OATW Match Play - 2025 Second Round Underway?

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Looks like we have all but three off the first round matches complete. If you haven’t completed your match, let @golf4miami and I know that you are at least coordinating with your opponent. If you haven’t heard from them, let us know that as well.

@jacobsoderberg
@spicychimis

@PlumbBobMillionaire
@Albatrossity

@Muskie41
@cstevens3407

Let’s put a deadline on the first round at April 22nd. If you don’t already have a plan in place for your match, we will decide the match via coin toss. I realize we are not going to be able to keep the currently planned schedule, but let’s try and get as close as we can.

For those that have completed your first match, let’s start getting those second round matches scheduled.

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@Muskie41 and I tee off in ~3.5 hours!

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We got ours done. I’ll let the victor handle the summary.

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After our originally scheduled date was postponed due to the great flooding of 2025, @Muskie41 and I met at Avon Fields this morning, and except for about 5 minutes of rain while we played holes 7-8, we had a perfect day.

Jason was giving me 13 pops, and I had the good fortune of catching him on his first round out since his December trip to Bandon. He also just got back from a family vacation this week. These factors obviously played to my advantage, and while his swing came to life on the back 9, it was too late and I was able to win the match 7&6.

None of the very legitimate reasons above were used as excuses by Jason, and he was gracious in defeat and an awesome hang and playing partner!

I hope I keep hitting my driver as straight as I did today in my next match. Onwards!

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He’s giving far too much emphasis on the strokes he was getting. He played a round 99% of golfers would have been proud of. Never compounded mistakes and kept his foot on my throat the entire time.

I might need to run out and get a GT2 driver before the next round. It was an absolute weapon in his hands.

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Orient, OH - It takes a long, long time for a tree to grow through a rock though not nearly as long as it takes to play a post-COVID weekend round at any of Ohio’s public golf destinations.

FRIENDSSSSS, after a slight delay due to a host of #perspective, major life events and the shittiest Central Ohio spring I can remember, the first round match between myself and @Albatrossity has FINALLY been completed.

Split Rock GC, host of the world famous “Welcome to the Rock” Scotch Foursomes Invitational, hosted this titanic clash of German Villagers on Friday.

KK, playing in his first round of golf since December, got eight shots from myself in what was the windiest round of golf I’ve played in the Buckeye State. Sustained winds of 25 mph with gusts up to 40. The nearby Pickaway Correctional Institution recorded a wind gust of 47 mph while we were playing approximately a quarter mile away. That’s just about halfway there to an EF1 tornado.

The day featured a lot of “attempts” at good golf in those conditions and the match really took a turn when we headed to the back 9. KK and I both hit our drives right on the absurd rightward wind. His ball stayed in play by about four inches, my drive sacrificed to the mishit gods. KK laid up to a comfy distance, I hit a 3-wood approximately 325 wind-aided yards to a 250 flag. That stupid thing went 40 yards over the green and might have kept going (all the way to the fucking jail) if not for the trees behind the green.

The unluckiest thing of all time happened right after that. KK hit a majestic mid iron that didn’t leave the flagstick, to the point where it drilled said flagstick, careening over the green much like my 3-wood. It was the shot of the day and could not have been more undeserving of its eventual fate, although KK did end up winning the hole.

A tough, if not altogether unspeakable, #11 went down and I eventually restored my lead. Getting up and down for bogey on 15 (with the weathered split rock looking on) closed out our match 4&3.

Shoutout to @SRS_One for the witness and the unspoiled walk. KK is going to be dangerous on the other side of the bracket.

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@cussingmussel and I got out at Sleepy for our double elimination round 1 yesterday. We were in full audible mode as the storms moved through. We battled maybe 3-4 holes of a steady rain but Sleepy held very nicely. There is something about a rain round that I love. Greens, while recovering from aeration, still rolled nicely. Overall, I was very happy how the course played.

I pulled my best Rory imitation while starting birdie, (lip out) bogey, birdie on the first 3. Being my best start on those holes that typically own my face. I was 3 up thru 3. Queue Rory, I blew a 60 yard wedge over #4 to turn a birdie opp to a double. Sweet.

Rain moved in and we battled 5-7 in the main part of precipitation for the day. Some back and forth over those holes and I finished the front up 3 over Joe.

The back 9 was a solid battle with Joe getting back to down 1 a few times. I witnessed some great sand shots. I was pulling out a few Raymondo’s (shot out Stevie). It was a great round of match play.

