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He’s competed in two — the 2016 CGA Super-Senior Stroke Play and the 2017 Super-Senior Match Play — and has won them both.

The Colorado Golf Hall of Famer will try to make it 3-for-3 this week when the sixth CGA Super-Senior Stroke Play is contested, with Buffalo Run Golf Course in Commerce City hosting. The 36-hole scratch event, which features separate competitions for players 61 and older and those 71 and older, will run Tuesday and Wednesday (Aug. 22-23).

(FYI: Starting in 2017, the age requirement for each CGA super-senior championship will go up by one year each year through 2021, when no one younger than 65 will be allowed to compete.)

Moore (pictured), who plays out of Cherry Hills Country Club, is among 65 players who will tee it up at Buffalo Run. He’s one of four champions of the younger division at this event entered this week, joining three-time CGA Senior Player of the Year Robert Polk of Colorado Golf Club (2015 winner), Kary Kaltenbacher of Glenmoor Country Club (2014) and Bob Cloud of CommonGround Golf Course (2013).

Among the others scheduled to compete this week are Jeff English of CommonGround and Steve Scheffel of Ptarmigan Country Club — the top two finishers in the 2016 Super-Senior Match Play; 2017 SS Match Play runner-up Jim Reynolds of Bear Creek Golf Club; 2011 and ’13 CGA Senior Player of the Year Harry Johnson of Eagle Ranch Golf Course; 2016 Senior POY Robin Bradbury of Walnut Creek Golf Preserve, and 2016 SS Stroke Play runner-up Sean Forey of The Club at Rolling Hills.

Don Alley of Antler Creek Golf Course, winner of the 70+ tournament last year, will be back to defend that title.

For Tuesday’s tee times at Buffalo Run, CLICK HERE.

Just this month, the Junior Golf Alliance of Colorado’s Junior Series Championship for players 10 and under was held, and it wasn’t uncommon to see 7-year-olds competing.

Next week, the CGA will go to the other end of the spectrum, holding a championship for players potentially 10 times that old.

The fifth annual CGA Super-Senior Stroke Play, with separate age divisions for golfers 60 and older and 70 and older, will be contested Monday and Tuesday (Aug. 22-23) at Heritage Eagle Bend Golf Club (pictured) in Aurora.

Seventy-seven competitors are signed up for the event, including seven of the eight former champions in the 60+ and 70+ divisions. Those past champs include, in the 60+ competition, Robert Polk (2015), Kary Kaltenbacher (2014) and Bob Cloud (2013). And in the 70+ age group, every past winner is back: Kirk Miller (2015), Roger Gunderson (2014), Joe Morrill (2013) and Jim Collins (2012).

Add into the mix entrants Colorado Golf Hall of Famers Kent Moore and John Olive, 2016 U.S. Senior Amateur qualifier Robin Bradbury and recent CGA senior champion Harry Edwards, and the fields are formidable.

Each division will play 36 holes over the two days.

For Monday’s tee times, CLICK HERE. 

The four Coloradans — Kary Kaltenbacher, Scott Crone, Pat Bowe and Mark Runyan — checked in at 675 overall, 27 over par for three days. That was 34 strokes behind champion Northern California.

Steve Wilson from NorCal (213) earned the individual championship following a two-hole playoff.

Here are the individual scores of the Coloradans:

Pat Bowe 72-72-78–222
Scott Crone 74-79-78–231
Kary Kaltenbacher 79-79-78–236
Mark Runyan 74-81-81–236

For all the scores, CLICK HERE.
 

Mertz, the 2010 winner of the Senior Match Play, won two of the first three holes and led throughout against Polk, a three-time CGA Senior Player of the Year.

Joining Mertz (pictured) in winning two matches on Wednesday to make the semis were Kary Kaltenbacher of Glenmoor Country Club, Robert West of Cherry Creek Country Club and Jeff Oneth of Colorado Golf Club, who beat 2012 champion Ray Makloski of Pueblo Country in 20 holes in the quarterfinals. Oneth prevailed with a bogey on the 20th hole, where Makloski carded a double bogey. Makloski had been 3 up through 13 holes.

In Thursday’s semis, Kaltenbacher will face West and Mertz will take on Oneth. The winners will meet for the title on Thursday afternoon.

Meanwhile, in the CGA Super-Senior Match Play at West Woods Golf Club in Arvada, Steve Scheffel of Ptarmigan Country Club and Jeffrey English of CommonGround Golf Course won two matches each on Wednesday and will meet in Thursday morning’s championship match. Each player has defeated a two-time Super-Senior Match Play champ along the way, English taking down Roger Gunderson of CommonGround in Tuesday’s round of 16, and Scheffel dominating Patrick Mooney of Colorado Golf Club in Wednesday’s quarterfinals, 8 and 7.

In Wednesday afternoon’s semifinals, Scheffel edged Don Alley of Antler Creek Golf Course, 1 up, as the players halved the last five holes with pars. And English topped Doug Jones of Tiara Rado Golf Course, 2 and 1.

CGA Senior Match Play
At The Fox Hill Club in Longmont
ROUND of 16
Kary Kaltenbacher, Glenmoor CC (16) def. Jay Gomer, Indian Peaks GC (32) 2 up
Gary Driber, Ridge at Castle Pines North (9) def. John Ingram, Hiwan GC (25) 1 up
Brian Woody, Ridge @ Castle Pines N (29) def. Bob Chandler, Foothills GC (13) 19 holes
Robert West, Cherry Creek CC (5) def. Owen Ellis, Flatirons GC (12) 19 holes
Guy Mertz, Fox Hill Club (2) def. Bradley Becker, Plum Creek GC (15) 6 and 4
Robert Polk, Colorado GC (10) def. Jim Jagels, Hiwan GC (7) 1 up
Ray Makloski, Pueblo CC (3) def. Robin Bradbury, Heritage at Westmoor (14) 7 and 5
Jeff Oneth, Colorado GC (27) def. Jeff Slupe, Highland Meadows GC (22) 2 and 1
QUARTERFINALS
Kary Kaltenbacher, Glenmoor CC (16) def. Gary Driber, Ridge at Castle Pines North (9) 7 and 6
Robert West, Cherry Creek CC (5) def. Brian Woody, Ridge @ Castle Pines N (29) 2 and 1
Guy Mertz, Fox Hill Club (2) def. Robert Polk, Colorado GC (10) 3 and 2
Jeff Oneth, Colorado GC (27) def. Ray Makloski, Pueblo CC (3) 20 holes

CGA Super-Senior Match Play
At West Woods GC in Arvada
QUARTERFINALS
Steve Scheffel, Ptarmigan CC (8) def. Patrick Mooney, Colorado GC (16), 8 and 7
Don Alley, Antler Creek GC (4) def. Lee Hansen, Pinehurst CC (12), 3 and 2
Jeffrey English, CommonGround GC (23) def. Randy Miller, Boulder CC (18), 2 and 1
Doug Jones, Tiara Rado GC (19) def. Bruce Hayes, Heritage at Westmoor (22), 2 and 1
SEMIFINALS
Steve Scheffel, Ptarmigan CC (8) def. Don Alley, Antler Creek GC (4), 1 up
Jeffrey English, CommonGround GC (23) def. Doug Jones, Tiara Rado GC (19), 2 and 1