Category — Scratch Golf Leagues

The year 2010 marks the 20th season for the Greater Cleveland Skins Game! The game originated in 1990 at Faiway Pines Golf Course and continues today over a number of fine golf courses in Northeast Ohio.

We have a great schedule that will be announced soon. Amateur players will be able to take advantage of the special green fee rates that many of these courses are providing to our players.

And we have something new for 2010, too. [Read more →]

Steve Blackburn Jr. of Willowick made it two years in a row, as he won The Greater Cleveland Skins Game Championship on a cold rainy night Thursday at Powderhorn Golf Course in Madison.

Paired together for the final round, Blackburn Jr. was in a tight race with Mike Angie, who was on top of the leaderboard for most of the year. But with a birdie skin at the short par four 13th hole ($153.33) and the pin shot on the 14th ($70), Blackburn pulled away for the season-long win, as Angie was shut out on the final night.

Blackburn Jr. set a new Greater Cleveland Skins Game money record with $1,622.32 for the 26 week season, while Angie finished a fine year with a hefty $1,331.58. Third place was nearly $600 behind that.  [Read more →]

With just one week to go, The Greater Cleveland Skins Game has a new — but familiar — name atop the leaderboard.

Steve Blackburn Jr. captured two skins and a pin shot on Thursday at Stonewater Golf Club to grab the season-long lead away from Mike Angie in their back-and-forth race. [Read more →]

On the final night of the season with a carry-over skins pot on the line and a cash pot in play, a number of teams came out as big winners on Monday at Chippewa.

Howard Weaver and John Kabasky posted a sterling score of 42 (5-under par in formats of scramble, better ball and aggregate) to win the jumble event by a whopping three shots.

The team of Shane Bishop and Chris Durbin scored a pair of skins with birdies on holes four and five in the better ball format, good for $530. (The skins grab jumped the pair up to second place on the season long money list, too!) Two other teams also dipped into the skins pot on Monday; results below.

And finally, the year-long money title was won by Mike Armour with a strong showing of $1,596.75 on the season — while seven players total cracked the four-figure mark! Congratulations to Mike.

As always, a big thank you to Kevin Larizza and Eric McKinney for putting on a great league. All of the players look forward to competing again in 2010!

CHIPPEWA SCRATCH LEAGUE: Front 9 – 3/3/3 – 10/5/09
1st – Weaver – Kabasky     42      $400.00
T2nd – Durbin – Bishop     45      $ 75.00
T2nd – Armour – Marr     45      $ 75.00

Skins
Durbin – Bishop     #4 / #5      $530.00
Hetler – Hetler     #7 (6)      $265.00
Grosso – Beal     #8 (6)      $265.00

Sr. Skins
Skorman – Markham     #7      $       36.00
Kline – Kline     #8      $       36.00
Leonard – M.Stiller     #9      $       36.00

The final night of the Chippewa Scratch League, the traditional “Cash & Steak Night”, will be played this Monday, October 5th at Chippewa GC. (A previously scheduled event at Rosemont nixes the finale there.) Monday at Chippewa will still feature a “jumble” format, but only for 9 holes at normal league time, with dinner to follow…

With three events left in the chase for the Thompson Cup, Steve Blackburn Jr. and Mike Angie have been running neck to neck for weeks. Now with just two more nights to go, it’s even tighter!

Angie captured the first skin of the night this Thursday at Fowler’s Mill with a birdie at the difficult first hole. But Blackburn Jr. answered with a pin shot and birdie skin on the par-3 seventh hole. The pin shot win means Blackburn Jr. has closed the gap on Angie to a mere $13.09 for the season!  [Read more →]

Monday’s “Steak & Cash Night” event at Rosemont Country Club for the Chippewa Scratch League has been postponed due to wet conditions on the course. The event is expected to be rescheduled for next Monday, but watch Northeast Ohio Golf for details.

It was a beautiful night for golf at Madison Country Club Thursday, and Steve Blackburn Jr. wasted no time trying to make a run at Mike Angie and first place: Blackburn birdied the par-4 first hole and captured a skin worth $84.33.

