Cade Casaga watches his drive during Cal Poly Match Play Championship in March 2019 at Cypress Ridge Golf Course.
Photo by: Owen Main | Cal Poly Athletics
Casaga Qualifies for California State Amateur Championship
7/3/2020 12:27:00 PM | Men's Golf
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. -- Cal Poly golfer Cade Casaga has qualified for the 109th California State Amateur Championship.
Casaga, who will be a junior this fall, finished tied for fourth place with six other golfers, all at two over par, in a qualifying tournament Thursday at La Purisima Golf Course in Lompoc.
Top seven finishers advance to the state amateur, scheduled for July 27 through August 1 at Torrey Pines Golf Club in San Diego. La Purisima hosted one of 11 qualifiers.
Casaga carded one birdie and three bogeys on the 7,105-yard, par-72 course. His birdie came on the 432-yard, par-4 third hole.
Also competing at La Purisima but missing the cut were Tanner Podres, Austin Liu, Luke Adam and Joseph Moles.
Podres also finished with a two-over-par 74 but lost in a seven-person playoff and is the second alternate. Liu and Adam both missed the playoff by one stroke with 75s while Moles recorded an 83.
Mustang first-year head coach Phil Rowe posted an 81.
Winner of the qualifier was Cameron Meeks of Las Vegas, a member of the Loyola Marymount golf program, with a two-under-par 70.
A graduate of Murrieta Valley High School in Murrieta, Calif., Casaga averaged 77.1 strokes over nine rounds before the 2019-20 Cal Poly golf season was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic. His best round was a 70 in the opening round of the Bill Cullum Invitational last October at the Wood Ranch Golf Course in Simi Valley.
Casaga will carry a 77.85 career scoring average over 27 rounds into his junior season this fall.
The state amateur championship originated in 1912 and was held at Pebble Beach Golf Links from 1919 until 2006. In 2007 the California Golf Association broadened the scope of the prestigious championship by rotating the weeklong event to selected courses throughout the state, alternating between Northern California and Southern California every other year.
Players must have an index of 4.4 or less, qualifying is available statewide for both NCGA and SCGA players, and players may only attempt to qualify once. The championship consists of 156 players who will play 36 holes of individual stroke play to determine the 32-player match play field. The final match is played over 36 holes.
Past winners include Ken Venturi, Johnny Miller, Mark O'Meara, Bobby Clampett, Gene Littler and former Cal Poly golfer Geoff Gonzalez in 2009 at Lake Merced Golf Club in San Francisco.
Casaga, who will be a junior this fall, finished tied for fourth place with six other golfers, all at two over par, in a qualifying tournament Thursday at La Purisima Golf Course in Lompoc.
Top seven finishers advance to the state amateur, scheduled for July 27 through August 1 at Torrey Pines Golf Club in San Diego. La Purisima hosted one of 11 qualifiers.
Casaga carded one birdie and three bogeys on the 7,105-yard, par-72 course. His birdie came on the 432-yard, par-4 third hole.
Also competing at La Purisima but missing the cut were Tanner Podres, Austin Liu, Luke Adam and Joseph Moles.
Podres also finished with a two-over-par 74 but lost in a seven-person playoff and is the second alternate. Liu and Adam both missed the playoff by one stroke with 75s while Moles recorded an 83.
Mustang first-year head coach Phil Rowe posted an 81.
Winner of the qualifier was Cameron Meeks of Las Vegas, a member of the Loyola Marymount golf program, with a two-under-par 70.
A graduate of Murrieta Valley High School in Murrieta, Calif., Casaga averaged 77.1 strokes over nine rounds before the 2019-20 Cal Poly golf season was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic. His best round was a 70 in the opening round of the Bill Cullum Invitational last October at the Wood Ranch Golf Course in Simi Valley.
Casaga will carry a 77.85 career scoring average over 27 rounds into his junior season this fall.
The state amateur championship originated in 1912 and was held at Pebble Beach Golf Links from 1919 until 2006. In 2007 the California Golf Association broadened the scope of the prestigious championship by rotating the weeklong event to selected courses throughout the state, alternating between Northern California and Southern California every other year.
Players must have an index of 4.4 or less, qualifying is available statewide for both NCGA and SCGA players, and players may only attempt to qualify once. The championship consists of 156 players who will play 36 holes of individual stroke play to determine the 32-player match play field. The final match is played over 36 holes.
Past winners include Ken Venturi, Johnny Miller, Mark O'Meara, Bobby Clampett, Gene Littler and former Cal Poly golfer Geoff Gonzalez in 2009 at Lake Merced Golf Club in San Francisco.
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