"We may only see each other one weekend a year, but please know we still consider this all one big dysfunctional family."
28 players. Two drafted teams. One Cup. Entry $400, payable promptly — Fife only counts those that paid.
Ryder Cup rules. Fourball Saturday morning, Alternate Shot Saturday afternoon, Singles Sunday.
The Cup. The trophy. MVP honors and next year's captaincy. And a full calendar year of bragging rights.
Patrons are reminded to attend the captains' parking-lot breakfast at 6:45, stand for the 7:30 group photo on the first tee, and bring both shirts so you're not That Guy.
Saturday Morning · Best ball, partner's mistakes forgiven. Mostly.
Saturday Afternoon · The format that invented the Sacko. Choose your partner's lies carefully.
Sunday · Revealed Saturday night in the suite at TSR. Nowhere to hide.
The technology caught up in 2019. It caught up again in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. Jim remained patient — a figurehead does not rush.
Seven years later, the website you are currently reading exists, and Jim did not build it. John did. The IT division has been restructured. Jim retains the Horse Race ledger and our full confidence.
Sixteen players and a $160 entry in 2013. A decade-long dynasty. A rule change to end it. The full story belongs to The Lore.
Thirteen years of ritual, ceremony, and at least one legally binding grudge bet.
The official invitation lands during Masters week, followed by five months of email overload. Death by email. You will be counted only if you paid.
Sandlot-style at Top Golf Scottsdale, with detours to Starfire, Mountain Shadows (Adam's ace), and Putting World (Doc's 50-foot bomb). Losing draft team pays the bar tab.
The ceremonial first tee shot, followed by the 7:30 group photo on No. 1. Attendance is not optional. Ask John about 2020.
In honor of Jerry Baumann. First won by Reed with a net 64 — a gross 78, Jerry's exact lifetime best. The prize is $78, and it will always be $78.
Awarded annually since 2019 to the Alternate Shot pairing that hurt each other the most. Nobody campaigns for it. Somebody always earns it.
MVPs named for both teams — who become next year's captains — the final Horse Race payout, and the Cup handed over with appropriate ceremony and inappropriate commentary.
Membership in this dysfunctional family is by invitation, lineage, or extraordinary acts of craftsmanship. The commissioner reviews all applications between his first and fourth email of the morning.
Petition the CommissionerFor the first time in fourteen years, the Cup is contested entirely by the next era — a scratch Godfather against a founder's son.
This page is reborn every year. Next September it becomes JACK XV, the names change, and the countdown starts again.
To be announced at the August draft. Twenty-eight names will be called. One of them will be Casey's, eventually. Live scoring runs on Golf Genius during tournament weekend, exactly as the founders' spreadsheets foretold.
What if we told you sixteen guys with a $160 entry fee built a major championship out of a municipal tee sheet, a Comic Sans email signature, and a bottle of Fireball?
May 3, 2013. An email goes out titled "UPDATE: UNNAMED RYDER CUP EVENT 2013." Sixteen players. $160. Gold tees at Talking Stick. By the end of the thread, it has a name — the initials of its four founders: Jim, Adam, Chris, Kory.
The inaugural Cup comes down to the 18th hole of the final singles match. Team Chris/Jim wins. Charlie Coil goes 3–0, takes MVP, and retires on the spot — the only perfect career in JACK history.
The institution arrives: a sandlot-style draft at Top Golf Scottsdale, where Team Kory/Adam "destroyed team jim and chris winning 7 straight challenges." On the course it's the same story — A/K win 10–6, the first of a decade. Doc documents the weekend in 1,097 photographs.
Twenty players now. Casey Treadwell makes a 224-yard hole-in-one — still the longest walk-off flex in tournament history. Brad's Horse Race game gets its first written rules from Kory: $5 a share, low-net horse takes the pot, and if nobody backed the winner, the horse keeps the money. Travis rides that clause to a legendary $350.
A third straight Cup for Adam and Kory. The Flexfit hat era begins via Jumpstitch, the Antigua polos flow through the McPhersons, and the JACK starts looking suspiciously like a real tour stop.
