With the CGA and CWGA merging at the beginning of this year, 22 differerent CGA championships/tournaments are on tap — a dozen on the men’s side and 10 on the women’s.

The schedule starts with the CGA Senior Four-Ball, set for Monday through Wednesday (April 30-May 2), and likely will conclude with the finals of the season-long CGA Team Interclub sometime in October.

The lineup is highlighted by the “majors”. On the men’s side, that’s the 118th CGA Match Play June 18-22 at The Club at Ravenna in Littleton, and the CGA Amateur Aug. 2-5 at Pinehurst Country Club in south Denver. As for the women, the Women’s Stroke Play is set for June 20-22 at Black Bear Golf Club in Parker, with the 103rd Women’s Match Play scheduled for July 10-13 at The Fox Hill Club in Longmont.

The first women’s championship of 2018 will be the Brassie May 21-22 at The Club at Flying Horse in Colorado Springs.

Back to the CGA season opener, next week’s 37th annual Senior Four-Ball will be held at West Woods Golf Club in Arvada, which this year opened its newly remodeled clubhouse.

The field for the 54-hole scratch event will feature 50 teams, with all players age 52 and older, and a separate super-senior competition for golfers 62 and older.

Six teams that have won the championship are back intact. That includes defending champions Doug Moore and Raymond Kelley of Lone Tree Golf Club, Robert Polk and Bill Fowler (2016; Polk also won with different partners in 2005 and ’07), David Delich and Bruce Hogg (2014), Kelly Crone and Larry Netherton (2009 and ’13), John Applegate and Keith Masters (2011), and Scott Radcliffe and Sean Forey (2003; Forey also won in 2008). Another former champ in the field is Robert Beiersdorf (2015), who this year is teaming up with Ed Spenner.

Also scheduled to compete at West Woods are Colorado Golf Hall of Famer Kent Moore and partner Steve Bell, who lost on the third hole of a super-senior playoff to Crone and Netherton last year; Pat Bucci, winner of the 2017 CGA Senior Match Play and a regular at West Woods, and partner Bob Schuler; Robin Bradbury, the 2016 CGA Senior Player of the Year, and partner Owen Ellis; and Gary Albrecht, winner of the 2017 CGA Super-Senior Stroke Play, and partner John Ingram.

For tee times for the Senior Four-Ball, CLICK HERE.

The third season of the JGAC will tee off Saturday and Sunday — assuming the weather cooperates — with a Spring Series tournament at Valley Hi Golf Course in Colorado Springs. There will be separate divisions for age groups 14-18, 11-13 and 10 & under.

Then the first JGAC Tour event — for the top junior golfers in Colorado — is scheduled for April 14-15 when the Country Club of Colorado in Colorado Springs hosts a Spring JGAC Tour tournament.

As always, the highlights of the season for the top competitors will be the four JGAC majors, the AJGA Hale Irwin Colorado Junior, the Boys and Girls Junior Americas Cup, and the USGA qualifying tournaments and championships themselves.

The AJGA Hale Irwin Colorado Junior, which features a field including national and international players plus plenty of Coloradans, will return to Walnut Creek Golf Preserve in Westminster, with the championship rounds set for June 5-7.

For the first time in 18 years, Colorado will be home to the Girls Junior Americas Cup, where many of the top players from the western U.S., Canada and Mexico will compete. Hiwan Golf Club in Evergreen and the JGAC will host the event, with championship rounds scheduled for July 25-27. The boys JAC is set for July 24-26 in Anaconda, Mont.

And here’s the lineup for the four JGAC majors:

— June 11-13: Colorado Junior PGA Championship, Eisenhower GC Blue Course in Colorado Springs.

— July 9-11: Colorado Junior Amateur, Todd Creek GC in Thornton.

— July 30-Aug. 1: Colorado Junior Match Play, Plum Creek GC in Castle Rock.

— Oct. 6-7: JGAC Tour Championship, Denver Country Club.

As for USGA championship qualifying, both the qualifiers for the U.S. Junior Amateur and the U.S. Girls’ Junior are scheduled for June 26, with the boys at Buffalo Run in Commerce City and the girls at Colorado National in Erie.

Both of the JGAC Players of the Year are set to return this summer, with Davis Bryant of Aurora and Hailey Schalk of Erie gearing up for another big year.

To access the full schedule for the 2018 JGAC tournament season, CLICK HERE.

Meanwhile, for JGAC introductory members, there will be six JGAC Experience events that will give kids a taste for different aspects of the game while providing professional instruction. There will also be 9-Hole Play Days from late May to late July. For the dates of those events, CLICK HERE.

There will also be Drive, Chip & Putt competitions, PGA Junior League, and many other events and activities. To go to the JGAC website, CLICK HERE.