The cream rose to the top this past Saturday at Buckingham Golf and Country Club during the playing of the 33rd annual Lake County Open Golf Championship. Matt Wotherspoon ran away from the rest of the field by shooting a -4 under par 68 to win by seven shots. It was Matt’s third Lake County Open title having previously won last year’s Open as well as the one held in 2020.
Matt Wotherspoon had to work overtime in defending his title in the 29th annual Lake County Match Play Championship, defeating Jeremiah Valador of Kelseyville 1 up after 19 holes. The Match Play is the Lake County Amateur Golf Circuit’s version of the longest day of golf as first round winners on Saturday morning at Buckingham Golf and Country Club had to return to the golf course for a final round match that afternoon.
I played a lot of amateur golf in my formative years long before the initial days of the Lake County Amateur Golf Circuit in 1994. As a kid I used to tee it up in the Chicago Amateur, a colorful event first contested at Jackson Park Golf Course in 1904.
Matt Wotherspoon continued his domination of the Lake County Amateur Golf Circuit on Sunday by shooting a -10 under par 62 to capture the 13th annual Lake County One Person Scramble Golf Championship at Buckingham Golf and Country Club at the base of Mount Konocti.
Matt Wotherspoon won the 30th annual Lake County Tournament of Champions this past Saturday at Buckingham Golf and Country Club by shooting a rock solid two under par 70 to win by six strokes. Wotherspoon just finished his fourth year of college golf at California State University-San Bernardino and will give high level amateur tournaments a try for the next few years.