Old Baldy Cup - July 11, 12 and 13, 2013

Nineteen teams participated in the 12th Annual Old Baldy Cup July 11th through July 13th.  Thursday was practice round day.  Once their round of golf was finished everyone gathered at the Platte River Cook-Out Grounds for the traditional Thursday night cook-out where a table was available for Pari-Mutuel betting.

Friday the tournament began with a 9:00 Shotgun Start.  The optional team Shoot-Out was held at 2:30 Friday afternoon.

Two separate Shoot-Outs were held with the top two teams in each Shoot-Out coming together on the first hole to determine First through Fourth Place.  The Team of Schalk and Gallagher were repeat winners.

Saturday was the final round of competition and the weekend ended with a Cocktail Party and Awards Ceremony in the Eagle's Nest and tournament dinner that followed in the Club's Main Dining Room.  The team of Jason Campbell and his guests, Tony Baade, Dan DeMarque and Jeff Storey have their names engraved on the OBC Cup Trophy as the 2013 tournament winners.

Legacy Cup Golf Tournament

July 5th and 6th were the dates of this years Old Baldy Club Legacy Cup.  Sixteen teams of two competed in the event.  First round tee times began at 9:00 am on Friday with the Tournament Format a team Best Ball.  The Final Round on Saturday was a Shotgun Start at 8:30 am using a Modified Chapman Scotch Format.  The days score was added to the team score from Friday to determine winners.  Lunch was served in the Main Dining Room while Awards were presented.

Pictured below were winners in the 2013 Legacy Cup.

Blythe and Greg Johnston

Sue Hewitt and Kevin Blackwell

Dan and Tom Cerovski

Nick Cerovski and Vic Gallagher

Reese and Lance Ramsey

Ron Palmer and Matthew Perrine

Spring Invitational - June 23rd - 25th

Old Baldy Club's Spring Invitational was held June 23rd - June 25th.  Golfers were flighted according to age resulting in six flights.  This years tournament hosted 44 players with one-third of the field being members. Contestants played a practice round at their leisure on Sunday with tournament rounds on Monday and Tuesday.  After Tuesday's round Lunch and the Awards Ceremony were held in the Main Dining Room where everyone enjoyed Chef Angel's buffet lunch.  Members came away with many prizes in the tournament as you can see below.

Freshman Flight 

Rod Waeckerlin - First Gross

Steve Schalk - First Net

Sophomore Flight

Mike Glode - First Net

Ron Short - Second Net

Junior Flight

Linn Bealke - First Gross

Vic Gallagher - First Net

Bob Newman - Second Net

Senior Flight 

Will Speer - Second Net

Super Senior Flight

Bill Ward - First Net

Pictured above were the Overall Low Gross and Low Net Winners of the Spring Invitational

Overall Low Gross - Bill Curnow

Second Low Gross - Rod Waeckerlin

Overall Low Net - Bill Ward

Second Low Net - Mike Glode

Ladies "Ewe Tourn"

Old Baldy Club's premier ladies event, the "Ewe Tourn" was held June 19th through 21st.  Seventy-two ladies attended this years tournament with three fun filled days.  Ladies received a new pair of FootJoy shoes as their tee prize this year.  After the practice round on Wednesday, everyone attended a cocktail party and dinner at "Gretchen's House" in the OBC Village hosted by Laura Bucholz.  Pari-Mutuel betting was available to add some spice to the tournament.  Thursday's tournament round began at 9:00 am with a shotgun start. Angel and his staff had one of his wonderful buffet lunches waiting for them after the round.  At 2:30 an optional Team Shoot-Out was held.  Three separate Shoot-Outs were contested with the winning team from each of those Shoot-Outs coming together on the first hole to determine the top three teams.  Judi Newman and her guest, Yvette Keyser, were the 2013 Shoot-Out Winners.

Thursday evening everyone went to the Thursday night Platte River Cook-Out to end the day.  The final round began at 9:00 am Friday.  Friday night the ladies enjoyed dinner in the Main Dining Room after a Cocktail Party and Awards in the Eagle's Nest.

As always the Old Baldy Club ladies supported the tournament well bringing family and friends to experience OBC at it's best.!

Two Man Match Play

Old Baldy Club began it's 2013 Tournament Season with the Two Man Match Play on June 16th - 18th.  Sunday the teams played practice rounds at their leisure preparing for the next two days of the tournament.  Five nine hole matches were played over two days of competition.  Teams were flighted by handicap and two teams from each of those flights qualified for the Championship Shoot-Out to determine overall winners.  The Shoot-Out was contested on Holes #10, #11, #12 and #18.  Teams were eliminated each hole with Joe DiPonti and Chuck Fulton coming away winners on the 18th hole.  Dave Shadrick and Bill Ward were second while Kent Flury and Bill Foxley finished third.