Adam's father Jerry Baumann passes in February at 70. That September — on the six-year anniversary of his double lung transplant — the Jerry Award debuts for low combined Saturday net. Reed wins it with a net 64 that was a gross 78: exactly Jerry's lifetime-best round. The prize is $78. It will never be anything else.
Elsewhere, the field grows to 24, and a grudge is born when Fife and Reed agree the loser of their bet takes a beer in the face.
Craig Chenery — Mesa Fire Captain, original 2013 member — passes away on August 11, six weeks before the tournament. Fife serves as liaison to the family; Doc suggests Craig's initials go on the shirts. His email stays on the distribution list for years. The JACK plays on that September, because that's what Craig would have wanted, and the hotel floods, because the JACK is still the JACK.
A/K again, 14.5–9.5. Travis Miller turns in a perfect 3–0 MVP weekend. At the bottom of the standings, a new tradition: the Sacko, awarded to the worst Alternate Shot team. Beer in the Face gets its photographic evidence. Jim's website work earns rare commissioner praise: "Just waiting on the technology to catch up." The technology has now caught up.
No Top Golf draft. Single carts. A masked group photo in 104-degree heat. And one absence the record books will never forgive: John sat out. As Fife later ruled, "It's all part of the lore of the JACK."
The JACK Cup debuts — a summer mini-tour of "majors" played in 30-mph wind (TRAIN at McCormick), at TPC Champions (DICE), and a one-club finale. Adam wins the inaugural Cup after Jim's collapse, a sentence that has been read aloud to Jim many times since.
The tenth playing. Twenty-eight players. And at the Mountain Shadows draft event, Adam makes a hole-in-one — "his hole in one tab was excessive, less the $400 skins pot he won." Fife loses his handicap list somewhere around hole 6, which everyone agrees is very on brand.
The sweetheart deal ends and the $400 era begins. The draft moves to Putting World, where Doc drains a 50-foot bomb and donates the winnings back. Casey and Jim take MVP honors — and with them, under the brand-new rule, the 2024 captaincies. After a decade, the Adam/Kory dynasty closes its books: undefeated, 2014–2023.
Kory Yule — the K in JACK, the Horse Race commissioner, the benevolent captain — passes in early 2024. In June, Doc follows. Fife's "Tough News" email says what there is to say: "Hug your people and tell them you love them when you have the chance."
The JACK answers the only way it knows how: it plays. Casey and Jim captain the first non-founder year. Kory's father Mark — "the Chaplain" — and his son Hudson join the field. Jim takes over the Horse Race, keeping Kory's rules word for word.
January 2025. Twelve members fly to Pebble Beach to spread Kory's ashes. Three rounds plus The Hay, a hired photographer who knew exactly what this group was carrying, and a $100 gambling pool — because, as the group agreed, "We have to gamble or Kory would be pissed!"
John — QB1, the 2024 MVP — captains JACK XIII against Curt. The tournament enters the Golf Genius era, finally giving Fife's thirteen years of spreadsheets the arena they deserved. Matt and Hudson take MVP honors. In December, TJL — The JACK League — launches on the simulator and fills sixteen spots in under a day.
September 12–13, 2026. Matt versus Hudson — a scratch Godfather against a founder's son. Thirteen years after sixteen guys and a $160 entry fee, the JACK hands the keys to the next era. The lore continues.
The JACK has never paid a branding agency, and it shows — in the best possible way. From whiskey bottle to swing silhouette, the mark grew up with the tournament.




Wayne "Doc" Botkin — dentist, JACK Cup original, keeper of the hospitality suite — shot 1,097 photographs of the 2014 weekend alone. Nearly every picture in this archive exists because Doc thought the moment mattered. At the 2023 Putting World draft he drained a 50-foot bomb and donated the winnings straight back to the pot, which tells you everything.
He was also the group's ceremonial bet — the one wager everyone agreed on.
Doc passed away June 13, 2024. His protege, Korey "KB" Boals, carries the torch — and presumably the camera.
Adam's father. His lifetime-best 78 lives on in the Jerry Award — $78, every year, forever.
Mesa Fire Captain. Original 2013 member. His initials rode on the shirts; his email stayed on the list.
The K in JACK. Horse Race commissioner. Benevolent captain. His rules are still read aloud, word for word.
