2024 Member + Tournament Award Winners

Team Chesapeake’s list of winners and player accomplishments for 2024!

2024 Membership Special Awards Winners

The 2024 Chesapeake Bay Golf Club Membership Special Awards ceremony was held Sunday, November 10, 2024 in the Trophy Room.  We’d like to congratulate, honor and thank all of the players and winners this season. It was a great year for Team Chesapeake!

League & Tournament Results

• 2023 Turkey Shoot: Paudie MacManus & Eric Nickler (-2)
• 2023-2024 Simulator League Season IV Champions: Lucas Kilgore & Brandon Cohee
• St. Patrick’s Day: Randy Burton, George Armstrong, Pete Petersen, Matt Benner (+26 Gross, +4 Net)
• Masters Jacket: Kurtis Manuel & Ludvig Aberg (+2)
• Spring Classic: Mark Thompson (17 Stableford points)
• Spring Stag Day: George Armstrong & Vince Brooks (-12)
• Memorial Day Mixer: Chris Felix, RJ Saxton, Ron Saxton, Phil Snyder (-36)
• 18th Annual Paul Gehring Memorial Cup: George Armstrong, Bryan Shaffer, & Tom Lee (-7)
• Net Club Championship: Men’s Net Club Champion: Randy Burton (-2), Ladies’ Net Club Champion: Cheryl Nye (-1)
• Red, White, & Blue: Back Flight Champion: JJ Psenicska (-1), Forward Flight Champion: Steve Jordan (+7)
• 55th Men’s & Ladies’ Club Championship:
  • Men’s Club Champion: Zach Barbin (65-70, -9)
  • Men’s A Flight Champion: Justin Eldreth (74-78, +8)
  • Men’s B Flight Champion: Randy Burton (81-82, +19)
  • Men’s C Flight Champion: Ken Capolongo (90-86, +32)
  • Men’s D Flight Champion: Doug Phillips Sr (86-97, +39)
  • Ladies’ Club Champion: Arlene Zamora (80-74, +10)
  • Ladies’ B Flight Champion: Dona Wakeman (104-94, +54)
• Summer Stag Day: Ross Mickle & Sandy Cornell (-8)
• 33rd Annual Junior Club Championship:
  • Boys Champion: Noah Wallace (+1)
  • Girls Champion: Brooke Burge (+39)
• The Big Three: Jen Benner & Denise Medlar (-9)
• Labor Day Mixer: Andrew Barbin Jr, Jordan Fieger, Chris Fieger, Dan Fieger (-13 gross, -18 net)
• Wednesday Night League Champions: Randy Burton & Kent Morgan
• Chesapeake League Champions: Chris Felix & RJ Saxton
• Men’s & Ladies’ Senior Club Championship:
  • Men’s Senior Club Champion: Randy Burton (76)
  • Men’s Super Senior Champion: Bill Bogle (75)
  • Men’s Ultra Senior Champion: Dick Hall (78)
  • Ladies’ Senior Club Champion: Arlene Zamora (75)
• Jack & Jill: Pete Petersen & Keven Lawson (-2 Gross, -8 Net)
• 6th Annual Chantilly Shootout:
  • A Flight: Austin Barbin & Jim Coonan (-7)
  • B Flight: Caiden Jordan & Justin Eldreth (+7)
  • C Flight: Ross Mickle & Matt Kozemchak (+21)
  • D Flight: Matt Benner & Paul Zippel (+24)
• Harry C Barbin Jr President’s Cup: Jake Eldreth

Special Awards Winners

• Tournament of Champions Winner: Pete Petersen
• 2024 Player of the Year: Randy Burton
• Most Improved (Men): Paul Zippel
  • Beginning Handicap Index on April 1st was 22.7 to 15.7 Index. An improvement of 7 USGA Index Points Dropped.
• Most Improved (Ladies): Lai Li
  • Beginning Handicap Index on April 1st was 39.7 to 25.2. An improvement of 14.5 USGA Index Points Dropped.

Team Chesapeake Accomplishments

• Team Chesapeake won the C Flight in the BMW GAP Team Matches and will be moving on to the B Flight which features the Challenge Matches.
• Delaware Women’s Amateur Champion (Arlene Zamora)
• GAP Parent-Child Runner Up: Brian & Lucas Kilgore

Junior Golf Performances by our Members

We had several Chesapeake Bay Golf Club junior members compete in a lot of different regional and national tournaments in 2024:

• Maryland District VII Co-Medalist (Lucas Kilgore)
• Williamson Cup Runner Up (Noah Wallace)
• Cecil County High School Champion (Evan Smith)
• US Kids Tour Championship (Evan Smith)
• Under Armour Tour Champion (Evan Smith)

Collegiate Golf Performances Fall 2024

We have several junior members / employees play at the collegiate level: Evan Barbin (Liberty University), Noah Wallace (Wilmington University), Joe Madden (Millersville), Braden Paris (McDaniel), Johnny Waldridge (Penn State Harrisburg).

• Noah Wallace:
  • CACC All-Tournament Team for Wilmington University (3rd in CACC Championship)
  • CACC Rookie of the Week (was runner up in second ever college tournament)
• Evan Barbin:
  • 4th at Duke University’s Rod Myers Invitational

USGA Results:

• Austin Barbin played in the U.S. Open Regional Qualifier
• Austin Barbin and Evan Barbin played in the 124th U.S. Amateur at Hazeltine

DSGA Results:

• Evan Barbin won the 73rd Delaware Amateur – 13 Under par
• Noah Wallace 73rd Delaware Junior Amatuer – T3 Finish
• Arlene Zamora Delaware Women’s Amateur Champion – 2nd time

MSGA Results:

• Zach Barbin 103rd Maryland Open finished T1 Lost in Playoff (Noah T25, Austin T35)
• Austin Barbin 103rd Maryland Amateur Champion
• Noah Wallace 100th Maryland Junior Amateur Champion

GAP and PAGA Results:

• Austin Barbin 124th Philadelphia Amateur Champion
• Chesapeake team won the C Flight division of GAP TEAM and will move on to B Flight and Challenge Matches
• GAP Parent-Child Runner Up: Brian & Lucas Kilgore
• 110th GAP Junior Amateur Runner Up – Noah Wallace
• 122nd Patterson Cup – Austin Barbin 4th
• 120th Philly Open – Zach Barbin 3rd
• 111th Pennsylvania Amateur — Evan Barbin Finished 7th
• GAP Silver Cross – Austin Barbin – 2nd
• GAP Player of the Year – Austin Barbin 2nd

 Philadelphia PGA

• Andrew Barbin, Jr finished the season T12 in the Tour Championship
• Zach Barbin finished 3rd – PGA Scoring Avg- 70.11
• Zach Barbin had 2 professional wins in 2024 – Burlington Classic and Philadelphia Assistants Championship

Been an amazing year of accomplishments for Team Chesapeake!