Four Winners Crowned at UGA Winterchamps
Kelsey Chugg while at Weber State
(Weber State Photo)
SAINT GEORGE, UT (March 20, 2016)--Rhett
Rasmussen earned 48 Stableford points at the
second
round of Winterchamps at SunRiver Golf Course. The
2015 UGA Men’s Player of the Year slid past Round 1
co-leaders Connor Howe and Ben Jorgensen to earn
the
title as Men’s Division champion with a two-day point
total of 90 points, one point ahead of Jorgensen.
In the Senior Division, Patrick Murphy remained
consistent at The Ledges with another 38 points to
become the Senior Division champion for the second
year in a row. Murphy’s Round 2 finish brought his
point total to 76 points, 12 strokes over Round 1
leader
Joe Ligon and four strokes over second place finisher
Michael Hacker.
Three-time Utah Women’s State Amateur
Champion Kelsey Chugg pulled off the win at Sky
Mountain Golf Course with a two-day Stableford
score
of 90 points, earning her the one-point win over the
Women’s Division Round 1 leader, Haley Dunn.
Chugg’s
51-point, Round 2 finish ended up being just enough
to
overtake Dunn and crown her as the 2016
Winterchamps Women’s Division champion.
Despite close competition after the first round at
SunRiver, Bob Conrad pulled ahead of Round 1 co-
leaders Stew Walz and Marty Becker to win the
Super
Senior Division at Sky Mountain. Conrad earned 37
points in Round 2, bringing his two-day Stableford
point total to 67 points, six points over Stew Walz.
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ABOUT THE Utah Winterchamps
One of the largest tournaments in the Utah, with a
field size of 250 players
Flight Information: The field will be broken into
flights as determined using the Handicap Index as of
March 1st. Flights will be exclusively gross or net,
this info will be sent in the pre-tournament email.
Handicaps for the event will be calculated from the
March 1 revision.
Eligibility: Winterchamps is open to all UGA
members
18 years of age and older. Junior players with
Handicap Indexes 9.9 or better will also be eligible
to
play.
Format: 36 hole stroke play using a modified
stableford format. Scoring will be as follows:
Double Bogey or worse - 0 points
Bogey - 1 point
Par - 2 points
Birdie - 4 points
Eagle - 6 points
Double Eagle - 8 points
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