Blue Retains Cup as Captains Battle for Final Winning Point
October 5, 2025
After a weekend of constant back and forth that led to a 10-10 tie, Captain Brad Juday parred the 18th hole to defeat Captain Frank George, and win the 11th point for Blue.
The two captains came to the 18th hole tied, after Frank George sunk a key six foot putt on the 17th hole to save the Cup. After George hit his tee shot over the still growing knoll of trees on the right, Juday hit a ball right through the middle of the trees. He hit a strong second shot hybrid to 83 yards. From there he hit a wedge to about 15 feet and then calmly rolled in the putt for par.
The entire day featured comebacks and reversals of fortune, as did the entire weekend. Blue opened the event winning 3 1/2 points in fourball. The last half point arose from a comeback by rookie Wade Johnston and Captain Juday, who were down four holes with five to play and scratched a half point when Juday bogeyed the last hole.
On Saturday afternoon, Red achieved a mirror image by winning 3 1/2 points, and the last half point arose from a comeback engineered by Captain George and Rick Gordon, who were down two after fourteen but parred both the par threes and won on 18.
So Saturday ended at 5-5 because of strong play by both captains on the 18th hole. It would be a strong precursor to Sunday.
Sunday featured 11 matches. After JonDeAngelis pasted Ron George in a matched played quickly and with the two riding in separate carts, Red led 6-5. As Sunday developed, each of the remaining foursomes saw split matches, with Blue and Red each winning won. If that formula held up, Red would win the cup 11-10, and for most of the afternoon, this was the projected result.
It looked even worse for Blue earlier, when Mark Williams fell four behind Jamie Grace on the 8th hole. "Remmo" had missed the Saturday matches with an ankle injury from a hockey game earlier in the week, and it didn't look like he was able to put the proper weight onto his legs to hit shots. But Williams' play moved over to the also-injured Red player; Grace was nursing his own recovery with two recently replaced hips, and he faltered on the back, letting Williams back in. When Grace, hit the wrong ball on 15th, Williams took a lead he would not relinquish, though the match went to 18.
So in the first pair of matches, Williams and Olenik won. 7-6 Red.
In the second pair, the two Hacketts won. Adam Hackett pasted Rick Gordon and Dennis Hackett outlasted David Best, winning at 18, a split group and Red led 8-7.
In the third group, Paul Morgan beat up on Dan Maletich, and Jimmy Gurney lost to Billy George in a match with a lot of great shots by both players. Another split, and Red led 9-8.
Red reached its tenth point early when Tom Bres played the best match of his life (only 8 over through 14) to beat Will Bass. Red was at 10-8 and need only one of the last three matches to win the Cup. Blue need to scrape out just 2 1/2 points from the remaining three to retain.
And Red led two of those matches fairly late. Dom Spadafore was up on Glenn Peggs through 14. Peggs parred 15 to pull even and then made a great chip on 18 to steal the full point away from Red.
Red 10-9. Red needed just one of the two points in the final group. Bill Sedwick continued his unbelievable undefeated pairs record, winning a close match against Ron George Sr. at 16.
10-10. All the focus came on the captains beginning at 17. Brad Juday did not want the attention. He later said that he put himself against the Red captain hoping they could shake hands somewhere on the 15th hole upon hearing that the cup had been settled ahead. To avoid the spotlight, Juday teed off on 17 before anyone had the chance to see. The committee ruled that Frank George could ask Juday to re-tee since he hadn't been allowed to see the previous shot. He allowed Juday to keep a fairly playable ball near the green.
The pressure had shifted to Red. Blue needed only a half point to retain the Cup. Frank George faced an uphill must-make six foot putt at 17, and with the help of RG Sr, read it well and calmly sank it, pushing the matches to 18.
As it would turn out, he'd need to make three on 18 as Juday's four sealed the Cup for Blue. Juday raced to the clubhouse, filled the cup with beer, and triumphantly drank from the Cup and raised it, saluting a second straight Blue victory.