The 35th edition of the CGA Western Chapter Championship will be contested on Saturday and Sunday (July 15-16), with Tiara Rado Golf Course in Grand Junction hosting the tournament for the first time since 2011.
The 36-hole event will include open and senior flights, with gross and net divisions.
Coloradan Kyler Dunkle won’t defend his title as he’ll be competing in U.S. Amateur qualifying on Monday in Highland, Utah. Dunkle advanced to the round of 16 at the 2016 U.S. Am.
But the Western Chapter field will include Tristan Rohrbaugh of Carbondale, who won the championship in 2015 and was runner-up to Dunkle last year. Rohrbaugh, a former 3A state high school champion who plays his college golf at Boise State, qualified for last year’s U.S. Am.
Also scheduled to compete this weekend are Ross Macdonald and Isaac Petersilie, winners of every Colorado Junior Amateur from 2013 to ’15, with Macdonald capturing two of those three. Macdonald is a University of Colorado golfer, while Petersilie plays at the University of Denver.
The Western Chapter senior division field includes David Delich and Harry Johnson, both former CGA Senior Players of the Year.
