13 players welcome to play in NCGT's third Silly Season event

There are 13 spots available for next month’s third event of the National Capital Golf Tour’s Silly Season.

The shootout starts at 7 p.m. on Feb. 23 at Golf-O-Max. The cost is $25 plus tax per player and there’s a $10 fee for cleaners/skins and closest to the pin competitions.

“The NCGT is designed for recreational golfers who would like to play competitive golf now and then in comfortable surroundings,” said Steve Karam, the NCGT’s president. “Players do not have to be members of the tour to participate in our Silly Season events.”

Here are the players who’ve signed up so far:

  1. Steve Karam
  2. Mark St. Laurent
  3. Guy Bourgon
  4. Yan Bourgon
  5. Mike Krewski
  6. Gerry Tapp
  7. Craig Reynolds
  8. Dave Colbeck
  9. Mike O'Connor
  10. Mike Muise
  11. Lisa Muise
Golf-O-Max
45.353017 ; -75.782601

Here are the rules:

  • Rounds are played “straight up” (no handicap strokes).
  • 0-15 handicaps play from the blue tees.
  • 16-and-up handicaps play from the white tees.
  • Ladies are more than welcome and play from the red tees.
  • Players must win a hole outright for a share of the pot (cleaners/skins).
  • If there is a tie for closest to the pin, the pot is split.
  • There’s an optional shootout afterward.

Golf-O-Max is located at 1050 Baxter Rd., Unit 1, just off the Queensway between Greenbank and Woodroffe and east of Ikea and the Ottawa Citizen.

For more details or to register, visit http://www.nationalcapitalgolftour.com/SillySeason.aspx.

www.nationalcapitalgolftour.com

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, Ottawa Golf Examiner

Ron Patey's career in the media profession spanned 21 years. His duties as special sections editor for Sun Media included writing about and photographing many subjects in the capital region. The topic he fell in love with the most was golf. During Ron's 11 years of covering the local scene for...

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