Premier Events
Our Premier Events particularly the cups and championships get the juices flowing at Oak Hills. Participation in these events offer prestige and acknowledgment as one of the best golfers in the club for a given year. In addition to the acclaim for winning the tournament, you will also receive a higher purse payout and more points towards player of the year consideration.
Battle for Tully Cup – This is a new tournament for us this year. Welcome to our Ryder Cup-like event for Oak Hills Men’s Club!! We will have two Captain’s driven by our Two Club Pros. The field will be chosen by handicap, and we expect 18 individuals per side or 36 individuals in total. The team captains will decide who plays and set up the specific player scheduling.
The format for the round is a Team Scramble for Holes 1-6, Holes 7-12 is Team Best Ball Match Play and Holes 13-18 is Singles Match Play. The first 1-6 holes will consist of three teams of four (six members of Team A and six members of Team B), The next six holes 7-12 will be three teams of four for Match Play (another six members of Team A and another six members of Team B). Finally, the final Holes 13-18 will include all 18 members on Team A and Team B to play these holes. The first team that gets to 12 ½ points will win the Tully Cup. This event will be a net handicapped basis. May the best team be victorious!!!
Club Championship – This major event is our most important tournament of the season. It is played as our premier elimination tournament individual match play event. You would consider this our Masters Tournament for the year!! Sign up is required for the Club Championship and is segmented into 5 flights by handicap: Championship, A, B, C and D.
The Championship Flight is generally for handicaps 0-9. Tee times will be made for the matches at assigned dates. Please do not sign up if you can’t make the dates for matches. All these matches are played on a gross basis, inside each flight, played from the blue tees for Championship, A, B and C flights. D flight will play from the white tees. We changed the event schedule due to overwhelming demand to occur over two weekends. Best success to all!
Governor’s Cup - This is a major event and is year-long and played as our premier team match play event of the year. The format is a 2-man best ball match with handicap allowance. Handicap is determined by playing off the low player within the match grouping and then take 80% of the handicap difference amongst the players.
As an example: Team 1, Player A has a handicap of 10 and Player B has a handicap of 20. Team 2, Player A has a handicap of 18 and Player B has a handicap of 19. For the match, Team 1, Player A plays as a 0, Player B (his partner) is a 10-stroke difference x 0.8 = 8 so he receives 8 strokes. Team 2, Player A is 8 stroke different x 0.8 = 6, so he receives 6 strokes and player B is 9 stroke different x 0.8 = 7, so he receives 7 strokes in the match.
Matches are scheduled by the players and must be played by the dates on the brackets. All matches will be played from the blue, championship tees.
Member/Member – New for us this year, we are proposing a one-day event: two-man 9-hole scramble and then a 9-hole alternative shot. For holes 1-9, it is a scramble, so each player hits a drive and then continues to play the best shot in that format to finish the hole. Typically Scramble rules apply to the Member/Member for putts & one club length. For holes 10-18, it is alternate shot, so Players A and B partner with one another on an alternate shot team. You should decide among yourselves who tees off first on the first hole. If Player A hits the opening tee ball, then Player B hits the second shot. The third stroke is played by Player A, then Player B hits the fourth. You must alternate hitting shots until the ball is in the hole.
Please note you must also alternate hitting tee shots, so since if Player A hit the drive on the first hole, on the second hole Player B tees off, and so on throughout the round.
Scoring by the Team Captain is on a net and gross basis so record the best score gross and best score net for the team. Prizes are awarded on net and gross basis. The entry fee is to be determined and handicaps for net purposes will be 85% per new USGA rules.
Oak Hills Cup – This major tournament rewards our Oak Hills’ Player of the Year. Yes, this is our FedEx champion like on the PGA or the Rolex Player of the Year for the LPGA. Points are awarded all year from weekly and major tournaments. This tournament is considered our premier individual stoke play event of the year. You should see the weekly total point standing on our Golf Genius system for all the people who have competed.
Our Oak Hills Cup is a cumulative, three-round, individual stroke play event with 80% handicap allowance. Your score for a given round is the best (lowest) individual net score for each hole. Individuals must play from blue tees for this championship.
The top 60 and ties from the yearly point allotment are eligible to play in the first round. Only the top 32 individuals and ties move onto the 2nd round after the first cut. Again, competitors must play and post scores on an individual stroke play basis for round 2 from the blue tees.
The final round takes place after a second cut and only is for the top 16 players and ties from Round 2. The winner ultimate is the lowest aggregate, three round net score to par and recipient of the Oak Hills Cup, also considered player of the year! After popular demand, we also changed the scheduling of this tournament to occur over two consecutive weeks.
President Cup – This major event is played as a two-round cumulative stroke play event. This is like a PGA tour-like event with multiple rounds, and you should look at it as such. It is 100% full handicap, so the scoring is on a net basis. Your score is the best (lowest) individual net score on each hole. Individuals must play from the blue tees only. Recognition goes to the players who have the lowest net score.
Shoreline Tournament - The Shoreline is an annual event played among local clubs in vicinity to Oak Hills Park. The tournament is an 18-hole Net event and one of the competing courses host the tournament for a given year. We typically need 7 players who are between 0-10 handicap and 7 players who are between 11-20 handicap. If more than 14 players are interested, then we will do a mini qualifier to determine who will represent us.
The event has a separate cost typically around $100 that pay for golf, cart, lunch and a raffle. This is a great event to represent Oak Hill Park Men’s Club! Besides Oak Hills, the participating golf clubs include Alling Memorial, E. Gaynor Brennan, Fairchild Wheeler, H. Smith Richardson Longshore and Sterling Farms. We will get shirts with our logo this year, so please come represent the best at Oak Hills!