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Oct. 9, 2025
Fresh off earning Super Senior Player of the Year honors for the 2024-25 season, Bob Niger kept it full steam ahead.
Niger, who turned 65 this past spring, carded a championship record final round 7-under 65 at Bayonet Golf Course on Thursday to break away from the field and win the annual NCGA Super Senior Championship.
The victory was Niger's second NCGA win. Earlier this year, the former PGA Tour Champions member, who was reinstated as an amateur, won the Senior Valley Amateur.
The 65 set a new championship record for low 18-hole score. His total of 138 also was a championship record. The previous mark was 139, co-held by Chuck Richesin and 2024 winner Terry Foreman.
"It was really satisfying. It was a really good round of golf," Niger said. "It was my best round of the year. In the first round, I could've had a better round, but I let it get away. I was determined not to have that happen today."
Entering the final round, Niger was tied at 1-over 73 with NCGA Hall of Famer Casey Boyns. Boyns, who was also looking for his first Super Senior win, started his day with birdies on No.1 and No.5. Chris Miller, who opened with a 74, also got a birdie early on.
The savvy Niger never flinched. After playing his first three holes at even-par, Niger turned on the afterburners, posting birdies at No.4, No.5 and No.8 to reclaim control. On the back-nine, he tacked on four more birdies.
"Both Casey and Chris came out strong, " Niger said. "I knew it wasn't time to panic."
Niger next will take his game down south for the California Senior Amateur, set to tee off Nov. 10-12 at the Valley Club of Montecito.
Mark Morgan finished solo second at 143 after making a charge with a final round 68. Miller was third at 148 after his second straight 74. Boyns slipped back to a T-4 finish with John Mack.
In the Legends division (players ages 75-plus), Frank Pieper took home the title with a two-day total of 155 (77-78).
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Oct. 8. 2025
Both Bob Niger and Casey Boyns have never won the NCGA Super Senior Championship for players 65-over.
But they certainly have what it takes to win the annual event.
Niger and Boyns finished Monday's first round of this year's event on the Bayonet Course at Bayonet/Black Horse tied for the lead at 1-over 73. Niger, of Sacramento, carded three birdies and four bogeys. Boyns, an NCGA Hall of Famer and caddie at Pebble Beach Golf Links, posted four birdies to go against three bogeys and a double-bogey.
Niger, who turned 65 this past March, is coming off Super Senior Player of the Year honors for the 2024-25 season, which wrapped up at the end of September. Boyns, who'll turn 70 later this year, has won 12 NCGA Senior titles, including a pair of Super Senior Match Play crowns. Missing from Boyns' Hall of Fame career is a Super Senior title.
Alone in third place is Chris Miller of Brentwood at 74.
In a tie for fourth at 75 are Mark Morgan and John Mack. Morgan, the NCGA's Senior Player of the Year in both 2020 and 2021, also has never won the Super Senior Championship.
Defending champion Terry Foreman is not playing due to an injury.
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