EXCURSION: SCGA HAS SCENIC VIEWS, DIFFICULT GREENS.Byline: Dave Shelburne Staff Writer MURRIETA - The look has changed significantly in recent years at the 35-year-old, Robert Trent Jones See: American TV writer Trent Jones Robert Trent Jones, Sr. (June 20, 1906 – June 14, 2000) was a golf course architect who designed (or re-designed) about 500 golf courses in at least 40 US states and 35 other countries all around the world. Sr.-designed SCGA SCGA Southern California Golf Association SCGA Software Carrier Group Alarm Golf Club, formerly called SCGA Members Club. But the playing challenge remains the same. To be successful here, golfers must keep their drives on generously wide fairways and be able to hit approach shots close enough to avoid three-putts or worse on huge, roly-poly greens. The best high school golfers in 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, take their shot Thursday at this once-remote course that now is surrounded by housing. The 2004 CIF/SCGA champion did it as well as anyone has in this annual half-state championship. 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. , then a freshman at Murrieta Valley High, set a tournament record of 10-under-par 62. Fowler's advantage: It's his home course. Most SCGA Golf Club visitors will be going through on-the-job training in getting their local knowledge, many of them taking advantage of the discount rate the Southern California Golf Association gives members who make the trip to this once-rural but now rapidly developing area. What first-time SCGA players are likely to learn quickly - and, with luck, with not too many strokes - is to keep sprayed shots to a minimum in both number and distance, especially distance. Rough is one of the main defenses against par on this difficult but fair course that will likely play close to its maximum length of 7,060 yards for Thursday's CIF/SCGA Championship. Other course defenses include topography topography (təpŏg`rəfē), description or representation of the features and configuration of land surfaces. Topographic maps use symbols and coloring, with particular attention given to the shape and elevations of terrain. that requires plenty of uphill and downhill shots, seven holes that bend to some degree, water that comes into play on six holes, loads of large bunkers and - perhaps most of all - gusting winds that can make any shot an adventure and dry out those smooth-rolling but multisloped greens to the point of frustration. Fowler made it look easy last year, rolling in eight birdies and an eagle in his bogey-free round that won the CIF/SCGA title by six shots. But Fowler, one of the top junior golfers in the nation, makes a lot of golf shots 30 minute news-magazine style golf program on Comcast Sportsnet Philadelphia. The program airs Sundays at 6:00PM with repeats Sundays at 5:00AM. Hosts
Area players also have enjoyed success at SCGA Golf Club. Former Hart High of Newhall and Pepperdine standout and two-time PGA Tour The PGA Tour is an organization that operates the USA's main professional golf tours. It is headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, USA. Its name is officially rendered in all caps as “PGA TOUR". player Jason Gore Jason William Gore (born May 17, 1974) is an American professional golfer. Gore was born in Van Nuys, California. He attended Pepperdine University. Gore plays on the PGA Tour after moving from the Nationwide Tour midseason in 2005. of Valencia won the State Open there last year. Brian Edick, another Hart alum alum (ăl`əm), any one of a series of isomorphous double salts that are hydrated sulfates of a univalent cation (e.g., potassium, sodium, ammonium, cesium, or thallium) and a trivalent cation (e.g. , was second in a playoff play·off also play-off n. Sports 1. A final game or series of games played to break a tie. 2. A series of games played to determine a championship. Noun 1. for the 2001 CIF/SCGA championship after shooting 67. Brian van Heel of Westlake High won the CIF/SCGA title in 2003. And former Cal State Northridge golfer and 1995 State Amateur champion Jeff Sanday shares the course record of 62. First-time SCGA Golf Club players can claim relative success by surviving the most difficult of the Jones-designed challenges - most notably the uphill seventh and 18th holes, the dogleg dog·leg n. 1. a. Something that has a sharp bend, especially a road or route that bends abruptly. b. A sharp bend or turn: Make a dogleg at the fire station and continue south. , water-flanked 12th and both par-3 tests on the front nine - and by taking advantage of the short third and 15th holes. The par-4 third, which plays anywhere from 413 to 213 yards, is the signature hole at SCGA Golf Club, treating visitors to an elevated-tee view of a tree-lined fairway leading to a green fronted by a lake. Get distracted by the view or the short approach opportunity, and you might wind up with a tree-blocked second shot or a penalty drop out of the water. The 100-foot drop to the fairway makes this hole a good scoring opportunity on the course, with a green longer-hitting women can reach from the lower tees. Also worth taking the time to enjoy is the view from the first tee - a wide, right-turning fairway sweeping downhill and then back up to one of the most undulating greens on the course. That view, which once encompassed rolling, empty hills, includes a lot more housing now, but the course is as good as it ever was and maybe better with more than three decades of maturity. CAPTION(S): photo, box Photo: Wide fairways, large bunkers and plenty of elevation make the SCGA Golf Club in Murrieta a fair but challenging test. Dave Shelburne/Daily News Box: SCGA GC |
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