25th NCGA Senior Four-Ball Championship

Record six-time NCGA Player of the Year Randy Haag and world top-ranked senior amateur Chip Lutz took the title, defeating Doug and Jim Williams. 

Randy Haag and Chip Lutz left no doubt this time around.

A year after surviving a five-hole sudden-death playoff to win, Haag and Lutz put an exclamation point on the 2017 championship at par-72 Bayonet Golf Course in Seaside. 

Steve Donnelly and James Camaione were already aware of some of the big names on the NCGA Senior Four-Ball trophy. The duo will now have their own names engraved, having beaten one of the big names to earn it. Donnelly and Camaione, both members at Bayonet/Black Horse GC, shot a final round 2-under 69 and defeated Randy Haag and David Nelson on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff to win the 20th version of the championship.

Eat your hearts out, whippersnappers. Gary Vanier and Scott Anderson, at age 68 and 64, respectively,  shot a final round 3-under 68 at par-71 Poppy Hills Golf Course to run away with a three-shot victory at the championship.

Event cancelled due to COVID-19

Just moments after his birdie-to-win attempt rolled around the cup and out, Mike Rowley went over to his partner Mark Morgan to give him an update.

“I told him, it’s time for you to know. If you don’t make your putt, we’re going to lose,” Rowley said.

No pressure.

Morgan ended up rolling in his 15-footer for a birdie.

The par-4 1st hole at Poppy Hills finally gave teammates Randy Haag and Robert Funk a break. And the timing couldn’t have been better. Haag rolled in a clutch 15-foot birdie putt on No.1 on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff, helping him and partner Robert Funk capture the annual NCGA Senior Four-Ball Championship over Mike Rowley and Mark Morgan

When partners Mark Morgan and Mike Rowley won the NCGA Senior Four-Ball Championship in 2021, the duo had to make a pressure-packed putt on the 18th hole to win by a stroke.

This time around, despite the wet and windy weather, the two could breathe a bit easier.

Morgan and Rowley shot a final round 3-under 68 Wednesday at Poppy Hills to come in at 14-under 199.