2025 Senior Section Championship Preview

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GOOSE CREEK GOLF CLUB

JULY 14-15, 2025

CHAMPIONSHIP INFO & FORMAT

FORMAT

36-HOLES OF STROKE PLAY

FIELD SIZE/ELIGIBILITY

Event is open to SCPGA members who are 50 years of age and older. Must be eligibly employed, in good standing and classified in one of the following active membership classifications or have Life Member status in one of the following classifications (LM, LMA, LMM or LMMA), at the time of entry and their Section’s entry deadline date.

PRACTICE ROUND

Practice rounds and rates are at the availability and discretion of Goose Creek Golf Club. Please contact the golf shop (951) 735-3982 for more information.

STARTING TIMES

Starting times will begin at 8:30AM off the 1st tee and 10th tee for both rounds.

PURSE

The anticipated purse is $30,000.

TEES

For the Senior Section Championship, all men will play from the Championship tee decks with yardage tentatively around 6,700 - 6,850. All women will play at approximately 85% of this total yardage. If you’re a woman competing from the 85% yardage provided, you will be eligible to qualify for the Senior PPC but not the Senior PGA Championship.

WHAT’S ON THE LINE?

The top 11 finishers will advance to the 37th Senior PGA Professional Championship. This includes the Senior Section Champion. 5 alternates.

PGA Golf Club - Wanamaker & Ryder Courses

Port St. Lucie, Florida

October 23-26, 2025

THANK YOU PARTNERS!

COURSE OVERVIEW

GOOSE CREEK GOLF CLUB, JURUPA VALLEY, CA

CLUB ESTABLISHED: 1999

ARCHITECT: Lee Schmidt & Brian Curley

DIRECTOR OF GOLF: Ross Fisher, PGA

ASSISTANT PROFESSIONAL: Jerry Crowell, PGA, Scott Martinez

SUPERINTENDENT: Rudy Cardenas, GCSAA

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It is a tremendous honor for Goose Creek Golf Club to host the SCPGA Senior Section Championship for the third time. We are extremely pleased to both welcome you and serve as the financial sponsor of this prestigious event. We recognize the lasting impact PGA Professionals have on the game of golf and the industry as a whole. This Championship provides a meaningful opportunity for us to give back to our fellow PGA Members, and we are proud to support such a distinguished field of competitors. Our entire staff is committed to ensuring that your experience here is exceptional and that the Championship is a resounding success. We look forward to a great week of competition, camaraderie, and celebration of the game we all love.

2024 CHAMPIONSHIP RECAP

STEVE HOLMES, PGA, COMES FROM BEHIND TO CLAIM VICTORY

LA HABRA, CA (July 23, 2024) — Steve Holmes, PGA, of Rustic Canyon Golf Course, completed the comeback to claim the 2024 SCPGA Senior Section Championship at Hacienda Golf Club.

With this victory, Holmes has secured an exemption to compete in the prestigious 2025 Hoag Classic Newport Beach, a PGA TOUR Champions event at the scenic Newport Beach Country Club on March 17-23, 2025. In addition, Holmes will lead 10 SCPGA Section members at the Senior PGA Professional Championship that will be held in September in Oregon.

Entering the day, Holmes was one stroke off the lead with a 1-over-par 72 from the opening round. With a bunched-up leaderboard at the top and multiple players in contention, Holmes turned on the after-burners down the back nine stretch with an eagle on 10 and birdies on 12, 15, and 16. Holmes finished his day with a tournament-low 6-under-par 65 to take a four-shot lead over the field of 74 players with a 5-under-par 137 total. It marks Holmes’ first SCPGA Senior Section Championship title.

Special thanks to Wade Berzas, PGA, General Manager at Hacienda Golf Club, along with Head Golf Professional Kyle Mendoza, PGA, for hosting this event as an SCPGA Centennial Charter Club Course.

Thank you to our rules officials: Gary Albin, Rick Kueter, Robert Bittner

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PGA

SENIOR PROFESSIONAL

PAST CHAMPIONS

2013 - CHRIS STARKJOHANN

2010 - CHRIS STARKJOHANN

2009 - JERRY WISZ

2008 - JERRY WISZ

2007 - CHRIS STARKJOHANN

2006 - CHRIS STARKJOHANN

2005 - JERRY WISZ

2004 - BUTCH SHEEHAN

2003 - DICK MCCLEAN

2002 - DICK MCCLEAN

2001 - JIMMY POWELL

2000 - BILL FEIL

1999 - MONTE SANDERS

1998 - TERRY WILCOX

1997 - JAY HYON

1996 - JAY HYON

1995 - JIM PETRALIA

1994 - TOM BARBER

1993 - JIM PETRALIA

1992 - DAVE EVANS

1991 - SKIP WHITTET

1990 - JACK HOLLIS

1989 - CHUCK GREEN

1988 - JIMMY POWELL

1987 - MANUEL QUEZADA

1986 - CHUCK GREEN

1985 - CHUCK GREEN

1984 - CORKY DAHL

1983 - MONTE SANDERS

1982 - PAUL MCGUIRE

1981 - CARROLL SHARP

1980 - HOWIE JOHNSON

1979 - CARROLL SHARP

1978 - JIM BLAKELEY

1977 - HOWIE JOHNSON

1976 - CARROLL SHARP

1975 - MORGAN FORTRELL

1974 - ERIC MONTI

1973 - JIM BLAKELEY

1972 - GUY COGLE

1971 - WILLIE BARBER

1970 - JOE CALWELL

1969 - WILLIE BARBER

1968 - PAUL RUNYAN

1967 - MARSHALL HOLT

1966 - ZELL EATON

1965 - HAROLD WILEY

1964 - SMILEY QUICK

1963 - CECIL HARRIS

1962 - PAUL RUNYAN

1961 - SMILEY QUICK

1960 - PAUL RUNYAN

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