1,097 photographs. The hospitality suite. The ceremonial bet nobody was dumb enough to place against.
Past the pro shop, down the dirty road, just past the barb wire — look for the neon lights. Welcome to the back room, degenerates. You know how it works.
Nuckman, photographed moments after being asked for his $5.
It started, as all great legal contracts do, with a double-dog dare: "C'mon McFly! What are you chicken?!" The terms are simple — lose the bet, take a beer in the face.
The photographic evidence, as promised. Note the second camera in the background — this group documents its contracts.
Two players. One ball. Infinite blame. The Sacko goes to the Alternate Shot pairing that did the most damage to each other's weekend, scorecard, and friendship.
Nobody has ever framed their Sacko. Everybody knows exactly who has one.
WMPO, The Players, all four majors. Founded by Kory and Jim, now run through easyofficepools. The pools fund legends: Dave Church once paid his entire JACK entry with Masters pool winnings, which remains the most responsible act of gambling in group history.
Draft-night honors: the old guard went 5–1 in bar-tab games while going 1–6 on the weekend. "If you can't play good, then you bet draft good. I suck." — Kory
Kory Yule was a founder, the Horse Race commissioner for nine years, the author of the phrase "degenerate gamblers" as a term of endearment, and the leader of the group's Miguel Angel Jimenez pre-round stretching routine. He signed victory emails as your winning captain and losing seasons with better jokes. When he passed in early 2024, the JACK did what Kory would have demanded: it kept playing, kept gambling, and brought his father and his son into the field. In 2026, his son captains a team.
The swing above was traced line for line into the mark you see at the top of every page — every hat, shirt, ball marker, and bag tag since. He has been on the logo the whole time. He isn't going anywhere.
"We may only see each other one weekend a year, but please know we still consider this all one big dysfunctional family."
"Your Winning Captain, Kory."
"Cash plays, bring small bills. There will be no IOU's Nuckman."
"PROS, NOT BRAD."
"If you can't play good, then you bet draft good. I suck."
"We all know how it works. Bring small bills."












Twelve members flew to Pebble Beach to spread Kory's ashes — three rounds plus The Hay, a hired photographer who understood exactly what this group was carrying, and a $100 pool, because some rules survive their commissioner.
Compiled from the commissioner's spreadsheet empire — every score logged since 2013. Disputes may be filed with Fife and will be read aloud at the parking-lot breakfast.
| No. | Year | Captains | Champion | Of Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | 2013 | Team Kory/Adam vs Team Chris/Jim | Team Chris/Jim | Decided on the 18th of the final match. Charlie Coil goes 3–0 and retires on top. |
| II | 2014 | Team Kory/Adam vs Team Chris/Jim | Team Kory/Adam | First Top Golf draft. Final: 10–6. Doc takes 1,097 photos. |
| III | 2015 | Team Kory/Adam vs Team Chris/Jim | Team Kory/Adam | Casey's 224-yard hole-in-one. The first Horse Race. |
| IV | 2016 | Team Kory/Adam vs Team Chris/Jim | Team Kory/Adam | Third straight. The Flexfit hat era begins. |
| V | 2017 | Team Kory/Adam vs Team Chris/Jim | Team Kory/Adam | First Jerry Award (Reed). Beer in the Face is born. |
| VI | 2018 | Team Kory/Adam vs Team Chris/Jim | Team Kory/Adam | Played with heavy hearts for Craig Chenery. The TSR hotel flooded. |
| VII | 2019 | Team Kory/Adam vs Team Chris/Jim | Team Kory/Adam | MVP Travis Miller goes 3–0. The Sacko debuts. Final: 14.5–9.5. |
| VIII | 2020 | Team Kory/Adam vs Team Chris/Jim | Team Kory/Adam | The COVID Playing — single carts, masked photo, 104°. John sat out. Never lived down. |
| IX | 2021 | Team Kory/Adam vs Team Chris/Jim | Team Kory/Adam | The JACK Cup season debuts; Adam takes the inaugural title. |
| X | 2022 | Team Kory/Adam vs Team Chris/Jim | Team Kory/Adam | JACK X. Adam's hole-in-one at the Mountain Shadows draft. |
| XI | 2023 | Team Kory/Adam vs Team Chris/Jim | Team Kory/Adam | The $400 era begins. The dynasty's final Cup: undefeated, 2014–2023. |
| XII | 2024 | Team Casey vs Team Jim | Team Casey | First MVP captains. The Kory & Doc year. Mark "the Chaplain" and Hudson join the field. |
| XIII | 2025 | Team John vs Team Curt | Team John | Final: 14–10. Captain vs captain singles: John def. Curt, 4&3. MVPs: Matt & Hudson. |
| XIV | 2026 | Team Matt vs Team Hudson | To be decided | September 12–13. The next generation takes the helm. |
Official JACK handicaps, computed by Fife from every gross score logged since 2013 — up to 22 rounds per man. These are not your club handicaps. These are more accurate, less forgiving, and final.
