State Senior Four Ball Championship preview Willow Point Golf & Country Club is the host for the 17th State Senior Four Ball Championship which begins Friday, Oct. 14. A strong field of 60 teams will play three rounds of best ball stroke play with the championship concluding on Sunday. Defending champions Tom Jungkind of Bessemer and Mike [...]
State Mid-Amateur Championship preview Gadsden Country Club is the host of the 23rd State Mid-Amateur Championship which begins Friday, Sept. 23. A field of 120 players, ages 25 and up, will play three rounds with the championship concluding on Sunday. The field is led by defending champion Steve Hudson of Birmingham, who also won this year’s State Senior. [...]
Women’s State Four Ball Championship preview The fourth annual Women’s State Four Ball Championship will be played Sept. 7-9 at Troy Country Club. This Alabama Golf Association championship features 54 holes of best ball, with flights determined after the opening two rounds. It is the first women’s four ball that won’t feature nine-time State Amateur [...]
State Match Play Championship preview Things have come full circle for the State Match Play Championship, the 11th playing of which will be contested Aug. 3-6 at Limestone Springs in Oneonta. You see, the inaugural State Match Play in 2001 was also played at this picturesque Jerry Pate-design in the foothills of the Appalachians. The [...]
State Junior Championship preview There will be a new name engraved on the State Junior Championship this year. That, in of itself, will be a change from the recent norm. Bobby Wyatt’s stranglehold on state boys golf will end as he is now a college golfer, having completed his first year at the University of [...]
Women’s State Stroke Play Championship preview The 21st Women’s State Stroke Play Championship will be played July 22-24 at Grayson Valley Country Club in Trussville. This championship features three days of stroke play. Headlining the field is Hoover’s Kathy Hartwiger, who has won this championship three times, but her most recent was in 2004. She [...]
Girls State Junior Championship preview The 48th Girls State Junior Championship begins Tuesday over the East Course at The Country Club of Birmingham. This three-day championship concludes Thursday and has three age divisions: 16-18, 14-15 and 12-13. The two older age divisions are eligible to win the overall state girls title. Defending champion Bailey Gray [...]
Women’s State Amateur Championship preview The 79th Women’s State Amateur Championship will be played June 21-24 at Heron Lakes Country Club in Mobile. This championship features 18 holes of stroke play qualifying for seeding purposes into the match play on June 21. The championship flight will play the round of 16 on June 22, followed [...]
FarmLinks excited to host State Amateur By Ian Thompson FarmLinks has been in existence for almost eight years and is excited about hosting the Alabama Golf Association’s State Amateur Championship, which begins tomorrow. FarmLinks touts itself as the world’s only research and demonstration course and it is always in pristine condition. Essential for a course [...]
Hunter Hamrick has to withdraw from State Amateur Two-time defending champion Hunter Hamrick really wanted to play at FarmLinks in the 95th State Amateur Championship, but he had to listen to his body. “I’ve been hospitalised three times in the last week for dehydration and other issues and I just can’t play this week. It [...]
