NCGA

Haag Wins NCGA
San Joaquin Valley
Championship for Second Time

GolfCalifornia.com Staff Report

July 22, 1999

NCGA San Joaquin Valley Championship
July 19-20 -- Stevinson Ranch GC

STEVINSON – Randy Haag of the Olympic Club fired a stellar final-round 68 at Stevinson Ranch GC to win the 23rd NCGA San Joaquin Valley Championship for the second time in his storied amateur career.

Haag made five birdies on the day, three on the pivotal back nine, to match the lowest round of the tournament. The other 68 came from Dong Yi of Alameda GC in Monday's first round, the third straight year Yi had taken the halfway-point lead in the event. However, for the second year in a row, Yi struggled in the final round, carding a 75 to tie for sixth.

Haag got off to a hot start Tuesday with a birdie on the par-5 opening hole. His only bogey of the day came on the next hole when he drove into a fairway bunker, but he was able to fight it off with seven straight pars and birdies on the ninth and tenth.

Haag, who uses a side-saddle, croquet-like putting style, rolled in another birdie on the par-3 12th, finding the hole from 25 feet away. He would make another bomb on the 17th, as he intended to lag the 50-footer but somehow got it to roll in for birdie.

"This feels great because it's really a great field," said the 40-year-old Haag, who also won the San Joaquin Valley in 1995. "This course is a lot of fun to play and it really set up well for my game."

Meanwhile, 17-year-old Tom Johnson of North Ridge CC continued the pace that has made him one of the hottest players in Northern California this summer. Johnson shot his second straight 2-under-par 70 to finish at 140 and alone in second place. He won the NCGA Junior Championship three weeks ago a few days after advancing to the round of 16 in State Amateur.

Johnson opened with a mediocre 38 on the front nine, but scorched the back side with a 32. He converted three straight birdies on the 11th, 12th and 13th and added another on the par-5 18th. That final birdie was just enough to edge third-place Danny Paniccia of Fig Garden GC, who followed his opening 69 with a 72.

"I watched my brother (Will) play in this last year," Johnson said, "and it's cool because there were so many good players and the very next year I can actually contend with them. It's a booster for my confidence that I was able to play well against good players."

Following are complete final scores:

Par 72 -- 7017 yards
Randy Haag, Olympic Club 69-68--137
Tom Johnson, North Ridge 70-70--140
Danny Paniccia, Fig Garden 69-72--141
Raymond Otis, San Jose 72-70--142
Andrew Hoffer, Santa Rosa 70-72--142
Dong Yi, Alameda 68-75--143
Steve Carter, Monterey Bay 69-74--143
Jeremy Price, Sunset Whitney 69-74--143
Bob Niger, Serrano 70-74--144
Gary Vanier, Olympic Club 70-74--144
Nick Webb, Turlock 71-74--145
Jesse Perryman, The Caddy Club 71-74--145
Jason Highton, San Joaquin 70-75--145
Brian Jones, El Rancho Chico 69-76--145
George Kelley, Stevinson Ranch 75-71--146
Jim Wilson, Butte Creek 72-74--146
Erik Carlson, Roseville 78-69--147
Joshua Levin, Lake Merced 75-72--147
Mark Miller, Antioch 74-73--147
Phillip Harrera, Brookside 74-73--147
Matt Hansen, Stevinson Ranch 73-74--147
Darryl Donovan, Santa Teresa 72-75--147
Scott Terry, Summitpointe 72-75--147
Brandon Coats, Santa Rosa 71-76--147
Rod Souza, Stockton 76-72--148
Doug Johnson, Fig Garden 76-72--148
Will Johnson, North Ridge 75-74--149
Rob Adolph, Copper River 72-77--149
Robert Konsdorf, Castlewood 78-72--150
Phillip Dawson Jr, 73-77--150
Chester Zinn, Atascadero 73-77--150
Gavin Owen, Green Hills 76-75--151
Tj Moulton, Cameron Park 75-76--151
Travis Sayer, Almaden 74-77--151
Mike Schmitz, Alameda 76-76--152
Brian Ruiz, San Jose Players 75-77--152
Tony McBroom, Stockton 79-73--152
Josh Hall, Cinnabar Hills 74-78--152
Michael Carr, Valley Oaks 80-72--152
Scott Hardy, Concord 73-79--152
Greg Loosigian, Fort Washington 76-77--153
Peter Hackett, Lighthouse 77-76--153
Dustin Smith, Del Norte 78-75--153
Alex Woodward, Claremont 80-73--153
Daniel Yonan, Stevinson Ranch 75-79--154
Kevin Wolf, Woodbridge 75-79--154
Jason Snyder, French Camp 78-76--154
Steven Wolf, Woodbridge 75-79--154
Richard Marchini, Merced 74-80--154
John Enright, Olympic Club 79-75--154
Andy Bloosom, Lockford Springs 80-74--154
Robert Pereira, Vallejo 81-74--155
Tanner Makimoto, North Ridge 82-73--155
Eiichi Mochizuki, Mariners Point Linksters 78-78--156
Siegfried Wroebel, Band of Gypsies 78-78--156
Patrick O'Brien, Olympic Club 74-82--156
Jeffrey Freeman, Alameda 79-77--156
John Ellis, San Jose 73-83--156
Randy Tiesiera, Turlock 81-75--156
Niles Gregory, Turlock 81-75--156
Lucio Alvarez, Black Oak 83-73--156
George Erbez, Antioch 79-78--157
Bob Olds, Brentwood 81-76--157
Clement Richardson, Corral de Tierra 81-76--157
Rob Nicholson, Merced 76-82--158
Terry McCord, Riverside of Fresno 80-78--158
Alan Wong, Chinese Sacramento 77-82--159
Lee Markarian, Sunnyside 74-86--160
Phillip Donaldson, River Oaks 80-80--160
Lionel Rodgers III, Silverado 80-80--160
Bobby Fries, Fort Washington 77-84--161
Christopher Aldana, Players Club 79-82--161
Ronald Collet, Belmont 73-88--161
Ralph Costanzo, Mariners Point Linksters 81-81--162
Mike Spellman, Antioch 82-80--162
Peter Boese, Palo Alto 82-80--162
Eric Shaw, Cameron Park 84-79--163
Matthew Costa, El Rancho Chico 82-82--164
Robert Reed, Castlewood 83-81--164
Mike Bennett, The Caddy Club 83-81--164
Patrick Horvath, Indian Valley 84-80--164
David Smith, Fort Washington 72-93--165
Jerrod Makimoto, North Ridge 82-84--166
Richard Guzman, De Laveaga 81-86--167
Ben Whipple, Serrano 83-85--168
Allen Chen, Decathlon Club 83-85--168
Steve Landi, Harding Park 84-85--169
Roy Wold, Summitpointe 84-85--169
Alfred Cowlah, Lew Galbraith 83-87--170
Jay Dameron, Sunnyvale 86-86--172
Daigo Ogura, Mariners Point Linksters 83-91--174
Thys Heyneker, Crystal Springs 95-NS--NS
Stephen Smoot, Milpitas Family 76-WD--WD