This year's tournament, Saturday June 7, 2025
First Tee Time: 10:30 A.M. Get to Muny by 10:00 please.
Teams/Groups: See below.
Green fee, cart, and range token included.
$7 cash money for the extras; the closest to the pins, and the two long-drives on #2 and on #18. Venmo Inger or stop by the Ed to pay.
This is basically an invitational get together. Don't show up expecting to play if you're new and haven't cleared it with Inger or the Eddy yet.
Format is as always a "relaxed" scramble. Drop within a club length of your chosen shot (but you can't improve out of a bunker or penalty area). Two-putts maximum.
First group: Make sure you have the Long Drive and Closest to Pin markers with you.
Last group: Make sure you pick up the markers.
History of The Governor's Cup
I've played in this thing as long as anyone alive, and even I don't recall exactly when it started, but I'm pretty sure I didn't play in the first one. My first was, I believe, 1987, which is also the year I became a regular at the Eddy. Dennis Earl Yancy, "The Governor," was born July 18, 1943, and this tournament started in the mid-1980s as his birthday tournament, which is why it was always in the hottest part of the year and usually led to massive consumption of alcoholic beverages. Because of the heat, you see.
One of Dennis' closest friends was JT, at the time a beertender at the Deep Eddy Cabaret, ancient local watering hole and home to a host of regular miscreants and vagabonds. JT decided to have a golf tournament down the street at Lions Municipal Golf Course ("Muny") for Dennis' birthday, I'm going to assume his 40th, which would have been in 1983. It was just known as "Dennis's Birthday Golf Tournament" and it was by default somewhat hosted by the Deep Eddy. The Eddy has always had a symbiotic relationship with Muny, golfers finishing their rounds on a scorching afternoon (or even mid-morning) routinely stop in to quaff a cold one, and the Eddy has always been legendary for being dark, cool, and for years, smoky.
At first the tournament had various different names; every year JT would come up with something timely and clever. One of the first ones I remember hearing about in the mid-80s was the "Natalie Wood Memorial Open" since the famous actress had not so long previous met her untimely demise under some shady circumstances.
