The records aren’t complete — the sites of the CGA Stroke Play are only noted back through 1978 — but what records are accessible indicate that never before have both the CGA Match Play and Stroke Play been conducted at the same course in a single year.

Until this summer, that is.

CommonGround Golf Course in Aurora, which is owned and operated by the CGA and CWGA, will host the 79th CGA Stroke Play Thursday through next Sunday (Aug. 13-16). Four weeks ago, the 115th CGA Match Play concluded at CommonGround, with Nick Nosewicz of Meadow Hills Golf Course claiming the title.

Though CommonGround is the home course of the CGA, the association didn’t plan to have both of its “state amateurs” at the course in 2015. Originally, CommonGround was going to host the Stroke Play, while the Mountain Course at The Broadmoor was to be the site of the Match Play. But heavy rains in the spring caused enough damage to the Mountain Course that officials at The Broadmoor said it wouldn’t be ready in time for the Match Play. So, two weeks before the championship was scheduled to start, the CGA moved it to CommonGround, the Tom Doak-designed course that opened in 2009 and that served as the second stroke-play course for the 2012 U.S. Amateur that Cherry Hills Country Club hosted.

“That’s where owning a golf course is helpful,” said Ed Mate, executive director of the CGA, which otherwise would have had to do considerable last-minute scrambling to find a suitable venue.

So we’ll have a little history made this summer with the two state amateurs taking place at the same site five weeks apart.

There were two years in the last four decades that the CGA Match Play and Stroke Play were held in very close proximity — both geographically and date-wise.

In 1982, the two events were linked and played in one seven-day period in July. After four days of the Stroke Play — which competitor Kent Moore remembers being contested at the Country Club of Colorado in Colorado Springs — the top 16 finishers advanced to the Match Play, which was held at the nearby West Course at The Broadmoor. In the 36-hole Match Play final, former University of Colorado All-American Rick Cramer defeated Moore, 3 and 2, completing a sweep of the Stroke Play and Match Play in 1982. Will Nicholson Jr., of Denver, just a half a year after completing his term as president of the USGA, officiated the Cramer-Moore final.

The next year, a similar format was used, though the top 32 in the Stroke Play at The Broadmoor’s South Course advanced to the Match Play at the Country Club of Colorado.

This year, with both the Match Play and Stroke Play at the same course, the situation would seem to favor Nosewicz. After all, he won the Match Play at CommonGround last month with a 4 and 3 final victory over Connor Klein. At 31, Nosewicz became the oldest winner of the Match Play since 1994. (Nosewicz is pictured above during the Match Play final.)

And besides winning the Match Play at CommonGround, Nosewicz tied for second last year in the CGA Stroke Play after leading through three rounds at Lakewood Country Club. And it should be noted that the player who won last year’s Stroke Play, David Oraee of Greeley, won’t defend his title as he’ll be playing practice rounds next weekend in preparation for the U.S. Amateur at Olympia Fields in suburban Chicago.

The other runner-up from last year, Jimmy Makloski of Pueblo Country Club, will be in the field at CommonGround, as will Klein.

The only former CGA Stroke Play champion entered — as of Friday — was 2012 winner Steven Kupcho of Heritage at Westmoor.

Other notable players in the Stroke Play field are 2014 CGA Match Play winner Cody Kent of The Club at Ravenna and four-time CGA Mid-Amateur champion Keith Humerickhouse of Glenwood Springs Country Club.

Whoever is crowned champion come Aug. 16 will join an illustrious list of winners of the Stroke Play. That list includes Babe Lind (1941, ’42 and ’48), who was part of the Colorado Golf Hall of Fame’s inaugural class of inductees; Hale Irwin (1963, ’64 and ’65); Bob Byman (1971, ’72 and ’73); Steve Jones (1981); and Brandt Jobe (1985). Irwin, Jones and Byman all went on to win on the PGA Tour, and Jobe has also had a long run on the world’s top golf circuit. And between them, Irwin and Jones have won four U.S. Opens.

Next week will mark the second CGA Stroke Play CommonGround has hosted. Zahkai Brown won there in 2011 before claiming the HealthOne Colorado Open title in 2013 and placing second in that event in 2012 and ’15.

In all, 84 players will compete next week at CommonGround, with a cut to the low 40 and ties coming after two rounds.

