OATW Presents: Welcome to THE ROCK (Columbus, OH) 6/8/24

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WHAT - “Welcome to THE ROCK” Scotch Foursomes 2-man Event
WHEN - Saturday, June 8
WHERE - Split Rock Golf Club, Orient, Ohio
- Registration at 8 AM
- First Tee Time at 9 AM
COST - $80/per person with proceeds benefiting the Ohio River Valley chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

  • Venmo Nathan Creager @Nathan-Creager
  • Last four - 9387

- Sign up here on Unknown Golf

WHY - “Trade secrets, my son…”

Split Rock Golf Club is a Dr. Michael Hurdzan and Dana Fry masterpiece laid out in the shadow of one of Ohio’s most notorious correctional facilities. With its wide playing corridors and signs warning travelers to refrain from picking up hitchhikers, Split Rock is the perfect canvas for OATW shenanigans and Scotch Foursomes.

Scotch Foursomes, for those who might be unfamiliar, is a fantastic format where both players hit tee shots. They pick the best tee ball of the pairing and play alternate shot from that point on.

Players will be Split into two groups upon registration, Team Cage and Team Connery. The blind draw will pick names from each group and henceforth, the newly minted duo will take on The Rock together. The Blind Draw will happen to great fanfare the week of and be released in real time on The Refuge. Handicaps will be determined by averaging the handicap sum of each pairing.

PRIZES - The 1st Place team receives not one but two PRICELESS pieces of memorabilia as well as eternal bragging rights for continuing the tradition set forth by the heroic actions of Dr. Stanley Goodspeed and John Mason.

Proceeds of “Welcome to THE ROCK” will be donated to the Ohio River Valley chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society thanks to the group’s strong ties to the @OhioAgainstTheWorld Roost.

Post round drinks and hangout TBD.

WTTR

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Let’s go gents! More details to come, got some fun ideas in the works.

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Damn, same weekend as The Extinction

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Hell yeah! Looking forward to it! If you guys need any help with anything please let me know. I live in Pickaway county and my cousin happens to be the GM at Split Rock. Would love to help in any way that I can.

Excited to have the roost boys and girls out at The Rock!

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So pumped for this. The Rock is high on my hidden gem list in central OH, especially for tee time availability and price. Maybe the gentlest opening handshake I have ever seen.

@Twowaymiss and I have been imaging routing tweaks for a while that could make it even better.

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I’ve played the majority of my rounds out there the last few years. Absolutely love the idea. Unfortunately, I will be out of town that weekend or I would be all over this. I hope the turn out is great!

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If you were having issues with the Unknown golf link, I believe those issues have been fixed.

Team Cage and Team Connery thank you for your patience.


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Travolta

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Up to 13 players?

Up to 13 players!!!

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YOUR ATTENTION, PLEASE!!!

We are finalizing the number of participants by Thursday of this week so the cash man cometh. Payments required and due soon by Friday at the absolute latest.

If you are on the fence about joining on June 8, drop me or @Creags a DM. We are currently at 13 signups.

A reminder…

COST - $80/per person with proceeds benefiting the Ohio River Valley chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

  • Venmo Nathan Creager @Nathan-Creager
  • Last four - 9387

Tee times secured!!!

Now pay up, friends

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@SRS_One & @joecline41 see above please

INSIDE 24 HOURS AWAY!!!

Polite reminder to arrive as close to 8 AM as possible so we have time for the blind draw and a trashy-ass warmup.

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Friends…

@cussingmussel made a point to me during the round that we, as an extremely haphazard but increasingly formidable team, were embodying everything great about Welcome to The Rock. It’s one thing to be inspired by a cinematic masterpiece. It’s another thing entirely to take that inspiration and personify the excellence that oozes off the screen and into your soul.

The crucible of competition demanded much of us: duos thrown together by happenstance and hastily-organized hat draws needed to bond quickly and find success. And holy mother of god did we all do that.

These scores are outrageous…

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Gross scoring

  1. 75 — Brett and Joe via a scorecard playoff
  2. 75 — Zeke and Josh Rader
  3. 77 — Blake and Creags
  4. 78 — Beau and Steve
  5. 80 — Scott and Jake via a scorecard playoff
  6. 80 — Jason and Andrew

Net scoring

  1. 61 — Beau and Steve
  2. 63 — Brett and Joe
  3. 68 — Zeke and Rader
  4. 70 — Jason and Andrew
  5. 71 — Scott and Jake via a scorecard playoff
  6. 71 — Blake and Creags

Congrats again to @beaumeyer and @spicychimis for their net victory which is almost certainly a net-alt shot course record at Split Rock which is pretty incredible given that these were probably the first ever Scotch Foursomes rounds ever played at that course.

@cussingmussel and I vibe’d our way to a gross victory via a scorecard playoff and a chip-in on 15 that was a direct result of paying homage to the split rock just moments earlier.

I’m working with Chad on Order of Merit point breakdowns for the results. Mega priority/percentage will be given to the net winners.

We are also going to be able to send a considerable donation to The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society as well which is all the more impressive given our field size. The tournament committee can’t thank you all enough for efforts.

We’re running this bitch back in 2025. No doubt.

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Hate I missed it. Been MIA this season. Im in next year

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