The Pasadena City Amateur Championship was supposed to return this season after a one-year hiatus, but the event scheduled for this weekend was postponed because of concerns over the Coronavirus pandemic.
Tournament officials hope to announce new dates for the 54-hole event, which dates to 1929 at Brookside Golf Club www.brooksidegc.com, in the not to distant future.
Brookside, owned by the City of Pasadena and located in the shadow of the San Gabriel Mountains partially surrounding the Rose Bowl, consists of the 7,104-yard, par-72 C.W. Koiner Golf Course and the 6,025-yard, par-70 E.O. Nay Course.
Both layouts were designed by legendary William P. Bell and golf has been played there in Pasadena’s Arroyo Seco Natural Park since 1925.
Brookside hosted the PGA Tour’s Los Angeles Open in 1968, with Billy Casper of San Diego claiming the title, and Jane Blalock won the LPGA Tour’s Suzuki Golf Internationale there in 1972.
Tim Hogarth of Northridge, who has won 18 Southern California Golf Association events and also captured the 1996 USGA Public Links in his brilliant career, took his record sixth Pasadena City title in 2018.
Other notable winners of the tournament include Craig Steinberg, Johnny Dawson, Ellsworth Vines, Bruce McCormick, Smiley Quick, Ted Richards, Ed Fiori, Andrew Putnam, Dave Berganio, Eric Woods, Greg Bruckner and Dan Sullivan.
The Championship Flight is open to players of all ages and conducted over 54 holes. The field is cut to the top 30 percent and ties after 36 holes.
Net Flights are open to all players 18 or older with a 12-month low handicap index ranging from 3.1 to 21.4. Entrants with higher indexes must play down to a 24 handicap.
Those fields will be divided into six flights to play over 54 holes, with a cut made after two rounds at 30 percent and ties.
Proceeds from the Pasadena City Championship will benefit the First Tee of Greater Pasadena.
