The first NM/WT Club Team Championship was played August 29 and 30 at Marty Sanchez Links de Santa Fe in Santa Fe.

Sun Country Amateur Golf Association

Santa Fe Country Club Wins the First NM/WT Club Team Championship

Brian Chavez, Casey Crain, Chris Cutler and Michael Devore posted the low round of Sunday to win the Gross championship by seven. Tanoan Country Club took the Net title by two.

Sun Country Amateur Golf Association  ·  Marty Sanchez Links de Santa Fe  ·  August 2026

The first NM/WT Club Team Championship was played August 29 and 30 at Marty Sanchez Links de Santa Fe in Santa Fe. Teams entered five players and counted their four lowest scores each round, with the Championship (Gross) and Net competitions running at the same time.

Team par is 288, multiple players at 72. Santa Fe Country Club finished at 586, ten over, and won the Gross championship by seven strokes.

Sunday Decided It

Santa Fe Country Club did not lead after Saturday. They opened with 292 and trailed by one. The team of Marker, Sanchez, Quinlan, Zanios and Hoover had posted 291, the low round of the first day.

Sunday things changed. Santa Fe Country Club came back in 294, six over and the low round of the championship’s final day. Marker’s team shot 302. That eleven stroke difference across eighteen holes turned a one stroke deficit into a seven stroke win.

Santa Fe Country Club played Sunday’s back nine in 2 over, the best inward nine in the field, and played the par 3s in 1 over, tied for the best mark of the day. Across both rounds they led the field on the front nine at 3 over, on the back nine at 7 over, and on the par 5s at 7 under.

Two Rounds of 68

Casey Crain shot 68 on Sunday, four under par, for the Gross champions. He played his front nine in 3 under and picked up two more shots over his last three holes.

KayLinda S. Crawford matched him with a 68 of her own. She made five birdies in the round, including three in a row at the 6th, 7th and 8th, and played her front nine in 3 under. Crawford plays for the team of Crawford, Winegar, Johnson, Metzger and Jones, which finished fourth in Gross and second in Net.

Elsewhere on Sunday, Lee Sanchez opened with three consecutive birdies at the 1st, 2nd and 3rd and played his front nine in 3 under. G. Torres came home in 3 under on the back nine, and Trae Torres made five birdies.

The Net Championship

Tanoan Country Club won the Net title. Brad Allpass, Alex Archuleta, Daniel Northington, Don Ortega and Nectarios Pavlakos posted 290 and 289 for 579, three over, and won by two strokes.

They were second after Saturday. Crawford, Winegar, Johnson, Metzger and Jones led the Net competition with 286, the lowest net round of the championship, and led by four. Tanoan came back in 289 on Sunday, tied for the low net round of the final day, and played the par 5s in 9 under to take the title.

Winning Teams in Each Division

Lee Sanchez

The championship was played on a municipal course named for a golfer who never saw it. Marty Sanchez won the first tournament he entered at eight years old, a Sun Country PGA junior event at Santa Fe Country Club, and died in the spring of 1992. Three days later, Santa Fe Mayor Sam Pick told the Sanchez family that the city would build a golf course and put Marty’s name on it. It opened in 1998.

His brother, Lee Sanchez Jr., played in the field this weekend. He made an eagle at the 18th and spoke afterward with Andrea Peraza, SCAGA’s USGA P.J. Boatwright Jr. intern.

Asked to walk through the eagle at the 18th, Lee Sanchez Jr. said:

“Well you know I was pretty lucky, I did feel the presence of my brother Marty when I hit the shot and it went in the hole so I definitely knew it was him looking down upon me when I got up there and knew that the ball had gone in the hole for a two, so that was really special.”

Lee Sanchez Jr.

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