A five-person team representing Coyote Creek Golf Club of Morgan
Hill captured the gross division championship at Monday’s Buick
Scramble Northern California PGA Sectional Championship.
San Jose – A five-person team representing Coyote Creek Golf Club of Morgan Hill captured the gross division championship at Monday’s Buick Scramble Northern California PGA Sectional Championship. The Coyote Creek team joins the net division title winners from Silver Creek Valley Country Club of San Jose in advancing to compete in the 2005 Buick Scramble National Championships in Orlando, Fla. from Oct. 13-16.
Twenty-two five-person teams from throughout the Northern California PGA Section competed in the PGA Sectional Championship at Silver Creek Valley CC in San Jose, each including one PGA professional and four amateurs.
PGA Professional Jim Collins’ Coyote Creek team recorded a 16-under-par 56 to take the gross division championship by three strokes. Merced CC and Palo Alto GC tied for second-place honors with a 59. Winning amateur participants for Coyote Creek included Jimmy Yeung, Paul Griffin, Gary D’Amato and Bud Garmany.
In the net division, PGA professional Trudi Souza’s Silver Creek team birdied the fourth playoff hole to secure the net division championship over five teams, all of which had turned in 13-under-par 59s during regulation play, thus forcing the playoff. Winning amateur participants for Silver Creek Valley included Rob Davis, Kerry Kirchenbaur, Mark Fanelli and Al Motley.
Each team participating in the Buick Scramble PGA Sectional Championship advanced from their respective local championships earlier in the spring and summer at various golf courses.
Buick Scramble honorary chairman Tiger Woods is scheduled to appear at the national championships to award the trophies to the 2005 Buick Scramble National Champions.
Now in its 22nd season and fourth under the Buick banner, the Buick Scramble is the world’s largest amateur golf tournament, with more than 75,000 participants each year. Sanctioned by the PGA of America, 214 teams will compete for national championship honors and a purse of nearly $220,000 (cash for PGA professionals, gift certificates for amateurs).
