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| MATCH
PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP | |||
| Entry Fee/Format | Match
Play Championship $95 "The NWAGA Challenge" $250 per 2-person team Entry fee includes; Tuesday night dinner and Thursday awards luncheon. Lunches are available for purchase. | ||
| Cart Fee | $16
per seat, per round, MUST reserve with entry. Payment for cart fee will
be made at the club. Challenge cart fee is included in the entry fee. | ||
| Tournament Field/Format | Match
Play Championship no maximum number of entries. "The NWAGA Challenge" s a Net Fou-ball Match Play event and will have a limited field of four flights made up of six two-person teams per flight 48 players (24 teams of two). The tournament will consist of each team playing five nine hole matches (45 holes) which will be called "Races", which allows them to play every team in their flight. Each match is made up of nine available points. A team gets one point for winning a hle, 1/2 point if the hole is tied and no point for losing a hole. the maximum number of points a team can win in any match is six and the minimum is zero. The team with the most points at the end of five races wins their flight. | ||
| Challenge Handicap | Maximum individual sloped handicap is 36. | ||
| GHIN Transmission Date | June 23 | ||
| Registration | Tuesday, July 6, times is to be determined. | ||
| Starting Times | Match
Play Round One Pairings Challenge Groupings All Five Rounds | ||
| Practice Rounds | June
22, Tuesday-June 24, Thursday June 29, Tuesday-July 1, Thursday Green fees are $65 and includes mandatory cart. Please call two weeks prior for desired practice round. Call 402-488-2071 to arrange practice round. | ||
| Entry Deadline | Entries must be received in office or submitted online no earlier than May 28 and no later than June 28. All entrants will be notified of acceptance, first round pairings, and starting times. If you must withdraw from the tournament it must be done before 5 p.m. on the date of the entry deadline. | ||
| Lodging | America
Inn Lodge & Suites, 402-435-1600 Holiday Inn Express (South), 402-423-1176 Candlewood Suites, 402-420-0330 | ||
| Entry Form | ON-LINE
EVENT REGISTRATION: NWAGA
Championship and Event On-Line Entries | ||
| Touranament Contacts | Yvonne
Davenport, 402-489-5949 Johnna Rathje, 402-505-4653 ext. 103 | ||
| Match Play & Challenge Guidelines | Please link here to view the Match Play and Challenge Guidelines. | ||
| 2009 Match Play Event Results |
Kearney
-- Number four seed, Kayla Knopik of Papillion walked away the 2009 NWAGA Match
Play Champion 1 up against her opponent number two seed, J.C. Steveson of Grand
Island. The battle between the Husker golfers took place at the Kearney Country
Club Wednesday, July 8. Stevenson went 1 up on hole two then Knopik came back
with a birdie on hole four while Stevenson took a par moving the match back to
all square. Knopik then took control of the match with another birdie on hole
five moving to 1 up. Stevenson began to rally back with pars on holes 16 and 17
while Knopik took bogeys. The match was dormie going into the 18th hole. They
both took pars on hole 18 and Knopik finished the match 1 up. The 18 hole match
was played in a quick two and half hour pace! For qualifying results, Match Play semifinal results, and pairings please link below. Qualifying Results Final Match Result |
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| 2009 Challenge Event Results | Kearney
-- The 2009 NWAGA Challenge took place July 6-8 at the Kearney Country Club. The
ladies were preflighted into three different flights each consisting of six teams.
The Babe Didrickson Zaharias Flight was won by Debbie Sandstedt of Papillion and
Judy Duffy of Omaha. They finished with 26 points taking their flight by storm.
The next flight, Kathy Whitworth Flight, was won by a Kearney team Pat Connolly
and Jo Baldwin. They also scored high with a whopping 28.5 points. In the Mickey
Wright Flight another Kearney team, Carolyn Peterson and Judy Farber, captured
first place with a total of 27 points. For the Challenge Results and final points please select the link below. Challenge Results | ||
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Judy Duff and Debbie Sandstedt |
Jo Baldwin and Pat Connolly |
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| 2008 Event Results | ![]() | Norfolk
- Megan Bartlett has not been stopped in 2008, winning two Nebraska Women's State
Championships. At the NWAGA Match Play Championship defending champion Anna Christenson
of Lincoln tried to fight her way back to defend her title. However, Megan of
Grand Island battled back to win the final match one up at Norfolk Country Club.
Tuesday, June 8th, Christenson fought off medalist Steph Kolbas of Lincoln with
a par on the 20th hole to advance to the finals. Her opponent, Megan Bartlett
of Grand Island, defeated J.C. Stevenson of Grand Island 2 and 1 to reach the
finals. Bartlett was the championships three seed and had some long matches on
her road to the finals. Bartlett defeated Kylie Smith of Omaha in 19 holes in
the Round of 16 and in the quarterfinals she went 20 holes
with Kayla Knopik. Link here for Stroke Play Qualifying Results. Link here for Match Play Results. Link here for NWAGA Challenge Results. | |