Contents
- Welcome
- 2026 Club Tournaments: Save the Dates!
- Senior Exchanges: Schedule & New Registration Process for 2026
- Dinner with Stanford Golf: “Short Game Wins Championships”
- Player’s League: Stanford Men Advanced in inaugural NCGA Competition
- The Ace: Celebrating Holes in One
- Treasurer’s Report: Where Your Funds Went in 2025; 2026 Outlook
- LPGA Event: Fortinet Founders Cup, March 19-22 at Sharon Heights
- Contacts, Ideas, Suggestion, Feedback for the Board and Golf Course
Welcome to 2026!
We’ve kicked off a fantastic year of playing golf and connecting together at Stanford. On behalf of the Men’s Section Board of Directors, welcome to our nearly 400 returning and new members. We have scheduled 45 events this year including: Club tournaments at Stanford, Senior Exchange events at Stanford and amazing Bay Area golf courses, NCGA competitions, and new events and formats to the calendar this year. We hope that every Club member will find opportunities to play. Each month, this newsletter will highlight upcoming events, celebrate our performances and share news about the Stanford golf community. Please share your feedback: president@stanfordgolfclub.com. Thank you and good golf - regards, Todd.
EVENTS
2026 Club Tournament Schedule - Save The Dates!
Our full-year calendar is available now. Save the dates for this year’s major championships, our returning and new tournaments, a new All Sections Invitational in October. See the 2026 Schedule on the Stanford Golf Club Men’s Section website here.
Registration for Club tournaments at Stanford typically opens about a month prior to the event date on Thursdays at 6pm Pacific time. This year’s first event - the Break 50 scramble - will be held on Saturday, March 14th with registration opening on Thursday, February 12. Don’t miss this chance for your team to Break 50 on the Stanford Golf Course.
2026 Senior Exchanges
Back this year with 27 events at Stanford and incredible selection of Bay Area Golf Courses, Senior Exchanges are for golfers ages 50 and older. New this year: registration windows will offer more opportunity to secure your place. See the 2026 Senior Exchange Schedule is located on our website here.
PERFORMANCES
Dinner with Stanford Golf: “Short Game Wins Championships”
On January 13th, the Men’s Section hosted an event for the Men’s and Women’s Golf team and coaches to talk about the season ahead, competing today at the elite college and amateur levels, and playing the Stanford Golf Course. Women’s team member and Stanford sophomore Paula Martin Sampedro shared her exciting account of winning the 123rd Women’s Amateur in Scotland as well as other highlights of her amazing 2025 year.
Stanford Men’s Team member Nathan Wang talked about transferring to Stanford. In the wrap-up predictions for ‘26, Nathan rightly called for an NCAA championship for the Women’s team. Paula reminded us that short games wins championships. Men’s Coach Conrad Ray, Women’s Assistant Coach Demi Runas, the entire Men’s team and coaches as well as about 40 members and guests had a memorable conversation and dinner together at Birdies.
Player’s League: Stanford Team Opens Well in inaugural NCGA Competition
The Men's Section for the first time fielded a team in the NCGA's Player's League, a team match play league played at scratch. We joined teams with high-caliber players in competitive rounds on challenging courses and experienced a great overall vibe. Special thanks to Head Pro Ron Fischang, who not only helped us arrange a well-received opening round at Stanford, but also was a stalwart in our lead-off spot.
In our inaugural season, we tied with Almaden for first place in our group in the regular season, and had the unique opportunity to participate in the Northern California playoffs against 3 stellar teams at Poppy Ridge. Although we did not advance, we clearly out-performed the Vegas line for the regular season—the three teams we faced in the playoffs had players with indexes from 1.0 at the high end to +5.0 on the low end! Stand-out performances by Jake Humble (sudden-death birdie on first hole to advance), Andrew Olgivie during finals at Poppy Ridge with an upset win, Ken Sigel with widest winning margin over his Almaden opponent.
The Aces
Jake Humble contributed an Ace on hole #4 on January 8th! His approach bounced no more than 2” short on what look like what was a one-hop finish.
CLUB & COMMUNITY UPDATES
Treasurer’s Report: Where Your Funds Went in 2025 & 2026 Outlook
Each year, the Board approves the Club’s budget for the year ahead. Looking back at 2025, the Club paid NCGA dues on behalf of each Regular and Handicap Only member. For Regular members, the remainder goes towards supporting club events and activities. As always, 100% of event registration fees go to the direct costs of each event (e.g., food and beverage, purses).
LPGA Event: Fortinet Founders Cup, March 19-22 at Sharon Heights
Coming soon! On March 19-22, 2026, the LPGA Tour will head to Sharon Heights Golf & Country Club for the 2026 Fortinet Founders Cup, the first full-field event of the season and the start of a new chapter in the long history of women’s golf in Northern California. Stanford’s Rose Zhang won the event in 2024 and members of the Stanford Women’s Golf team are expected to compete.
For information about volunteer opportunities, please contact Sue Epstein, suehepstein@email.com. For information about tickets, please see the tournament website here.
