CIF/SCGA CHAMPIONSHIP FEATURES 17 AREA PREP GOLFERS LOCAL GOLFERS EYEING TITLE.Byline: Dave Shelburne Staff Writer Seventeen area high school golfers are scheduled to compete in the CIF/SCGA championship Thursday at SCGA SCGA Southern California Golf Association SCGA Software Carrier Group Alarm Golf Club in Murrieta, from which the the top six individuals and top three teams will gain berths in the June 8 boys' state final at Poppy Hills Golf Club Hills Golf Club is a golf club located in Mölndal near Gothenburg in Sweden. The 18-hole course, designed by Arthur Hills, was opened in 2004. External links
Former City Section champion Andrew Ok, a senior at Granada Hills, 2004 state qualifier Kevin Bognot of Monroe of North Hills and Valencia sophomore Louis Amira, runner-up in last week's Southern Section individual championship, have been the most successful postseason participants of this year's area CIF/SCGA qualifiers. Ok, who won the City individual title last year, came within two shots of repeating as section champion this year and will be making his third consecutive CIF/SCGA appearance. He has accepted a scholarship from Arkansas. Bognot reached state last year as a freshman, advancing in a playoff for the final state berths out of the CIF/SCGA championship. He was the second member of his family to do so, following older sister Darlene, a current Monroe senior. Amira, a former Florida state high school finalist who will be on the Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, PGA (1) (Professional Graphics Adapter) An early IBM PC display standard for 3D processing with 640x480x256 resolution. It was not widely used. (2) (Programmable Gate Array) See gate array and FPGA. junior team in Hogan Cup competition this summer, shot 67 to finish second to Murrieta Valley sophomore Rickie Fowler Rickie Fowler is an amateur golfer from Murrieta, California. He is most noteably known as the top ranked amateur golfer in the World Amateur Golf Ranking starting August 7, 2007. in the section final at Palm Springs' Canyon Country Club. Fowler, who shot a record 64 last week, shot a record 62 last year to win the CIF/SCGA, the annual four-section Southern California championship and state qualifier. Fowler is the player to beat today, as much because SCGA Golf Club is his home course as for his section and Southern California records. He opens his title defense a more consistent golfer. ``My ball-striking has gotten a lot better,'' said Fowler, who had eight birdies and an eagle in winning the 2004 CIF/SCGA title. ``My putting is about the same, but I'm definitely hitting the ball a lot better, maybe a little longer. I've narrowed my shots down to being pretty straight.'' Other area Southern Section entries Thursday include Foothill League champion Joe Greiner from Hart of Newhall, two-time Rio Hondo Rio Hondo may refer to:
Hoffenberg, a senior who has accepted a golf scholarship to Fresno State, has not played in the postseason as well as he did in the regular season, when he averaged 71.2 to break Roy Moon's school scoring record. But Hoffenberg has been gritty in the playoffs, qualifying on the cutoff mark in the section prelims at Oxnard's River Ridge River Ridge is the name of more than one location.
``I had to make a birdie coming in. The last couple of holes, I had to make some testers,'' said Hoffenberg, who has never advanced this far in the high school playoffs. ``I was struggling to make par, but overall, it was pretty good. I'm starting to get a little more comfortable.'' Another who struggled but competed well in the section final was Greiner, whom Oak Park coach Bruce Beck Bruce Beck is in his tenth year with WNBC. He is the weekend sports anchor for Newschannel 4. He also files numerous sports reports for the station's various weekday newscasts. calls ``Joe Grinder'' because he battles so hard. ``It was definitely more scramble,'' Greiner said after making five birdies, five bogies and a 40-foot, par-saving putt in a round of 72 that provided the final non-playoff qualifying spot. ``It was kind of a struggle, but I'm moving on "I'm Moving On" is the debut single by Scott Cain, winner of the 2002 Australian Popstars series. The lyrics deal with the singer's decision to end a relationship in which he feels he is being emotionally abused. , and 72 is just as good as a 70.'' Hart coach Aaron Fuller liked Greiner's effort. ``He hit the ball pretty well,'' Fuller said. ``He just couldn't score.'' Except when he absolutely had to. ``He was 2-over with five holes to play, and he birdied two of those five to get in, so that speaks volumes,'' Fuller said. ``That's all that matters.'' For Lipsky, health also will matter. His family has come down with the flu, and his temperature has not dropped below 100 degrees since Sunday. His father, Aaron, said Lipsky might not be able to play. ``He just said he is starting to feel better,'' Aaron Lipsky said Tuesday, ``Who knows? Maybe there is another miracle in the works.'' One of the area's strongest prospects to advance to state - area scoring leader Brett Kanda from Flintridge Prep of La Canada Flintridge - shot 69 at the section final to improve to 6-under par for the season. ``I putted a little better, and I played pretty well,'' said the senior four-year starter, who is headed to UNLV UNLV University of Nevada, Las Vegas . Kanda's Prep League rival Nick Geyer, a Viewpoint of Calabasas senior headed to New Mexico on scholarship, needed to survive a playoff in the section final to advance. But the State Amateur qualifier did so easily enough with a two-putt birdie on the first extra hole. Dalthorp survived the same playoff with his own first-hole birdie, advancing on the strength of a flop shot he hit within 3 feet of the flagstick flag·stick n. A removable pole with a flag marking the placement of each hole on the putting greens of a golf course. - after missing a similar shot when in position to win the section prelim at River Ridge. The reversal had him excited. ``It really hurt me inside,'' Dalthorp said of the missed shot in the prelims, ``because I was like, 'Under the gun, you're a lot better than that - a lot better under pressure.' So to have the chance to redeem myself and have the same shot, it's kind of ironic and also pretty sweet.'' Dave Shelburne, (818) 713-3609 dave.shelburne(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): 2 photos, 5 boxes Photo: (1) La Canada junior David Lipsky is battling the flu and hopes to be healthy for the CIF/SCGA Championship. Dave Shelburne/Daily News (2) no caption (Rick Sessinghaus) Box: (1) GOLF LESSON - Rick Sessinghaus (2) HOLE OF THE WEEK (3) TRACKING LOCAL PROS (4) CALENDAR (5) AREA CIF/SCGA QUALIFIERS |
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