GRC I

GRC I

2020 · La Quinta, California

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La Quinta Dunes · PGA West · 16 players

Final score · match points

11

Big Putts

9

Landscaping Duty

The inaugural Cup. Sixteen players, two teams, three days in the desert.

Day One · Scramble · La Quinta Dunes

Big Putts surged out of the gate to a commanding 3–1 lead.

Day Two · Best Ball · PGA West · Nicklaus

A grind. The gap looked to be closing but ended the same way — Big Putts 5½–2½.

Day Three · Singles · PGA West · Norman

Captain Maxx Mamula bought his team Tiger-red polos for the final day. Landscaping Duty charged early behind Johnny Umamoto and tied it up, leaving the fate to the last two groups. Big Putts closed it out 11–9.

Everyone received GRC head-covers, polos and hats. The winning team got something extra to commemorate it.

GRC I · Photography

15 photos from 2020.

The winning side in red polos under the clubhouse portico, one player holding the trophy overhead, towels held out at either end.
The winning side in red polos under the clubhouse portico, one player holding the trophy overhead, towels held out at either end.
The Gold Rush Cup - a tall brass urn on a wooden plinth - on a patio table against a yellow stucco wall, red geraniums beside it.
The Gold Rush Cup - a tall brass urn on a wooden plinth - on a patio table against a yellow stucco wall, red geraniums beside it.
A green sitting behind still water, flagstick to the left, palms and desert mountains along the horizon.
A green sitting behind still water, flagstick to the left, palms and desert mountains along the horizon.
A hole framed by palms with a bare mountain range rising behind it, bunkers cut into the mounding.
A hole framed by palms with a bare mountain range rising behind it, bunkers cut into the mounding.
A lake mirroring a line of palms in front of a green complex, low clubhouse buildings and mountains behind.
A lake mirroring a line of palms in front of a green complex, low clubhouse buildings and mountains behind.
A tall palm in the foreground over a fairway that bends around a lake, villa rooftops and a mountain ridge beyond.
A tall palm in the foreground over a fairway that bends around a lake, villa rooftops and a mountain ridge beyond.
A wide fairway with bunker shadows falling across the mounding, ringed by palm groves.
A wide fairway with bunker shadows falling across the mounding, ringed by palm groves.
A tee view down the hole, two tall palms framing the right edge, bunkering and villas along the left.
A tee view down the hole, two tall palms framing the right edge, bunkering and villas along the left.
A fairway climbing between grass mounds toward a line of palms, desert rough along the right.
A fairway climbing between grass mounds toward a line of palms, desert rough along the right.
A green beside a lake, the mountains softened by high cirrus, palms lining the far bank.
A green beside a lake, the mountains softened by high cirrus, palms lining the far bank.
A player in a grey and black shirt walking off the tee after a shot, the ball still teed, fairway stretching ahead.
A player in a grey and black shirt walking off the tee after a shot, the ball still teed, fairway stretching ahead.
Two players on a green with deep bunkers below it, palms and a ranch roofline behind.
Two players on a green with deep bunkers below it, palms and a ranch roofline behind.
Low sun breaking over the mountains at the end of a round, long shadows running down an empty fairway.
Low sun breaking over the mountains at the end of a round, long shadows running down an empty fairway.
Fourteen players in grey and black team shirts lined up across a green, desert trees behind them.
Fourteen players in grey and black team shirts lined up across a green, desert trees behind them.
A wide view over sandy waste bunkering to a white clubhouse, tall pines framing both sides and a flag in the foreground.
A wide view over sandy waste bunkering to a white clubhouse, tall pines framing both sides and a flag in the foreground.

The record

Cup
Year
Venues
Champion
Result
I
2020
La Quinta Dunes · PGA West
Big Putts
11 – 9
II
2021
Desert Willow · SilverRock
Team Daly
16 – 12
III
2022
Escena · Desert Willow
The OG's
15 – 11 – 7 – 7
IV
2023
Desert Willow · PGA West
The OG's
19 – 13
V
2024
Wolf Creek · Conestoga
The OG's
18½ – 13½ †
VI
2025
Desert Willow · PGA West
Putt Pirates
25 – 19 †
VII
2026
We-Ko-Pa · TPC Scottsdale
The OG's
30½ – 25½
VIII
2027
Pinehurst No. 4, No. 8, No. 10
To be decided
March 18–21

† Final score computed from the published day-by-day totals — the recap for that year doesn't state one.