The seventh season of the CGA Team Interclub Championship will wrap up on Sunday, and it’s fair to say that The Broadmoor Golf Club has gotten the hang of it.
This marks the third year the Colorado Springs club has earned a spot in the Interclub finals — a record for the season-long net match play championship. Moreover, all three of those finals appearances have come in the last three years.
On Sunday at 10 a.m. at the CGA-owned CommonGround Golf Course in Aurora, the 12-man team from The Broadmoor will take on one from Battlement Mesa Golf Club, which returns to the finals after an appearance in 2011, when it finished runner-up to Lone Tree Golf Club. Over that three-year period, The Broadmoor has racked up an 18-2 record in head-to-head matchups.
If The Broadmoor prevails on Sunday, it will join Lone Tree (champions in 2011 and ’12) as a two-time winner of the CGA Team Interclub. The Broadmoor beat Rifle Creek Golf Course in the 2014 finals and lost to Todd Creek Golf Club in last year’s finale. Joining The Broadmoor, Battlement Mesa and Lone Tree as two-time Interclub finalists are Todd Creek (1-1) and Rifle Creek (0-2).
The Broadmoor is unbeaten (6-0) heading into this year’s finals, with Battlement Mesa being 5-1, having avenged a regular-season loss to Lincoln Park with a 19-17 win in the playoff quarterfinals. To earn berths in the finals, The Broadmoor beat Meadow Hills 21-15, and Battlement Mesa defeated The Meadows 20-16 .
Over the entire season, The Broadmoor has outscored its opponents
131-85, while it’s been 106-74 for Battlement Mesa.
Both Battlement Mesa and The Broadmoor advanced to the finals from an original field of 42 clubs after roughly five months of competition. First, there’s a regular-season round-robin of geographically-linked groups of teams lasting from May through mid-summer. The team from each group with the highest point total advanced to the playoffs — along with five runners-up, including Battlement Mesa, which was the 16th and final team to make the postseason. Playoff matches run from August through October.
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.
Here are the team rosters for Sunday’s finals:
THE BROADMOOR
David Schroeder Jr.
Mike Allred
Duke Mitchell
Jeff Freyschlag
Ed Hayden
Marcus Meyer
Tom Foyer
Roger Perry
Jim Hafemeister
Bill Carder
Scott Meagher
Jerry Petersen
BATTLEMENT MESA
Doug Choate
Jeff Bradley
Mark Barlau
Jack Elsea
Charles Perrin
Dan Rzonca
Eddie Rubin
Ken Seidel
Fred Inman
Charles Hall
Bruce Knuth
Luke Cody
