The 15th annual NCGA Lake County Partners Golf Championship tees it up June 2 and June 3 at Buckingham Golf and Country Club. The Partners is a better ball (four-ball) tournament that is not only the third-longest running golf event on the Lake County Amateur Golf Circuit (only the Lake County Amateur ad the Lake County Open have a longer history), but it also doubles as a player-point event on the Northern California Golf Association calendar.
The NCGA Lake County Partners has had a colorful history dating back to its inception way back in 1993. Played in early July that inaugural year, Clearlake resident Jerry Barr teamed up with Buckingham club champion Bruce Dokken to win the first Partners. It would be one of Barr”s final tournaments as an amateur. He would turn professional the following year and begin to follow the sun on the PGA Senior Tour.
From 1994 through 1996, University of San Francisco golfer Matt Parlato would have a hand in winning three consecutive Partners titles. An all-West Coast Conference linkster, Parlato would join up with Mark Miner to win 1994 and then pair up with Upper Lake High School coach Craig Kinser to repeat and three repeat in 1995 and 1996 (LakeCountyRecortdBee).
