Fellow golfers,
Your NVGA volunteers are hard at work organizing the 2024 season. Please save the dates and mark your calendars for the events we are planning below:
Regular Am Schedule
Date Tournament Venue
June 3-4 NVGA Match Play The Piedmont Club
July 15 Northern VA 4-ball Pleasant Valley Golf Club
Fall Northern VA Amateur (50th Anniv.) TBD
Senior Schedule
Date Tournament Venue
June 3-4 NVGA Senior Match Play The Piedmont Club
July 9-10 Northern VA Senior Amateur Springfield Golf & CC
Aug 26 Northern VA Senior 4-ball Loudoun Golf & CC
The NVGA Match Play tournament on 3-4 June is a new event and format (match play instead of medal play). This is the first year we will have tried this format and we do not yet know how popular it may be. For the inaugural tournament it will be a limited field event of up to 64 players, 32 regular amateurs divided into two flights of 16, and 32 senior amateurs divided into one flight of 16 seniors (age 55+) and one flight of 16 super-seniors (age 65+). The event will be held at The Piedmont Club in Haymarket, VA on 3-4 June. We only have access to the course for two days so day 1 (Monday 3 June) will consist of two 18-hole matches for all players. Those 16 players winning both matches on day 1 (4 players in each of the 4 divisions) will advance to the semifinals and finals on day 2 (Tuesday 4 June). Players losing one or more matches on day 1 are eliminated and do not play on day 2. Entries will open in mid-April and close once all four brackets are filled with 16 players each, or no later than Wednesday 29 May. Entries will be accepted in the order they are received until each of the four brackets are filled; a small wait list will be available for the 32 spots in the regular amateur flights and the 16 spots in each of the senior and super-senior flights in the event of withdrawals. Entry fees for players on the wait list that do not make it into the field will be refunded. Since we don’t have time for a stroke play round to do seeding, the tournament committee will seed each bracket based upon the players national and/or state rankings and handicap indexes. If you are interested in playing in this event, we recommend you enter as soon as possible after online entries open because of the limited number of spots available.
For more information about the Match Play tournament, view the information sheet at the following link:
The Northern Virginia Amateur tournament was last held in 2019 when Rich Buckner was the winner. This tournament was started in 1974 by Henry Kerfoot (Washington Golf & CC) and the trophy is named in his honor. This year (2024) will be the 50th anniversary of the start of the tournament. We are planning a 36-hole stroke play event including a dinner after day 1 play to recognize Henry Kerfoot and past champions. We are looking for a nice venue for this event and if your club would be interested in hosting the event in the fall timeframe, please contact Jon Zampedro at jonz@novagolf.org.
We are looking forward to the 2024 season and hope to see you in the events listed above.
Regards,
Jon Zampedro (Amateur Championships tournament director) contact at jonz@novagolf.org
Richard Lion (Amateur Championships assistant tournament director) contact at richardl@novagolf.org
Mark Boedicker (Senior Championships tournament director) contact at markb@novagolf.org
Lynn Wessman (Senior Championships assistant tournament director) contact at lynnw@novagolf.org