Ryder Cup 2020 FACTS
Tuesday, August 1, 2023
TBD
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Draft Order
1 Quinn
2 Callans
3 Modz
4 Arnold
5 Smitty
6 Zajeski
7 M Fagan
8 Muzzy
9 Jason Vitas
10 Richie Zizek
11 JJ
12 Dave Holmes
13 (Tonelli)
14 (Korbar)
15 Jamie Bebar
16 Jim Fagan
17 Paul Branshaw
18 Ed Rossetto
19 Mickey Smith
20 Dave Albert
Wednesday, August 3, 2022
10 minutes into the first round the skies opened up and the event was moved south to Oregon, Illinois at Silver Ridge Golf Course. Team Black Stash took a decent lead in the opening round and expanded upon it in the second to hold a 40 point lead (91-51). The Captain's hats were put on display with the partners of the captains, pictures were outstanding. In round 1 Muzzy and Holmes had a mild upset of JJ and Mike Fagan 14-0 as well as Quinn/Mickey over Mike Z/Branshaw 21-1.
The night saw Peter battle Joe in Jeopardy where neither remembered the bartender from Wolf Hollow's name (Courtney), Joe's answer to the Nickname question "MBM" with the answer - Who is MBM, Peter forgetting his own quote, and several other hilarious answers ensued (including a broken buzzer by judge Mike Fagan)... Regardless, Peter once again won the challenge!!!
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Thursday, August 4, 2022
Good to see Jason Vitas enter the 20 Year Event as Brian Gehrke heads home filling in on Wednesday. Lake Carroll golf club was in awesome shape as six balls entered the water off of Tee 1 and the "pressure" of having several eyes watching and talking in the background (Modz/Mickey/Albert). In the spotlight matchup, Dave Alberts gave a boost to the GFY team with a Birdie on a hole to prevent the Albert/Branshaw team from being swept by Stinger/Quinn (who won 21-1). Richie and VBomb got to wear the captains hats for round 1 as Joe's pair won pushing Joes record over Peter to 2-1.
For the second round of the day at Freeport Country Club, Black Stash once again proved strong in the round and won 3 of 5 matches to end the day with a 159-131 lead.
The night saw Peter battle Joe in Jeopardy where neither remembered the bartender from Wolf Hollow's name (Courtney), Joe's answer to the Nickname question "MBM" with the answer - Who is MBM, Peter forgetting his own quote, and several other hilarious answers ensued (including a broken buzzer by judge Mike Fagan)... Regardless, Peter once again won the challenge!!! After the event Mike Fagan was seen in the bathroom with Joe and Peter basically shaving his head. A comparison to Private Pyle from Full Metal Jacket was set.
Friday, August 5, 2022
Friday GRC was back at Wolf Hollow for a pair of fun rounds in the heat. GFY mounted a massive comeback to actually take the lead by 10 as key matchups by Zajeski/J3W, Modz/JJ, and Mike Fagan/Joe were huge. Unfortunately a freak accident broke Jason Vitas leg after the match and although Cally thought he could ride in the ambulance and take care of VBomb through the x-rays and tests, Ed Rossetto drove Jason to the hospital and saw things through.
Per Jason's wishes, the second card tournament was held and format changed to Holdem where Mike Zajeski ended up taking the crown with a Full House Aces over 5s to beat his old best friend JJ (new best friend J3W). It was also determined that night to finish the GRC 2022 event in a tie but still play the event out completely, having Richie play just for birdies.
Saturday, August 6, 2022
Saturday played out in epic fashion as the teams had a balance of scoring that ended the full contest in a TIE even though it was already agreed upon to be a tie.... Darla at Park Hills made two outstanding pies - Coconut Cream and Banana Cream!!!! The course once again proved why it's the GRC favorite even though a local farmer was scaring the competitors with a crop dusting helicopter that sounded like an invasion of Freeport.
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The KQI began with an epic speech by Joe Tonelli and explanation that Japanese sizes do not match up with American sizes.... The event saw Jason Vitas back in a golf cart (he would make it through the round mostly unharmed). Dave Albert's Dolphins flag was returned at the onset in dramatic fashion. The actual golf had some incredible shots in between the bag slapping Twisted Tea's provided by the Captains that included a 30 foot Eagle putt by Stinger and near aces by Richie Zizek and Zajeski. A mysterious putter was on display on hole 1 and 18 and hopefully only used to putt. Team Korbar wins the KQI and golf comes to a close.
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Closing ceremonies saw The Captains Award go to both Peter and Joe - massively deserved by both as displays of professionalism, friendship, respect, and competitiveness all at uber levels. The Nice Guy Award saw a new owner - Jimmy Fagan who earned it with his infectious persona, love for heavy metal, and constant positive charisma every minute of the event. Dave Albert won the Cock Putter and was chosen worse putter of the week going 0-6-1 but promises to improve in the cumming year. The POS award was fairly clear-cut as the committee chose Mark Smith as the award breaks new ground as well as other things (Jason will be ok!!!).
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Captains for 2023 were announced.... Mike Zajeski and Jim Arnold as primary captains and they selected ping pong balls that determined their #2 and #3... Team Stinger will have Dave Holmes and VBomb as captains, Team Groot will have JJ and Branshaw as captains.