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 →]

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 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 →]

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 →]

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 →]

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.

The stakes were doubled on Thursday at Aurora Country Club, and veteran Carl “Unk” Quercioli stole the show!

It was Double-Down Night (a doubled $60 entry fee) and Quercioli made the most of it: a birdie skin on the par four 18th hole, and a pin shot to 7 feet on the 17th hole. [Read more →]

The birdies were flying on the back nine of the Devlin Course at Quail Hollow Country Club on Thursday in Week 17 of the Greater Cleveland Skins Game.

Many of the holes were tied out with birdies, allowing two players to split the skins pot on the night. [Read more →]

After a week of heavy downpours, wet and soggy were the conditions at Punderson State Park Golf Course in Newbury on Thursday.

And because of the soup the birdies were few and far between: only four of the nine holes were birdied by any player on the evening. [Read more →]

The first ever trip by the Greater Cleveland Skins Game to Sugarbush Golf Club was a soupy one.

The skies opened up once again just prior to the start of the event, with a deluge that flooded the greens and fairways.

But eleven players waited out the storm, and that patience paid off for three. [Read more →]

“Hot and breezy” best describes the conditions at Powderhorn Golf Course in Madison at the Greater Cleveland Skins Game on Thursday night.

And “hot and breezy” can also describe the way Mike Angie played on Thursday as well.

Angie opened his round with a birdie on the long par four 10th hole to and take the first skin of the night.

Angie then took home the pin shot on the 14th hole, worth $51.

Finally, Angie added another birdie skin on the par-5 16th hole. Hot and breezy… [Read more →]

The Executive Directors of the Akron District Golf Association and the Chippewa Scratch League paired up to put a beating on the field at the Chippewa Scratch League on Monday.

Oh yeah, and two guys won a thousand dollar skin on Monday, too. [Read more →]