Champions –
Good Flight: Todd Cook
Ugly Flight: John Decker & Reid Steinmann
Tenison Park – Highlands Course
Dallas, TX
October 1, 2010
OU 28 – TX 20
2010 witnessed a return to normalcy of sorts. The Sooners got back on the winning track and handed the hated horns one of their 7, yes SEVEN, losses on the year. It was another glorious, sunny day at the Cotton Bowl and we celebrated well into the night. Chicken in the Pot is ALWAYS better following a win in the Red River Shootout.
And the Ugly got back on track too as we returned to the hallowed grounds of Tenison Park and reprised Beer Golf. The 2010 installment was somewhat subdued compared to the original event in 1996. A byproduct of getting older, I guess.
Nevertheless, Bro Todd of TwistedEpicurean fame and Jim Buffington took the honors in the Good Flight, outlasting perennial contenders Geoff Wright and Ben Friedman and two other teams in a playoff that lasted well past dark. Rumors continue to fly about how they actually determined a winner but the one that involves a goat, $10, a bottle of booze and a hooker seems to be the most probable.
And in what can only be described as a ‘controversial’ decision by the Tournament Committee, the Ugly Flight was won by John Henry Decker and Reid ‘Steinomite’ Steinmann.
The controversy you axe?
As the scores were being tallied, the resident golf pro and official scorer at Tenison Park failed to document the number of empty beer cans in each cart as participants turned in their score cards. And when the final scores were tallied, the only team to save their cans happened to be the two drunkest idiots on the course.
Proudly and loudly, Decker and Steinmann stumbled up to the scorer’s table and deposited what can only be described as a pile of empty Coor’s Light cans that would have made Wade Boggs or even Andre the Giant blush. They had consumed a whopping 48 beers in 18 holes and as the only ones with evidence of their consumption, The Tournament Committee determined Team Decker was the only one allowed to deduct their beers from the otherwise putrid two-man scramble total of 82.
When the decision was announced, whails and cries and howls of derision erupted from the other participants. But the Tournament Committee had spoken and all decisions by the committee are final.
And who makes up the Tournament Committee you axe?
That would be me.
The 2025 Big Ugly 