The CGA Team Interclub, one of the first CGA championships to begin in the 2015 season and the last to conclude, will wrap up on Sunday (Oct. 18) at CommonGround Golf Course, which will host the finals of an event which has been more than five months in the making.
In the title match, The Broadmoor Golf Club will face Todd Creek Golf Club, with The Broadmoor seeking to join Lone Tree Golf Club (2011 and ’12) as a two-time Team Interclub champion. Like Lone Tree, The Broadmoor will be trying to go back-to-back as it beat Rifle Creek Golf Course for last year’s title.
Todd Creek will likewise return to the finals in short order, having been runner-up to the Golf Club at Bear Dance in 2013.
The Broadmoor and Todd Creek become the third and fourth clubs to qualify for two Team Interclub finals, joining Lone Tree and Rifle Creek.
This year marks the sixth season of the CGA Team Interclub. The competition started in May with 51 teams, though a handful forfeited during the regular season.
The Team Interclub is a season-long net match play competition that involves golf clubs from throughout the state. This year’s championship included teams from as far west as Adobe Creek National Golf Course in Fruita, as far east as Bunker Hill Country Club in Brush, as far south as Elmwood Golf Course in Pueblo, and as far north as a combination team from Mariana Butte and the Olde Course in Loveland.
The regular season lasted from May through mid-summer, with geographically-linked groups of four teams playing round-robins against one another. The team from each group with the highest point total advanced to the playoffs — along with three runners-up, including The Broadmoor — with the postseason matches running from August through October. This year, the finals will mark the 77th match of the year, not counting walkovers.
Both in the regular season and the playoffs, teams of a dozen men each — of widely varying abilities — square off, with singles and four-ball matches held concurrently. Each individual match is worth two points — two for a win and one for a tie.
Todd Creek has been the most impressive team so far this season, having won all six of its matches and outscoring its opponents by a combined 157-59. Todd Creek was the only team to score more than 75 points in the regular season, accumulating 86 and earning the top seed in the playoffs.
The Broadmoor, which went 7-0 last year in winning the title, is 5-1 this season, with the lone loss coming to the Country Club of Colorado during the regular season. But The Broadmoor avenged that loss in the first round of the playoffs and has outscored its opponents 126-90 overall.
To get to the finals, The Broadmoor defeated Meadow Hills Golf Course 22-14 in the semis, while Todd Creek beat Twin Peaks Golf Course 25-11. Previously in the playoffs, The Broadmoor overcame the Country Club of Colorado, then Battlement Mesa. In earlier playoff rounds, Todd Creek defeated Sunset, then Lone Tree.
Here are Sunday’s tentative rosters for each of the finalists:
TODD CREEK
Jeff Stewart
Kyle Strain
Dustin Snell
Delfido Rodriguez
Ed Strain
John Lundien
Tom Rowell
Roger Utley
Joe Rizzi
Mike Adams
Kevin Nicks
Homer Strain
THE BROADMOOR
Mike Allred
Brad Grogg
Don Sall
Bill Kemp
Ed Hayden
Greg Flaks
John McPherson
Doug Wasson
Scott Meagher
Roger Perry
Bill Carder
Duke Mitchell
The Broadmoor will have five players back from its 2014 championship team, while Todd Creek will have seven returning from its 2013 runner-up squad.
