Team Match Playoffs
The Team Match Championship, the NCGA’s most popular tournament program, begins playoffs next week leading to the finals, to be played at Poppy Hills October 28-29.
The finals are the conclusion to a summer-long competition involving more than 200 teams from across Northern California. The 12-person teams compete in four-ball (best ball) matches concurrent with singles’ matches, with each match worth two points, or a total of six in each group. More than 15,000 rounds are played to bring the final four clubs to Poppy Hills.
Defending champion Tehama did not make the playoffs in 2011, losing to Monterey Peninsula CC in its group (groups are determined by the club’s geography and type). Tehama had won the championship twice in the last six yearrs and had won the Thursday League Championship the last two seasons.
On the links below, teams highlighted in blue have qualified for the playoffs.
Team Match History
* – Overall champion
| THURSDAY | SATURDAY | |
| 1989 | Auburn Valley GC | Palo Alto GC |
| 1990 | Monterey Peninsula CC | Green Hills CC |
| 1991 | Palo Alto GC | La Rinconada CC |
| 1992 | Monterey Peninsula CC | Salinas GCC |
| 1993 | Green Hills CC | Presidio Army/Presido |
| 1994 | Del Paso CC | El Macero CC |
| 1995 | San Jose CC | Lincoln Park GC |
| 1996 | Elkhorn CC | Atascadero GC |
| 1997 | Sacramento GC | Lincoln Park GC |
| 1998 | Sacramento GC | San Jose CC* |
| 1999 | Vallejo GC* | Monterey Bay GC |
| 2000 | Bayonet/Black Horse GC* | Turlock GCC |
| 2001 | Ukiah GC* | El Macero CC |
| 2002 | Rancho Murieta CC* | Lake of the Pines CC |
| 2003 | Spring Creek GCC* | Wilcox Oaks GC |
| 2004 | Sequoia Woods CC* | San Jose CC |
| 2005 | Tehama GC* | Merced GCC |
| 2006 | Cameron Park CC* | Pasatiempo GC |
| 2007 | Madera GCC | Spring Creek GCC* |
| 2008 | Sharon Heights | The Olympic Club* |
| 2009 | Tehama GC | Riverside GC* |
| 2010 | Tehama GC* | Pajaro Valley |