Tom Evans wasted no time extending his season-long lead on the field Thursday night on the River Course at Fowlers Mill, as he made a $138 birdie putt from over 50-feet on the first hole of the evening, the 10th!

Evans also captured the pin shot on the 17th hole worth another $84 to his total, so he is playing — and winning — at a record-setting pace in his chase for his second Thompson Cup! [Read more →]

26 players teed it up Thursday on a beautiful sunny afternoon at Thunder Hill Golf Club in Madison, and five players ended up taking home skins.

Eddie Neer started the day by nearly holing out on the very first hole, making the birdie that held for an early skin. [Read more →]

Tom Evans, a postal carrier from Perry and the 2003 Greater Cleveland Skins Game Champion, delivered more than the mail on Thursday. Evans rolled in a 20-foot birdie putt on the difficult par-3 eighth hole at Powderhorn Golf Course to capture the only skin on the night — one that turned out to be the largest skin in the 20 year history of the game! [Read more →]

The Greater Cleveland Skins Game kicked off its 20th season on Thursday at Fowlers Mill Golf Course.

The race for the Thompson Cup began with 24 players competing under cold but sunny conditions, with firm greens.

It was  a fun way to start. [Read more →]

The Greater Cleveland Skins Game will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2010, and opens its season on Thursday, April 22nd at Fowlers Mill Golf Course in Chesterland.

In just a few weeks, defending champion Steve Blackburn Jr. of Willowick will hit the customary first tee shot of the season at 5 p.m. [Read more →]

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 →]

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 →]

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 →]

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 →]

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 →]

In a dramatic sudden death playoff, Pat Tyrrell of Sagamore Hills won the 2009 Greater Cleveland Shoot-Out Championship.

On a wet Labor Day Monday at Chardon Lakes Golf Course, Tyrrell and Steve Blackburn Jr. of Willowick each posted a score of 75 from the black tees in the stroke play event run every season for players of the Greater Cleveland Skins Game.

Coming in, Blackburn Jr. appeared to be the man to beat, since he is a past Shoot-Out winner and just won the Briardale Greens club championship the day before with 67-66. But Tyrrell noted that “he had the putter going well” coming into the day, and in the end he backed it up with critical putts to take the title.   [Read more →]

Groupings and Starting Times for the 2009 Greater Cleveland Shoot-Out, an 18-hole individual stroke play event for the players of the Greater Cleveland Skins Game series, to be held at Chardon Lakes Golf Course starting at High Noon on Labor Day Monday, September 7th. $1,700 in prizes sponsored by Steve Sports, Inc  and Blonde John Ticket Sales. Watch Northeast Ohio Golf for results! [Read more →]

Mike Angie did not waste any time Thursday at Powderhorn, making birdie at the difficult 430-yard par-4 1st hole to capture half the skins pot.

Angie’s out-of-the-gate skin of $138.00 takes him over the magic $1,000 mark for the season and extends his lead on Steve Blackburn Jr. and the rest of the pack. Angie is tied at the top for the most skins and the most pin shots won on the season. [Read more →]

The “Hilltoppers” came to play Thursday, as Scott Mackar and Dave Sotka of Chardon took the skins pot at Fowlers Mill Golf Club.

Mackar birdied the tough par-4 15th hole, and Sotka followed it with a birdie on the par-4 16th. The skins were worth $138 each. [Read more →]