31st NCGA Associate Club Championship | Del Monte GC & Spyglass Hill GC | August 26-27, 2013
2012 Champions: Los Amigos GC
First played in 1983, the NCGA Associate Club Championship is a four-person team event for associate clubs.
Entries Close: May 31, 2013
Local Qualifying Dates: June 27 & July 3, 2013.
Sectional Qualifying: July 31 OR August 1, 2013 at Poppy Ridge.
Entries: One four-person team per club. Entry Fee: $260 per team for local qualifying. 84 qualifying teams pay an additional $260 for one day of sectional qualifying. No additional fee for championship.
ELIGIBILITY: NCGA Associate Club members ONLY. Multi-members can only represent one club. No players under 18 years of age. A numeric handicap index listed on their club’s Master Report on the date of registration not to exceed 36.4 (men) or 40.4 (women). NOTE: SIRS – One four-person team per branch (based on membership size) is eligible for local qualifying.
FORMAT: Best two balls of four. Local Qualifying – 18 holes. 84 teams advance to sectional qualifying. Sectional Qualifying – 18 holes. 30 teams advance to the championship. Championship – 36 holes, 18 holes per day. Play will be 90% (men) and 95% (women) of their course handicap using a maximum handicap index of 18.4 for calculation. All players with handicap indexes of 18.5 and above are eligible but must play to a maximum handicap index of 18.4.
Tournament Recaps
The Los Amigos GC team featuring Candido Martinez, Jorge Perez, Nick Robles and Dennis Shean went wire to wire to win the 30thAnnual NCGA Associate Club Championship. The four-man team followed yesterday’s net score of 15-under par 129 at Spyglass Hill, with a net score of 13-under par 131 at Poppy Hills to finish at a 36-hole total of 28-under par 260. “We ham and egged it really well,” said Martinez, the elder statesman of the team at 72 years of age. Read Full 2012 Recap
The B.N.F. GC team of Bill Kastanis, Jerry Gage, Damien Galford and Craig Wesner held onto its first-round lead to capture the NCGA Associate Club Championship at Spyglass Hill. B.N.F. GC posted a net 38-under 250 in the format that takes the best two of four net scores per hole. The back nine at tough Poppy Hills in the first round was especially kind to the team as it went 12 under to power to the first-round lead (B.N.F shot 17-under 127 in the second round at Spyglass Hill). Read Full 2011 Recap
Past Champions
| 1983 | Bayview GC at Rancho Canada East | 55-57-112 |
| 1984 | Sandia Tourney GC at Rancho Murieta | 59-55-114 |
| 1985 | Los Amigos GC, Rancho Murieta CC | 65-58-123 |
| 1986 | IBEW-332 at Rancho Murieta CC | 60-60-120 |
| 1987 | 444 GC at Rancho Canada GC | 54-60-114 |
| 1988 | SF Irish at Spyglass Hill GC | 65-61-126 |
| 1989 | Sandia GC at Poppy Hills-Spyglass Hill GC | 59-66—125 |
| 1990 | Avantek GC at Poppy Hills-Spyglass Hill GC | 61-57-118 |
| 1991 | Fremont Park GC at Spyglass Hill GC | 58-59-117 |
| 1992 | Hackers International at Poppy Hills GC | 60-59-119 |
| 1993 | *Signetics GL at Poppy Hills GC | 125-127-252 |
| 1994 | *Decathlon GC at Poppy Hills GC | 124-123-247 |
| 1995 | *Peninsula Amateur GC at Poppy Hills GC | 117-128-245 |
| 1996 | *Mission Bay at Poppy Hills GC | 115-126-241 |
| 1997 | *Decathlon Club at Poppy Hills GC | 125-124-249 |
| 1998 | *Laguna Creek at Spyglass Hill GC | 128-133-261 |
| 1999 | *Sacramento Realty at Spyglass Hill GC | 128-122-250 |
| 2000 | *Caddy Club of Pebble Beach at Spyglass Hill GC | 126-124-250 |
| 2001 | *Showboat GC at Spyglass Hill GC | 127-125-252 |
| 2002 | *FFIC Fundster GC at Spyglass Hill GC | 118-126-244 |
| 2003 | *Shamrock GC at Spyglass Hill GC | 119-126-245 |
| 2004 | *Hackers and Slicers GC at Spyglass Hill GC | 126-126-252 |
| 2005 | *Lightning Strikes GC at Spyglass Hill/Poppy Hills | 121-123-244 |
| 2006 | *Dot Squad GC at Spyglass Hill/Poppy Hills | 123-128-251 |
| 2007 | *Monta Vista at Spyglass Hill/Poppy Hills | 121-130-251 |
| 2008 | *Swing Hard GC at Spyglass Hill/Poppy Hills | 124-130-254 |
| 2009 | *Agilent Soco GC at Poppy Hills/Spyglass Hill | 123-125-248 |
| 2010 | *E-Club East Bay at Spyglass Hill/Poppy Hills | 126-121-247 |
| 2011 | *B.N.F. GC at Poppy Hills/Spyglass Hill | 123-127-250 |
| 2012 | *Los Amigos GC at Spyglass Hill/Poppy Hills | 129-131-260 |
*Best two net scores out of four
About Del Monte GC
Del Monte GC No. 9
Revered as the oldest course in continuous operation west of the Mississippi, Del Monte GC provides a parkland style golf course minutes away from the Pacific Ocean. Having been open for play since 1897, the course was designed by Charles Maud a golf and polo enthusiast. The layout provides many tree-lined fairways and plays 6,365 yards with a course rating of 71.5 from the championship tees. Del Monte was the original host of the California State Amateur Championship and is also a regular host—along with Pebble Beach GL—of the Callaway Golf Pebble Beach Invitational and the Champions Tour First Tee Open.
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About Spyglass Hill GC
Spyglass Hill No. 14
Ranked number 11 on “America’s 100 Greatest Public Courses” list by Golf Digest for 2011-2012. Spyglass Hill was designed by Robert Trent Jones, Sr., as a part of the master plan for the Pebble Beach ocean front between Cypress Point and Pebble Beach. Opened in 1966, the design features two distinctly different kinds of terrain that influence the way the holes look and play.
The first five holes roll through sandy seaside dunes challenging the golfer to carefully pick the safest path. The following 13 holes are cut through pine trees with elevated greens and strategically placed bunkers and lakes to grab the errant shot. Spyglass Hill is rated one of the toughest courses in the world from the Championship tees, boasting a course rating of 75.5 and a slope rating of 147. The PGA Tour consistently lists Spyglass Hill’s holes 6, 8 and 16 among the toughest on the tour, and during the 1999 United States Amateur, the stroke average of the field during medal play was in excess of 79.