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Match Play Challenge

Both Individual and Four-Ball formats returning for 2025!

In 2024, we got 384 entries in the Individual Match Play Challenge and 128 teams in the Four-Ball Match Play Challenge.
The final two players in the Individual battled it out on the Lake Course at The Olympic Club with Sean McCarthy defeating Jesse Hernandez 6&5.
The Four-Ball finals was played at Lake Merced GC with the father and son duo of Al and William Saroyan winning the match in 19 holes against the team of Steve Zercoe and Gary Glendenning.
Thank you to all of the players who participated in 2024! A link to photos of the Final Rounds at Olympic Club and Lake Merced are below.
 
The NCGA Match Play Challenge will be returning for 2025 with both the Individual and Four-Ball formats! Players will be allowed to sign up for both the Individual and Four-Ball brackets. Whether you wish to sign up by yourself or with a friend (or both!), you will be able to register starting December 1, 2024  at 8 AM PT. Links to registration for each format are below.

How it Works

Once registration closes, a single elimination bracket will be created. Participants will be grouped by their preferred bracket location and their handicap. The bracket will be sent out during the week before the first-round matches begin. Players will be given a timeframe for each round to schedule and play their match against their opponent. Please see Tentative 2025 schedules for each format on their respective Tournament Pages. The matches will be played as net match play.

The two players (or teams) will agree on the date and course to play within the given timeframe for each round.  Green fees will be the responsibility of the players. They will keep progressing through the bracket until they reach the Quarterfinals.

The Quarterfinals through the Final rounds will be scheduled in October and November and expenses will be covered by the NCGA.

The course for the Quarterfinals will be Silverado Resort (South Course) on Oct. 26.  The Semifinals will be at Pasatiempo GC on Nov. 1. The Finals will be at a site yet to be determined. In addition to the courses where the Finals were played in 2024, the Quarterfinals were played at Spyglass Hill GC and the Semi-Finals were played at Castlewood CC on the Hills Course.

Registration will open on December 1, 2024 at 8 am PT and close March 30 or once the tournament is full. Players on the waitlist will still have a chance to be added if the waitlist reaches a certain number to evenly add more players to the bracket. Players on the waitlist are not charged until they are added to the event.