MATCH PLAY: LARGEST MARGIN OF VICTORY
• 1925: George Von Elm defeated Norman Macbeth, 12 & 10, at The Los Angeles CC. Von Elm also won the California Amateur and U.S. Amateur that year and finished second in the L.A. Open the following January.
• 1909: Paul Hunter defeated Nat F. Wilshire, 11 & 10, at Annandale GC.
• 1926: Hunter won a record fifth SCGA Amateur by defeating R.G. Cawsey, 10 & 9; the tournament was held at California CC and Brentwood CC.
• 1942: John Dawson of Lakeside GC defeated Bruce McCormick of Oakmont CC, 10 & 8, at The Los Angeles CC. Dawson and McCormick were two of the greatest players in the history of amateur golf.

STROKE PLAY: LARGEST MARGIN OF VICTORY
• 12 shots: Brad Greer’s 274 at Virginia CC in 1985 was 12 shots
better than Brian Mahon.
• 6 shots: U.T. Thompson III (281) defeated Kip Puterbaugh (287) at Hacienda GC in 1969.

STROKE PLAY: TOURNAMENT RECORD
• 1994: 270— Tiger Woods at Hacienda GC
• 1985: 274 — Brad Greer at Virginia CC
• 2004: 279 — Tim Hogarth at Hillcrest CC
• 2005: 279 — Scott McGihon at Tijeras Creek GC
• 1963: 280 — Bruce McCormick at Bel-Air CC
• 1995: 280 — Charlie Wi at Santa Ana CC
Of Note: Mark Johnson’s 275 as runnerup to Tiger Woods in 1994 and Charlie Wi’s third-place score of 278 that year would have won every tournament except 1985 and 1994.

MOST UNDER PAR
• 1985: 10 shots — Brad Greer at Virginia CC (par 71)
• 1994: 10 shots — Tiger Woods at Hacienda GC (par 70)

INDIVIDUAL RECORDS: LOW ROUND
• 62: Tiger Woods at Hacienda GC, 1994 (8 under par)
• 63: Jorge Corral at Santa Ana CC, 1995 (8 under par)
• 64: Duffy Waldorf at Stockdale CC, 1982 (7 under par)

LOW NINE
• 29: Duffy Waldorf in 1982 at Stockdale CC. Waldorf made seven birdies and two pars on the back nine and finished with 35-29 — 64. He was runner-up by a shot to Mark Blakely.
• 30: Tiger Woods in 1994 at Hacienda GC. Woods made par 4 on the first hole and then posted seven consecutive 3s, before making bogey 5 on the ninth hole. He finished 30-32 — 62.

PLAYOFFS
• 1966: John Jacobs defeated Kemp Richardson on the third extra hole at The Victoria Club.
• 1974: Jim Porter defeated Ted Richards, Jr. on the fourth hole of sudden
death at Brentwood CC. Richards, the 1954 and 1961 SCGA Amateur champion, was 51 years of age when he lost to Porter. The four-hole playoff is a record for the SCGA Amateur.
• 1992: Craig Steinberg won his third SCGA Amateur title by defeating Bob Clark on the first extra hole at Fairbanks Ranch CC. It was the third consecutive year that Clark had been a runner-up, and Steinberg became just the fifth player to capture back to-back titles.
• 1996: Kevin Marsh defeated Pat Duncan on the second extra hole at Santa Maria CC.
• 2002: Nico Bollini defeated defending champion John Merrick and Mike Lavery by eagling the second hole of the first three-way playoff in SCGA Amateur history.

Two players — George Von Elm in 1925 and Charles Seaver in 1933-34 — held the SCGA Amateur, California Amateur and Northern California GA Amateur titles at the same time (the SCGA Amateur preceded the California Amateur in 1934 to make Seaver’s feat possible).

Three SCGA presidents — Everett H. Seaver (1928), Norman Macbeth (1929) and Johnny Dawson (1951) — have also won the SCGA Amateur Championship.

One father and son combination — Everett Seaver (1920) and Charles Seaver (1934) — have won the SCGA Amateur championship. OF NOTE: Everett is the grandfather and Charles is the father of baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Seaver.

Three other father-son combinations came close:
• Mac Hunter, son of 1923 champion Willie Hunter, lost to Bruce McCormick 1 up in 1947.
• Kemp Richardson lost a suddendeath playoff in 1966 to John Jacobs, then finished in a tie for second in 1968, five shots behind Barry Jaeckel; Richardson’s father, John, won the SCGA Amateur in 1973.
• Joe Simpson of Stardust CC finished one shot back of Tony Sills of Riviera in the 1976 SCGA Amateur at California CC. The following year, his son, Scott — the NCAA champion who would later win the 1987 U.S. Open — finished a shot back of Doug Clarke at La Jolla CC.

Tim Hogarth is the only player to have won California’s three major amateur titles: SCGA Amateur (2004), California Amateur (1999) and SCGA Mid-Amateur (1999).