LA Match Play: Brockington prevails
Michael Brockington
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (Aug. 12, 2012) -- UC Davis junior Mike Brockington took home the title at the 2012 Los Angeles City Match Play Championship Sunday, defeating Boris Stanchev, 1-up.
Brockington, of Laguna Niguel, proved that he might be on the verge of a breakout season for the Aggies with a terrific run through the match play bracket.
After earning the No. 3 seed after stroke-play qualifying, Brockington dispatched of Darren Saqui (5-and-4), Kevin Cullen (1-up) and Wally Gonzalez (3-and-2) before squaring off against Stanchev, the No. 5 seed from Long Beach.
Play began Aug. 4 with one qualifying round at Encino Municipal Golf Course. Match play began the following day with Rounds 1 and 2 played last Sunday at Wilson Municipal and Harding Municipal. On Saturday, the quarterfinals and semifinals were played at Rancho Park ahead of Sunday's championship match at the same location.
ABOUT THE
Los Angeles City Match Play
18 Hole stroke play qualifying round from which the
low
64 players
advance to match play. Players USGA index
must
not have exceeded 4.2 during the months of
May, June, July.
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