Palmer wins his Third Iowa Senior Match Play
Joe Palmer (IGA photo)
AMANA, IA (June 2, 2018) - Joe Palmer of West Des Moines won his 3rd IGA Match Play Championship on Saturday afternoon at Amana Colonies Golf Club. Palmer defeated Tom Norton of Muscatine 5 & 4 in the championship match.
This was the second straight year Norton, who was gunning for his first win in the event, finished as the Senior Match Play runner-up.
Palmer also won titles in 2013 at Fort Dodge CC and 2015 at Veenker Memorial GC in Ames.
Rob Christensen of Marshalltown is the champion of the Super Senior Match Play bracket. Christensen, who won the IGA Super-Senior Player of the Year award last year, defeated John Peters of Muscatine 4 & 2 in the final match.
The win vaults Christensen into a big lead in this year's IGA Super Senior Player of the Year race, while Peters runner-up finish moved him from 11th to 2nd in the standings.
Gene Elliott, who won the event the last two years, was not in the field this year.
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ABOUT THE
Iowa Senior Match Play
Must be an active
IGA Member and must have
reached their 50th birthday.
18 hole qualifying round, from which the low
32 proceed the the Championship Bracket. Places
33-64 proceed
to the President’s Bracket.
The defending champion is exempt
from the 18-hole qualifying round. The defending
champion
may choose to compete in the qualifying round to
earn
medalist honors but is assured of no lower than the
#2 seed in
Match Play.
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