WEST END, NC – The Carolinas Golf Association will conduct its 13th North Carolina Mid-Amateur Championship on River Landing Country Club’s River Course in Wallace, NC, Sept. 15-17.
A field of approximately 140 golfers includes 2006 Carolinas Mid-Amateur champion Mike Goodes of Reidsville. Danny Gurley of Chapel Hill, the 2005 N.C. Mid-Amateur titlist, is not entered this year.
In addition to 23 players who earned exemptions based on their performance in prior CGA events, the field includes North Carolina amateur golfers ages 30 and over who qualified at four sites during August.
Qualifiers were held at Wildwood Green GC in Raleigh, at Bryan Park GC’s Champions Course in Browns Summit, at Anderson Creek GC in Spring Lake and at Warrior GC in China Grove.
River Landing’s Clyde Johnston-designed River Course, rated the 21st best course in the state by Golf Digest Magazine, is a 6,923-yard, par-72 layout that opened in 1996.
The N.C. Mid-Amateur champion receives the P.J. Boatwright, Jr. Memorial Trophy, a Revere bowl that was presented to the Carolinas Golf Association in 1995 by Nancy Boatwright to honor her late husband’s years of service to the CGA. P.J.
Boatwright, a long time resident of Spartanburg, was an fine amateur player whose accomplishments included winning the 1951 SCGA Amateur Championship and the 1951 Carolinas Amteur Championship. He served on the Executive Board of the CGA before his extensive service to the USGA. Boatwright began his USGA career in 1959 as Assistant Director, then as Executive Director, and finally Executive Director, Rules and Competition until his death in 1991.
For more information about the North Carolina Mid-Amateur Championship and other CGA events, visit the Championship Home Page online at www.carolinasgolf.org.
Contact:
Andy Priest, CGA Director of Tournament and Internet Operations Andy Priest,
On-Site Tournament Director/Coordinator
Phone: 910-673-1000
E-mail: info@carolinasgolf.org
