NOVEMBER 2011
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Photos by James WallacE<br />
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Chaldean Ryder Cup<br />
rematch ends in a draw<br />
Young Guns still haven’t<br />
beaten their elders<br />
By Steve SteiN<br />
The Young Guns aren’t so<br />
young anymore and the Older<br />
Guys are, well, older. But<br />
their competitive fires on the golf<br />
course are still burning brightly.<br />
In a rematch of the inaugural<br />
Chaldean Ryder Cup competition<br />
held in 2000, the 16-man teams<br />
played to a 12-12 draw in the rain<br />
September 29 at The Orchards Golf<br />
Club in Washington before heading<br />
off to a post-match get-together at a<br />
Bloomfield Township restaurant.<br />
It was the first time the Ryder<br />
Cup was held at The Orchards since<br />
2000. Both rosters closely resembled<br />
the rosters from 11 years earlier. If<br />
there’s another rematch between<br />
the original Ryder Cup teams in the<br />
spring — and there’s talk about it<br />
— it would probably be at The Orchards.<br />
“I can see it happening. We all<br />
enjoy the Ryder Cup,” said John<br />
Kello, co-captain of the original<br />
Young Guns along with Michael<br />
Sarafa. “I don’t think it would be<br />
a stretch to say we’d like to do this<br />
one more time.”<br />
The Ryder Cup has moved<br />
around to different courses and<br />
gotten bigger through the years<br />
and there’s been a turnover in the<br />
teams. So the originals feel a special<br />
kindred toward each other and the<br />
uniquely Chaldean event.<br />
The regular annual Ryder Cup<br />
match was played in August at<br />
Shenandoah Country Club in West<br />
Bloomfield, its permanent home.<br />
The rematch at The Orchards was<br />
put together by the original teams.<br />
“All of us on the 2000 teams are<br />
friends, and we all want to win. That’s<br />
how the Ryder Cup got started,” Kello<br />
said. “There’s nothing better than<br />
beating your friends in sports.”<br />
The original Young Guns have<br />
yet to beat their friends on the original<br />
Old Guys team.<br />
“We kicked their butts the first<br />
time we played them,” said John<br />
Loussia, co-captain of the original<br />
Older Guys along with Johnny<br />
Karmo.<br />
“We won in a romp,” Karmo<br />
said. “I think there was a four- to<br />
six-point differential.”<br />
The rematch went right down to<br />
the wire. Needing all six available<br />
points in the final individual and<br />
two-man best-ball matches to win,<br />
the Young Guns came up with 5.5<br />
points and earned the tie.<br />
40 CHALDEAN NEWS <strong>NOVEMBER</strong> <strong>2011</strong>
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