CHAMPIONSHIPS
Tap-In: Full Slate of Championships for 2015 Season
The 116th year of CSGA Championships is
filled with plenty of highlights and trips to
some of Connecticut’s most storied clubs.
The season kicks off on May 4th when the
2015 Two-Man Team Championship heads
to Black Hall Club. The event features a fourball competition in the morning and alternate
shot in the afternoon. Black Hall Club has
hosted the Two rMan Team Championship
every year since 2008, but this year’s event
will no doubt be extraordinarily popular.
Many of the competitors will be using the
tournament as a unique preview of the
course for the 113th Connecticut Amateur,
which will also be played at Black Hall Club
on June 15th - 19th. Zach Zaback of TPC
River Highlands and the University of Connecticut will
seek to become the first player since Will Stricker (200809) to successfully defend his title.
The 81st Connecticut Open Championship the oldest open championship in Connecticut - will be
played July 27th - 29th at The Patterson Club in Fairfield,
Connecticut. The club has previously hosted the
Connecticut Open in 1996, the Connecticut Amateur in
1991 and 2004, and the Connecticut Senior Amateur in
1989. Along with the Connecticut Women’s Open, it is
the only CSGA event that is open to both amateurs and
professionals, and qualifying to help fill the 156-player
field will be held from June 22 through July 7th.
Among the changes for the 2015 season
includes a change of dates for a pair of CSGA
Championships. For the first time, the Connecticut
Public Links Championship moves to a summer date
(August 11th - 12th at Fairview Farm GC), with the
hopes of attracting some of Connecticut’s best junior
and collegiate players who previously were unable to
compete. Since its inception in 1986, the Public Links
Championship honors the true spirit of public golf
and is open to Connecticut amateur golfers who, since
January 1st of the current year, have been bona fide
public-course players, and who hold a USGA Handicap
index not exceeding 9.0.
Along with the move of the Public Links, the
Connecticut Mid-Amateur Championship will move to
an early October time-frame (October 5th - 6th) and
will be contested at Bull’s Bridge Golf Club in South
Kent, Conn. for the first time in tournament history.
Nestled in northwestern Connecticut’s scenic Litchfield
County, Bull’s Bridge Golf Club is set in the Berkshire
foothills and provides an impressive panorama with
spectacular views prominent throughout the property.
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