Congratulations to the father-son team of Tom Beckman & Kevin Beckman for winning our 32nd Annual Great Pumpkin Open with a score of 67. View the full results below.
Congratulations to the team of Dave Dykman, Tom Erndteman, Brian Erndteman, and Payton Tyndall for winning the 2023 Shelby Optimist Club 4-Person Scramble in a tiebreaker with a score of 62. Full results linked below.
Proceeds from today’s event will benefit the Optimist Club and their many local projects. It was a perfect fall day for the event, thank you all for playing!
Two-person scramble competing weekly for five weeks (Sept. 5 – Oct. 3) in a 30pt system. Intended solely for the enjoyment of playing fall golf and enjoying what fall has to offer at Oceana Golf Club! Final night is Fun Night with food to immediately follow golf. Rules linked below.
Congratulations to the two-person team of Mike Inglis and Brett Grevel for winning our 2nd Annual SGB 2-Person Scramble with a score of 65. They are defending champions! View the full results linked below.
This year, proceeds from all raffles will benefit the Shelby Tiger Baseball Program.
Congratulations to Team Captain Danko (Mike Danko, Mark Heckman, Michael Heckman, and Matthew Heckman) for winning the 2023 Golf United Oceana with a score of 57 (-16 under par). View the full results below.
It was a beautiful day for golf! Thank you to all the golfers for participating, local businesses for donating prizes, and the United Way for hosting a wonderful outing. Oceana Golf Club is proud to be the presenting sponsor of the event. This outing kicks off the United Way’s giving-campaign season and the funds raised today will go towards their programs and services that will benefit families in need in Oceana County.
Congratulations to the team of Spencer Peters, RJ Pretty, Trenton Felt, and Rodney Burns for winning the 2023 Shelby Wrestling Scramble with a score of 57 (-16 under par). View the full results linked below.
Thank you all for participating despite the rain! This outing is the wrestling program’s largest fundraiser, and with your help they were able to raise thousands of dollars today.
Congratulations to the father-son duo of Doug Savage and Anthony Savage on winning the 2023 Oceana Shuffle by shooting a 70 (scramble 21, best ball 23, alternate shot 26). They are visiting West Michigan from Ohio and won the tournament while on vacation!
This is always a fun and favorite tournament! Thank you to all who joined us today!
All winners within flights are paid in golf shop prize merchandise credit to golfers’ club accounts on file, balances accessible by email. On-course game winners receive a sleeve of balls, redeemable in the pro shop. Skins are paid in cash, redeemable in the pro shop. Ties broken by best ball score, then alternate shot, then scramble.
Every year we welcome all of our Certificate Holders, Playing Members, and Employees to challenge their golf skills through friendly competition in our Club Championship Tournament!
In Match Play, the game is played by holes. A hole is won by the player which holes their ball in the fewest amount of strokes. The reckoning of holes is kept by the terms: so many holes up or all square, and so many to play. A player may concede a hole or a match at any time prior to the conclusion of the hole or the match. Concession of a stroke, hole, or match may not be declined or withdrawn. This is a bracket-style, single elimination tournament.
Time frames and match pairings for each round will be posted in the clubhouse and emailed. In each round, you must arrange to play your matches on or before the date stated. Any matches not completed in the time frame posted will result in a double forfeit. The finals will be held Sunday, August 13 starting at 9:00 AM.
The Championship Division will play from the Black Tee Markers with no handicap involved.
The Handicap Division will play from the Blue Tee Markers with handicaps playing off the lower of the two handicaps — using 75% of established handicaps.
The Senior Division (60-70 years) will play from the White Tee Markers — using 75% of established handicaps.
The Super Senior Division (71+ years) will play from the Gold Tee Markers — using 75% of established handicaps.
The Divisions playing with handicaps require an established handicap; IF YOU ARE NOT CURRENTLY ON THE ACTIVE GAM GHIN HANDICAP LIST, ONE WILL BE ESTABLISHED FOR YOU FOR $39 (using your club credit if applicable, or charged to your club account). By signing-up in to play these Divisions, you are accepting these terms. An email will be sent from GHIN letting players know the login info for their account profile; this will allow you to post scores from any course from your phone or computer, and keep up with your handicap all season long!
