10/28/2012 9:10 PM
Maybe to late to add my idea but here it goes. Mid October in Minnesota is the slowest time of the golf season, usually closing a couple week later. Last year my 30the birthday came around and was told that many of my family and friends were coming from 4 hours away. I decided to have a tourney to draw revenue, with great success from members and guest. It is now a much anticipated event to see what challenges I come up withe.
This year I decided to have a Two Cup Challenge. Through out thee year we have Big Cup tourneys and I leave the regular cup in. Many people say they wish they could have putted at theat cup since it was closer, someone even got a hole in one on a regular cup once(my fault but withe a staff of 3 its hard to find time to change cups twice a day).
Two Cup Challenge-
I place Big Cups in tough spots marked with the flag stick. I then put regular cups in even tougher spots, but with no flag stick. I couldn't put them in obvious tough spots though, otherwise people would just try and play to the toughest spot on the green. The concept was that if you were on the green in regulation you could put at either cup, but must commit to just one. If you made it in the Big Cup you got your net score. The small cup had a strange scoring system though. In regulation if you made it in the small cup you got a net -1 from score. Example make a 3 on a par 4, score a 2. This only counted for your first attempt though. Example: miss your 3 shot on a par 4, but make your fourth, score a 4. Kind of confusing at first. We played a 3 man scramble and played in a six-some. That kept it fair and not as confusing to some. This made it fun for the scratch golfers and the one time a year golfers.
Very first hole my team had to ask themselves, 45' putt at regular or 30' to Big Cup.
Please be prepared, watch weather and plan staffing. Unfortunately I had to cut 36 holes by myself 3 hours prior to tourney causes of a thunderstorm the day before. Did I mention it is always scheduled around my birthday so I was out late the night before.