| Player | JACK Hcp | Rounds | Team W–L* | Matches ’25† | In the Books |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kory Yule | 7 | 16 | 7–1 | — | Founder & captain. Horse Race commissioner 2015–2023. The silhouette on the crest. |
| Adam Baumann "42" | 4 | 22 | 7–2 | 1–2 | Founder & captain. Dynasty architect. Inaugural JACK Cup champion. Two aces of lore. |
| Chris "Fife" Fifield | 7 | 21 | 2–7 | 3–0 | Founder. Commissioner. All-time email volume record holder. Backed up the trash talk in 2025. |
| Jim "Jimbo" Kearns | 14 | 21 | 1–8 | 1–2 | Founder & captain. The IT division. Horse Race keeper since 2024. Still waiting on the technology. |
| John "QB1" Anderson | 20 | 17 | 8–1 | 3–0 | 2024 MVP. 2025 winning captain. Sat out 2020; the record book forgives nothing else. |
| Matt "the Godfather" Abram | 4 | 18 | 4–2 | 3–0 | 2025 winning MVP. 2026 captain. Supplier of the JACK-logo Pro V1s. |
| Hudson Yule | 20 | 4 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 2025 losing-team MVP — went 3–0 in a losing cause. 2026 captain. The next generation of the K. |
| Curt "High-Low" Lonsdale | 17 | 22 | 2–7 | 0–3 | 2025 captain. Tied for most rounds logged in JACK history. |
| Casey Treadwell | 12 | 22 | 3–6 | 0–3 | 224-yard ace (2015). Two-time losing MVP. 2024 winning captain. Drafted last, perpetually. |
| Reed Treadwell | 11 | 22 | 6–3 | 1–2 | First Jerry Award (net 64). Two-time winning MVP. Beer-in-the-Face plaintiff. |
| Lou "the Ace" Meyer | 0 | 12 | 3–1 | 1–2 | The only scratch JACK handicap. Victim of Adam's 8&6 singles demolition, 2025. |
| Mick Kapanicas | 4 | 20 | 3–4 | 1–1–1 | Core since 2013. TJL Season 1, Team Fife. |
| Ben Lewis | 4 | 12 | 2–2 | 1–2 | Steady mid-70s machine. 6&5 singles winner, 2025. |
| Alex McPherson | 6 | 16 | 2–5 | 0–2–1 | The Antigua connection. Outfitter of the JACK since 2013. |
| Ron McPherson | 3 | 6 | 0–1 | — | The other Antigua connection. Plays less, scores lower. |
| Seth Shenfeld | 7 | 4 | 1–1 | — | Four rounds, one DNF, no fear. |
| Marty Armstrong | 8 | 12 | 0–2 | — | Core member of the white-shirt resistance. |
| Dale Crogan | 9 | 20 | 4–3 | 1–1–1 | IAFF Local 2260 President. Stood with Craig's family in 2018. |
| Steve Sumwalt | 11 | 18 | 3–5 | 1–2 | Quietly logged 18 rounds without a single scandal. Suspicious. |
| Todd "Nuckman" Nuckols | 12 | 18 | 3–3 | — | Ceremonial first tee shot. Cash only, by commissioner's decree. |
| Travis Miller | 13 | 8 | 1–1 | — | 2019 MVP (3–0). The $350 unclaimed-horse jackpot. The Top Golf hookup. |
| Kevin Yule | 14 | 18 | 5–1 | 1–2 | House of Yule. The best documented team record never to captain. |
| Garrett H. | 14 | 6 | 0–2 | — | Six rounds, all in the dynasty era. Wrong side of it. |
| Wayne "Doc" Botkin | 16 | 13 | 4–3 | — | 1,097 photographs. The hospitality suite. The ceremonial bet. (d. 2024) |
