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St. Louis, MO - The time for the annual battle of the Metropolitan Member Clubs has arrived. Each year, area clubs build a team of its members to go head-to-head against another club in the Thomas O. Sobbe Cup. Teams are comprised of seven amateurs and one professional who is the representative leader from the club. When teams meet to play their matches, they must play 1 professional match, 2 singles scratch matches, 1 singles handicap match, 1 four-ball handicap match, and 1 senior four-ball handicap match. These match divisions allow an array of players from each club the opportunity to participate on their club’s team and showcases the different levels within. 
 

51 teams have signed up to try their fate in this club match-up with 6 clubs pulling together 2 teams. There are 13 Public course teams - 3 of which are 9-Hole facilities - and 44 Private course teams. The first round of this Cup is a round-robin group stage. Teams are drawn into one of 17 Groups along with two more clubs. After playing each of the other teams, the club with the most points will earn the top seed position in their group and move on to the knockout stage. Teams will then earn knockout stage rankings based on the points they accumulated during the group stage. With 17 teams and 16 spots in the knockouts, the two lowest ranked teams will have to play off for the final spot in the Round of 16.  

On Thursday March 27, we gathered to have the group division draw. All drawings were done by a random generator and cross-checked to ensure that no team was drawn into a group with a club they have played in the group stage in the past two years. The public clubs were drawn first and the private clubs second. The first round of draws placed clubs as the first team into each of the divisions. Once each division had one club, the second round of draws were placed into each division in a reverse order from group 17 to 1. Then the final round drew the final club into each division from group 1 to 17. The results of the draw are as follows: 

The two-time defending Champions Glen Echo Country Club are back again. As are Westborough Country Club and Bogey Hills Country Club, who each lost to Glen Echo in the finals in 2024 and 2023, respectively. Thirteen of the participating clubs have won in years gone by, while the remaining forty-four are looking to play their club’s name onto the Sobbe Cup Trophy for the first time. This year marks the 32nd playing of the Sobbe Cup.  

Matches will be played by:
ALL Group Stage Matches - August 1
Playoff for 16th Seed - August 10
Quarterfinals - September 12
Semi-Finals - TBD (played at neutral site)
Final - TBD (played at neutral site)

All Results throughout the season can be found on the Sobbe Cup Page