Interesting notes (to us, anyway) about the 108th SCGA Amateur Championship, which runs June 29-July 1 at Victoria Club in Riverside. 

• Victoria Club is the eastern-most club ever to host the SCGA Amateur Championship (just farther east than The SCGA Golf Course).

• Among them, players in the SCGA Amateur field have won one USGA title, four California Amateur championships, nine SCGA Amateur titles and seven SCGA Mid-Amateur titles, plus three Trans-Mississippi Mid-Amateurs.

• Johnny Holmes, the son of SCGA President Ed Holmes, could become the second son of an SCGA president to win the SCGA Amateur (Charles Seaver won in 1934; his father, Everett, was SCGA president in 1928).

• Patrick Duncan, Jr., could become the second son of a former champion to win the SCGA Amateur title (Pat Sr. won in 1990 at Wilshire CC). 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 sudden-death 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.

• Josh Anderson is bidding to become the first person to win both the California Amateur and SCGA Amateur championships in the same year since legendary amateur Johnny Dawson won both in 1942.

• Scott McGihon is trying to become the first golfer to win three consecutive SCGA Amateurs.  The last person with that opportunity was Craig Steinberg, who won in 1991 at Bel-Air CC in Los Angeles and the following year at Fairbanks Ranch CC in Rancho Santa Fe.  In 1993, he finished T27, 16 shots behind the champion, Todd Demsey.

• Josh Anderson, the newly crowned SCGA Amateur champion, was born three months after Craig Steinberg won the first of his four SCGA Amateur titles, in 1988 at Annandale GC.