CGA Champs Highlight N.C. 4-Ball Field

2012 Carolinas Four-Ball champions Matt Crenshaw and Blair Bowland are in the 21st N.C. Four-Ball field
 

SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. (September 26, 2016) -- The 21st North Carolina Four-Ball Championship will be played at Mill Creek Golf Club in Mebane from Friday, September 30th to Sunday, October 2nd.  The championship format is 54 holes of four-ball stroke play. After 36 holes, the field will be cut to the low 30 teams and ties for the final round.

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Defending champion Brant Stovall of Asheboro will team with a different partner, Josh Turner of Liberty.

Other notable teams (full list of participants):

• The 2014 champion team, brothers Mark Gauley of Raleigh and Brian Gauley of Wake Forest, seek their third title. The duo also won in 2006. 

• Last year's runner-up team of Chris Holland and Billy West of Fayetteville. Holland and West lost in a six hole playoff to Brant Stovall and Anthony Baker at Croasdaile Country Club.

• Six-time CGA champion Matt Crenshaw and Blair Bowland of Burlington. The duo teamed to capture the 2012 Carolinas Four-Ball Championship.

• Two-time defending N.C. Mid-Amateur champion Greg Earnhardt and Dustin Moore of Greensboro.

• Sherrill Britt of West End, the 2015 Carolinas Mid-Amateur champion, and Dale Ring of Carthage.

• 17-year-olds Nicholas Lyerly of Salisbury and Justin Emmons of Asheboro. In June Lyerly became the youngest winner of the North Carolina Amateur.

• Five-time CGA champion Arlis Pike and John Hodges, Jr. of Kernersville.

• Jonathan Jackson, part of the 2014 Carolinas Four-Ball winning team, and Mark Kozel of Chapel Hill.

• Three-time CGA champion Macon Moye of Pinehurst and Phil Miller of China Grove.

• Jeff Allen, winner of the 2013 N.C. Mid-Amateur, and Eddie Connelly, III of Jacksonville.

This is the second CGA championship and N.C. Four-Ball hosted by Mill Creek Golf Club. In 2001, the club served as a joint host with Chapel Hill Country Club. That year, two 16-year-old phenoms,  Brendon Todd and Webb Simpson won the championship. Both would go on to play on the PGA Tour. 

Entry in the North Carolina Four-Ball is open to any male amateur golfer who has reached his 13th birthday by September 30, 2016, 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® at a CGA member club.

Championship Schedule:
Friday, September, 30
Championship Round 1. Tee times off #1 and #10 tees starting at 8:00am/12:30pm.

Saturday, October 1
Championship Round 2. Tee times off #1 and #10 tees starting at 8:00am/12:30pm.
Field cut to low 30 teams for final round.

Sunday, October 2
Championship Round 3. Tee times off #1 and #10 tees starting at 8:00am.
Awards ceremony following play at scoreboard.

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.

 

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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