Validation Cup #3 / May 2020
“Team Up One” captioned by Bruce Sult used “REVENGE” to its fullest extent as a motivator for their 11.5 to 4.5 defeat the previous October.
An extraordinarily strong Saturday by Team Up One resulted in a 7.5-to-2.5 point lead for Captain Sult’s team.
Strong performances by Joe Bissa, Will Jenkines, John Stephens, and Chance Young (who all went undefeated) led Team Up One to a big day in Singles Sunday despite
Herb Joiner going undefeated for Team Mata.
A solid 14 – 10 victory by Team Up One to avenge that October 2019 butt whipping of 11.5 to 4.5 by Team Mata sums up our May 2020 VC III.
We are all tied up 1-1-1 with the Tie Breaker set for next October.
The golf course staff went out of their way to accommodate us making the event a rousing success despite Saturday’s weather.
Everyone enjoyed the use of the Pavilion for our privacy as it just added to our VC experience.
Thanks to Matt Sipko, Gary McCorkle, Matt Lassen, Kelly A., Jo White, Scott Leggett, & Carson Peters for all their hard work that weekend at WC.
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Saturday Morning – Best Ball / Four Ball Team Matches – Weather 1.75 inches of rain throughout the day/ Overcast / 15 mph wind out of the north
Match One – First timers Mike Brock and Joe Bissa took down the previously undefeated team of Buddy Ackerman & Doug Ward in a match that went all the way to #18 — 1/0
Match Two – Another team of first timers Chance Young & Fred Buckman both played well together to take down the stout team of Brad Ausdemore & Glenn Staley –3/2
Match Three – Breaking his VC Cherry, Vince Iglesias with the strong play of John Stephens (two birdies) defeated Dean Boyd & Ismael Ortiz –3/2
Match Four – Herb Joiner, the hottest player in the group heading into the VC, continued his solid play along with Jordan Montague to defeat Mike Allcorn & Bruce Sult –3/2
Match Five – Will Jenkines & Stephen ‘PH’ Ramirez put together an outstanding round; tag teaming Vince Schlueter & Brian Warburton by the popular number of the day – 3/2
Match Six – After talking “smack” on the group thread Friday, Brian Cano tore up the front nine along with Frank Mata to win their grudge match against Carl Poposki and Oscar Diaz– 7/6
Team Mata – 2 points / Team UpOne – 4 Points
Saturday Afternoon – Alternate Shot / Foursomes Team Matches – Same Weather with rain and a cold rain with the matches reduced to Nine holes
Match One – All even through six holes, Stephen ‘PH’ Ramirez & John Stephens poured it on to defeat Frank Mata & Brian Cano – 2/0
Match Two – Another match even through six holes, Ismael Ortiz & Herb Joiner won the next two holes to defeat Mike Brock & Vince Iglesias – 2/1
Match Three – In classic ‘alternate shot tradition’, Glenn Staley & Brad Ausdemore were finally on the eighth green in FIVE strokes (w/o a penalty shot) about 22 feet away. Brad made the putt for six to preserve their one up lead. On number nine, Glenn hits a great shot leading to a birdie to finish off Carl Poposki and Bruce Sult – 2/0
Match Four – In what turned out to be the match of the afternoon, Jordan Montague and Dean Boyd were two up after seven holes of play. But Oscar Diaz & Mike Allcorn won hole eight to go one down in the match. MikeA hit a “golf shot” on #9 to about 15 feet. Jordan & Dean made their par leaving it all up to Oscar, who promptly made the birdie to bring the match to all square. Instead of the afternoon ending in a 3-3 tie in points, Team UpOne won Saturday afternoon 3.5 – 2.5 EVEN
Match Five –Will Jenkines & Fred Buckman played well together to earn a tough victory over Vince Schlueter & Brian Warburton – 2/1
Match Six – Doug Ward & Buddy Ackerman jumped out to a quick three up lead in their match before Chance Young & Joe Bissa rallied to win four holes in a row to go one up heading to number nine. Doug too hit a “golf shot” in difficult conditions to almost the same spot as Mike Allcorn did earlier. Unfortunately Buddy’s birdie putt hung on the lip to give Chance & Joe the win—1/0
Team Mata – 2.5 points / Team UpOne – 3.5 points
Sunday morning – Twelve Singles Matches – Finally good golf weather with sunny skies and a 10 mph north wind
Match One – Stephen ‘PH’ Ramirez & Brad Ausdemore were chosen by their captains to get their teams off to great starts. It was a tremendous match with both players playing well throughout the round. Both players putted for birdies on #18. Brad made his birdie to finish his first VC at 2-1 and winning the match for Team Mata–2/0
Match Two –Vince Iglesias won his first VC singles match despite Jordan Montague making two birdies during the match. Vinny ran his VC record this weekend to 2-1 winning 3/2
Match Three – In a terrific match, Joe Bissa and Doug Ward battled all the way to the end with Joe winning #18. Joe became Team UpOne’s first undefeated at 3-0 winning 2-0
Match Four – Battling injuries, both Mike Brock & Buddy Ackerman were true gamers on Sunday.
