Int’l – vs. – USA Weir/Clark vs. Kim/Mickelson If they can keep it in the fairway, the USA’s length should provide more birdies. ADV = USA Scott/Els vs. Mahan/O’Hair I’m not betting on Scott until he proves he can win. Alternate shot may not be as strong for him as Four balls. ADV = USA Singh/Allenby vs. Cink/Glover Majors or not...
The link is here. From the article: Mike Bodney, senior VP of the President’s Cup, rerouted the golf course so that nearly every match would at least arrive at the lakeside, if not play almost the entire stretch. I won’t reprint the exact re-routing of the holes; you’d get more lost than the kids in “The Blair Witch Project.” But...
In one of the most interesting member-guest ideas I’ve seen, Torrington Coun try Club in CT is hosting “Yankees vs. Red Sox,” a team golf event for their members and guests this year. I’ll be playing and reporting live tomorrow. Guess what team I play for? Right first time: my beloved red Sox. I’ll have a course review and tournament...
FRONT ROYAL, VA – Shortly after the 29-7 final score was entered into the record book, and the Maryland flag was unfurled from the balcony of Blue Ridge Shadows Golf Club in tribute to their record shattering victory, Jeff Lim-Sharpe and Lee Flemister eagerly took possession of the Potomac Cup for display at Blue Mash Golf Club. They promised teammates Bill...
FRONT ROYAL, VA – Final Score: Maryland 29-7 Singles – Maryland 9.5 Virginia 2.5 Highlights: Ross McIntosh – Vance Welch halve the opening match! That’s Welch’s second consecutive halve in singles (Romano in 2008). Romano (VA) upsets Pies 4&3 Vandegrift (VA) eats Cookie Monster’s Lunch, 7&5! Wins only other point for Team...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
Maryland’s Potomac Cup team will look remarkably like last year’s squad, as six wily veterans of multiple Potomac Cups triumphed in the Renditions qualifier and earned a spot for Team Red in the finals to be held at Blue Ridge Shadows in Front Royal, VA. Team lightning rod Vance Welch teamed with former Maryland star Michael Wah to win the Maryland half...
Ouch. Things look bleak. Steve Elling of CBS Sports has this outlook on the state of both the PGA and LPGA Tours. I would be especially worried about the LPGA tour. I also think it’s time for something other than more medal play events. Nicklaus once wrote that team golf was the salvation of the tour. He may have been right. Wouldn’t you pay to...
FRONT ROYAL, VA – Maryland won their third Potomac Cup and first in four years Sunday, but not before a rout turned into a nail-biter. After surging to a huge 15.5 – 8.5 lead after two days of doubles play, Virginia mounted a furious comeback in the singles matches over the back nine at Blue Ridge Shadows Golf Club before bowing late, 19.5 to. 16.5. It...
FRONT ROYAL, VA – The title of today’s piece comes from Ian Fleming’s classic, Goldfinger. If you like the golf scene in the movie, (filmed at England’s Stoke Pages G.C., an inland parkland course), you have to read the book, because you don’t get one golf chapter, you get three, and the match instead takes place at St. George’s...
FRONT ROYAL, VA – As fog slowly burns away from the first tee at Blue Ridge Shadows Golf Course, Captain Jeff Sheehan finds himself in an unfamiliar position; his Maryland amateur golf team leads the Potomac Cup for the first time in three years. The jocular, ruddy-faced Sheehan – known simply as “Cappy” to his team – breathed a sigh of...