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The 2026 Poplar Creek Club Championship — August 15–16, 2026 For two days, Poplar Creek stopped being a golf course. It became an arena. Thirty-two players started Saturday carrying handicaps, ...

Poplar Golf Club Away Tournament Las Positas Golf Course — Saturday, July 25, 2026 - Individual Net There were no flight boundaries to hide behind. No separate leaderboards. No mathematical es...

Canepa, Liedtke, Baltor and Picchi capture the title, while a six-team traffic jam forms one stroke outside the money There are ordinary four-man scrambles, and then there are scrambles in which ev...

Saturday’s tournament was not ordinary golf. It was not best ball. It was not a scramble. It was not the kind of format where one player can quietly disappear for four holes and hope his partner ca...

Poplar Creek Golf Course — San Mateo, California Saturday, May 30, 2026 There are formats that reward one great player. There are formats that reward depth. And then there are formats like Saturda...

The club’s 5-Club Tournament delivered exactly what this format is supposed to deliver: uncomfortable choices, creative shotmaking, bruised egos, and a leaderboard that stayed tense until the final ca...

Thursday’s Senior Best Ball Tournament brought out one of the best formats in club golf: two players, one team score, and the constant pressure of knowing that every hole could be rescued — or ruined ...

It began as one of those tournament days where the weather gave nobody a clean excuse. Poplar Creek was sitting there in full qualifier mode: playable, scoreable, but not exactly handing out free pass...

Big congrats to this years 2026 Spring Handicap Champion Brian Cresta! He defeated Alfred Bogenhuber (Bogey) in the finals 3&1. He will get his name on the plaque when we get it back up when the res...

Saturday, February 21, 2026 was a perfect “winter tournament day” at Poplar Creek: the first groups went off at 7:30 AM in a cold start (high 30s), then the round steadily opened up into much friendli...

Saturday, February 7, 2026 felt like a true club day at Poplar Creek — steady pressure, a few momentum swings, and a lot of teams realizing (again) how powerful best-ball can be when even one partner ...

Last Saturday, the 7th of February, we held the annual NCGA 2-Man Best Ball Qualifier. Winning their flight and the overall was the team of Roger Stanley and Scott Rehn at a score of -10. Big congra...

Last Saturday, we held our 2026 4-Man Scramble Tournament. Aside from a little chill in the early morning, the weather was beautiful for mid-January. The winners of the tournament were Scott Rehn, Ro...

Last Saturday we held the 2-Man Razzle Dazzle at Poplar Lakes. It was a wet one out there on the ground, but beautiful weather helped make it a great day in the end. Coming in first in the first fli...

We held the 2025 Santa Ball on Saturday December 6th. The weather was great and fun was had by all. Always a fun format with trying to make sure no one loses the Santa Ball. Unfortunately there were...