fable forest Fall classic
Hunting for the booty
October 5, 2024 • Rockway Golf Course • 24 Players • 2-Person Scramble
A Pirate’s Life for Us
Twenty-four golfers descended on Rockway Golf Course for the third Fall Classic, ready to hunt for treasure and take a few questionable shortcuts along the way.
With a pirate theme, custom artwork, prizes, and a growing crew of returning players and new recruits, the tournament was becoming an annual adventure.
There was golf to be played and Kenny’s Cup to be won. How teams got there depended on their shots, their strategy, and their willingness to embrace the nonsense.
Champions
🏆 Kenny's Cup Champs - Michael Cherevaty & Scott Lackenbauer
How the Day Played
The two-person scramble returned with strategy tickets, throws, par-three mulligans, the seven-iron hole, and pirate-themed challenges.
Teams could spend tickets to move their ball without taking a stroke or use a well-timed toss to escape trouble. Of course, having options didn’t necessarily mean making good decisions.
The pirate edition was the year the Fall Classic truly began to feel like an event. With twenty-four golfers and a theme that extended beyond the scorecard, the tournament had found a playful identity it could reinvent each year.
Michael Cherevaty and Scott Lackenbauer navigated the chaos to claim Kenny’s Cup, becoming the tournament’s first championship team without Jason Green.
Moments We’ll Remember
~ A Par-Four “Hole-in-One”
On the ninth hole, Adrian drove the green on a par four.
That alone was worth celebrating. But with his ball roughly fifteen feet from the cup, Adrian and Jay spotted an opportunity: spend enough strategy tickets to cover the remaining distance and finish the hole in one stroke.
An official hole-in-one? No. / A Fall Classic hole-in-one? Absolutely.
Then Adrian decided to try the fifteen-foot putt anyway, just to see whether he could have made the two. He sank it. Which immediately raised the question: had they just wasted fifteen feet of tickets?
They had saved a stroke, but whether those tickets might have been more useful later was suddenly up for debate. Adrian and Jay didn’t win the tournament, but they left with a par-four “hole-in-one,” an unnecessary made putt, and a story worth keeping.
~ The Oscars Arrive… Briefly
The Long Drive and Closest to the Pin competitions became the Oscar Challenges in 2024. Naturally, the winners needed little Oscars of their own.
Jay found miniature Oscar-style statues and added homemade white labels to turn them into custom trophies.
The labels started falling off.
Tape was introduced.
Things got worse.
The finished trophies looked terrible, providing a valuable lesson in why professional trophy makers exist.
The intention was good: give the winners a fun keepsake alongside their prizes, something to remember the day by. The execution needed work.
We would keep experimenting with that idea. We would never make the trophies that way again.
