The match-play event was contested over two consecutive weekends at three Los Angeles area courses: Wilson, Harding and Rancho Park (final match). Hogarth easily made it through the opening rounds. He defeated Darrell Wyatt, 5 and 3, in the Round of 32 on July 29. He went on that afternoon to defeat Matthew Gunson, 6 and 5, before a week’s hiatus.
Hogarth met Richard Kim, last year’s Los Angeles City Match Play runner-up, in the final match on Aug. 5. Kim’s path to the final had included knocking off current L.A. City champion Damon Krause in a 21-hole quarterfinal battle.
Hogarth eventually won when he knocked in an 8-footer for birdie at No. 15 to seal a 4-and-3 victory.
A year ago, Hogarth made it to the semifinals in this event before he lost to eventual champion, Wooyoung Choi.
Hogarth is a decorated player in the Los Angeles area who frequents SCGA and USGA events (he competed in this summer’s U.S. Senior Open as an amateur). He is also a USGA champion, having won the 1996 U.S. Amateur Public Links, a tournament that has since been discontinued.
Hogarth’s roots are firmly entrenched in public golf. The 52-year-old also won his sixth Pasadena City Championship last month.
“I’ve supported those tournaments my whole golfing career,” Hogarth said.
You can read more about Hogarth’s storied amateur career here.