Monday, June 8, 2026

Skins Game - Summer 2026 Recap

As predicted in the weekly preview, Topor won at Seminole Lake this past weekend, with an impressive 44 (gross) on the front, followed by typical Topor-Ball on the back. He and Marcus had a double-bogey-party on the final stretch, with Topor's par on the difficult 16th proving to be the difference.
 
Other stats of note:
  • Faz going 4 - 10 - 4 on the par-5 stretch on the back. He also hit 7 balls OB on the day which is probably a record for him.
  • Gary making 6 pars in the final 7 holes on the front... only to implode with a 53 on the back (draining a long putt for birdie on 18 to avoid a pitcher).
  •  Geoff with three sandies on the day.
    • Dave did this back in 2022
    • Buffalo Ben had 4 at the old Stoneybrook back in 2013
  • Chandler (that's me!) hit all 14 fairways 
The rest of you were not noteworthy.

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Seminole Lake had probably the best conditions we've seen in a long while. Great fairways, rough, and greens. The first group waited on every shot and still played in 3:52. Somehow, Tall Mike's threesome kept up! 
 
It sucks that they increased our rate 23%+ over last year... but at least it seems they're putting it back into the course?
 
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We play our first Major of the season next Sunday at Waterlefe. Tee time is 10:12am (allegedly after their members).
 
They only increased their rates 13% on us year-over-year.  I don't think range balls are included. We might be at the point where it's too expensive to warm up anyway. 

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