SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (March 2, 2013) --
The first round of match play is complete
at the 2013 San
Francisco City Championship and a
number of matches went the distance ---
and then some at TPC
Harding Park.
Six matches went at least 18 holes,
including five that needed extra golf to
settle things.
Stroke-play medalist and top-seeded
Andrew Biggadike needed 23 of them to
knock off No. 32 Ryan
Gronlund. Gronlund, the 16- year-old from
Pleasanton, prevailed out of an eight-
player playoff in last
week's qualifier.
The top seed on the other half of the
bracket also won. Tim Nelson knocked off
Connor Blick 3-and-2 to
advance to Sunday's round of 16
matches. Connor is the brother of 2012
champion Cody Blick.
In a matchup of two of the region's top
players and the reigning amateurgolf.com
Tournament Series co-
Players of the Year, No. 3 seed Alex
Franklin knocked off Northern California
amateur legend Randy Haag,
3-and-1.
Justin Suh, seeded sixth, knocked off Jay
Burlinson, 3-2, while No. 7 William
Brueckner took down Stephen
Molinelli, 2- and-1.
The ninth seed, Nick Ushijima, prevailed
over Tanner Hughes, 3-and-2 while No. 10
Luke Vivolo took down
Andrew Buchanan easily, winning 5-and-3
and t No. 11, Justin Paglia needed 19
holes to eliminate No. 22
Tommy Semeraux. Finally, M.J. Morin,
seeded 16th, knocked off Esan Geroux in
19 holes.
Seven of the opening-round matches
resulted in upsets.
At the top of the bracket, No. 4 Andrew
Roberts was the highest seed to go down
in early action. He fell
to No. 29 Isaiah Salinda, 6-and-5.
No. 5 Andrew Morgan also fell victim to an
upset, taking a 19-hole defeat at the
hands of No. 28 Nicholas
Rogers.
Eighth-seeded Nicholas Noya lost to No.
25 Austin Roberts, 8-and-7 while No. 12
Ryan Maund was also
upset, falling to No. 21 Cameron Shaw in
18 holes.
No. 13 Hayden Shieh fell to a higher seed.
The red-hot Shintaro Ban, who leads the
amateurgolf.com
California Player of the Year Points Race
early on, dispatched of Shieh, 3-and-2,
despite being seeded
20th.
No. 14 Brandon Baumgarten fell to No. 19
Josh Levin in 19 holes. while No. 18 Jimmy
Castles defeated
15th-seeded Maxwell Plank, 4-and-3.
Match play continues Sunday morning at
Harding Park with the Round of 16.
Quarterfinal, semifinal and
championship-round action will continue
next weekend.
Amateurgolf.com will continue to provide
coverage as the San Francisco City
Championships move on. For
more coverage on the Seniors and
Women's events, click the following links:
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ABOUT THE
San Francisco City Men's Championship
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TOUR
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*An NCGA Points Tournament*
**
Entry Procedure:
Registration opens for all players on
October 1. There will be 50 spots held for
exempt
players under the following
categories:
* The past 10 years of the San Francisco City
Golf
Champions
* 2024 San Francisco City Men’s
Championship
Match Play Qualifiers
* Top 20 men’s 2023-2024 NCGA Points
Lists
* 2024 NCGA Champions (Amateur, Mid-
Amateur,
Junior)
* The top 3 finishers in each of the 6
AmateurGolf.com Winter
Tour
events (Dec 2024-Feb 2025)
Registration for exempt players, and for non-
exempt
players with a handicap index
of
6.4 or lower as of the date of
entry, opens on October 1 and will
remain
open until the field limit (120 players including
spots
reserved for exempt players)
is reached. When the field limit is reached, all
additional registrants will be entered in
the
pre-qualifier at Lincoln Park on Friday,
March 7,
2025.
Once entries close, if there are any unfilled
spots in
the Men's Championship (due to
fewer than 50 exempt players registering
or withdrawals), they will be filled by Pre-
Qualifier
registrants in the order in which
they registered.
Players entering pre-qualifying will pay an
entry fee
of $165 for the pre-qualifier, and
those
advancing from the pre-qualifier will pay the
remainder of the entry fee (must be paid
prior to playing).
The 36-hole match play qualifier will be held
March
8-9, 2025, with
18 holes played at TPC Harding Park and 18
holes at Lincoln Park for a combined 36-hole qualifying
score.
There will be 156 players in the qualifying
round with
64 players advancing to match play. When all
qualifying has been completed, the Men’s
Championship Flight will consist of 64
contestants.
In the event of a playoff to qualify for
match
play, a
player must be present in order to retain his
right
to participate in the playoff.
Match play will begin on March 15, 2025. All
match play for the Championship Flight (Mar
15-16,
22-23) will be held
at TPC Harding Park.
A schedule of all dates of
play can be found on the tournament website
sfgolfchampionship.com.
WITHDRAWALS AND REFUND
POLICY
Players needing to withdraw should do so by
filling
out the form at
sfgolfchampionship.com/contact/. Players withdrawing
before
the entry deadline of
February 18
will
receive a
refund of their entry fee minus
$50.
There will be no refunds after the
entry
deadline.
CART POLICY
The use of carts is prohibited for players and
caddies
in the Men’s Championship Flight (Appendix I
– Local
Rule
Applies)
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The oldest municipal tournament in the USA.
Match
play event with scratch men's, senior men’s,
women's, senior women’s, and open flight
divisions.
Past champions include Ken Venturi, Harvie
Ward,
Juli Inkster, Bob Rosburg, George Archer, and
Dorothy Delasin. Some of the “non winners”
include
Tom Watson and Johnny Miller. Click the
“history” tab
for more about this wonderful event.
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