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Tournament & Entry Info

Okay . . . here we go . . . just in case you didn't get it the other twenty-three times . . .

  • WHAT? The 24th Tom Skipper Memorial Terlingua World Championship Golf Shoot-Out
  • WHEN? Friday - November 6, 2009 10:00 AM (best to arrive by 9:00 AM)
  • WHERE?The Alpine Country Club in Alpine, Texas.
  • WHY? To determine for the twenty-third time the World Champions at having fun on a golf course. If you think you are so good as to use this event to showcase your golfing skills and winning ways at the expense of others' fun, please apply here. Pencil whippers apply here.
  • FORMAT: Six-man team, non-handicapped, Florida Scramble, with Ranger Bob rule invoked: Par is given! If you didn't make birdie or better, write down par and go to the next tee . . . we ain't got all day.
  • AND: The entry fee is $40.00 / Golfer ($240.00 / Team) to be paid to golf course on arrival.
  • Entry Fee includes:
  • Cart, green fee and range balls
  • Food
  • All the fun you can make for yourself at no extra charge. If you don't wanna come out, we ain't gonna stop you.

If you are new to this Terlingua thing . . .

Most folks are here this first weekend in November on account of chili. The first World Chili Championship was settled at the State Fair of Texas in October of 1952 . . . the second Chili World Championship took place at Terlingua in October of 1967 and the tradition has continued here with there now being two Terlingua chili cookoffs, neither of which is a "World" Championship.

This chunk of the world is a little remote for a one day commute so camping out, motor homes, and motels are the choices available to visitors. General rule is that area motels tend to book completely up far in advance of this weekend, but if the reserved rooms have not been paid for by October 1, they become available to those on the waiting lists. Calls may be made to placed on a waiting list and then it all gets shaken out in early October.

The weather is mostly predictable in that it will be dry or not, cold or hot, or somewhere in between. It's just about like anywhere else in Texas . . . only more so. Best be ready for all the extremes all in the same day.

Terlingua ain't nearly so ragged or rugged as when she hosted her first chili function over forty years ago. Quite a few choices in the way of room and board where there were none at the inaugural Great Chili Confrontation in October of 1967.