The back nine at Pacific Grove doesn’t hand out trophies—it takes them. On Sunday, Jerry Ledzinski played it like a local who’s seen every version of the wind and every bad bounce off the seaside turf. The Carmel-by-the-Sea standout closed with a 6-under 64 to win the AmateurGolf.com 2026 Pacific Grove City Championship at 10-under 130 (66-64), separating from a stacked chase pack and claiming one of Northern California’s most popular winter titles.

It wasn’t hard to see why Pacific Grove fits him. Ledzinski is a Monterey Peninsula Country Club member just down the road, and this course is the kind of place where local knowledge is more than a talking point. The front nine offers chances if you drive it in play. The back nine, pinned to the coastline, is where flight, commitment, and a clear plan matter more than perfect contact.

Saturday set the stage. Ledzinski opened with 4-under 66 and was part of the early logjam near the top. On Sunday, he didn’t wait around for the ocean to decide the story. He went lower—two shots lower—and turned a leaderboard that felt volatile into something that read, by the end, like a statement.

The closest chaser was Jackson Suh, who posted rounds of 67-66 to finish second at 7-under 133. In a tournament where momentum can swing with one gust on the outward-and-back stretch along the water, Suh kept coming. But Ledzinski’s Sunday pace forced the issue. Suh had to keep making birdies; Ledzinski had the luxury of playing the course for what it was giving and taking away, and he still came in with the low number of the weekend.

Erin Lee (69-65) and Luke Swanson (66-68) shared third at 6-under 134, while Jayleen Sito rounded out the top five at 4-under 136. For Ledzinski, though, the defining detail was the margin: he won by three, and at Pacific Grove, that’s not a gap you back into.

Ledzinski’s win is also a continuation of something Northern California players have come to recognize about him: when the moment turns into a sprint, he can run. Last spring at Richmond Country Club, he led U.S. Senior Open local qualifying with a 4-under 68, lighting up the inward side with a back-nine 31 that featured five birdies over his final nine holes. The score was one thing. The way he produced it—quiet early, explosive late—was the tell.