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CGA Match Play Championship
At The Heritage at Westmoor in Westminster
(Seeds in Parentheses)

ROUND OF 64
  David Oraee, Colorado National Golf Club (1) def. Palmer Giro, Ptarmigan Country Club (64), 6 and 5
  Cody Vance, Raccoon Creek Men’s Club (32) def. Andrew Romano, Colorado Golf Club (33), 2 and 1
  Matt Porter, CommonGround Golf Course (16) def. Spencer Sheets, Glenmoor Country Club (49), 1 up
  Grant Rogers, Omni Interlocken GC (17) def. Matthew Goddard, Ptarmigan Country Club (48), 21 holes
  Cole Cunningham, Valley Country Club (57) def. Jan Wong, Flatirons Golf Course (8), 3 and 2
  Tristan Rohrbaugh, Ironbridge GC (40) def. David Lysaught, Pinehurst Country Club (25), 4 and 3
  Parker Edens, Greeley Country Club (9) def. Billy Ramsey, Lone Tree Mens Golf Club (56), 4 and 3
  Dillon McDonald, Red Sky Golf Club (41) def. Steven Irwin, Lakewood Country Club (24), 19 holes
  Justin Allenback, Elmwood GC (4) def. Grant Porter, CommonGround Golf Course (61), 2 and 1
  Jacob Allenback, Walking Stick GC (36) def. Blair Matthews, CommonGround Golf Course (29), 3 and 2
  Aj Morris, River Valley Ranch Golf Club (13) def. Michael Wilhelm, Country Club of the Rockies (52), 3 and 2
  Christopher Raap, CJGA Club (20) def. Jon Lindstrom, Lakewood Country Club (45), 2 up
  Minkyu Jeon, Raccoon Creek Men’s Club (5) def. Ryan Schmitz, Colorado Golf Club (60), 3 and 2
  Jimmy Makloski, Pueblo Country Club (37) def. Wesley Martin, CommonGround Golf Course (28), 5 and 4
  Andrew Howe, Fox Hill CC (12) def. Pierce Trumper, Fort Collins Country Club (53), 19 holes
  Gus Lundquist, Colorado Golf Club (44) def. Gregory Pattison, Heritage at Westmoor (21), 5 and 4
  Dylan Mitchell, Lakewood Country Club (2) def. Clint Miller, Meadow Hills Golf Course (63), 5 and 4
  Christopher Thayer, Bear Creek Golf Club (34) def. Ray Makloski, Pueblo Country Club (31), 7 and 5
  Colin Prater, Broadmoor Golf Club (15) def. Alex Kephart, Eisenhower Golf Club (50), 1 up
  Steve Connell, Riverdale Golf Club (18) def. Zach Fowlds, Colorado Golf Club (47), 3 and 2
  Ethan Freeman, Glenmoor Country Club (7) def. Trevor Mckune, Pinehurst Country Club (58), 2 and 1
  Tanner Jenson, Ridge at Castle Pines North (39) def. Bryan Cannon, Columbine Country Club (26), 3 and 2
  Jake Kelley, Pinehurst CC (55) def. Bobby Taggart, Canongate Colorado (10), 4 and 2
  Cody Kent, Country Club at Castle Pines (42) def. Cameron Brown, Sonnenalp Golf Club (23), 2 and 1
  Steven Kupcho, CommonGround Golf Course (3) def. Charles Santaularia, CommonGround Golf Course (62), 1 up
  Zach Tripp, Foothills Golf Course (35) def. Drew Trujillo, Bridges (30), 5 and 4
  Chris Dillon, CommonGround GC (14) def. Mr. Harry Johnson, Eagle Ranch Golf Course (51), 19 holes
  Braden Baer, The Ranch CC (46) def. Behrod Keshtavar, CJGA Club (19), 1 up
  Matthew Weiss, Highlands Ranch Golf Club (6) def. Lamar Carlile, City Park Associates Club (59), 7 and 5
  Jeffrey Gravina, Pinehurst Country Club (27) def. Jack Cummings, Omni Interlocken Resort (38), 1 up
  Drew Vance, Raccoon Creek Men’s Club (54) def. Joel Perez, Colorado National Golf Club (11), 4 and 2
  Collin Tedesco, Plum Creek G & CC (43) def. Pierce Aichinger, Bear Creek GC (22), 1 up

