Congratulations Leilani Norman and Ginny Burkey on Winning the 34th PNGA Senior Team Championship!! 

Congratulations Mary Ryan and Sun Douthit on Winning the 2nd PNGA Super Senior Team Championship!!

Bremerton, Wash. - At the 35th Pacific Northwest Senior Team Championships, Erik Hanson of Kirkland, Wash. and Craig Larson of Tacoma successfully defended their Men's Senior Team title; Gudmund Lindbjerg of Port Moody, B.C. and John Gallacher of Burnaby, B.C. won the Men's Super Senior Team; Ginny Burkey and Leilani Norman, both of Eugene, Ore., won the Women's Senior Team title; and Mary Ryan of Renton, Wash. and Sun Douthit of Steilacoom, Wash. successfully defended their title in the Women's Super Senior Team.

 

The four championships were held this week on the Olympic and Cascade courses at Gold Mountain Golf Club in Bremerton, Wash. and were conducted by the Pacific Northwest Golf Association (PNGA). Each was played in three successive rounds of Four-Ball, Chapman and Four-Ball formats, although the two Women's championships were shortened to 36 holes after the second round, which was to be played in the Chapman format, was washed out earlier in the week due to heavy rain.

 

Competitors in the championships came from all parts of the region, including Oregon, Washington, Alaska, British Columbia, Alberta, as well as from Wisconsin, California and Arizona. To stay connected on social media, follow @PNGALIVE on Twitter and use the hashtag #PNGASeniorTeam.

 

In the Women's Senior Team, Burkey and Norman combined for a final round of 5-under 67 in four-ball competition to cruise to a 5-shot victory.

 

Click here for complete final scoring of the PNGA Women's Senior Team, and here for the Women's Super Senior Team.

 

For Burkey, this is a record seventh time she has won this title, and the third playing partner she has won with. Norman was named the 2015 PNGA Senior Women's Player of the Year.

 

Burkey and Norman began the day one shot behind first round leaders Gretchen Klein and Yasue Alkins, but the duo poured it on in today's final round, and their rounds of 70-67 put them five shots clear of Klein and Alkins and also of the team of Jackie Little and Kathryn McGarvey, who tied for second with Klein and Alkins.

 

Little and McGarvey won last year's title. Earlier this year, Little was inducted into the PNGA Hall of Fame.

 

"Today we were both in most of the holes," said Norman, "so we each had a shot at birdie on the greens." Despite the five-shot victory, Burkey believes there is plenty left to learn. "We want to play a couple other four-balls, we played in the Oregon Four-Ball together and we still have a little learning to do about each other's games."

 

Click here to view the full interview with Burkey and Norman.

 

In the 2nd PNGA Women's Super Senior Team, Ryan and Douthit came from behind to successfully defend their title in the championship. They began the final round one shot behind first-round leaders Carol Dick and Mary O'Donnell. The two teams were paired together in the final round, and O'Donnell and Dick held their slim lead after the first nine, but Ryan and Douthit tied it with a birdie on the par-4 10th, then took the lead on the 12th and held on for the one-stroke victory.

 

After defending their title, Ryan and Douthit are the only duo to have won the Women's Super Senior Championship. "We intend to play until we drop dead, and we will be here winning," said Ryan. "We're going to win next year." The shot of the day came on their final hole of the day, number nine, when Douthit hit a shot pin high from 175-yards out. "I couldn't see, but I just aimed at the trees and I hit it," said Douthit, leading to a birdie on the hole and one-shot victory.

 

Click here to view the full interview with Ryan and Douthit.

 

The PNGA was founded on February 4, 1899. It is a 501c3 charitable, international, amateur golf association dedicated to preserving the true spirit of golf by supporting its allied associations, conducting quality championships, and promoting activities beneficial to golfers in the Pacific Northwest. For more than a century, the Association has been a pioneer in developing competitions and services and its mission has grown and evolved. Today, the PNGA remains committed to being a truly regional organization providing benefits and services to its members and member clubs throughout the Northwest.