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Velie Memorial Cup
The Velie Memorial Cup, more commonly known as the Velie Cup, is an annual golf tournament held among several country clubs in the Quad-Cities area of Illinois and Iowa. The tournament derives its name from a silver loving cup offered to the Rock Island Arsenal Golf Club by members of the Velie family in memoriam to Willard L. Velie and son Willard L. Velie, Jr. The senior Velie was founder and president of the Velie Motor Corporation and Willard Jr. was an executive. Both were members of the Arsenal Club; Willard Jr. was an accomplished golfer winning several amateur golf titles. Willard Sr. died in 1928 and Williard Jr. in March 1929 at the age of 32.
The Velie Cup was to be awarded to the winner of a summer-long golf tournament featuring four private clubs of the tri-cities (as it was known then) in team competition. In a 7 June 1929 newspaper article, the Davenport Democrat and Leader commented that:
“In serving as a memorial, the cup will incidentally be a stimulus to tri-city inter-club competition. Thus it will make for a more completely rounded season schedule of golf activities, heightening the interest and bringing the several clubs of the community into closer relationships.”〔
==Inaugural Tournament==
The inaugural Velie Cup was played in 1929. Four competitions were held over the summer months with one played at each of the participating golf courses. Each contest consisted of two 18-hole rounds played on a single day. The four clubs separately fielded a roster of eight men. Two-ball foursomes (alternate shot) were played during the morning and singles competitions were held that afternoon. All matches were stroke play. The Velie Cup was awarded to the team that amassed the most points over the four competitions conducted under what was known as the intercollegiate system. 〔Using the intercollegiate scoring format, each club ranked its players one through eight. For the two-ball matches, the number one and number two man of each club would be paired as would the three and four ranked and so on down through eight players. These pairing would compete against their counterparts on the other teams. For the singles matches, the number one player would compete against the number one player from each team, number two would compete against the 2nd ranked players and so on. The winner of each match received a point (or a half point for a tie) and a half point for each hole for which it had a lower score. For instance, if player group one scored as follows: Arsenal - 72, Davenport - 74, Short Hills – 74; and Black Hawk Hills – 76, the Arsenal Club player would receive one point for each player bested or three points. Davenport and Short Hills would each receive 1 ½ points for beating the Black Hawk Hills player and the tie. The Black Hawk Hills player would receive no points. For the second part of the scoring equation, if the Arsenal player bested the Davenport competitor on a total of four holes, Short Hills three holes and Black Hawk Hills five holes, he would receive a total of six points. The six points is added to the match win of three points for a total of nine points for the Arsenal player. The same calculations would apply to the Davenport, Short Hills and Black Hawk Hills players of that grouping.〕 The winner of the first Velie Cup event was Davenport Country Club.
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