Second Annual Birchleggings Club Golf Classic Wrap-Up

The Second Annual Birchleggings Club Golf Classic was held at Creeks Bend Golf Course in New Prague, MN on July 17, 2025. In addition to supporting the Birkie experience, participants enjoyed a great day of golf on a bluebird morning with temperatures in the high 70s. There were 77 golfers on the course, plus additional people who did not golf but donated directly to the event.  The goal for next year is 100 + golfers! Mark your calendars for next year’s golf scramble, scheduled for Thursday, July 23, 2026

Folks from the American Birkebeiner Ski Foundation said, "It was great to spend the day with a group of amazing, passionate people supporting the lifestyle we all love! Getting people out, enjoying new friendships while raising money for the Birchleggings Club was awesome - the start of a new summer tradition!"

 

At the time of this article, the final numbers are still coming, but the money raised will be similar to last year. Money raised by the golf event will be used to keep improving the Birkie trail system, maintain grooming equipment, support youth skiing, support the Birkie Green sustainability initiative, and contribute to the development of Telemark Village.

Many event participants went home with raffle and silent auction prizes donated by over 50 vendors. New this year was moving the silent auction to an online bidding site called Givebutter, which went very well.  Thank you to Gina Fadden, Kelli Hall and Paula Britz for assisting golfers with setting up bidding accounts for the website on their phones.

Team and individual prizes were awarded to the following golf participants:

The Golf Tournament Championship Team was awarded to the foursome team of Mark Strege, Dave Hovel, Steve Davis and Ben Robe.

2^nd place – Jason Stockwell, Matt Folkerds, George Allendorf and Curtis Johnson.

Tie-3rd place – Jody O’Brien, Scott O’Brien, Luke O’Brien, Tracy Bruan.

Tie-3rdplace- Kyle Nordine, Chris Knoll, Mike Flicek and Scott Blum.

The 150-yard target course winner was Willie Borm.

Kyle Nordine was closest to the pin contest winner. 

The longest golf putt was awarded to Dave Britz.

Accuracy Drive goes to Willie Borm.

Early bird registration drawing goes to Ralph Bovard.

The putting contest was won by Mark Busse.

 

The Birchleggings Club board of directors sends its thanks to all the volunteers, the American Birkebeiner Ski Foundation staff, especially Louise Droessler, and vendor sponsors for making the 2025 Birchleggings Club Golf Classic a huge success.

 

Special thanks to Jim Haubrich, Paula Britz, Kelli Hall, Gina Fadden, Linda & Dick Perbix, LuAnn Tangen, Linda Davis, Linda Hovet, Sue Strege and JoAnn Rutherford for helping with all the activities the day of the golf tournament.

 

Thank you, Louise Droessler, for assisting us with registration on the RunSignup website again this year. Thank you to Gina Fadden, Paul Thompson and others who contributed photographs of the tournament for our website. A big thanks to James Tenorio for all his technical support in getting the golf information out to last year's golfers and the Birchleggings Club membership. A huge thanks to Bob Britz for the overall coordination and leadership of the event and for the vision to create such a successful fundraiser for the Birchleggings Club. It was very much appreciated! 

 

More photographs from the event can be seen on the Birchleggings Club Facebook Page. You do not have to be a member of Facebook to view the photos!