Gary Zehe had the big night of the week with a double-dip on the par-3 fourth hole, knocking it to six feet for a pin shot and a birdie skin. Pin shots were worth $38.50.

Rounding out the night’s earners, Dave Sotka grabbed a skin with a birdie on the par-4 fifth hole, and Dave DeLong cashed on his first night of competition with a pin shot on the long par-3 ninth hole.

Blackburn Jr.’s skin closes the the gap on leader Mike Angie to just $44.59 with just three weeks left to go in the race for the Thompson Cup.    [Read more →]

Mark Thomas and Ross Beal paired to post a solid 5-under par in the scramble format on the front nine at Chippewa Monday and earn their first win as a team this year.

Mike Armour grabbed a share of second place with Dan Marr to boost slightly his season-long lead on the 2009 Chippewa Scratch League Money List.

League director Kevin Larizza’s ingenious plan of hosting the scramble format the week prior to next Monday’s 12-hole Jumble Cash & Steak Night at Rosemont Country Club paid off: all skins were tied and will carry over to the big game next week. Players are reminded to arrive as early as possible at Rosemont on Monday, September 28th, as the first groups will go off just before 3 p.m. Remember, it’s dark by 7:40…

Chippewa Scratch Week 18: Scramble Front 9 – 9-21-09
1st – Thomas – Beal     30      $    200.00 PP     $   200.00 GC
T2nd – Marr – Armour     31            $     50.00 GC
T2nd – Weaver – Kabasky     31            $     50.00 GC
T2nd – Mallette – Kracker     31            $     50.00 GC

Skins
CARY OVER !!!!

Senior Skins
Cea – Pulk     #1      $      17.50
Markham – Skorman     #5 / #8      $      35.00
T.Stiller – Petracca     #9      $      17.50

Steve Blackburn Jr. and Mike Angie continue their back-and-forth battle for the Greater Cleveland Skins Game’s Thompson Cup, and they are pulling away from the pack.

Blackburn Jr. captured two skins at Wicked Woods on Thursday with birdies on the par-4 10th hole and a long-putt deuce on the par-3  14th hole.

But Angie responded with a chip-in birdie on the 11th hole and a pin shot on the 15th hole. So Blackburn Jr. closed the gap, but Angie is still the leader — but by a mere $129 with just four weeks to go in the season. [Read more →]

After a solid start in the first three weeks of the season — followed by a long drought that finally ended last night — the team of Ty Kovach and Allen Freeman put together a strong round in the “shamble” format Monday on the back-nine to win by four shots with score of a 4-under par 68.

Mike Armour still leads the 2009 Chippewa Scratch League Money List by more than $400 heading into the last few weeks of the season.

SCHEDULE NOTE: The final Steak/Cash Night of the season will be played in two weeks, on Monday, September 28th starting at 3 p.m. at Rosemont CC in Fairlawn. With 12 holes being played, get there early to finish before dark!

Chippewa Scratch Week 17: Shamble Back Nine – 9-14-09 
1st – Freeman – Kovach       68     $    200.00 PP      $ 200.00 GC
T2nd – Pulk – Cea           72       $   50.00 GC
T2nd – Thomas – Beal         72         $   50.00 GC
T2nd – Niskanen – Thompson      72            $   50.00 GC

Skins
T. Stiller – Petracca     #14      $    250.00
Mozingo – Mozingo     #17      $    250.00

Senior Skins
Spino – Toth     #10      $       16.00
Larizza – Davis     #11      $       16.00
T.Stiller – Petracca     #14      $       16.00
Cea – Pulk                         #13/     #15/#18      $       48.00

Mike Angie still leads the pack!

It was a small turnout at Thunder Hill in Madison, but points leaders Mike Angie and Steve Blackburn Jr. each grabbed a skin to maintain their 1-2 positions on the Cleveland Skins Game Leaderboard, both over the “four figure” mark.

But it was John Niedzialek who was the big winner on Thursday, grabbing both pin shots and a skin.   [Read more →]