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November 22, 2020
Team Match Finals—Spring Creek G&CC Thursday vs. Spring Creek G&CC Saturday
Spring Creek G&CC Saturday took home the title, defeating their counterparts, the Spring Creek G&CC Thursday team, 20-16. The match would come down to the 18th hole, with Mike Wiebe sealing the victory with a 1-up victory over Tim Harris. With the win, Spring Creek G&CC Saturday becomes the first Saturday squad to win the title three teams. Whitney Oaks(Thursday) has also won three overall titles.
“We have an amazing club of competitive golfers,” said Spring Creek G&CC Saturday captain Sam Vink. “It feels better than I thought it would to win it all. It’s amazing.”
In Singles play, the Saturday team got wins from Shea Rollins, Kyle Huckell, Shad Winter, Joseph Aldridge, Joel Tyrus and Wiebe. The Spring Creek G&CC Thursday team got wins from Jim Aartman, Michael Sipes, Jeff York and Mark Schroen.
In Four-Ball action, the Saturday team got wins from Huckell and Rollins, Winter and Aldridge and Wiebe and Tyrus. Other members of Spring Creek G&CC are Bo Franceschetti, Mark Purdom, Gil Huckell, Eric Parsons and Jeremy Huckell.
Third Place Match—Wilcox GC vs. Aptos Seascape GC
Wilcox GC took third place, defeating Aptos Seascape, 23-13. In Singles play, Wilcox got wins from Ken Morgan, David Latimer, John Miller, Mike Greer and Charlie Eglian. In Four-Ball, Wilcox got wins by the tandems of Latimer and Morgan, Malcolm MacDonald and Miller, Ryan Hake and Greer and Tim Kuhn and Eglian.
Team Match Program is a competition between players that belong to regular NCGA member clubs. Events use a format where two players from a side face off against two players from an opposing side in four-ball and individual matches concurrently, with players earning two points for a win and one point for a halve.
Photo Gallery Sunday
November 21, 2020
Spring Creek G&CC is going to capture this year’s NCGA Team Match Championship. Question is, which Spring Creek squad, the Thursday team or the Saturday team?
Both squads advanced to Sunday’s finals at Poppy Hills, winning their matches, 21-15.
Thursday League Finals–Aptos Seascape GC vs. Spring Creek G&CC
The Spring Creek G&CC Thursday Team earned a spot in the finals, defeating Aptos Seascape GC, 21-15.
In Singles play, Spring Creek got wins from Mike Stieler, Ted Fernandes, Darrell Wilcox, Jeff York, Mark Schroen and Rome Ilardi. Getting wins for Aptos Seascape in Singles were Kyle Davis, Michael Coyle and Laurance Wallman.
In Four-Ball action, Spring Creek got wins from York and Schroen (2 and 1), Ilardi and Danny Price (3 and 1) and Tim Harris and Dan Gall (1-up).
The Spring Creek Thurday team had previously never made it to the finals.
Saturday League Finals–Wilcox GC vs Spring Creek G&CC
The Spring Creek G&CC Saturday Team earned a spot in the finals, defeating Wilcox GC, 21-15. The Spring Creek G&CC Saturday Team has won the overall Team Match title twice, in 2003 and 2007.
In Singles play, Spring Creek got wins from Shea Rollins, Kyle Huckell, Shad Winter, Joseph Aldridge, Mike Wiebe and Joel Tyrus. Getting wins for Wilcox GC were David Latimer, Ken Morgan, John Miller, Ryan Hake and Tom Eubanks.
In Four-Ball action, Spring Creek outscored Wilcox, 8-4. Getting wins for Spring Creek there were the tandems of Rollins and Huckel (5 and 3), Winter and Aldridge (4 and 2) and Wiebe and Tyrus (4 and 3).
With a win on Sunday, Spring Creek Saturday will become the first Saturday team to win three overall titles.
Team Match Program is a competition between players that belong to regular NCGA member clubs. Events use a format where two players from a side face off against two players from an opposing side in four-ball and individual matches concurrently, with players earning two points for a win and one point for a halve.
Photo Gallery Saturday
