It’s been a big week locally for four-ball championships, and it’s not over yet.
So far this week, we’ve seen Colorado State University teammates Ellen Secor and Katrina Prendergast win a national title at the U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball, and Bill Fowler hole a 60-foot birdie putt in a playoff to give he and partner Robert Polk the victory at the CGA Senior Four-Ball.
And now it’s time for the open-division CGA Four-Ball Championship, which will be contested Friday through Sunday (May 4-6) at Legacy Ridge Golf Course in Westminster.
A full field of 60 teams is scheduled to compete in the scatch Four-Ball over 54 holes, including defending champions Jon Lindstrom and Richard Bradsby of Lakewood Country Club. Lindstrom is one of two three-time winners of the CGA Four-Ball, along with fellow Lakewood CC member Steve Irwin. Lindstrom, a three-time CGA Mid-Amateur champion, has earned Four-Ball titles in 2002, 2012 and 2017.
Other former CGA Four-Ball champions in the field this weekend are Sam Marley and James Richardson of South Suburban Golf Course (2015), and Keith Humerickhouse of Glenwood Springs Golf Club and Jared Bickling of Gypsum Creek Golf Course (2014). Alex Buecking of Columbine Country Club won in 2009 and will team this year with Trent Isgrig of Cherry Hills Country Club.
Polk, of Colorado Golf Club, will try to win two CGA titles in a week as he’ll team with Jeff Chapman of Inverness Golf Club, who last year was paired with Andrew Tapia and lost in a playoff to Lindstrom and Bradsby.
Among the other teams in the field are Chris Thayer (a two-time CGA Mid-Amateur champion) and Nick Nosewicz (winner of the 2015 CGA Match Play); Jake Staiano (2017 CGA Player of the Year) and Pierce Aichinger (2015 Colorado Junior Match Play champion); Kyle Danford (two-time U.S. Amateur qualifier) and David Johnson, who qualified together for the 2016 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball.
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