Former PNGA Champion Hodgkinson wins Northwest Open Invitational
Collin Hodgkinson of Beaverton, Ore. shot rounds of 67-65-66 (-18) to win the Northwest Open Invitational, held this week at The Home Course in DuPont, Wash.
Playing against the region’s PGA club professionals, the amateur Hodgkinson finished one shot ahead of defending champion Daniel Campbell, PGA professional from North Bellingham Golf Course. He had started the final round one shot back of second-round leader James Hall, PGA professional from PNW Golf Academy.
A rising junior on the Oregon State University men’s golf team, Hodgkinson had been the No. 44-ranked junior player in the U.S. coming out of Mountainside High School in Beaverton. He won the 2021 PNGA Junior Boys’ Amateur.
An amateur has now won four of the past five Northwest Open Invitationals, which is one of the four majors conducted annually by the Pacific Northwest Section PGA. Graham Moody won in 2022, Max Sekulic in 2021, and Nathan Cogswell in 2020.
Last month, Andrew Von Lossow, an amateur from Spokane, Wash., won the Rosauers Invitational, one of the Section’s other majors held annually at Spokane’s Indian Canyon Golf Course. Von Lossow finished tied for seventh at this week’s Northwest Open Invitational.
