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 – Maryland won their third Potomac Cup and first in four years today, but not before the expected rout turned into a nail-biter. After surging to a huge lead, the score was 15.5 – 8.5 going into singles, Virginia mounted a furious comeback over the back nine at Blue Ridge Shadows Golf Club before bowing late, 19.5 to. 16.5. The surge was...
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...
For the eighth consecutive year, the best amateur golfers in Maryland will face the best amateur golfers in Virginia at the Potomac Cup, a Ryder Cup-style challenge for Interstate golf supremacy in the D.C. region. The brain child of Fox Sports Broadcaster Steve Czaban, the Potomac Cup has risen in stature over the years to become the pre-eminent Interstate team...
FARMINGTON, PA – Peter Badawy proves that there are golf gods. On a weekend where many of his teammates were stupid or clueless, the Potomac Cup rookie from McLean, Virginia won all four of his matches – frequently from the anchor position – walked off with the Joe Hardy Most Outstanding Player Award, and as was the poster boy for good sportsmanship...
FARMINGTON, PA – Getting spanked on the patookus by a conga-line full of angry government stiffs and good ol’ boys must do wonders for your motivation in golf. After blowing his first career Potomac Cup match by taking “The Medicus” swing club into competition as a fifteenth club and then -for penance – being spanked on the butt with a...
FARMINGTON, PA – A mix of old stars and new blood powered a well-balanced Virginia Amateur Golf Team to a 7-5 lead over their hated rivals from Maryland after the first day of play at the Potomac Cup. Zimbabwean ex-pat Ross McIntosh won both his morning Captain’s Choice afternoon Best Ball matches to raise his lifetime Potomac Cup record to a sparking 8-3...
So it’s off to Nemacolin Woodlands in southwest Pennsylvania for the year’s best team event – The Potomac Cup – Maryland vs. Virginia, the best amateur champions from each state duking it out in a three-day Ryder Cup-style heavyweight bout. It’s a six hour drive across the PA woodlands, the forest deepening the closer I get to...
He’s 12-3 in Potomac Cup play. He’s played in the U.S. Amateur, Mid-Amateur and Public Links. He shot a mind-boggling 7-under for twelve holes in his singles match last year to lambaste Maryland’s Brad Hankey 7&6 from the same tees the pros played two weeks later in the PGA Tour’s 84 Lumber Classic. That virtuoso performance earned him...
Get ready for alot of new faces this year at The Potomac Cup when the Maryland and Virginia amateur golf teams arrive at Nemacolin Woodlands in late August. Veterans from both squads fell to earth with an Almighty crash, while new faces dominated at yesterday’s qualifier at Renditions golf club. Not a single member of last year’s victorious Virginia...
After yesterday’s qualifier at Westfield G.C. in Clifton, Virginia, half of the field is set for the Potomac Cup team matches between Maryland and Virginia. Four two man teams from Maryland and four two-man teams from Virginia made their respective squads and advanced to represent either the State of Maryland or the Commonwealth of Virginia later this summer...
The first qualifier for the Potomac Cup – the Ryder Cup style matches between the best amateurs in Virginia and Maryland – is July 9th at Westfield GC in Clifton VA. To those of you that are amateurs in Maryland or Virginia, rules, applications and details are here at the official website. You can read about the tournament history here. The second...
FARMINGTON, PA – Never, ever, EVER, pop the champagne early. The Boston Red Sox learned that the hard way in 1986 against the New York Mets and the Virginia team can within a whisker of making the same mistake and surrendering the biggest comeback in Potomac Cup history. With a 14.5 – 9.5 lead going into today’s 14 singles matches and needing merely...
FARMINGTON, PA – A leaden slate sky greets the Potomac Cup organizers as they arrive at the media center for the Sunday morning singles matches. The Cup will be awarded today, rain or shine, but sporadic showers will interrupt the proceedings more than once. Arriving even before resort staff, early moring radio shows covering the event are bantering about the...