Gibb and Finan battle it out in Member Member

The 2013 Member Member tournament was held last weekend. Forty teams representing five flights played Devils Knob and Stoney Creek. Players and spouses were treated to a Friday evening cookout on the mountain under gorgeous skies and cool temperatures. Players competed in the traditional putting contest. The team of Renee Willis and Lori Young won two putters for placing first in the putting competition. Saturday's final round had two teams competing for the first place overall gross hardware. Hank and Jonathan Gibb and Devin and Austin Finan each completed two rounds at 136 to force a playoff on Shamokin 1. In the end Devin Finan knocked a beautiful iron into the first green and two putted for the Overall victory. The Gibb team took home top Net division honors. Other flight winners included Don Young and Dwayne Nix, Harrison Jones and Houston Sorenson. The Womens division saw Renee Willis and Lori Young take home the gross honors in the Golden Bell flight and Sally Wright and Suzi Wisler took the net prize.

Nail Biter at The Justice Cup

Sunny skies and perfect temperatures at Devils Knob set the back drop for the second series match of the 2013 Justice Cup.  When all the scores were tallied, Glade Springs edged Wintergreen by 3 shots in the modified stableford format to collect the 10 points for the first place team. 

Current standings place Glade Springs atop the leaderboard with 20 points, Wintergreen and The Greenbrier share second place with 10 points and The Sporting Club is in fourth with 4 points. 

Wintergreen was led by John Coy, Jim Westfall, Bruce Brushwood, Greg Robertson and Jim McCaffery each with 40 or more total points.  Great playing guys!

 

The Justice Cup travels to The Greenbrier on August 19 for a competition on The Old White TPC Course, host of the PGA Tour's Greenbrier Classic.

2013 Justice Cup underway

The 2013 Justice Cup, a series of matches held throughout the year, will have teams from Wintergreen, Glade Springs, The Greenbrier and The Sporting Club competing in a modified stableford scoring format.

The first event was a rain shortened competition at Glade Springs, played on the Cobb Course.  Two rain delays foreced the match into a nine hole event with the host team collecting the most points.

Wintergreen currently sits in third place with the next event at Devils Knob on Monday, July 22nd.  Eleven members and a professional will navigate the slick greens and narrow fairways.

Stay tuned for results.  The matches are open to spectators.  Come on out and root on the team Monday at 10:00 am.