The Mulligan Tour’s Eastern Division made the short trip to Madison Heights on Friday evening, June 19th, for one of the tour’s most unique formats — a nine-hole stroke play qualifier followed by a five-hole putt-off Shootout at Red Oak Golf Course. Before anyone could compete for the trophy, they had to earn their way in, and with the cutline sitting at net +2, the qualifying round delivered its own drama well before the first Shootout putt was struck.
Elizabeth Jolliffe stood on the ninth tee at net +1, looking like a lock to advance — until an untimely double bogey slammed the door and pushed her to net +3, one stroke outside the cut. In the final group, Chuck Withey faced a starker calculus: birdie nine or go home. He stepped up with driver and promptly sent his tee shot two fairways over. The recovery angle was unforgiving; his approach found the front right bunker, and just like that, the two-time Red Oak champion was on the wrong side of the cutline, also finishing at net +3. Neither went home empty-handed, though — Jolliffe grabbed the closest-to-the-pin prize on hole 8 for $10 cash, and Withey claimed the $20 MT account credit on hole 2. Small consolation, perhaps, but a prize is a prize. The five players who punched their tickets to the Shootout: Joe Brandenburg, Mike Prieskorn, Greg Fobare, Rich Dunmore, and Jeff Feikens — all finishing at net +2 or better.
The Shootout itself unfolded like a heist movie, with Rich Dunmore looking every bit the leading man through the middle holes. Dunmore won this event back in 2015 and 2021, and on hole two of the putt-off he buried a 52-footer to seize a two-point lead with three holes remaining. That cushion held through hole four, setting the stage for the deciding moment — a ten-foot uphill putt on hole five, no break, the kind of straight-line test that rewards nerve over technique. Greg Fobare, sitting at 12 points heading into the final hole, pulled the putter back and rolled it true, finishing at 17 points and planting his flag at the top of the leaderboard. Now it was Dunmore’s turn. Make the putt, win the tournament. Miss it, go home second. The putt started on line — and stopped short of the cup relegating Dunmore to bridesmade status for the 3rd time in 2026. Joe Brandenburg then converted his final putt to tie Dunmore at second, splitting the $17.50 runner-up money. Prieskorn and Feikens took the remaining payouts.
Greg Fobare has now won three tournaments in 2026 — the Animal House Classic, the Harbour Pointe Open, and the Red Oak Shootout — and every single one of them was decided by a putt-off. Three wins. Three sudden-death putting showdowns. Three times Fobare stepped up with the tournament on the line and drained the decisive putt. That’s not a hot streak. That’s an identity. Somewhere between the Animal House and Red Oak, Greg “Iceman” Fobare has become the Mulligan Tour’s most dangerous man when the putter comes out and the pressure goes up — a nickname earned the hard way, one clutch hole at a time. Rich Dunmore has now been on the wrong end of that equation twice, and if these two meet again with a trophy on the line, you already know who the crowd will be watching. The Mulligan Tour heads to Beacon Hill for the C Cool on Saturday June 27 and to Stony Creek Metropark for the 50 Cent Classic on Sunday, where Dunmore — and everyone else — gets another shot at a man who simply does not miss when it matters most.