WATCH: First Annual Local Crossings Ryder Cup All-Star Golf event set for Oct. 18
The First Annual Local Crossings Ryder Cup All-Star Golf event set for Oct. 18 at Shelby Crossings Golf Course in Shelby.
SHELBY — Nick Durchik is a golf junkie, through and through.
If there is a tournament on TV, he is glued. If his kids want to challenge dad to a round, he is happy to humble them. He eats, sleeps and breaths golf.
So, when Durchik, the Lexington boys golf coach and Ohio Cardinal Conference coach of the Year, sat back and watched as other high school sports put on all-star games and events after each season, his first thought was, ‘Why not golf?’
Enter the first annual Local Crossings Ryder Cup event at 1 p.m. on Oct. 18 at Shelby Crossings Golf Course. Durchik has organized a one-day, 18-hole tournament featuring two-man teams from Lexington, Madison, Ashland, Ontario and Clear Fork to honor some of the best golfers in the area with a Ryder Cub style tournament.
“It is definitely the goal,” Durchik said. “I see basketball, football, baseball and wrestling all have these all-star events and I want that for golf. I don’t think it has ever happened. It certainly didn’t when I was in school, so I wanted to create something special to grow the game of golf.”
Lexington’s Jackson Durchik and Griffin Hughes, Madison’s Nick Maglott and Liam Stone, Ashland’s Reed Emmons and Landon Dreibelbis, Ontario’s Colton Blevins and Kolbe Ramion and Clear Fork’s Clinton Stallard and Bryer Ousley make up the field for the first annual tournament.
“Instead of doing an entire team, I just thought it would be a better all-star event if we did an event with individual players. Or even a Top 2. And that was when the Ryder Cup instantly came to mind.
“They get a chance to represent their school and parents get to watch their seniors play one more golf match,” Durchik said. “Each one of the players selected one of their teammates to caddy for them. So, that will be a fun twist and maybe help that teammate work harder to be a part of it next year.”
The tournament will be see teams compete in a best-ball competition where both members of the team will play their own ball and the lowest score out of the two players will go down as the team’s score. If one player shoots a birdie and the other a par, the birdie counts as the team’s score.
The second 9 will be a two-man scramble. Each player will hit a shot and then will play the second shot from the better of the two shots and will repeat that until the ball is holed.
“We are going to keep it simple in the first year,” Durchik said. “It is going to be a very cool, laid back experience, but also very competitive.”
The event is sponsored by Everbowl. Golf fans are encouraged to come out and watch as the five teams and 10 players compete in the first-of-its-kind All-Star golf event.
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