2-PERSON TEAM RESULTS
Every second Tuesday of the month, we host a two-person team tournament, followed by a luncheon in the clubhouse. These tournaments feature a shotgun start, and can be as simple as a team scramble, or as complex as a Chapman format game. You can check the planned format for any particular event on the Event Calendar on the EVENT REGISTRATION page, and learn about the rules on the TOURNAMENT RULES page, both under the EVENTS tab.
Play is normally based on a team handicap formula, using 35% of the lower handicap, and 15% of the higher. Maximum separation allowed for the partner's handicaps is 10 strokes. The final team score, then, is the gross score less the team handicap.
This year we've increased the payout to the winners, as well as added a "5th place" determined by a random drawing. Here are the winning teams' prize amounts, to be split however the team agrees:
1st - $50
2nd - $40
3rd - $30
4th - $20
5th - $10
Our tournament rounds are followed by lunch in the clubhouse, requiring by a nominal $5 charge. Typical meals might include tacos for Cinco de Mayo, bratwurst and sauerkraut in September, or a "make your own" sandwich in July. The main course is always accompanied by sides and dessert.
Members who choose not to play in the tournament are always welcome to join us for lunch. Guests are not allowed to play in the tournament, nor attend the lunch.
Monthly Tournament Team Scores
Tuesday June 9th 2026 results:
Bucking the trend of past tournaments, only half the 16 teams were formed before the tournament. How did those golfers who chose their own partners fare? Three out of the four winners were partnered before the round, including overall winners Sandy Griffin and Judy Stejskal, and runners-up the Jan and Rich Roller. A fourth pre-paired team finished in the top six. The other four self-selected teams finished in the bottom half of the results.
The top four teams received cash prize payouts. Congratulations to Judy Stejskal and Sandy Griffin (who was half of last month’s winning pair – the price for her partnership has soared) on their first-place finish. They turned in a superb round under net 30, taking the top prize by over 2 strokes, and outdistancing the fourth-place team of Tim Hegness and Pat Welch by over 4 strokes.
In our constant efforts to return league dues to members, we’ve added a “fifth place” prize this year. The cash prize of $10 goes to a team randomly drawn from the field of those that didn’t place in the tournament. This week, Rich Baum and Rob Barnhart can thank us for their random run of luck.
Tuesday May 5th 2026 results:
Our Play Coordinator and this editor have spent some time in back-and-forth discussions on how these tournaments work, and especially how the playing field is leveled by calculating handicaps and using them to balance the scoring. Our best conclusion: Quite often, the winning team will be the ones in which both members are having a good day relative to their handicaps. So, perhaps scanning casual round net score tables in previous editions of this rag won’t help that much in finding a partner. Maybe more important is being able to recover from the occasional poor stroke by consistently complementing your partner’s game with a better shot, thereby keeping your team score low.
We’re stating the obvious, we know. Consistency is the name of this game.
Still, many of you have grown comfortable with playing with other members, and the team selections show that’s the case. Fifteen out of 18 teams requested to be paired prior to the match.
Here are Tuesday’s results.
The top four teams received cash prize payouts. Congratulations to Sandy Griffin and Dan Pahl on their first-place finish. Almost three strokes separated them from the fourth-place team of Jay Lee and Chris Otto. More remarkably, Sandy and Dan were one of only three teams that were randomly placed together before the tournament started.
In our constant efforts to return league dues to members, we’ve added a “fifth place” prize this year. The cash prize of $10 goes to a team randomly drawn from the field of those that didn’t place in the tournament. This week, Rich and Jan Roller can thank us for their random run of luck.
THE FOOTNOTES!!!
You can pretty much use these footnotes for each of the team scores. Well, at least if the event was a straight scramble:
Footnotes:
1. Teams in bold chose themselves, that is, they signed up as a pair. Single signups were assigned to another single from the pool, with some attention to balancing handicaps. We didn’t have much to do in that regard this time around.2. Team handicaps (HCs) were determined thusly: For each player, we pulled the posted GHIN handicap for 9-hole rounds at the Old Back Nine Golf Course. Ringmaster Dan then calculated the handicap for each team pair using the following formula: The sum of 35% of the lowest and 15% of the highest individual HCs. (We’d share the reasoning for this formula, but frankly, it’s beyond our limited interpretive capabilities.)
3. The team’s net score is their gross score, less the team handicap. Easy math, there. The table above is sequenced in order of lowest net score, to the second decimal place, which, duh, determined the winners.
4. This year’s prize pool for each 2nd Tuesday team tournament is $150. First place team gets to split $50, second place gets $40, third place $30 and fourth place $20. Additionally, this year a “fifth place” team is drawn randomly from all of the non-placing teams. Not wanting to interfere with a team’s right to choose, we have left them to determine how the split will go between partners.