Soaring at the Academy

Seven former champions will be in the field this week as the Blue Course at Eisenhower Golf Club at the Air Force Academy hosts the 47th CGA Senior Amateur Championship.

The 54-hole event for players 52 and older will run Tuesday through Thursday (Sept. 11-13).

The list of past champs entered include 2017 winner Steve Ivan of Patty Jewett Golf Course, who also was runner-up in the CGA Senior Match Play earlier this year.

Other past champions teeing it up in the Senior Am are Kevin Ott (2016), Bill Fowler (2015), Colorado Golf Hall of Famer Kent Moore (2014), Harry Johnson (2013), David Delich (2012) and three-time winner Robert Polk (2005, ’07 and ’09).

Also scheduled to be in the 84-man field are this year’s CGA Senior Match Play champ John Hornbeck, a Wyoming state Golf Hall of Famer from Saratoga; other recent Senior Match Play champions Pat Bucci (2017) and Jeff Oneth (2016); Guy Mertz, who just competed in his second straight U.S. Senior Amateur; and recent CGA Super-Senior Stroke Play winners Sean Forey (2018) and Gary Albrecht (2017).

The field will be cut to the low 40 players and ties after Wednesday’s second round.

For Tuesday’s tee times, CLICK HERE.