Domingo Jojola won three matches this weekend (Photo by Mike Benham, for AmateurGolf.com)
After a long weekend at TPC Harding Park, the Men's Championship is down to the final four players, setting up a final weekend which will crown a first-time champion.
Three matches were played over the weekend -- one Saturday and two Sunday -- paring the field from 32 down to four semifinalists.
Normally, the match play field for the San Francisco City is 64, but the field was compressed, and the tournament played earlier this year, due to preparations for the PGA Championship which will be held at TPC Harding Park in May. It will be the first-ever major hosted by Harding Park.
The upside to the changes is the conditioning of the golf course. As two-time senior champion
Jim Knoll attested (and he has played his fair share of City championships), it may be the best playing conditions ever seen for this championship. "What a privilege to able to play a course as it prepares itself for a major championship," said Knoll. "Most of us will never have this opportunity again!"
Domingo Jojola, the No. 32 seed who got into the match play on the qualifying number, won his three matches to reach the semifinal round. On Saturday, he got a big win over the qualifying medalist and 2018 champion
Jason Anthony, 2 and 1. Then on Sunday, he really got on a roll, winning on the 13th hole in the morning and then on the 15th hole in the afternoon against Ty Macias.
Related: Jason Anthony earns Medalist honors at San Francisco City
Jojola will face
Michael Jensen, the No. 4 seed who cruised Saturday 5 and 4, and then on Sunday got a 2 and 1 win over Ryan Grauman and a 4 and 3 win over Sam Harris.
Tony Verna made the semifinals for the second-straight year. Last year he lost to the eventual champion
Evan Peterson, but hopes to succeed him as champion this year. After narrow wins on the 19th hole and 2 up, Verna got it going Sunday afternoon with a 5 and 4 win over Andrew Biggadike.
Related: Peterson finds his inner fire in winning San Francisco City
Verna will face first-time City championship participant
Charles Porter, who played 37 holes on Sunday but pulled out both matches to reach the semis. He edged out
Alex Chin on the 19th hole in a tight battle on Sunday afternoon.
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Alex Chin (Mike Benham photo)
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Former California Amateur champion
Bobby Bucey, a semifinalist here a year ago, fell in his second round match to Chin.
Women's Championship
The women were the last group to start their championship, with stroke play qualifying held on Saturday and the first round of matches played on Sunday.
Leigh Chien was the qualifying medalist, shooting the only under-par round, a 2-under 70. Faith Low was second with an even-par 72 but took the No. 3 seed into match play as the defending champion, Danielle Suh, was seeded No. 2.
The top 16 players qualified for the Championship bracket, while the next 16 made the Inskter Flight bracket.
Eight players remain after a couple of surprises that saw both Suh and Low lose their matches. One thing is for certain though -- youth will be served next weekend. Every remaining player is a teenager, with Andrea Gomez the oldest at the age of 18.
ABOUT THE
San Francisco City Men's Championship
2025 TOUR
PORTAL
*An NCGA Points Tournament*
**
Entry Procedure:
Registration opens for all players on
October 1 for EXEMPT players only. There will be 50 spots held for
exempt
players under the below
categories.
* The past 10 years of the San Francisco City
Golf
Champions
* 2025 San Francisco City Men’s
Championship
Match Play Qualifiers
* Top 20 men’s 2024-2025 NCGA Points
Lists
* 2025 NCGA Champions (Amateur, Mid-
Amateur,
Junior)
* The top 3 finishers in each of the
AmateurGolf.com Winter
Tour
events (Dec 2025-Feb 2026)
On November 1, the field will open to all participants (exempt or non-exempt) with a small amount of spots saved for not yet determined exemptions to be finalized.
When the field limit is reached, all
additional registrants will be entered in
the
pre-qualifier at Lincoln Park on Friday,
March 6,
2026.
Once entries close, if there are any unfilled
spots in
the Men's Championship (due to withdrawals), they will be filled by Pre-Qualifier
registrants in the order in which
they registered.
Players entering pre-qualifying will pay an
entry fee
of $145 for the pre-qualifier, and
those
advancing from the pre-qualifier will pay the
full main event entry fee (must be paid
prior to playing).
The 36-hole match play qualifier will be held
March
7-8, 2026, with
18 holes played at TPC Harding Park and 18
holes at Lincoln Park for a combined 36-hole qualifying
score.
There will be 168 players in the qualifying
round with
48 players advancing to match play. The top 32 in the Championship bracket and the next 16 in the Venturi Flight.
In the event of a playoff to qualify for
match
play, a
player must be present in order to retain his
right
to participate in the playoff.
Match play will begin on March 14, 2026. All
match play for the Championship Flight (Mar
14-15,
21-22) will be held
at TPC Harding Park.
A schedule of all dates of
play can be found on the tournament website
sfgolfchampionship.com.
WITHDRAWALS AND REFUND
POLICY
Players needing to withdraw should do so by
filling
out the form at
sfgolfchampionship.com/contact/. Players withdrawing before end of day
February 1 will receive a
refund of their entry fee minus
$75.
There will be no refunds after.
CART POLICY
The use of carts is prohibited for players and
caddies
in the Men’s Championship Flight (Appendix I
– Local
Rule
Applies)
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women's, senior women’s, and open flight
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Past champions include Ken Venturi, Harvie
Ward,
Juli Inkster, Bob Rosburg, George Archer, and
Dorothy Delasin. Some of the “non winners”
include
Tom Watson and Johnny Miller. Click the
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for more about this wonderful event.
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