Founders' Day
The Club's annual tribute to Mark Ayers and Dean Chase, and to the founding conviction that a bogey is an honest result.
Once a year the Club pauses to remember that it was founded on purpose. Mark Ayers and Dean Chase did not set out to build another scorecard-and-handicap club; they set out to organize a fellowship around walking, camaraderie, and the target of bogey—match play, hole by hole, against Colonel Bogey—and then, with characteristic seriousness about an unserious thing, gave it a constitution and adopted Robert's Rules to run it by.
Founders' Day is the round played in that spirit. There is no special format and no prize; the point is the founding motto, said aloud on the first tee and meant—"We can make bogey here, right?"—and a toast afterward to the two who decided the game was worth organizing on these terms rather than the usual ones.
It is, admittedly, a little absurd for a club this size to hold a day in honor of its own founding. The founders would be the first to say so, which is precisely why the day is kept.
