Longtime Anchorage golf standout Greg Sanders garnered our Alaska Athlete of the Week honors after a spectacular runner-up showing at the U.S. Senior Amateur Championships at Oak Hills Country Club in San Antonio, Texas.
The effort marks the furthest an Alaska golfer has advanced in a USGA event in decades, if not ever.
Sanders, 61, owns 11 Alaska State Amateur titles and is regarded as one of the state’s best-ever golfers…