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Killer Bees Swarm to Title: Maryland Clinches Potomac Cup Before Sunday Singles Begins

FRONT ROYAL, VA – Steve Czaban jumped, slapped, and hop-scotched his way around the practice green at Blue Ridge Shadows Golf Club shortly before the Mistushibu Skills Challenge commenced yesterday evening, but it was already too late. As another glorious sunset dove behind the Blue Ridge Mountains, turning the vale of Front Royal into an artist’s palette...

2009 Potomac Cup Singles Matches

2009 Potomac Cup Singles Matches Virginia Maryland 1. Ross McIntosh (0-4-0) Vance Welch (3-1-0) 2. Steve “The Thing” Nolin (1-3-0) Ken Lampard (3-1-0) 3. Tom Lantz (2-2-0) Brent Martin (3-1-0) 4. Chris Robb (0-3-1) Bill Jenner (4-0-0) 5. Mark Fegani (1-3-0) Keenan Boone (2-2-0) 6. Frank Romano (1-3-0) Rusty Pies (3-0-1) 7. Steve Ciliberti (1-2-1) Jeff Lim...

Potomac Cup 2009: Kid, Killer Bees, Captain Welch Power Maryland to Record Lead

FRONT ROYAL, VA – The hot season had arrived in Virginia, thick and cloying. With every breath, heavy vapors weighed down the lungs, every step felt like wading in a bowl of soup, and gnats swirled thickly. Huge dragonflies droned and murmured ominously in the marshland grasses over the back nine of Blue Ridge Shadows Golf Club. Small clusters of yellowjackets...

Quick stats and rosters for the 2009 Potomac Cup

Potomac Cup Notes and Extras What you see here are the rosters for the 2009 Potomac Cup teams, name, hometown, home course, handicap, records an d fun facts… ON PAPER, 9 OF THE TOP 10 PLAYERS ARE FROM MD, INCL. TOP 7! VIRGINIA C CZABAN, Steve Round Hill, VA Westfields A ABELL, Scott Gainesville, VA Evergreen CC 1 ROMANO, Francesco Reston, VA Raspberry Falls 0.1...

The Viewer’s Guide to the Potomac Cup

What: The Potomac Cup: the 9th annual amateur team golf competition between the best amateurs in Maryland and Virginia. The field consists of state amateur champions, state team champions, U.S. Open qualifiers, players on the amateur circuit, and two-man teams that finish 1st, 2d, or 3d in one of two qualifying events. Maryland are defending champions after last...

Roger Hoit Defeats Two Former Champions, Joins Semels, Lulla, Lange in Travis semi-finals

GARDEN CITY, NY – Fifteenth-seeded Roger Hoit turned in a dominating performance in the first two rounds of match play of the Travis Invitational, defeating defending champion Michael Kelley, and two-time winner George Zahringer by a combined eight holes. “I’m exhausted,” he gasped as he sunk deeply into a chair. “They are two of the...

Birdies, Blissful Skies, and Buoyant Hearts Open the 99th Travis Invitational

GARDEN CITY, NY – Garden City Golf Club truly was an emerald ‘neath the blissful skies Friday morning, as the sun shone as if it had just been born while the golfers contested the stroke play qualifier for the 99th Travis Invitational. Birdies were the coin of the realm as fifteen of the sixteen championship flight qualifiers shot level-par 73 or better...

The Travis Invitational: The Grand Old Amateur Returns

Though all New York City is overjoyed with the excitement of the imminent U.S. Open at Bethpage Black, another of golf’s richest traditions takes place locally this weekend; Garden City Golf Club celebrates the 99th anniversary of their venerable amateur tournament, the Travis Invitational. The Grand Old Amateur, as the tournament is sometimes affectionately...

Travis Invitational at Garden City coverage: Our Green and Gothic Home

I’ll be covering the 99th annual Travis Invitational next week from Garden City Golf Club.  The Travis is one of the country’s pre-eminent amateur golf events held at one of the country’s most venerable courses.  120 of the nation’s best amateurs, including many USGA Champions, will play a stroke play qualifier on Friday to fill out 6...