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Each year the winning team will get their names engraved on the plaque Annual Myrtle Beach Cup Inviational plaque. After each year, the winning captain gets to keep the plaque until the next year's tournament. Once the plaque is full, the golfer who's name appears most on the plaque gets to keep it for good. Click the plaque to the right to see a bigger picture.
In 2010, we almost witnessed the biggest comeback in Myrtle Beach Cup history. Going into the 1-on-1 matches, the Strokers lead 7-1, and the Wackers needed 7 of the 8 points possible to force a tie breaker, and a sweep to win. They got 2 points when Rundblad took out Vosberg up 6 with 5 to go, completing the most lopsided victory of the tournament. However, Maze secured the tournament would at least be a tie by halving the match with Petkovich. Maze was down 4 after 5 holes, but battled back to take a 1 hole lead after 15 holes. Then after a 1 hour ran delay, Petkovich won the 16th and 17th to take a 1 hole lead. On 18, Petkovich hit two tee shots into the marsh, and Maze hit one right down the pipe to within 100 yards of the green. After a wedge and a 2 putt, Maze pared and secured the push. The other two matches were all square through 17 holes. Verbruggen was in trouble off the 18th tee, while Hinkle got his fairway and GIR, then took a safe three-putt to close out that match, brining the score to 8 for the Strokers and 6 for the Wackers.
It all came down to the Hobbs vs Clem rivalry. They were both in the fairway on 18 after long drives. Clem's approach was just in the right fringe of the green, while Hobbs had too much club and flew the green into the sandtrap. Then came the most clutch shot to this point in Myrtle Beach Cup history. Hobbs, out of the soaking wet sandtrap from the rain just an hour earlier, blasts out a perfect sandwedge that landed softly and rolled to within a foot of the cup. Clem left his first putt about 10 feet short, but drained the next for par, which forced Hobbs to make his one footer. He did, and secured the win for the Strokers. To congratulate Hobbs for his clutch shot, Petkovich surprised Hobbs with a whipped cream pie in the face. Congrats to the Strokers on this years win!
Andy Hobbs was voted the 2010 Annual MB Cup MVP, thanks to his 4-0-1 record and his super clutch shot on the final hole of the tournament. Hobbs got up and down for par from the greenside bunker on 18 at River's Edge to secure the final point needed for the Strokers, making the final score 9-7 in their favor.
Click here for the match by match results: 2010 Results. To see a writeup of each day, check out the News page and check out the dates from 5/21/2010 through 5/26/2010.
For the individual awards this year, Maze won the long drive on day 1 and Hobbs got closest to the pin. On day 2, Petkovich won both contests, taking home two medals. Golfer of the Year was captured by Ryan Verbruggen, who had the best aveage net score across the 5 rounds. And for the first time in Myrtle Beach Cup History, there was a big upset for the Gluck is a Donkey award. With an astounding average of 12 strokes above his handicap for the 5 rounds, Greg Vosberg narrowly beat out Gluck for this year's Gluck is a Donkey award. Gluck had won the award every since 2006 when he first came on the trip, and was still the favorite at 2-1 odds, even though he wasn't playing this year. Thanks to his performance, ol' Roy beat the odds and got the nod.
In 2009, Big Dave Rundblad and the Wackers knocked off the defending champion Strokers, after the closest match in MB Cup history. The final score was 8-8, but the Wackers won on a controversial tie breaker. Controversy aside, the Strokers had their chances to avoid having the tie breaker decide the outcome. Several matches were won on the last hole, and a couple matches had the Strokers leading big on the front nine, but they couldn't hang on to win.
Click here for the match by match results: 2009 Results
As for the individual contests, Vosberg showed his prowess with his big stick and his little stick, winning both the long drive and closest to the pin on day one. On day two, Petkovich won the long drive contest while Rundblad won the clostest to the pin.
In 2008 the Strokers, led by Greg Vosberg, beat the Wackers 14-10. Gluck's Wackers needed just one more win on the final day, but couldn't come through. Gluck's lack of leadership and motivation really doomed the Wackers in 2008. They were close, but he couldn't get them over the hump.
At the end of the day, the Wackers just had too much ground to make up and the Strokers won the 2008 Myrtle Beach Cup invitational 14-10. After ending day one tied 3-3, day two would be critical. The Strokers took advantage on day two winning 5 of the 6 matches and taking a 8-4 lead. On day three, Hobbs, Halliburton and Clem sealed the victory winning their one on one matches. Petkovich, Rundblad and Big Daddy Maze tried to lead the comeback for the Wackers winning their one on ones, but they needed just a little more help from teammates to complete the comeback.
Click here for the match by match results: 2008 Results
The MVP for the Strokers was clearly Sean "Clemstein" Clem, who went 4-1 for the tournament and showed off several big time drives. Sean also won Golfer of the Year award, after a recount which initially gave the award to Big Dave Rundblad. Clem narrowly edged out Rundblad by 1.8 strokes (based on net stroke average over the 5 rounds).
The other contests in this year's trip had 4 different winners. Petkovich and Rundblad each won a long drive contest. Big Dave's long drive winner was an estimated 346 yard BOMB! Gluck won the first closest to the pin contest by being the only person to successfully hit the green. Kyle won the other by shooting a dart 14' from the cup. Congrats!
In 2007, the Strokers took a big lead after the first two days, then narrowly held off the Wackers who won 5 of 8 one-on-one matches. The Strokers did just enough to hold off the charging Wackers for a 17 1/2 - 14 1/2 win. The Wackers needed to win 6 of 8 final day matches to win the cup, but Hinkle, Verbruggen and Thompson came through for the Strokers.
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This year's invitational also included 2 long drive contests and 2 closest to the pin contests. Chris Bryant won both closest to the pin contests, with shots within 12 ft and 10 ft of the cup. Scott Clawson took one of the long drive contests with a 306 yard bomb, while Sean Clem won the other with a 276 yard poke into the wind. Nice work boys!
In 2006, the Strokers took down the Wackers by a total of 14 1/2 to 9 1/2. It was very close going into the final round for the 1-on-1 matches, with the Strokers leading 6 1/2 to 5 1/2. In the final round though, the Strokers took 4 of the 6 1-on-1 matches to come out victorious!
In 2005, it was six on six with Team Happy Gilmore vs. Team Caddyshack. Team Happy Gilmore with Petkovich, Bryant, Clem, Renkens, Oh and Clawson narrowly defeated Rundblad, Holden, Verbruggen, Maze, Bertucci and Stepp by only 2 points!
In 2004, the first ever Myrtle Beach Cup competition, it was the Balls vs. the Shafts in a four on four match up. The Shafts won in a landslide, with Verbruggen, Bertucci, Petkovich and Maze defeating Rundblad, Stepp, Clem and Renkens.