Green Hills CC 2024

We had a good turnout at Green Hills Country Club, we filled our field of 32 registrations. The course was in great shape, upon arrival the day felt warm and windy.  It turned out to be wild and wooly out there! Dave Marshall did a great job as host and the Director of Golf at Green Hills, Morgan Davies (formerly of Contra Costa C.C.) was very accommodating.  

Green Hills was generous in allowing us access to their club.  Pre-round, we enjoyed the McKenzie Dining room for lunch, and post-round, we had access to the Sunset room or the same room.  The pre-round lunch was well attended, giving our members a chance to socialize with players they don’t usually get paired with.  We gathered in the McKenzie room again post-round, where we enjoyed bar snacks, refreshments, and golf-horror stories of putts rolling on seemingly forever. 

As far as the golf, the wind was blowing hard from the start and maintained its velocity the entire round.  The back nine, especially felt like there were only a couple of holes where the wind helped. 

Aside from the wind, the players had to deal with the fast and difficult-to-read greens, said by the course to be rolling at an 11 on the stimpmeter.  I believe it, even though most of us amateurs have no idea what an 11 is.  We had 12 footers that rolled 40 feet off the green, one that rolled off the green into a bunker, and more four putts than should be allowed, and that was just my ball!  I kid.  I didn’t roll one into the bunker, another in our foursome did that.  I think the craziness was pretty universal, I’m told by another that more than one in their group 3-putted with a bunker shot in between the 1st and 2nd putts.

All this is to forewarn you not think you could have done better than our winners!  We're giving prizes to  1- 4 this month.  Unfortunately, due to a communication error  there were no closest to the pin contests.  Congratulations to all the winners !

Gross
1st - 86 - Patrick Kelly 
2nd - 92 - Richard Myers - winner in card-off  
3rd - 92 - Jeff Cobb
4th - 93 Nolan Lowry

Net
1st - 72 - Branly Cadet
2nd - 74 - Robert Hamburger  
3rd - 75 - Jeff Tsai - winner in card-off  
4th - 75 - Dave Gamson 

Bridgett Pts: 100/50/25/10 – Winner/2nd/3rd/CTP

NCGA 42nd ASSOCIATE CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFYING 
Concurrent with the rest of our Green Hills CC tournament, we held our club qualifying for the NCGA Associate Club Championship.  It’s a 2-man best ball, with the two top teams forming a 4-man team for the NCGA qualifying round. The actual NCGA tournament is a best 2 balls of four net stroke play. We charged $30 to enter our qualifying and the club is paying for the qualifiers’ NCGA Qualifying Round. NCGA events is a fun test of your game in a not-too-intense, but real tournament setting. This Championship will be played at Poppy Hills and Spyglass Hill!  NCGA Qualifiers are in July and the Championship is August 19 & 20.  
Our NCGA Qualifiers are: Baxter Quinn, Nolan Lowry, Thomas Brooks & Tim Ambrose.
Quinn & Lowry shot net 70 and Brooks & Ambrose shot net 71.  Kevin Coleman and Dave Marshal were one back with a net 72 and Vishnu Ramaswamy and Adam Koss were another back at net 73.
Best of luck to our team at NCGA Qualifying and beyond!
      NCGA Qualifiers earn 25 Bridgett Points.