Two Man Match Play Championship June 24-26

The Two Man Match Play Tournament held June 24-26 gains more popularity each year.  Eighteen teams were entered in this year's tournament competing in three flights of six teams.  Tournament winners were determined by a Shoot Out held after the final round on Wednesday afternoon.  Teams from Old Baldy Club making their way into the Shoot-Out were:

Rod Waeckerlin and his guest, John Hornbeck, from First Flight
Linn Bealke and his guest, Tom Bitting, from Second Flight
Dave Shadrick and Bill Ward from Second Flight
Erik Nelson and John Portillo from Third Flight
Will Speer and Gary Lyons from Third Flight
Ron Short and his guest, Tom Herbst, from Third Flight
Mike Glode and his guest, DanHodgkiss, from Third Flight

This year's Shoot Out was contested over five hole concluding on Hole #6 where Linn Bealke and Tom Bitting beat Chuck Fulton and Joe DiPonti for the Championship.  Third Place Winners were Erik Nelson and John Portillo.

Linn Bealke and Tom Bitting with their trophies after winning the Shoot-Out.

EweTourn - June 20 - 22, 2012

Old Baldy Club's Ladies Invitational, the "Ewe Tourn", was held June 20-22.  The ladies competed in this Eclectic Tournament held in four flights.  Members of Old Baldy Club supported this tournament very well as indicated from this picture.  Wednesday evening was the Opening Cocktail Party and dinner hosted by Dixie and Tom Arthur.  Thursday after their tournament round was completed teams competed in an Optional Team Shoot-Out for the first time this year.  Twenty-six of the two lady teams enjoyed the afternoon with the team of Cady Purcell and Beth Miller from Cheyenne Country Club winning the competition.  Dinner that evening was at the Platte River Cook-Out.  A shotgun start at 9:00 a.m. Friday morning concluded the tournament.  Awards were presented to the winners Friday evening at a Cocktail Party in the Eagle's Nest followed by dinner in the Main Dining Room.

Ellie Dana was one of the winners of the Closest to the Pin Contest during Thursday's Round. 



Linda Durbano and Becky Fowler won Overall Gross for the Tournament.

2nd Low Net Winners represented from Old Baldy Club were Judi Newmand and her guest, Mary Berlin, from First Flight - Serda Tibbs and her guest, Sallye Dunlap, from Third Flight - Barbara Wright and Anita West from Fourth Flight.



Low Gross Winners from Old Baldy Club were Robin Semple and Lyn Brown from Second Flight and Linda Durbano and Becky Fowler from First Flight.

Members Week 2011

Every year the Club hosts an entire week dedicated especially to the members that make this place so special.  Amongst the array of meetings, dinners, and appreciation party, member's week also give us a chance to host what amounts to our club championship of sorts.  There isn't any other tournament we host where both men and women compete in flighted match play, which is the general measure of a club champion.  This tournament strikes the perfect balance of competition and laid back, fun golf.  For a two day tournament such as this we flight both men and women into four person flights with two matches per flight.  The winners of those two matches played on Saturday, the 27th, to determine the overall winner.  The less fortunate people from Friday, got entered into a two person "Texas Shamble" consolation round.  Texas Shamble is where both people tee off, take the best drive of the two, and play thier own ball in from that point with 80% of their handicap. To the winners, we tossed out some bottles of wine and golf balls, it was a great time for everyone, and without further adieu, here are the folks who took home some vino.



Men's 1st Flight Champ
Linn Bealke



Men's 2nd Flight Champ
Stan DeVore



Men's 3rd Flight Champ
Gary Lyons



Men's 4th Flight Champ

Van Skilling

(Not Pictured: Men's 5th Flight Champ -- Will Speer)



Women's 2nd Flight Champ

Judi Newman



Women's 1st Flight Champ
Serda Tibbs



Women's 3rd Flight Champ

Etta West

Texas Shamble Winners
Sue Hewitt
Brandon Flury

2011 Bucks & Does

August already! You start stringing these absolutely perfect days we have had together and you lose track of time.  It seems like just yesterday we opened, but in reality yesterday was the final round of the 2011 Bucks & Does.  The tournament was a huge success with 11 teams comprised primarily of a member couple hosting a guest couple in a two day format.  The first day the two men from the team go out and put together their best ball of the twosome while paired with the men from another team, the women go out it in a similiar fashion. On the second day the two couples rejoin eachother and put together their two net best balls of the foursome. To add to the tournament a little bit we also throw in a shoot-out on Friday afternoon which every team competed in.  All in all it was a really fun tournament both for the members and the staff as well.  Here are a few photos to fill you in on the results of our weekend.

Roger directing shoot-out #1 on two green while Ray tries to follow suit with shoot-out #2 on four green.

 Great shot here of Mr. & Mrs. Gallagher stalking the fairways with the Bealke's in the background.  The Gallagher/Bealke team finished fourth in the overall tournament. 

Our shoot-out winners, Mr. Bailey, Mrs. Dana, with Mr. & Mrs. Cortney.  They defeated the Faith/Morgan team out of Boulder. On top of that heafty envelope for winning the shoot-out, this team also finished for third in the overall tournament, very well played! 