ROSTER
Click the roster link to view all participants name and contact info. Please reach out to your opponents to schedule your matches on or before each round’s date.
Our 2023 Oceana Best Ball “Joe Foster” Open Champions are Jordan Durga and CJ Griffin with a two-day total of 132 (66 both days).
2023 Champions
Placing first in the remaining flights: FIRST Corey Parmalee/Shawn Pranger 140; SECOND John Szegda/Derek Jacobson 147; THIRD Taylor Moore/Ryan Magerowski 151; FOURTH Jeff Hentschel/John Weaver 159.
SUMMARY
Entering day one of the 50th edition of the “Joe Foster Open,” Oceana Golf Club was primed with perfect scoring conditions as the course had not seen even a trace of rain for several weeks making it play fast and susceptible to teams going low.
But, like most years, Old Man Par “Not Joe” has shown his grit by reminding players from all over the country what OGC is all about — the greens. With yielding only 8 eagles to the field of 116 two-person teams, the scores were a touch higher than average making for some very competitive flights. The team of Jason Pranger and Mike Bryce posted an early 65 with a stellar 29 on their second nine to finish in a tie with the defending champions, Ryan and Robert Oosting, who made 9 birdies and 1 bogey in route their afternoon 65. Sitting one shot out at 66 is the 2016 champions, Eric Ruthkoski and Jacob Polayni, who also knocked in the lone first day skin with their eagle (3) on hole #1. Two former team champions in the field both shot 71 to lead the First Flight march (2013 Erik Sanford and Dave Wojcicki, and 2014 Corey Parmalee and Shawn Pranger).
Day two was a different story altogether as the rain with a north wind and drop in temperatures caused OGC to go from perfect scoring conditions to at times survival mode for some. The trend was scores posted were going to be higher than round one. Round one co-leader Pranger and Bryce posted an early 72 to find themselves at best in second place with the 66+66=132 from OGC Club Champion Jordan Durga and his partner CJ Griffin already in. Several other teams had life still, including the other co-leaders still on the course, but it was not to be as the Oosting brothers struggled to gain much traction in the cool windy afternoon and finished Sunday at 72 for a two day total of 137 good for 4th place.
Oceana Golf Club would like to congratulate all the participants and a special thank you to all the volunteers. The Joe Foster family was on the starters box both days welcoming all the players and sharing stories and plans for the Joe Foster Junior Golf Foundation. Great things for the Area Junior Golfers coming very soon.
GAMES
DAY ONE ($25 club credit)
PROXY #5 Justin Durga
PROXY #7 Adam Sheren
PROXY #12 Joe Balakovitz
PROXY #17 Scott O’Neil
DAY TWO ($25 club credit)
PROXY #5 Dave Vernier
PROXY #7 Jim McCamant
PROXY #12 Mike Garcia
PROXY #17 Ryan Magerowski
*If we do not know the "nickname" on the proxy stake we cannot pay out prize. Please write your name as on the tee sheet.
SKINS
$3,330 total cash pot (112 teams in plus $1,090 carryover from 2022)
DAY ONE ($1,665 cash pot)
HOLE #1 (3) Polyani/Ruthkoski
DAY TWO ($1,665 cash pot)
HOLE #4 (2) Pranger/Bryce
HOLE #13 (3) Durga/Griffin
INNISBROOK RANDOM DRAW WINNER
Congratulations to Taylor Moore for winning our giveaway of a 3-day, 2-night stay at Innisbrook, a Salamander Golf & Spa Resort, in a random draw! Giveaway provided by Bill Oosting II. Please contact the pro shop to redeem your voucher.
Thank you to all participants, volunteers, staff, and the Foster family for making our 50th celebration of this tournament a success! This is a special and favorite event of ours to host.
All winners (within flights and of on-course games) are paid in golf shop prize merchandise credit to golfers’ club accounts on file, balances accessible by email. Please contact the pro shop to inquire about your winnings. Skins are paid in cash, redeemable in the pro shop. Ties within flights broken by Saturday’s card, lowest handicapped hole, low score wins.
Brett won his match 4&3 to earn his first-ever tournament title.