Meadowbrook Three-Peats as Thomas O. Sobbe Cup Champs
Meadowbrook Defeats Old Hickory in Overtime for Title
2019 THOMAS O. SOBBE CUP “FINAL FOUR” MATCHES
If the new format to crown the Thomas O. Sobbe Cup champions is not long enough for these guys, the 2nd time in 3 years took an overtime hole-by-hole playoff to decide. The team from Meadowbrook Country Club has the secret sauce for this season long event, capturing its third consecutive title in the new “Final Four” day of the playoffs. This is the sixth title for Meadowbrook CC, joining Bellerive CC with that distinction. Bellerive won four straight a few years back to maintain that record for themselves.
In the morning Semifinals, the #6 Seed in the playoffs, Meadowbrook would take down The Legends CC with a 4-2 win. On the other side of the bracket Old Hickory, the highest seed at #4 left in the playoffs, would knock out the Glen Echo CC squad by the same 4-2 margin. The final would get started about 1:45p on Friday afternoon on a beautiful day at Lake Forest Country Club.
As the sunlight started to set in the evening, the two squads would finish in a tie at 3-3. Steve Shuert (Meadowbrook) and Dan Emrick (Old Hickory), who had just battled each other in a Singles Match with Emrick coming out on top 1up for the tie, would go right back out for a hole-by-hole playoff. Each would make pars at 10 and 18 and back to 10 they went. Now the sun was really behind the clouds and over the horizon as Shuert would roll in a 25-foot birdie putt to seal the win for Meadowbrook.
Here were how the individual Final matches played out. Congratulations to Meadowbrook Country Club on another incredible run and thank you to the forty-four teams who endured the season long Thomas O. Sobbe Cup!
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