The climax of the story starts with a photo. Joe sharing a hysterical image of a previous round of golf with a golf ball buried 3” under ground (iykyk @spicychimis) on the tee of 16. We finished 16 with myself up 1, heading to the 17th tee, where Joe was in the absence of a pop. This was my chance. But what I didn’t foresee, was Joe’s 3 wood, connecting north of the golf ball’s equator. Sending it down into the turf at a -45 degree launch…the semi firm turf springing the ball 10 yards in front of us…off cart path….and into the pond. Kerplunk. Two solid shots of my own led to a 2&1 victory.

Big fan of playing with Joe. Good conversation, good humor, great mentality. I foresee his cap continuing to drop this year. Especially if he figures out the flat stick (eyes on a sweeper :broom:)

Cheers :beers:

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Not my best round of golf by any measure, but hard to think of a better way to spend a misty Saturday than on a walk with @jack67 around a real public gem.

I knew I lost as soon as I saw the fit Jack sauntered to the first tee in. I don’t want to spoil it in case this becomes a thing in his journey through the loser’s bracket, so let me just say the scripting was on point.

And the golf? Bump and run 6 irons from the fringe, that slinging approach on 13 from under the pine, the chip on 1 from behind the tree and long birdie putt that followed (my first glimpse at the broomstick and accompanying grip only a visionary could imagine). Truly provocative stuff.

Anyway, asking for a friend…. Any prizes for being the first gui officially eliminated from the bracket?

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No shame in losing to @jack67 , been there brother. Great hang, shout out to the Fropen. Played Sleepy today, that rough is no joke

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Hoping to hop back in to the match play next year but will do my duty for 2025, now that I have been fortunate enough to join a club this year.

Anyone in the Columbus pod that would like to play a neutral match at any point, I can be a marker and host you both as guests at my club (Tartan Fields).

Just give me lets say 10 days advance notice, so I can snag a preferred tee time. It can be during the week or on a weekend. Whenever it is booked, I’ll post the time and a 4th can jump in if they want to be a second marker and play with us.

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The next morning, I awoke to a text from @Cramptcm

This was unexpected since Chris witnessed the previous day’s slaying of @pjsutherland first hand and has never held back grief about my handicap. While enjoying my Saturday morning coffee and stroopwafel, I mulled over the proposition. I did play well the previous day, but could I keep it going for a second day? Would I feel the effects of a second day of walking 18 and bowling (156 with a turkey nbd)? In the interest of keeping the match play tournament on schedule, I decided to strike while the iron was hot and play my second match in 24 hours.

We arrived at Losantiville early, hoping to sneak out early so @Collya could return to responsibilities on the home front, but were promptly greeted by a downpour. We waited out the rain in the pro shop, anxiously browsing new clubs and apparel. Your boy had some shop credit to burn and copped a fresh polo in the ever-elusive size Small. 20 minutes later, the rain subsided and we returned to our abridged warm up sessions.

A bogey-bogey push on 1 set the tone for an intense match but I quickly found my stride winning 2 and 3 with strokes, made a bomb of a putt on 4 but lost the hole, and won 5 straight up. After a push on 6, I stepped up to my tee shot on the par 3 7th and hit an absolute embarrassment of a top-shank, leaving me a full 9 iron in while Chris was chipping. I somehow got up and down for par but Chris missed his putt, leaving me 3up going into 8.

After a few holes of mediocre and good golf, I am 5up and we push 13. We can’t remember if I stroked or not, so Chris checks the GHIN app- no stroke. I look at my scorecard with the new hole ratings, and there is a stroke. This stroke is the difference between a win and going dormie, tensions are high with controversy afoot. We agree to trust the app and play on. A push on 15 closes the match 5&3.

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Myself and @SWslinger are going to get our 2nd round match in this Sunday at Shaker run if anyone wants to join I’m just waiting to see how early he wants to go out and I’ll book a tee time

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@Racole212 if this is still open, @cstevens3407 and I will join you at Shaker for our 2nd rd match on Sunday.

Hopefully teeing off by 9 or 930a?

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All yours fellas we are booked for 8:50am woodlands and lakeside

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paging @jacobsoderberg and @spicychimis. Looking to get a round 2 match on the books. Have you guys played or scheduled something?

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We’ve been working on a resolution on that match on the back end and just had to flip a coin to confirm who was moving on in the winners bracket.

@spicychimis is the winner and I’ve updated the bracket.

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Where is the bracket? I saw the original layout Chad posted but must’ve missed the filed out one.

Also, FYI but @Collya and I will need an extension on our first round loser’s bracket match. He’s in Hawaii for the next 10 days, so I assume it’ll be tough (if not impossible) for us to get it in May 4th after he’s home.

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Not sure if this link will take you directly there or not, but if it doesn’t you can click the “Bracket” tab at the bottom and it’ll take you there.

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Book a flight, bro

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