Article: Concert Golf Partners Details Men's Cup, Women's Event Date
Concert Golf Partners Details Men's Cup, Women's Event Date
Glen Oaks Country Club of Des Moines won a second consecutive Men's Concert Cup at a reported net 47 under par. Concert Golf Partners' October 8, 2026 announcement placed Plantation Golf & Country Club of Venice, Florida, two strokes behind and the Country Club at Woodmore third, eight back.[1]
The event combined a par-3 contest, a practice round and two days of team competition at The Club at Renaissance in Fort Myers and Golf Club of the Everglades in Naples.[1] The next question for a reader seeing that winning total is straightforward: what does a net team score actually tell us?
The reported team and individual results
Teams consisted of three members and a golf professional. Glen Oaks' lineup was Nolan Grimm, Brandon Grimm, Nick Pirotte and PGA professional Chad Tracy. Pirotte returned from the previous winning team. Separately, Marsh Landing's PGA professional Tyler Gray shot 60 at Everglades. Corky Kopp of The Club at SpurWing made a hole-in-one on Renaissance's 161-yard 17th and won a golf cart.[1]
The announced Women's Concert Cup is October 25–27 at TPC Monterey at Pasadera.[1]
Why “47 under” needs its scoring label
A net result incorporates handicap treatment. The USGA's explanation for individual stroke play calculates net score by subtracting the Playing Handicap from gross score; a plus Playing Handicap is added instead.[2]
For a simple individual example, 80 gross strokes with a Playing Handicap of 10 becomes 70 net. That is an illustration of the calculation, not an example taken from the Concert Cup. The gross number records strokes played, while the net number includes the handicap adjustment.
A team total introduces another question: which scores count? The event announcement does not supply the complete score-counting formula or handicap allowances. The reported winning total therefore should not be read as one player's aggregate gross performance, nor reverse-engineered into a claim about how many birdies the team made.
The individual round mentioned above and the team's net result are different kinds of achievement. Keeping their labels attached makes both easier to appreciate. Removing “net” from a headline or treating every reported number as the same scoring category would obscure the competition being described.
The tradition behind the Concert Cup
Concert Golf's retrospective dates the annual Cup to 2015 and says a women's event was added in 2021. It describes member qualification, visiting host clubs and the social side of interclub competition. Its account of the 2023 men's event places that edition at Hiwan and The Ranch near Denver and records a Glen Oaks victory.[3]
For a member considering a similar event, the useful preparation begins before travel. Ask how the team is selected, what the professional's playing role is and whether there are local qualifying dates to meet. Those answers determine whether the event fits your plans more directly than the winning score from another edition.
The host courses add their own context
Concert Golf Partners' location page identifies an Arthur Hills-designed par-72 course in Fort Myers. It also describes The 54, an 18-hole par-3 layout woven into the main course.[4] The presence of that short-course option does not establish which layout was used for the Cup's par-3 contest.
Looking at a host club's course information can help a visiting player form useful practice questions. Which clubs might you want to test during the practice round? Where do you need a clear carry number? What information should be on your notes before competition begins? These questions encourage preparation without assuming that a public course description provides the tournament setup.
For the upcoming women's event, TPC Monterey at Pasadera describes its course as a Jack Nicklaus Signature design on the Monterey Peninsula.[5] Entry into the Concert Cup and access to a host club are matters to confirm with the organizers; a course information page is not an event registration.
Handicap questions to settle before the first tee
The USGA's Rule 6.2b explains that competitions using multiple tees can require additional adjustments depending on the scoring format and differences in par. The treatment is not identical for every kind of competition.[6]
That makes the event's written conditions important. Before playing a net team competition, ask the organizer for the assigned tees, the Playing Handicap calculation, the allowance being used and the method for counting team scores. A handicap number alone does not answer all of those questions.
Also clarify how ties are resolved and who is responsible for returning or confirming the team score. These are sensible questions for your own competition checklist, not claims about undocumented Concert Cup procedures. Getting them answered beforehand lets the group concentrate on play instead of trying to reconstruct the rules after a close finish.
A practical checklist for interested club members
- Qualification: Confirm eligibility, selection dates and how replacements are handled. Ask whether your club runs a local qualifier or uses another process.
- Playing format: Obtain the team-score rules and handicap conditions together. Keep them with the schedule so every teammate is working from the same information.
- Travel arrangements: Ask whether lodging, transportation or other arrangements are included before making separate bookings. Use the terms for your edition rather than assuming a past event's package applies.
- Practice: Identify what you need from the practice round—distances, target choices or coordination with teammates—and make brief notes you can use during competition.
The Cup announcement supplies the result and the next event date. The scoring explanation and preparation questions make that news more useful to a golfer who might enter a comparable club competition: understand the number being reported, obtain the actual event conditions and prepare for the format you will play.
