Preview of Inaugural NC Super Senior Four-Ball

 

SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. (March 22, 2017) --  Benjamin Franklin said: "We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing." With that quote in mind, the Carolinas Golf Association is please to debut the first North Carolina Super Senior Four-Ball Championship, open to men ages 65 and older. The tournament will be played on the Farm Course at Greensboro Country Club in Greensboro, N.C. on March 29-30.

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The club made changes to The Farm property, which is located 10 miles from the center of Greensboro and was once home to a dairy farm, since acquiring it in 1969. After meeting with several architects in 2008, the club hired British course architect Donald Steel to bring the Ellis Maples-designed Farm Course into the 21st century. The course reopened in 2010 with five new holes and several more that were reshaped to bring water into play or heighten the course's beautiful vistas.

This will be the 18th CGA championship hosted by Greensboro CC and the ninth held at The Farm Course. The 2011 North Carolina Amateur was won there by current PGA TOUR player Harold Varner III. At the most recent CGA championship conducted on The Farm Course, Carter Jenkins became the second player in history to win three consecutive Carolinas Amateur titles when he captured the 101st edition in 2015.
 

A full field of sixty two-person teams will compete in 36 holes of four-ball stroke play. Notable teams include:

• Five-time CGA champion Arlis Pike of Kernersville, N.C. and Charlie Parks of Asheboro, N.C. Pike won three consecutive Carolinas Super Senior titles from 2013 to 2015.

• The 2014 North Carolina Senior Four-Ball champion team of Mark Stephens from Troutman, N.C. and Russ Perry of Winston-Salem, N.C. Stephens won the 1978 Carolinas Amateur and Perry the 2010 Carolinas Senior and 2013 North Carolina Senior Amateur titles.

• Rick Luzar of Pinehurst, N.C., the 2013 North Carolina Super Senior champ, and Donald Slater of Durham, N.C. Slater won the 2004 North Carolina Senior Four-Ball.

• Four-time CGA champ Ron Carpenter of Creedmoor, N.C. and Gary Brown of Charlotte, N.C. The duo has captured both the 2011 North Carolina Senior Four-Ball and the 2014 Carolinas Senior Four-Ball.

• 15-time CGA champion Larry Boswell of Jamestown, N.C. and his partner Jim Pridgen, both of Jamestown, N.C. Boswell is a three-time North Carolina Super Senior winner, while Pridgen is a four-time Carolinas Super Senior Four-Ball champ with Ernie Newton.

• Mike Sprouts of Hickory, N.C. and John Green of Southern Pines, N.C. Sprouts won the 2011 North Carolina Super Senior. Green claimed the North Carolina Junior Boys' title in 1974.

• Ernie Newton of Winston-Salem, N.C. and Bill Boles, Jr. of Wilson, N.C. Newton won four of his five CGA titles with Jim Pridgen at the Carolinas Super Senior Four-Ball. Boles is also a five-time CGA winner, including two Carolinas Four-Ball victories.

About the North Carolina Super Senior Four-Ball Championship

The North Carolina Super Senior Four-Ball Championship is conducted at 36 holes of four-ball stroke play. Scoring will be provided by the CGA throughout the championship, offering 9 and 18-hole updates. Live updates will also be available on the CGA’s official Twitter account, @cgagolf1909. Continue to visit the CGA website throughout this championship and all year long for complete championship coverage including scores, interviews, photos, and recaps.

Entry is open to any male amateur golfer age 65 and older who is a legal resident of North Carolina, is a member in good standing of a club which is a member of the Carolinas Golf Association and has an active GHIN® USGA Handicap Index®. Teams may sign up for the 65+ or 70+ age division.

Competition Schedule

Wednesday, March 29
Round 1 – 18 holes four-ball stroke play (8:30am double tee start)

Thursday, March 30
Round 2 – 18 holes four-ball stroke play (8:30am double tee start)
Lunch/Awards Ceremony immediately following play for players
 

About the Carolinas Golf Association (CGA)

The CGA is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit educational organization that was founded in 1909 to promote and to protect the game of golf in the Carolinas by providing competitions, education, support and benefits to golf clubs and golfers. The CGA is the second largest golf association in the country with over 700 member clubs represented by nearly 150,000 individuals.

The CGA annually conducts 43 championships and five team match competitions for men, women, juniors, and seniors. It also runs over 140 One-Day (net and gross) events and qualifying for USGA national championships. The CGA serves golf in the Carolinas with numerous programs such as: the USGA Handicap System; tournament management software and support; course measuring and course/slope ratings; agronomy consultation; answers about the Rules of Golf, Rules of Amateur Status, and Handicapping; Carolinas Golf Magazine; Interclub series; Tarheel Youth Golf Association; Carolinas Golf Hall of Fame; expense assistance for USGA Junior and Girls' Junior qualifiers from the Carolinas; and the Carolinas Golf Foundation (CGF). The CGF has distributed more than $1,500,000 since 1977 to benefit Carolinas' golf initiatives including junior and women's programs.    

For more information about the CGA, visit www.carolinasgolf.org.

 

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