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Bob Royak of Alpharetta, Georgia, fashioned a wire-to-wire win at the 2021 National Senior Amateur Hall Of Fame championship, played on the Willow Creek Course at High Point Country Club in North Carolina.
The 2019 U.S. Senior Amateur champion opened with a bogey-free 68, 4-under par, and followed with rounds of 70 and 71 to finish at 7-under par, five better than runner up Doug Hanzel of Savannah, Georgia.
“I played mostly solid all week long” Royak told GGP after the championship. “And when I didn’t, my short game kept me in it.”
Royak has been playing a lot of golf in 2021, highlighted by a win at the Georgia Mid-Amateur Championship.
“It was a little bit of a surprise to become the oldest winner of that tournament,” said the 59-year-old Royak.
The best may be to come. Royak did not get to enjoy the spoils of his 2019 Senior Amateur title due to COVID-19, and so he will be busy for the rest of the summer and into fall. He will compete in the U.S. Senior Open, the U.S. Amateur and the U.S. Mid-Amateur, and he also will attempt to defend his Senior Amateur title at the Country Club of Detroit in late August.
RESULTS
Georgia’s Kris Mikkelsen won the C.B. Macdonald Invitational, defeating Joe Deraney, 1 up in 19 holes at the National Golf Links of America in Southampton, New York.
The invitational tournament, more commonly known as the Singles, is an annual competition played on Macdonald’s best-known American design that brings together many of the finest mid- and senior amateurs in the nation. One round of stroke play takes place on Friday, followed by multiple flights of match-play knockout until a winner is crowned late Sunday afternoon.
Mikkelsen shot 1-under-par 71 to qualify for match play. He defeated co-medalist Bobby Wyatt, 2 up, to gain the finals.
Reinstated amateur Wyatt, Scott Harvey, and RJ Nakashian shared stroke-play qualifying honors with rounds of 2-under 70.
Medalist Matt Sughrue won the Senior Amateur first flight, downing John McClure, 6 and 5. Sughrue shot 1-under 71 to claim stroke-play honors.
Staff and Wire Reports