| Jeff "Kruegs" Krueger | 16 | 14 | 0–4 | — | Documented 0–4. Shoulder rehabbed by Ben's fiancée for 2024, allegedly. It can only go up. |
| Jay "J-Rich" Richardson | 17 | 16 | 3–3 | 2–1 | Alternate Shot specialist, 2025: two wins by 4&3 or better. |
| Dave "Church" Church | 18 | 14 | 4–1 | — | Paid his 2022 entry with Masters pool winnings. The most responsible gambler we have. |
| Wesley Lewis | 18 | 14 | 0–4 | 2–1 | Round 3 Low Net, 2025 (63). Personally fine; team cursed. |
| Christian "Tina" McDaniel | 19 | 17 | 4–3 | — | Mystery keepsake commissioner, 2024. |
| Randy "Tommy Two-Gloves" Ziegler | 20 | 11 | 3–1 | 1–2 | Won the 2021 TRAIN event in 30-mph wind. Two gloves, zero excuses. |
| John L. (Jonathan Liebe) | 20 | 8 | 2–1 | — | Commissioned the Damon Hack Cameo, the greatest media coup in JACK history. |
| Brad Douglass | 22 | 12 | 1–3 | — | Invented the Horse Race (2014). Once won $450 + MVP in the same year. |
| Craig "Head" Hernandez | — | 2 | 0–1 | — | Two rounds logged, handicap pending further evidence. |
| Charlie "Chuck" Coil | — | 6 | 1–0 | — | 3–0–0 career, 2013 MVP, retired on top. The only perfect career. Carhartt donor. |
| Craig Chenery | — | — | 4–1 | — | Original 2013 member. Mesa Fire Captain. His initials rode on the shirts. (d. 2018) |
| Dave Berriochoa | — | — | 1–0 | — | Half of the 2013 final-hole singles match that decided the first Cup. |
| Ryan Golseth | — | — | 1–1 | — | Dynasty-era cameo, perfectly balanced. |
| Mark "the Chaplain" Yule | — | 2 | 1–0 | 1–2 | Joined 2024. Round 3 Low Net runner-up, 2025 (64). House of Yule. |
| Tyler "Ty" Anderson | — | 3 | 1–0 | 2–1 | Joined 2025. Won Round 2 Low Net with his father in Alternate Shot (66). |
| Korey "KB" Boals | — | 3 | 1–0 | 3–0 | Doc's protege. A perfect 3–0 debut. Doc would have bet on him. Nobody else was allowed to. |
| Mason Banks | — | 3 | 0–1 | 0–2–1 | Next generation. Halved his first singles match — composure noted. |
| Carl Mickelson | — | 3 | 0–1 | 2–1 | Joined 2025. No relation claimed, no relation denied. |
| * Team W–L counts the nine years with documented rosters: 2013–2017, 2021–2023, and 2025. Rosters for 2018–2020 (all Team Kory/Adam wins) and 2024 (Team Casey) are still in Fife's archive — records will grow as they surface. † Individual match records from Golf Genius, 2025 — the first fully scored year. Earlier match-by-match results are being reconstructed. | |||||
Per the bylaws (unwritten, like all our bylaws), membership in the JACK is by invitation, bloodline, or being drafted last like Casey. The current waitlist is thirteen years long and Casey is still on it.
Your petition has been printed, reviewed at the parking-lot breakfast, laughed at, and used as a coaster for a QT breakfast burrito with extra gravy.
"WHO IS THIS? HOW DID YOU FIND THE WEBSITE? DID JIM FINALLY BUILD ONE?" — Fife
The Benevolent Captain's ruling stands, as it always will: "PROS, NOT BRAD." And definitely not you.