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…

The rain held off just long enough at Chardon Lakes Golf Course on Thursday for the Greater Cleveland Skins Game to squeeze in play for Week 24.

The nearly dry session ended with two skins won, a rare double-dip on the pin shots, and no major changes on the 2011 Leaderboard. [Read more →]

For the second week in a row, Monday’s playing of the Chippewa Scratch League was a washout before it started. Heavy rains hit the Doylestown golf course at 3 p.m. making conditions unplayable. So the previous carry-over skins pot (now going on three weeks old!) will be in play again next Monday — Mother Nature permitting, of course…

It was a beautifully calm and sunny evening along the lakefront, as the Greater Cleveland Skins Game visited Erie Shores Golf Course in Madison on Thursday.

Eighteen players came out to see if they could grab a big win and move up the 2011 Leaderboard as the season starts to wind down, but only one player accomplished that goal. [Read more →]

Because of the poor weather, the Chippewa Scratch League has been canceled for tonight, Monday, September 19th.

League play will resume again next week Monday — with a big CARRY-OVER SKINS POT in play!

Mike Kracker and Dr. Jeff Mallette posted a solid 6-under par 30 in the scramble format on the back nine at Chippewa on Monday to jump up to seventh and eleventh respectively on the 2011 Monday Night League Standings.

And since no skins were won on the evening, the skins money carries over to next week — making for an interesting September finish to the 2011 race. [Read more →]

The Greater Cleveland Skins Game made its way to Manikiki Golf Course in Willoughby Hills for the first time ever on Thursday, and Steve Blackburn Jr. found the course to his liking.

On yet another rainy Thursday, Blackburn Jr. birdied both the par-four 10th hole and the par-four 17th hole for two skins on the night. [Read more →]

2011 Cleveland Shoot-Out Champion Dan Predovic (l) with runner-up Steve Blackburn Jr.

Building further on an already great season in the weekly Greater Cleveland Skins Game, Dan Predovic of Berea captured the 2011 Cleveland Shoot-Out at a cool, wet and windy Fowlers Mill Golf Course in Chesterland on Labor Day Monday. [Read more →]

Cleveland Skins Game Director John Niedzialek announced today that the location for Labor Day Monday’s Cleveland Shoot-Out has been changed to Fowlers Mill Golf Course in Chesterland, with tee times starting at 11:50 a.m. [Read more →]

The eagles were flying at Tanglewood National Golf Club in Bainbridge on Thursday!

Nineteen players made their way around the hilly Tanglewood front nine in the 20th event of the season, and as a tune up to Monday’s Greater Cleveland Shoot-Out at Fowlers Mill. Two eagles and a great birdie took all the cash. [Read more →]

Thanks to some great play, some solid help from partner Dave Pulk, and perhaps some senior tee locations that were a bit more generous at Rosemont than they should have been (controversy!), Jim Cea takes the first big lead in the 2011 Chippewa League Standings.

But the red-hot duo of Mike Simpson and Jim Krivanek are right on Cea’s heels. [Read more →]

Just before noon on Thursday, the Greater Cleveland Skins Game was notified that Madison Country Club was closed, as fairways had been turned into ponds when five inches of rain fell early Thursday morning.

So the game was moved to Fowlers Mill in Chesterland — you know, the site where the tornado hit on Wednesday evening. Just getting to the golf course proved difficult, as several area roads were closed.

But neither tornadoes, wind and rain, nor fallen trees could not stop Mark White from cleaning up on Thursday night at Fowlers! [Read more →]

Last minute change: Madison Country Club has closed for the day because of last night’s weather, so the Greater Cleveland Skins Game moves to Fowlers Mill Golf Course in Chesterland for tonight, with play beginning at 5 p.m.