CGA Announces 2015 Championship and Tournament Schedule

SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. -- The Carolinas Golf Association (CGA) has announced its 2015 schedule of championships and tournaments. The CGA is entering its 106^th year of conducting state and regional championships for amateur golfers.

Greensboro, N.C. - with 17 CGA events held there - will be Carolinas city most frequented by the CGA in 2015. In total, the CGA will conduct 245 tournaments this year, including: 43 championships, 40 CGA championship qualifiers, 19 USGA national championship qualifiers, five team match events, 93 one-day tournaments and 45 Tarheel Youth Golf Association and junior invitational events.
(View 2015 CGA composite championship and tournament schedule)

Hole #14 at Greensboro CC's Farm Course

The 101^st edition of CGA's flagship event, the Carolinas Amateur Championship, will be contested July 9-12 on the Farm Course at Greensboro Country Club in Greensboro, N.C. 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 sixteenth CGA championship hosted by Greensboro CC and the eighth held at the Farm Course. The 1921 Carolinas Amateur was contested at the club's Irving Park Course. The 2011 North Carolina Amateur, won by Web.com Tour player Harold Varner, was the most recent CGA championship conducted at the Farm Course. 

The city of Hendersonville, N.C.  will host three CGA majors in 2015. The 30^th North Carolina Senior Amateur visits Champion Hills Club on May 12-14. Hendersonville Country Club will host two championships. From September 21-22, the club hosts the 17^th Carolinas Women's Senior Amateur. Then on October 14-15, the 4th Carolinas Super Senior Four-Ball will be played there. 

Two CGA championships will also be contested at Camden Country Club in Camden, S.C. In its 64^th playing, the Carolinas Four-Ball Championship returns to the club for the 15^th consecutive time. The 3^rd Creed Boys' Invitational is set to be played at the club from May 23-24.

In women's golf, the 89^th Carolinas Women's Amateur returns to Treyburn Country Club in Durham, N.C. for the second time in three years. The CGA is expanding the number of women's only one-day events. The kickoff event will be a four-ball tournament at Croasdaile CC in Durham, N.C. on March 23. Other host sites are Mid Pines Inn & Golf Club in Southern Pines, N.C. and the Dye Course at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C.      

In junior golf, the CGA boasts an impressive championship season this year for boys and girls.  The 66^th Carolinas Junior Boys Championship will be played July 28-30 at Forest Oaks CC in Greensboro, N.C. During the same days, the 59^th Carolinas Junior Girls' Championship will be contested on at Rock Hill Country Club in Rock Hill, S.C. This year's U.S. Junior Amateur Championship will be held at the Dye Course at Colleton River Plantation in Bluffton, S.C. from July 20-25.

The Tarheel Youth Golf Association (TYGA), which is the CGA’s program for North Carolina junior golfers, offers a tournament schedule geared for all levels of abilities. The 45 events set for this year are open to boys and girls ages 6-18. A new series of events, called "TYGA Tots", will provide tournament golf experience for 6-11 year olds. Online registration is available at www.tygajuniorgolf.org.

The CGA One-Day Tournament program offers individual and four-ball competitions using both gross and net formats. The 44 tournaments are open to any CGA member with a USGA Handicap Index at a CGA member club.

The Carolinas Senior Four-Ball One-Day Tournament series will have 49 events on its 2015 schedule. The popular two-man, best-ball one-day tournaments are open to male amateurs over the age of 55, historically have more entrants than spots available at most events. Entries are accepted on a first come-first served basis for all one-day tournaments.

A complete list of CGA championships, one-day tournaments, senior four-ball one-day tournaments, women’s one-day events, Tarheel Youth Golf Association (TYGA) one-day events, USGA qualifying events in the Carolinas, tournament entry forms and online championship entry registration is available on the CGA website at www.carolinasgolf.org or by calling the CGA at 910-673-1000. Membership at a CGA member club is required to compete in any CGA championships and one-day tournaments.

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