Preview – Cowboy Classic – Lakeside

Final Preparations – Participation from AFAR!

Edmond, OK (April 5, 2010) Tournament Committee members, Tom Casady, Scott Chilcutt and Loyd Welch met April 3rd with Lakeside Golf Course head, Marny Moody and Head Superintendant Mike Buxton to go over final preparations for the April 10th, Cowboy Classic.

Lakeside’s layout and the two men’s tee designations bring some unique challenges not normally present with the standard three tee box layout.  After the site meeting, tour member K.C. Montgomery joined the three to play a round on the 1998 Tripp Davis renovation of the 1945 Labron Harris, SR design.

As a result of the uniqueness we’ve made some tournament specific changes to the normal tee’s and scorecard lengths that should bring playability and maintain pace of play while keeping the golf course the challenge its history presents.  Most of those changes pertain to the extraordinarily long par threes including the long uphill 18th and will be indicated in the tee assignments below and scorecards presented the day of the tournament.

You will notice a few new faces at the Cowboy Classic:

Seattle, WA tour member, Jack Plummer from North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada is making his way across the country to the Carolinas and will be stopping in Stillwater to compete.  Damon Gochneaur of Flower Mound, TX is making the trip north and Tommy Hotaling, in Tulsa visiting relatives ( David Shales, son in law) is an Army Airborne instructor from Fort Benning, GA.

Additionally, Curt Howard of Sapulpa, OK, the newest member of the Oklahoma Tour, will be joining us for the event.

We want to be sure to welcome the travelers and the new members alike!


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Schedule:

Tee Times will be emailed and posted on Wednesday. They begin at 11:00 AM, so be sure to register at least one hour prior to your tee time.

Lunch Bags will be available at 10:30 AM: you can pick up prior to the round or at the turn.

Tee Box Assignments (note total yardage reflects the adjustments):

T-Blue – Par 70 / 6,620 yards – 73.2 rating / 132 slope:
Championship – Palmer – Hogan

T-White – Par 70 / 6,110 yards – 70.4 rating / 128 slope:
Senior Hogan – Sarazen – Jones – Snead

We look forward to seeing everyone on Saturday, April 10th!

** Please note – for players looking for a practice round, Lakeside has a double shotgun tournament on Friday and times are not available until after 5:00pm **

For more information:
Scott R Chilcutt
schilcutt@gcamtour.com
405-513-1467