For the second year in a row, the Charleston Golf Week Amateur Tour Battled the Columbia Golf Week Amateur Tour at Orangeburg Country Club. The event is match play with twenty individual matches worth three points apiece. The players were matched up against guys in their own flight. The weather and the course were both spectacular. Orangeburg's over-seed germination really took off with the record rainfalls we have experienced in October and November and the course provided a great track for all the golfers to compete on.
Charleston got on the board early with the first group as both Tony Walters and Tim Sumption captured 2.5 out of three points in their match and this trend continued in the first twelve matches as five Charleston players completed 3.0 sweeps of their opponents, Mark Ducker, Fred Dixon, Kevin Goddard and Sean Metzger which helped Charleston build a 22 to 14 point lead. The tide then started to turn as Columbia clawed their way back. Columbia Golfers, Briggs, Chamblee, Beck and Haddad all complete 3.0 sweeps and Sharples and Johnson got 2 out of 3 points to pull the match to Charleston 27.5 and Columbia 26.5 with two matches left on the course. The final matches with Mike Miller against Sam graham and Cowboy against Jimmy Mathis. As they did last year Cowboy and Miller won 5 out of 6 points to secure the Cup for another year for Team Charleston.