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33rd Virginia-West Virginia Matches
The Omni Homestead Resort’s Cascades Course, Hot Springs | April 23-24
Format: Team play featuring foursome, four-ball and singles matches
The VSGA continued its dominance in the event, winning 17½-10½ for its seventh
straight win and improved to 28-4-1 against the WVGA. Top performers included super
senior J.P. Leigh (Elizabeth Manor G&CC), who went 3-0, and regular Justin Young (Ballyhack GC), the 2015 VSGA Men’s Golfer of the Year who went 2-0-1 over the weekend.
Quotable: “So to enjoy the camaraderie, giving each other the needle—you’ve got to be able to
take it, too—it’s just fun. It’s fun to be a part of, especially this late in life. They’ve got something
for us old guys to do, you know.” — Senior Jack Allara II (Hidden Valley CC), who won his singles match 8 and 7.
31st VSGA Super Senior Stroke
Play Championship
Fawn Lake CC, Spotsylvania | June 1-2
Format: 36 holes of stroke play
Charles Green III (The Virginian) turned
65 last November, and he wasted little time
in making an impact on the Super Senior
scene, rallying from a five-shot deficit to
best Lynn Wessman (Army Navy CC) and
Jon Abbett (Trump National GC) by one
stroke. Green, who won his fifth VSGA
championship, shot 74-75—149 over the two
days at Fawn Lake.
Quotable: Green, on his thoughts after missing the green short and in the rough on No.
18 in the second round: “I said, you just got
to try to get this on the green somewhere
and two putt. You know if Lynn birdies and I
bogey, then we’re tied, but you have to make
bogey and make him make the putt and hope
nobody in front did anything.”
74th VSGA Club
Championship
The Country Club of Virginia
(Richmond) won its first VSGA
Club Championship in 76 years,
with Brent Higgins and Craig
Callens posting a 6-under 66
and Andrew Crowley and Peyton
Lawson carding a 5-under 67.
The 11-under total was one shot
better than Independence GC
and The Foundry’s ‘B’ team.
Quotable: “We made a great par
save on 15 that really kept us
going. We had bogeyed 14, so
we were staring at another bogey
at 15, and that would have hurt.
But we made a nice up-and-down
there to save the par and keep the
round going.” — Callens, PGA, at
CCV's Westhampton Course.
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From left, Crowley,
Lawson, Higgins, Callens.
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CHRIS LANG (3); VSGA; FARMINGTON COUNTRY CLUB
The Foundry GC, Powhatan
April 25
Format: Four-ball, two sides
per club, to comprise the
team score