The happy couple of Mr. & Mrs. Tibbs hosted the Carlsons from Gulf Shores Alabama this week.  The Tibbs Carlson team was good enough for second place in the overall tournament.

And here are our overall champions, team Durbano/Cutrubus.  This Ogden connection was tough to beat from the first hole on.  We think Mr. Durbano is really liking those new found gold tees. 

1st Annual Sling & Swing

In an effort to incorporate two of the members favorite aspects of Old Baldy, golfing and fishing, the tournament commitee has devised a tournament to do just that in what we hope is the first of many Sling & Swing golfishing tournament.  In a two day tournament 24 lucky participants, in two man teams, enjoy two half day fishing floats along with 36-holes of golf.  Fishing will be scored by inches caught, added to the golfs stableford point par system, who ever has the most points after two days....WINS! We have it set up for an Overall Winner for our grand champion, with consolation prizes for best fishing team, and top three golfing teams.  Both the Golf Shop and the Tackle Shop are really pumped about this, we think it could be one of the clubs premier events in the future.  So please get ahold of the golf shop, 307-326-3924 and take to Roger, Vicki, or Ray about signing up.  Like we said, space is limited, so call soon!!

2011 Old Baldy Cup

Every club has their one BIG BIG tournament of the year, for Old Baldy it has to be the OBC Cup.  Members captain teams of four, some all members and others the captain and three guests, in a two day best ball event.  On Friday the 15th the teams tried to put together their best 3 balls on the par 5's, 2 best balls on par 4's, and 1 best ball on the par 3's for a par of 152. Flip it on it's head on Saturday for what proves to be the harder day.  3 best balls on the par 3's, 2 best balls on the par 4's, and 1 best ball on the par 5's.  With 80% of handicap given, not alot of guys get strokes on the par 3's, so the second day is alot harder day to score, but don't tell that to the Tibbs boys.  In it from the start, the team from Franklin Louisiana was only a few strokes off the lead the first day, then came in with an untouchable 122, almost unheard of.

Almost as coveted as etching your name in the OBC Cup is taking home the bragging rights of OBC Cup Shoot-Out Champs.  We run this as a seperate optional event, 13 out of our 18 teams entered this year to try and make a dash for some cash.  Roger administered one Shoot-Out with 7 teams, Ray took one with 6 teams, the winners of each of those two mini Shoot-Outs met on the first hole to decide our winner.  Mr. Linn Bealke's team from St. Louis met head to head with the bulldozer team from Franklin Louisiana, the Tibbs team.  Continuing their dominance, the Tibbs boys came out victorious to become back-to-back Shoot-Out champions, having won it in 2010 as well.  Tournament went great, course looked fantastic, players had fun, the staff had a blast seeing all of our favorites, and we hope to see you all again next year!!

We'll leave you with a great shot, thanks to Vicki, of the Shoot-Out

Tournament Season in Full Swing

    Summer has finally decided to visit us here at the Old Baldy Club, and just in time for two of our first tournaments, the Ewe Tourn and the Two Man Match Play.  Both of these tournaments have unique formats, and went over extremely well with both fields.  So here is a little bit of a re-cap of both tournaments, and some photos to go with it. 

The Ewe Tourn

The Ewe Tourn is our annual ladies member/guest where the women send the men packing and  form two lady teams to compete in a two day net & gross eclectic tournament. In our eclectic format we have the women take their best scores on each individual hole, both net and gross, over a two day period.  At the conclusion of the two days you combine your best hole scores to form both your eclectic net best ball and your eclectic gross best ball.  Prizes are awarded on a net and gross basis in each flight, along with overall winners.

Pictured above are our overall tournament winners.  To the left are our overall gross winners, out of the first flight, Cassie Caputo and Sue Moore.  To the right, out of the third flight, are some familiar faces bringing home the awards for overall low gross, Mrs. Pam Gallagher and Mrs. Judy Montgomery. 

This tournament was a huge success and we hope to see everyone, and more, back next year!

Two Man Match Play

What could be our most under-rated tournament of the year, the Two Man Match Play provides all the excitement of our bigger tournaments, but with more intimate field.  Fifteen two man teams comprised our thirty man field, with three flights of five teams. After playing five, nine hole matches worth ten points per match, the top two point getters and ties in each flight got entered into the always popular shoot-out.  This is where we take 6 teams, top two teams in each of the three flights, and and "shoot them out" on the course to play a one team elimination per hole starting on #10 to determine our winner. After hole #13 only two teams remained, with #14 determining our winner. The only problem was both teams were tied after #14, so they decided to play #15 to crown our champ instead of the customary chip off to break the tie. You don't see that kind of stuff too often, it was alot of fun out there.  Here are some pics to show you what we're talking about.

 Below to the left are our Runner Up team of Mr. Vic Gallagher and Mr. Steve Schalk. These guys fought to the finish to stay in contention for the win, barely missing a 10 foot putt for the win on #15. To the righ are our 2011 Two Man Match Play Champions, Mr. Stu Nickell and Mr. Greg Rouse from Cherry Creek Country Club in Denver.   Congratulations to our winners, and we hope to see you all out again next year.