2025 CGA championship schedule features events at Denver CC and Cherry Hills; CGA Amateur host Walnut Creek will be busy hosting high-level tourneys this year; 4 championships will be held in western Colorado
By Gary Baines – 3/13/2025
Tournament registration for all the men’s 2025 CGA championships opens on Friday (March 14) at 8 a.m. MT, as well as for a couple events on the women’s side of the association’s competitive ledger.
And a notable season 2025 will be, with a couple of CGA titles being settled at two of the state’s most historic venues, and other championships being contested all over Colorado.
The season opener for CGA championships once again will be the Four-Ball, set for May 2-4 at Legacy Ridge Golf Course in Westminster and another facility to be determined. The first CGA women’s competition will be the Team Stableford Tournament May 28 at Plum Creek Golf Club in Castle Rock.
Here are some of the highlights of the 2025 CGA championship schedule:
— The CGA Match Play, set to be held for the 125th straight year, and the CGA Women’s Match Play, scheduled for its 110th installment, will wrap at prestigious Denver Country Club, which dates back to the late 1800s. That’s after pool play is conducted at CGA-owned CommonGround Golf Course. Overall dates for the championships are June 16-20, with Denver CC hosting the quarterfinals, semifinals and finals on the last two days. Denver CC hosted the men’s Match Play quite a few times in its early years, but this will be the first time since 1960 that it will serve in that role. As for the CGA/CWGA Women’s Match Play, this will be the first time it’s been held at Denver CC since 1971.
— Meanwhile, for what is believed to be the third consecutive year, the CGA Amateur will be contested at a site never before utilized for this CGA major. After RainDance National did the honors in 2023 and Eisenhower Golf Club last year, Walnut Creek Golf Preserve in Westminster will be the host in 2025. In another change of pace, the Amateur, normally held Thursday through Sunday, will be played Wednesday through Saturday this time (July 30-Aug. 2). Last year, Colin Prater of Colorado Springs won the CGA Amateur for the third time since 2016.
Walnut Creek, by the way, will be busy hosting high-level competitions this year. Besides the aforementioned CGA Amateur, the Westminster course also will be the site of a U.S. Open local qualifier (May 6), a 36-hole U.S. Women’s Open final qualifier (May 13) and the AJGA Wyndham Clark presented by the CGA (June 4-6).
— Speaking of Eisenhower Golf Club, the CGA Women’s Stroke Play — along with the Women’s Mid-Amateur Stroke Play — will be held at the Air Force Academy’s Blue Course for the first time July 14-16, a year after the facility hosted the men’s CGA Amateur.
— The CGA Mid-Amateur Match Play, being contested for the second time after previously being on the schedule from 2012-15, will have quite a “carrot” for the players who advance at least to the semifinals of the season-long championship. Cherry Hills — which has hosted 10 USGA championships, five men’s Grand Slam events and two women’s majors — will be the site of the semifinals and the finals of the Mid-Am Match Play on Oct. 8 after previous rounds are held in the spring and summer.
— Also on the mid-amateur level, the CGA Mid-Amateur, a stroke-play event, also will be contested at a club that’s over a century old as Pueblo Country Club will host the championship Oct. 17-19.
Speaking of which, geographically speaking, it’s safe to say there haven’t been many CGA championship schedules that span Colorado more than does this year’s. Among the CGA championship venues more than 100 miles from Denver — in addition to Pueblo CC — are:
— The CGA Western Championship is set for Battlement Mesa Golf Club August. 8-10.
— The CGA Senior Amateur will be contested at River Valley Ranch in Carbondale Sept. 8-10.
— The CGA Parent-Child Championship, is planned for Sept. 20-21 at Tiara Rado in Grand Junction.
— The CGA Women’s Dunham Chapman is scheduled for Ironbridge just outside of Glenwood Springs Sept. 23-24.
For the record, that’s four 2025 CGA championships that will be played in the western third of the state.
— The open division of the CGA State Junior Championship is being held for the fourth time in its current form, which resembles how the USGA conducts many of its championships (36 holes of stroke play, followed by single-elimination match play). Thirty-two boys and 32 girls will advance to match play for the championship, which runs June 22-26 at CommonGround Golf Course in Aurora. So the champions will be crowned on the first day of the U.S. Senior Open, which also will be held in Colorado (specifically, at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs). The boys State Junior champion will receive a berth into the 2025 U.S. Junior Amateur, and the girls winner into the 2025 U.S. Girls’ Junior.
— The University of Denver Golf Club at Highlands Ranch will host three-in-one CGA championships July 7-10. The three events that will be conducted concurrently at the same site: the CGA Super-Senior Match Play, Women’s Senior Match Play and the Women’s Net Match Play.
—And, after the CGA Amateur was held at RainDance National in 2023 — a year after the course opened in Windsor — and the CGA Senior Match Play was contested there last year, a CGA women’s championship will have its shot at the arroyo-filled course this year. The CGA Women’s Mashie is set for June 2-4, with RainDance National being the main host site, with a partner site for the four-ball match-play event to be determined.
For the complete 2025 CGA championship schedules, CLICK HERE.
About the Writer: Gary Baines has covered golf in Colorado continuously since 1983. He was a sports writer at the Daily Camera newspaper in Boulder, then the sports editor there, and has written regularly for ColoradoGolf.org since 2009. The University of Colorado Evans Scholar alum was inducted into the Colorado Golf Hall of Fame in 2022. He owns and operates ColoradoGolfJournal.com