Bob Royak and Doug Hanzel dominate to win sixth straight Georgia Senior Four-Ball
Bob Royak (left) and Doug Hanzel (GSGA Photo)
Since 2019, only one team has lifted the trophy at the Georgia Senior Four-Ball Championship.
And that did not change this year.
Doug Hanzel of Savannah, Ga., and Bob Royak of Alpharetta, Ga., blitzed the field to win the championship at Laura S. Walker State Park Golf Course in Waycross, Ga., winning by an astounding 15 shots after finishing 24-under and shooting impressive rounds of 67-64-61.
The duo is one of the best Four-Ball teams in the country. Royak is ranked No. 1 in the AmateurGolf.com Senior Rankings, and Hanzel is ranked No. 3. Hanzel is also ranked No. 1 in the AmateurGolf.com Super Senior Rankings.
Royak has been a model of consistency and recently made the quarterfinals of the 2024 Crump Cup, finished T5 at the Jones Cup Senior, T3 at the North and South Senior, and T5 at the International Senior.
Hanzel has won three of the last five tournaments he participated in, winning the International Senior and the Golfweek Pacific Northwest Senior. He finished T3 at the Canadian Senior Amateur and the final 64 of the U.S. Senior Amateur.
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Tom Lape of Atlanta, Ga., and Billy Mitchell of Atlanta, Ga., finished in solo second place at 9-under with rounds of 67-70-70.
Robert Sheats of Atlanta, Ga., and Rusty Strawn of Eatonton, Ga., finished in solo third place at 8-under.
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ABOUT THE
Georgia Senior Four-Ball
Open to male amateur golfers; entrants must
be at
least 55 years old on or before the first day of
the
Championship; a maximum stroke differential
of six
strokes is allowed
between partners; if the differential is more
than six
strokes, the higher index will be adjusted down
to six
strokes.
Field:
96 teams - 48 teams based on low team index
comprise the Championship flight; remaining
Senior
Division teams drawn
by lottery (1 exempt spot held for each host
club; 4
exempt spots held for flight winners).
Format:
54 holes of flighted four-ball stroke play.
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