47th NCGA Zone Championship | Spyglass Hill & Del Monte GC | August 26-27, 2013
First played in 1967, the NCGA Zone Championship is a four-person team event for regular clubs. Fourteen regional championships are staged with the champion and runner-up qualifying for the final championship at the end of August.
2012 Zone Champions: Churn Creek GC
Regional Sites: Quail Lodge GC & Del Monte GC.
Regional Zone qualifying will play one round at Quail Lodge GC and one round at Del Monte GC.
The top two teams from each regional zone will return August 26-27, 2012 for the championship at Spyglass Hill GC & Del Monte GC.
ELIGIBILITY: NCGA regular member clubs only (one team). 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).
FORMAT: Best two balls of four. Play will be 90% (men) and 95% (women) of the course handicap using a maximum handicap index of 18.4 for calculation. All players with handicap indexes of 18.5 or above are eligible but must play to a maximum current handicap index of 18.4.
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Tournament Recaps
Mike Haworth, David Spinks, Steve Beaton and Craig Burkett from Churn Creek GC had a goal going through qualifications for the 46th Annual NCGA Zone Championship – to make it to Spyglass Hill GC. After playing together in 2011 for zone qualifying, the four-man team finished fifth in the North Zone, missing their opportunity to compete in the championship field. In 2012 qualifying, the men from Redding went wire-to-wire to earn a trip to the Monterey Peninsula. Read Full 2012 Recap
The Benbow GC team of Travis Early, Pat Goodman, James Pogue and Rick Sutherland leapt up the leaderboard from third place to win the NCGA Zone Championship at Poppy Hills. Benbow began the day two strokes back of the lead in the format that takes the best two of four scores per hole. They rallied to post a 41-under net 247, with 27 of that 41-under coming from today’s final round. Benbow won the North Bay Zone in May and took third in the NCGA Zone Championship last year. Read Full 2011 Recap
Past Champions
| 1967 | North Ridge CC | 61-60-121 |
| 1968 | Palo Alto Hills GCC | 61-69-120 |
| 1969 | *Del Rio GCC | 60-56-116 |
| 1970 | Palo Alto Hills GCC | 61-60-121 |
| 1971 | *Whitney Ranch National GC | 60-56-116 |
| 1972 | Sunnyvale GC | 62-61-123 |
| 1973 | Butte Creek CC | 61-62-122 |
| 1974 | California GC | 59-60-119 |
| 1975 | Palm Lakes GC | 57-62-119 |
| 1976 | Selma Valley GC | 60-64-124 |
| 1977 | Kings CC | 59-63-122 |
| 1978 | Sunset Whitney GC | 61-63-124 |
| 1979 | Belmont CC | 62-57-119 |
| 1980 | Sequoyah CC | 61-59-120 |
| 1981 | Rancho Del Rey GC | 61-64-125 |
| 1982 | Peninsula GCC | 59-62-121 |
| 1983 | Gold Hills GC | 61-64-125 |
| 1984 | Cobb Meadows GC | 60-58-118 |
| 1985 | Vineyard Knolls GC | 66-58-124 |
| 1986 | Tularcitos GCC | 58-64-123 |
| 1987 | Fort Washington GCC | 63-61-124 |
| 1988 | Corral de Tierra CC | 62-57-119 |
| 1989 | Boulder Creek GC | 60-61-121 |
| 1990 | Swenson Park GC | 57-57-114 |
| 1991 | Bing Maloney GC | 61-59-120 |
| 1992 | Riverside GC | 59-59-118 |
| 1993 | Churn Creek GC | 124-121-245 |
| 1994 | Sacramento GC | 120-118-238 |
| 1995 | Creekside GC | 119-117-236 |
| 1996 | Valley Oaks GC | 114-118-232 |
| 1997 | Cherry Island GC | 118-120-238 |
| 1998 | Lemoore GC | 122-121-243 |
| 1999 | Bayonet/Black Horse | 128-126-254 |
| 2000 | Sierra View of Visalia | 124-122-246 |
| 2001 | Brentwood GC | 120-117-237 |
| 2002 | Champions GC | 123-117-240 |
| 2003 | Kings CC | 124-121-245 |
| 2004 | Summitpointe CC | 125-124-249 |
| 2005 | Redwood Empire GCC | 124-124-248 |
| 2006 | Oakdale GCC | 122-118-240 |
| 2007 | Shelter Cove | 123-119-242 |
| 2008 | Plumas Lake GCC | 123-123-246 |
| 2009 | Monterey Peninsula CC | 130-124-254 |
| 2010 | Plumas Lake GCC | 119-138-257 |
| 2011 | Benbow | 130-117-247 |
| 2012 | Churn Creek GC | 124-120-244 |
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.
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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.