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When it comes to a field of players aged 65 and older, the Golfweek Super Senior, Legend and Super Legend National Championship draws a field that is as strong as any senior event on the calendar. As the tournament returns to the Golf Club of Georgia in Alpharetta this week in the height of the summer season, that remains true.
The Super Senior division is a veritable who’s who of players, beginning with recent Golfweek Player of the Month Allen Peake. The 65-year-old Peake, who lives in Macon, Georgia, enters the week after victories earlier this spring at the SOS Super Senior Masters, the Estero Super Senior and the Lowcountry Super Senior.
Peake is ranked third in Golfweek’s National Senior Amateur Rankings, and the highest-ranked player in the field.
Greg Goode, last year’s Golfweek Super Senior Player of the Year, has played a limited schedule so far this year after undergoing hip surgery. He returns to the Golf Club of Georgia after a top-5 finish here last year.
James Starnes and Marcus Beck, who won the Player of the Year award in this division in 2023 and 2024, respectively, are also in the field.
Defending champion Mark Burden will not compete but 2024 winner Stevie Cannady will.
In the Legend division, defending champion Robert Allen II returns and will have to contend with, among others, Mark Benefield, last year’s Super Senior runner-up who has aged up a division. Golfweek’s top-ranked Legend player, Terry Tyson, is another likely contender.
In the Super Legend division, keep an eye on defending champion Sam Robinson plus a handful of perennial contenders in this age group: Bill Engel, Don Kuehn and John Osborne.
The tournament will be played at the Golf Club of Georgia’s Lakeside Course from July 7-9. The venue also notably hosts the Georgia Cup each year, which is a match between the reigning U.S. Amateur champion and British Amateur champion before the Masters Tournament each April. Georgia Tech has also long hosted the Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate Invitational in the fall.
For the second consecutive year, the Golfweek event will feature a limited field for seniors. That event runs concurrently with the Super Senior, Legend and Super Legend divisions. Todd Doss, winner of the Jack Hesler and the Golfweek Senior Amateur earlier this year, highlights that field. Doss, of Mandeville, Louisiana, will get a shot at redemption after losing this title to Greg Kennedy last year in a two-hole playoff.
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Golfweek Super Senior, Legend and Super Legend National Championship returns with another strong field
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The Super Senior division is a veritable who’s who of players, beginning with recent Golfweek Player of the Month Allen Peake. The 65-year-old Peake, who lives in Macon, Georgia, enters the week after victories earlier this spring at the SOS Super Senior Masters, the Estero Super Senior and the Lowcountry Super Senior.
Peake is ranked third in Golfweek’s National Senior Amateur Rankings, and the highest-ranked player in the field.
Greg Goode, last year’s Golfweek Super Senior Player of the Year, has played a limited schedule so far this year after undergoing hip surgery. He returns to the Golf Club of Georgia after a top-5 finish here last year.
James Starnes and Marcus Beck, who won the Player of the Year award in this division in 2023 and 2024, respectively, are also in the field.
Defending champion Mark Burden will not compete but 2024 winner Stevie Cannady will.
In the Legend division, defending champion Robert Allen II returns and will have to contend with, among others, Mark Benefield, last year’s Super Senior runner-up who has aged up a division. Golfweek’s top-ranked Legend player, Terry Tyson, is another likely contender.
In the Super Legend division, keep an eye on defending champion Sam Robinson plus a handful of perennial contenders in this age group: Bill Engel, Don Kuehn and John Osborne.
The tournament will be played at the Golf Club of Georgia’s Lakeside Course from July 7-9. The venue also notably hosts the Georgia Cup each year, which is a match between the reigning U.S. Amateur champion and British Amateur champion before the Masters Tournament each April. Georgia Tech has also long hosted the Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate Invitational in the fall.
For the second consecutive year, the Golfweek event will feature a limited field for seniors. That event runs concurrently with the Super Senior, Legend and Super Legend divisions. Todd Doss, winner of the Jack Hesler and the Golfweek Senior Amateur earlier this year, highlights that field. Doss, of Mandeville, Louisiana, will get a shot at redemption after losing this title to Greg Kennedy last year in a two-hole playoff.
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Golfweek Super Senior, Legend and Super Legend National Championship returns with another strong field
Continue reading...
