2025 Raccoon Creek Men’s Club
President’s Message
Welcome to the 2025 golf season. The Board has created a great golf season for our members. There are more opportunities for golf in 2025 than ever before. We are pleased you are interested in becoming a new member or continuing your membership with the Raccoon Creek Men’s Club (RCMC).
For 2025, Joe Anderson, Britt Holtz and Dewey Jones left the board. Please thank Joe, Britt, and Dewey for their service when you see them. Newly elected to the Board for 2025 are Bob Ordonio, John Veit, and Jubal Trujillo. Thank those three as well for their willingness to serve your club. The officers and Chairs are as follows:
Travis Beattie President Terry Scanlon Vice President
John Veit Secretary Brett Rodewald Treasurer
Bob Ordonio Director Jubal Trujillo Director
Brad Ramming Director
The Chairs of each activity are:
Terry Scanlon Tournament Chair Bob Ordonio Match Play Chair
Travis Beattie Casual Play Chair John Veit Challenge Coin Chair
Jubal Trujillo Handicap Chair Bob Ordonio Rules Chair
RCMC Tournament Green Fees for 2025 will be:
Walking - $69 Riding - $89 Employee/Annual Pass - $60
Also, as RCMC members you will get club rates for green fees during the year. Just make sure you tell the pro-shop you are an RCMC member when you check in. The club green fee rates can be found here: 2025 Club Green Fee Rates. Also receive 20% off regular price for apparel, headwear, shoes, gloves, and most accessories in the pro-shop plus 10% off food in the Farmhouse restaurant as a RCMC member.
Raccoon Creek is one of the premier public golf courses in the Denver area. Raccoon Creek being privately owned, revenue is a driving force in decisions made by the course. The fact that private tournaments make significantly more revenue than RCMC events and standard tee times means that we must be flexible with our dates and times.
We expect the majority our tournaments will be on Saturday morning with tee times starting as early as 6:30, with occasional Saturday afternoon or Sunday morning start times. With the occasional afternoon tee times, we should be following a morning shotgun that will be clearing the course within a few holes of our starting. This should help with pace of play, but we as the men’s club must do our part to keep a good pace of play as well. The board is exploring utilizing a new tool to help keep groups informed of their position on the course. If this works as anticipated, we will likely also update the Pace of Play Policy. We have 18 tournament rounds and 15 tournaments planned for your golfing fun in 2025. Please see the schedule as currently planned on the RCMC 2025 Website. This is subject to changes as needed by the course. Please review the tentative RCMC Schedule.
For 2025 Tournament Fees will continue at $30, which include Skins, CTPs, contribution to prize fund, and after round 4-some pitchers. Exceptions to this are Shotguns and special events where food or other costs are involved. One key change for 2025: Everyone, when they sign up for a tournament round, will be on the waitlist. You will move from the waitlist to confirmed list when you pay. Instructions for payment will be included in the tournament invite. The purpose of this change is too many people require way too many reminders to make payment in the past.
We will continue assigning Tees based upon your flight for tournaments. You will still utilize your preferred tees for Casual Play. We believe this will better balance the flights and improve the pace of play. The assigned tees for most tournaments are as follows:
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Tournaments with 5 Flights |
Tournaments with 4 flights |
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Flight 1 |
Blue/Black or Black |
Blue/Black or Black |
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Flight 2 |
Blue |
Blue |
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Flight 3 |
Blue |
Blue/White |
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Flight 4 |
Blue/White |
White |
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Flight 5 |
White |
NA |
Players born prior to April 1, 1955 (over 70) may move up one tee assignment. Players born prior to April 1, 1950 (over 75) may move up two tee assignments. In no case will a player play more forward than white tees, except for red tee events.
For 2025, we will continue the Friday and Sunday Casual Play with two tee times (8 players) for Friday afternoon and three tee times (12 players) for Sunday. The club is fortunate to have the relationship with the course, that they block out these times for RCMC.
We have added new side games for 2025. We have added a 2-man Team Match Play and a season long 8-man team competition. Match Play, Challenge Coin and Ringer Tournament are also back for those that sign up. Match Play now has a 3-match minimum. Please see the 2025 Side Game Page for more information on each of these competitions.
The Hole in One and Eagle Pot will be active again this year for all tournament rounds and is part of your membership dues. The Hole in One pot will be around $1500. Eagle Pot is available for any individual gross eagle on a par 4 or gross albatross on par 5 (non-red tee box events) and be split at the end of the season for all eagles/albatrosses. Eagle pot should be around $750.
Included in your dues is the Annual Kickoff Meeting scheduled for April 11th. This is a fun evening with prizes, information on the course, the club, and plans for the year. We will also end the year with an End of Year Banquet with some other prizes and recognition.
Base dues for 2025 will be $260, but if you register before March 1st, you can receive a $25 discount making dues $235. Colorado CGA has maintained GHIN at $43 for 2025. All members must have a GHIN from a Colorado Club. Please help the board out by registering early, to make it easier for the board to plan the season and save yourselves money.
We will finish the season with the Raccoon Cup. The course hosts this Ryder Cup style event with two teams usually captained by the Head Pro and Assistant Pro. You must qualify for the Raccoon Cup and the best way to qualify is to play in tournaments. The top twenty-two are automatically included. This is based on points as follows:
Participating in Tournament 10 Points/round.
Play in Match Play, Challenge Coin and/or Ringer 5 Points each, + a 5-point bonus if sign up for all three.
Place in your Flight in a Tournament 1st=5, 2nd=4, 3rd =3, 4th=2, 5th=1 points/round.
I want to thank our membership for making RCMC a successful club. Remember to refer your friends and if they join and identify you as the referring member during registration, you will be entered into a drawing for a foursome gift certificate to Raccoon Creek.
We often describe RCMC as a social club first, which it is. But we are also a competitive club and want to play within the integrity and rules of golf, which we recognize can be confusing. As such look for the board to provide more information around the rules of golf this year as well as ensuring people are following the rules and posting scores properly this year.
May your wedge shots fly high, and your scores go low.
Sincerely
Travis Beattie
RCMC President