Tanglewood National Golf Club hosted the Greater Cleveland Skins Game Thursday night, but not a skin was won.

Birdies were made on three of the nine holes, but each of those holes was tied out.

Six holes were open with no birdies made — including the two par-five holes. [Read more →]

With the pressure of a double prize amount riding on the outcome after last week’s rain-out, and the challenging combined-aggregate-score format being played on the back nine, no team in the field really stepped up and grabbed victory by the throat in Week 2.1 of the Chippewa Monday Night Scratch League. [Read more →]

It was “old timers” night at Powderhorn Golf Course in Madison, and the seniors showed the young boys how to get the winning done.

Carl “Unc” Quercioli of Munson Township, who finished fourth on last year’s Leaderboard with a four-figure winnings total, captured the only skin on the night — and with it a giant payday. [Read more →]

Due to some heavy rain and significant lightning at Chippewa on Monday, some of the teams who started were not able to finish Scratch League play. So the night’s event was canceled at 7:20p.

The entry fees paid in for Week 2 will carry-over; both the skins pot and the cash game from this washed-out week will be added in to the event next week Monday, May 14th. That means double-prize amounts from all three games will be riding next Monday! (Players who did not compete in the Week 2 event will have to pay double entry fees for Week 3 to participate.)

The league format for next Monday, May 14th: Combined Aggregate Score played on the back nine. Should be interesting…

A record 29 players competed Thursday at Manikiki Golf Course in Willoughby Hills in Week 3 of the Greater Cleveland Skins Game.

Three skins were won on the evening, which paid a tidy $222.33 each. And a double-dip by one player pushed him closer to the top of the 2012 Leaderboard. [Read more →]

Northeast Ohio Golf has always contended that the Chippewa Scratch League has some of the best amateur players in the state, maybe in the country.

The level of golf played on the first week of the 2012 league season backs up that statement.

The team of Dave Oates and Sam Spino made EIGHT birdies in nine holes on a breezy day with some truly tough hole locations. Offset by a lone bogey, the pair shot a 7-under par 29 on the lengthened back nine at Chippewa to win the first event of the season by two shots. [Read more →]

The weather has broken and the kick off is finally here: the 2012 edition of the Chippewa Monday Night 2-Man Scratch League begins today in Doylestown at 4 p.m. Who will upend John Kabasky and partner Howard Weaver this year as the defending money list champion?

Fourteen players braved the cold and damp conditions at Aurora Country Club on Thursday to play in Week 2 of the Greater Cleveland Skins Game.

Birdies were rare, and every birdie paid off. But even though the pot was split small among a number of different players, a past champion already is gaining on the big early-season leader. [Read more →]

Mark Borlin rolls his birdie effort at the seventh hole during the first event of the 2012 season.

The Greater Cleveland Skins Game opened the 2012 season at Fowlers Mill Golf Course in Chesterland today, and while it was a beautiful, sunny April day for all 23 players, for one player in particular it was a spectacular evening.

Mark Borlin of Solon wasted no time in getting his name onto the Skins Game Leaderboard by making a birdie on the 350-yard par-four 1st hole of the Maple nine. And that seemingly innocuous birdie, which everyone in the group assumed was for a tie, paid off big. [Read more →]

Dave Sotka of Chardon kicks off the 2012 Greater Cleveland Skins Game season, earning the right to hit the first shot of the year as defending champion.

Two associations kick off the 2012 season on this third week of April: the weekly Greater Cleveland Skins Game starts its season this Thursday at Fowlers Mill Golf Course in Chesterland at 4:30 p.m., while the Stark County Amateur Golf Association begins its year with a 2-man scramble at The Sanctuary Golf Club in North Canton on Saturday. [Read more →]

John Nedzialek

The Greater Cleveland Skins Game will begin its 22nd season on April 19th at Fowlers Mill Golf Course in Chesterland.

In customary fashion, the defending champion, Dave Sotka from Chardon, will open the season by hitting the first tee shot for the year, right at 4:30 pm. [Read more →]

The top four players on the 2011 Greater Cleveland Skins Game Leaderboard always play in the final group in the final event of the season at Powderhorn Golf Course in Madison.

This year, those four players were (left to right) Dave Sotka, Carl “Unk” Quercioli, Dan Predovic, Mark White.

When none of those top-four competitors earned a earned a skin or a pinshot at Powderhorn, Dave Sotka of Chardon walked away with the 2011 Greater Cleveland Skins Game Championship, and with it his second Thompson Cup. [Read more →]

Someone near the top of the standings needed to put together a really big final night to overtake the lead Jim Cea had built up for the season in the 2011 Chippewa Scratch League.

Let’s see: a team victory and three skins from a carry-over pot at Rosemont; yup, that qualifies as a really big final night… [Read more →]

The Greater Cleveland Skins Game made its first trip ever to Hawthorne Valley Country Club in Solon on Thursday.

On a beautifully warm and sunny evening, one player continued his hot-streak while another padded his season-long lead. [Read more →]

The plans were laid for a great night of golf, a carry-over skins pot, and the season’s final steak night. But Mother Nature raised the one finger salute instead.

The Chippewa Scratch League has been CANCELED once again for tonight, Monday, October 3rd due to wet conditions. Hopefully next week…