.S. Amateur qualifier Kyle Danford and Dave Johnson; 2015 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball qualifiers Andrew Tapia and Jeff Chapman; and father and son Ray and Jimmy Makloski, the 2016 CGA Parent/Child champions.
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