USGA To Add Four-ball Championships; NJSGA Conducts 81st This Year

Cover photo: 2011 NJSGA Four-Ball champions Mike DiMeglio & Anthony Aloi of Mercer Oaks; 2012 champions Harris Podvey & Mike LoCastro of Rolling Greens pictured below

The United States Golf Assocation announced on Monday, Feb. 11, that beginning in 2015, it will introduce men's and women's Four-Ball Championships.

The New Jersey State Golf Association has proudly conducted its men's Four-Ball Championship for 80 consecutive years, beginning in 1933, and adds its first women's Four-Ball Championship this summer.

For the USGA, the new events are the first national championships to be added to its competition roster in more than 25 years.

USGA ANNOUNCES ADDITION OF FOUR-BALL CHAMPIONSHIPS

The NJSGA has conducted a men’s Four-Ball Championship every year since 1933, including the War Years of 1942-’45. Some of the biggest names in NJSGA annals have been on winning Four-Ball teams including Billy Y. Dear, Billy Ziobro, Chet Sanok, Russ Helwig, Jeff Thomas and Brian Komline.

For 2013, the NJSGA will introduce its first women’s Four-Ball Championship, to be played July 15 at TPC Jasna Polana in Princeton.

The 81st men’s Four-Ball Championship is scheduled for August 5-7 at the Eagle Oaks Golf and Country Club in Farmingdale.

In 2012, the team of Harris Podvey and Mike LoCastro of Rolling Greens won their first Four-Ball title at the Essex County Country Club.

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The U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship and the U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship, which will be played annually between mid-March and late May, will be open exclusively to amateur golfers and will not have an age restriction. The USGA will retire the men's and women's public links championships after 2014.