The necessary nonsense that is the Tom Skipper Memorial Terlingua World Championship Golf Shoot- Out was born of a newly rediscovered love for the game and a newly discovered golf course located just the other side of nowhere at a somewhere called Lajitas. That was back in the fall of 1986 when Ranger Bob and his brother Jeff Ritchey played to a tie and agreed to return next year to determine an undisputed World Champion. It was déjà vu all over again except this was golf and not a chili contest as was the case 19 years previous.

The following year approximately twenty invitations were mailed out and between the mail and word-of-mouth ten additional golfers decided to join in the fray. These golfers would become known as the Original Dirty Dozen. It was determined once again that Ranger Bob and Jeff Ritchey had tied for first place and it would be necessary to return the following year to break the deadlock. Tracy Keeling won the only prize with his closest-to-the-pin effort. An embroidered bag strap was graciously donated by the club manager, Jack Simpson.

From this humble and farcical beginning a new Terlingua whoopty-do to do took on a life of its own - it got as big, and remains as big, as golf cart availability allows.

Ranger Bob

Jeff

at the very first

Terlingua World Championship
Golf Shoot-Out

Tom Skipper's
Caddy-Dillo Cart