Great Chebeague Golf Course on Great Chebeague Island in Casco Bay is headed for the National Register of Historic Places.

Paul Hodge, a summer resident, completed the application process. Hodge, who lives in Middleburg, Virginia, has vacationed on Great Chebeague for 50 years. He was a metro reporter and editor at The Washington Post for 33 years.

“One of the things I covered was historic preservation and the National Park Service,” said Hodge.

Hodge has put two Virginia sites on the National Register.

“We’re able to advertise as a historic destination and it gives the property some bragging rights,” said Hodge.

The nine-hole course was created in 1920 and has remained pretty much the same. It was conceived by two men picking blueberries and construction began a few weeks later.

“This is a course that looks exactly like it did in the 1930s. It was built by ordinary people who lived here and wanted to play golf,” said Hodge. “All the houses around the course also look the same. When you play the course, you’re seeing what golf was like in early America. It’s very scenic; every single hole overlooks the water.”

Jim Van Fleet, the 2013 Maine Senior golf champion and a Great Chebeague Golf Course club champion, said the greens are well-manicured. All with a maintenance budget of $150,000. That’s less than a smidgen of what most courses spend.

Great Chebeague Golf Course set a modest goal for its annual capital campaign. The residents responded by contributing more than double the targeted amount.

The course is member-owned but open to the public at times.

Hodge hopes being on the National Register of Historic Places will attract golfers from the mainland.

The signature hole is the par-3 seventh, where you tee off from the historic Stone Wharf and hit over an inlet.

Tee to Green: Lowell Watson of the Boothbay Country Club and the Portland Country Club won his second Maine Senior Amateur Championship last week at the Penobscot Valley Country Club in Orono. Watson’s first title came in 2001. The tournament is for golfers age 55 and up. Watson, 68, trailed first-round leader Mike Norris by seven shots entering the final round. Playing in the fourth-to -last group, Watson fired a final-round 70 for a 36-hole total of 148. Watson birdied the challenging par-4 18th. It proved to be the winning margin.

Watson didn’t know where he stood after his round and was going to leave the course when the Maine State Golf Association executive director, Nancy Storey, told him he should stick around in case of a playoff. Storey told Watson that Norris was a few shots over par.

Norris, playing in the last group with Tom Bean and Gary Manoogian, hit a big drive on 18 and had a 9-iron to the green, which he hit too hard with his shot ending up over the green. Facing a difficult chip shot, Norris chipped too hard with the ball ending up 15 feet below the hole. Norris’ putt to force a playoff missed.

Norris shot 71-78-149. Manoogian finished third at 152 while Bean was fourth at 153. Tom Ellsworth was fifth at 154. There were 50 golfers in the tournament.

Maine’s team for the Tri-State tournament is set. The 14 members of the team are Matt Greenleaf, Sable Oaks; Andrew Slattery, Martindale; Ricky Jones, Samoset; Joe Alvarez, Sanford; Mike Doran, Sable Oaks; Joe Baker, Norway; Curt Jordan, Woodlands; Lane Bernier, Jato Highlands; John Hayes IV, Prouts Neck; and Jack Wyman, Portland. Senior team members are Lowell Watson, Boothbay; Tom Bean, Augusta; Gary Manoogian, Falmouth; and Ron Dery, Biddeford-Saco.

The Tri-State tournament is this Friday through next Sunday at Concord, New Hampshire, Country Club. Maine is going for its first third straight win.

Joe Alvarez and Ricky Jones have qualified for the United States Golf Association’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship to be held in May. The pair recently combined for a best-ball 7-under 65 in sectional qualifying at Berkshire Hills Country Club in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Alvarez and Jones tied for second with a team from New York, one stroke behind the winning team. Three teams advanced to the nationals. The U.S. Amateur Four-Ball is replacing the U.S. Public Links Tournament.