ROUND OF 32
  David Oraee, Colorado National Golf Club (1) def. Cody Vance, Raccoon Creek Men’s Club (32), 5 and 4
  Matt Porter, CommonGround Golf Course (16) def. Grant Rogers, Omni Interlocken GC (17), 6 and 5
  Cole Cunningham, Valley Country Club (57) def. Tristan Rohrbaugh, Ironbridge GC (40), 1 up
  Parker Edens, Greeley Country Club (9) def. Dillon McDonald, Red Sky Golf Club (41), 2 and 1
  Jacob Allenback, Walking Stick GC (36) def. Justin Allenback, Elmwood GC (4), 22 holes
  Aj Morris, River Valley Ranch Golf Club (13) def. Christopher Raap, CJGA Club (20), 4 and 3
  Minkyu Jeon, Raccoon Creek Men’s Club (5) def. Jimmy Makloski, Pueblo Country Club (37), 1 up
  Gus Lundquist, Colorado Golf Club (44) def. Andrew Howe, Fox Hill CC (12), 3 and 1
  Christopher Thayer, Bear Creek Golf Club (34) def. Dylan Mitchell, Lakewood Country Club (2), 2 and 1
  Colin Prater, Broadmoor Golf Club (15) def. Steve Connell, Riverdale Golf Club (18), 2 and 1
  Ethan Freeman, Glenmoor Country Club (7) def. Tanner Jenson, Ridge at Castle Pines North (39), 1 up
  Cody Kent, Country Club at Castle Pines (42) def. Jake Kelley, Pinehurst CC (55), 3 and 1
  Zach Tripp, Foothills Golf Course (35) def. Steven Kupcho, CommonGround Golf Course (3), 1 up
  Braden Baer, The Ranch CC (46) def. Chris Dillon, CommonGround GC (14), 6 and 5
  Jeffrey Gravina, Pinehurst Country Club (27) def. Matthew Weiss, Highlands Ranch Golf Club (6), 5 and 3
  Collin Tedesco, Plum Creek G & CC (43) def. Drew Vance, Raccoon Creek Men’s Club (54), 2 and 1

ROUND OF 16
  David Oraee, Colorado National Golf Club (1) def. Matt Porter, CommonGround Golf Course (16), 3 and 1
  Cole Cunningham, Valley Country Club (57) def. Parker Edens, Greeley Country Club (9), 1 up
  Jacob Allenback, Walking Stick GC (36) def. Aj Morris, River Valley Ranch Golf Club (13), 19 holes
  Gus Lundquist, Colorado Golf Club (44) def. Minkyu Jeon, Raccoon Creek Men’s Club (5), 5 and 4
  Colin Prater, Broadmoor Golf Club (15) def. Christopher Thayer, Bear Creek Golf Club (34), 1 up
  Cody Kent, Country Club at Castle Pines (42) def. Ethan Freeman, Glenmoor Country Club (7), 4 and 3
  Zach Tripp, Foothills Golf Course (35) def. Braden Baer, The Ranch CC (46), 3 and 2
  Jeffrey Gravina, Pinehurst Country Club (27) def. Collin Tedesco, Plum Creek G & CC (43), 4 and 2

QUARTERFINALS
  David Oraee, Colorado National Golf Club (1) def. Cole Cunningham, Valley Country Club (57), 1 up
  Jacob Allenback, Walking Stick GC (36) def. Gus Lundquist, Colorado Golf Club (44), 19 holes
  Cody Kent, Country Club at Castle Pines (42) def. Colin Prater, Broadmoor Golf Club (15), 4 and 2
  Zach Tripp, Foothills Golf Course (35) def. Jeffrey Gravina, Pinehurst Country Club (27), 2 and 1

SEMIFINALS
  Jacob Allenback, Walking Stick GC (36) def. David Oraee, Colorado National Golf Club (1), 3 and 2
  Cody Kent, Country Club at Castle Pines (42) def. Zach Tripp, Foothills Golf Course (35), 3 and 2

FINAL
  Cody Kent, Country Club at Castle Pines (42) def. Jacob Allenback, Walking Stick GC (36), 37 holes