Buddy won #6 with a seven (despite a found golf ball 45 minutes later) but the ‘Brockinator’ turned it on to extend his weekend VC record to 2-1 winning the match 5/4
*Match Five – See the match wrap up farther down this email list
Match Six—In the rematch of the of the 2019 Captains, Oscar Diaz & Frank Mata played a very competitive match all the way to #18 with Frank finally winning for Team Mata – 1/0
Match Seven – Running his first VC record to 3-0 for Team Mata, Herb Joiner kept the hammer down on Captain Bruce Sult to win the match – 8/6
Match Eight – Enjoying the sunshine and dry weather on Sunday, Dean Boyd got his game back and defeated Fred Buckman, who had a strong Saturday (2-1 VC). Team Mata –2/0
Match Nine – Vince Schlueter also made the most of the better Sunday golf weather putting on his game face to defeat a strong player in Carl Poposki. Team Mata –6/5
Match Ten – Will Jenkines was able to claim the title of “ King of Louisiana” by defeating his buddy, Brian Warburton. Will finished the VC weekend at 3-0. Team UpOne –5/3
*Match Five – Mid-afternoon during the Sunday Singles, Team UpOne needed a fifth point to win the VC after their strong play on Saturday. Mike Allcorn lost hole #15 to put his match at All Square against Captain Brian Cano. MikeA then played solid golf on the difficult #16 & #17 holes at WC to secure the first Validation Cup for Team UpOne—2/0
Match Eleven –All four players were told on #16 that the VC had been “Unofficially won by Team UpOne”, but to keep playing their matches to avoid a disaster if any of the first ten matches were wrongly reported. On #16, the match stood even but Ismael Ortiz made John Stephens work to get his VC record to 3-0 to go undefeated for the weekend. John won the match 1-0
Match Twelve – Chance Young stood ‘three up’ on #16 over Glenn Staley. Being the crafty veteran, Glenn fully utilized his stokes on #17 & #18 to SQUARE the match against Chance who finished the VC weekend at 2-0-1 for Team UpOne. EVEN
Singles totals — Team Mata – 5.5 / Team UpOne – 6.5
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Final Totals for the May 2020 Validation Cup —
Team UpOne 1-1-1 – (Captain Sult) – 14 points
Team Mata 1-1-1 – (Captain Cano) – 10 points
The first timers certainly put on a show in their VC debuts — Herb (3-0), Brad (2-1), JoeB (3-0), Brock (2-1), and Chance (2-0-1).
Once again, I really enjoyed working with both the captains over this last seven months. Frank and Oscar left big shoes to fill, but Bruce and Brian certainly stepped up very well.
Dan Thorne also deserves kudos for his ten hours of hard work in looking for golf balls this weekend. Thank you, Dan.
No griping, no complaining, no disputes, and no fights at our VC which speaks volumes about the level of sportsmanship on display by all involved in the group. Thank you!!!!!
Eric Chamberlain
