Maryland won their third Potomac Cup and first in four years Sunday, but not before a rout turned into a nail-biter. After surging to a huge 15.5-8.5 lead after two days of doubles play, Virginia mounted a furious comeback in the singles matches over the back nine at Blue Ridge Shadows Golf Club in Fort Royal, Va., before bowing late, 19.5-16.5. It was Maryland's first Cup win on Virginian soil since the first event in 2001. The overall series stands at 5-3 Virginia.
The title of today's piece comes from Ian Fleming's classic, "Goldfinger." If you like the golf scene in the movie (filmed at England's Stoke Pages Golf Club, an inland parkland course), you have to read the book because you don't get one golf chapter - you get three - and the match instead takes place at St. George's, the Open Championship venue in the south of England. Run don't walk to the bookstore, because there's a reason why Ian Fleming was given the honor of Literary Lion. Not only was he the father of an entire genre - espionage novels - he wrote crisp, lean, athletic prose; yet he also had sparkling word sense that can be pretty when it needed to be, and poignant when it had to be.
As fog slowly burns away from the first tee at Blue Ridge Shadows Golf Course in Fort Royal, Va., captain Jeff Sheehan finds himself in an unfamiliar position: his Maryland amateur golf team leads the Potomac Cup for the first time in three years. The jocular, ruddy-faced Sheehan - known simply as "Cappy" to his team - breathed a sigh of relief as Maryland survived the morning modified alternate shot format without the carnage of the past two years, then rode both Cup rookies and savvy veterans in the afternoon best-ball matches to power en route to an 8-4 lead after the first day of play.
Water's Edge Country Club has reopened following a $5 million renovation by golf architect Richard Mandell and Aspen Corporation. Details of the remodel were showcased during a recent grand reopening ceremony at the facility in Union Hall, Va.
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