Category — Greater Cleveland Skins Game

Eddie Neer widened his lead on the 2010 Leaderboard on Thursday at Tanglewood National Golf Course.

Neer grabbed two of the three skins won on the night.

Neer made birdie on the short par-4 second hole, and then followed that up with a birdie on the 520-yard par-5 sixth hole that held up. [Read more →]

Twenty players had high hopes at the start of Thursday’s “Double Down” event at Aurora Country Club, where the event’s entry fee is doubled for the night to $60 per man.

But only four players left with smiles on their faces: three big skins winners and one huge pin shot winner.  [Read more →]

Eddie Neer wasted no time making birdies, pin shots and skins on Thursday night at the Quail Hollow Devlin Course to extend his lead to over $500 in the race for the 2010 Thompson Cup.

Neer birdied the par-4 10th hole to capture the first skin of the night. He then stuck it close on the following hole, the short par-3 11th, to earn the pin shot there, making his haul for the evening $178.20. [Read more →]

It was a beautiful night for skins game golf at Powderhorn in Madison on Thursday.

And under firm and fast conditions, a number of skins were won — and a back-to-back Thompson Cup winner drew ever so closer to the season-long leader. [Read more →]

We have passed the half way mark of the 2010 golf season and now we head toward the home stretch.

So I wanted to take this opportunity to give every player a few updates and quick reminders about some of the upcoming dates on the 2010 Greater Cleveland Skins Game calendar: [Read more →]

Dave Sotka and friends got a warm-up on Thursday in preparation for the upcoming Cleveland Amateur at Manakiki, as the Greater Cleveland Skins Game went to challenging Chardon Lakes Golf Course. Sotka found paydirt again on his old home high school course, grabbing one of three skins on the evening. [Read more →]

It was a beautiful night for golf at Fowlers Mill in Chesterland on Thursday, and the three players who came away with a skin that evening enjoyed it even more.

First up, Rob Skebe captured his first skin of the year with a birdie on the 375-yard par-4 second hole. [Read more →]

Steve Blackburn Jr., the reigning Greater Cleveland Skins Game Champion, made a bold move this week at Quail Hollow Country Club: he made the only skin of the night.

Blackburn Jr. made a “statement eagle” on the 490-yard par-5 8th hole on the Weiskopf Course, hitting driver then 7-iron to two feet. [Read more →]

The Greater Cleveland Skins game traveled to Aurora Country Club for the first time ever this week, and the golf course gave up six skins on the evening — and one of those skins was won with a par!

Thursday’s round also finalized the five players who gained an exemption into the Cleveland Amateur Championship for 2010. [Read more →]

Wicked Woods has been nothing but kind to Mark Julius this year, as he continued his hot streak by capturing a skin and a pin shot there Thursday night.

Julius birdied the par-5 12th hole that held up for a skin worth $130.33, and he grabbed the pin shot at the uphill 150-yard par-3 14th hole worth $59.50. The double-dip was Julius’ second big night of the year at Wicked Woods, as he climbs into second place on the season-long leaderboard, less than $185 away from the lead still held by Eddie Neer. [Read more →]

The Greater Cleveland Skins Game traveled to Tanglewood National in Bainbridge on this first night of July.

Of the 22 players in attendance, three newcomers cashed in for the first time this season while two regulars improved their position on the leaderboard. [Read more →]

It was “Double Down Thursday” on June 24th at the Greater Cleveland Skins Game played at Chardon Lakes Golf Course.

And a new season-long leader has emerged — one who has cracked the ‘four-figure mark’ just a third of the way into the 2010 season. [Read more →]