GameBook Cup

Golf GameBook Cup 2012 Captains. Team USA Stewart Cink. Team Europe Johan Edfors.

Weekly Cup News

The latest details about the Golf GameBook Cup will be added on this page; the weekly winning category, tournament status, and other information on the way. Latest news on the top!

As soon as we have the first results about who is leading, USA or Europe, we will share it here, and of course on the official GameBook Cup web page.

Meanwhile we share snippets from Twitter and other media where the Cup is discussed.

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Team USA Wins the GameBook Cup 2012!

Congratulations Team USA & Captain Stewart Cink for winning the Golf GameBook Cup 2012! Final Standings were USA 6,5 – EUR 3,5 as Team USA won three points on the Final Week. All the five categories from previous weeks were played together on the Final Week.

Check out the Final scores from Cup’s official web page.

We would like to thank all who participated in the GameBook Cup during the last six weeks. We wrote history together: this was the Largest Golf Contest Ever. Over 120,000 rounds were played and over 130,000 birdies made! Over all over 2,5 million holes total were played! And almost 5 million putts total during those.

There were players from 23 different countries, thank you!

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The Winner of the 5th Weekly Challenge & The Challenge of the Final Week

Congratulations Team Europe & Captain Johan Edfors! The 5th weekly challenge – The continent with better putting average – has been won by EUR with 1.87 putts per hole to USA’s 1.9 – and this means that the current situation is 3-2 for Team USA. Very interesting final week ahead!

The Total of 5 points are on the line and the continents are competing in all those five categories from previous weeks at the same time.

Join the game and make sure that you have stats turned on and have a red-hot putter, make lots of birdies, succeed on par 3 holes, play your net score under 80 shots as well as avoid triple bogeys or worse! Easy 🙂

Good luck!

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Tournament Week 5 (Aug 27 – Sep 2)

The challenge of the 5th week:

The Winner will be the Continent with a better putting average.

As we are counting putts this week, it is important that you have your statistics on your GameBook profile.

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Very nice, Sami! And good luck, Heidi-Tuulia!

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The Winner of the 4rd Weekly Challenge

The Winner of the Golf GameBook Cup week is TeamUSA. Congratulations!

The challenge for week 4 was “the continent with more rounds under net score 80″.  Team USA had 59% of the rounds under that score, against Europe’s 57%. So the current situation is now 3-1 for USA.

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Tournament Week 4 (Aug 20 – Aug 26)

The challenge of the 4th week:

The Winner will be the Continent with more rounds under net score 80.

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Thank you, Sami!

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The Winner of the 3rd Weekly Challenge

The Winner of the Golf GameBook Cup week is TeamUSA. Congratulations!

The challenge for week 3 was “the continent with fewer triple bogeys or worse”.  Team USA had 2.97 of those per round against Team Europe’s 3.12 per round. So it is 2-1 for USA.

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Tournament Week 3 (Aug 13 – Aug 19)

The challenge of the 3rd week:

The Winner is the Continent with Fewer Triple Bogeys or worse.

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The Winner of the 2nd Weekly Challenge

The Winner of the Golf GameBook Cup week is Team Europe. Congratulations, entire team & captain Johan Edfors!

The challenge for week 2 was “the continent with better par 3 average” and the winning figures were as follows: Europe 3.98 strokes to USA 4.04. So it is a tie 1-1 situation now.

The week 3 challenge:  GameBook Cup winner is the continent with fewer triple bogeys or worse! Is this your opportunity to shine? : ) Join the race!

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Tournament Week 2 (Aug 6 – Aug 12)

The challenge of the 2nd week:

The Winner is the Continent with Better Par 3 Average.

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August 6th, 2012

NHL-hockey player Teemu Selänne hosted a charity event for Finnish Flash ry at beautiful Linna Golf. Our superstar had pretty good swing by the way, check it out here:

Teemu’s drive on the 4th hole

Teemu and his teams made several birdies for the Team Europe (oops, exact figure missing right now – will update later).

GameBook’s own Olli took some nice pics of Teemu, coach Jalonen, Timo Jutila, Valtteri Filppula and many more.

The picture show from Finnish Flash Golf

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The Winner of the 1st Weekly Challenge  

The first week of the Golf GameBook Cup is now behind us and we are very glad to announce the winner of the week: Team USA.

More than 20.000 rounds were played during the first competition week and it was very tight between the continents all the way. Finally, Team USA accelerated well during the weekend and managed to raise the average to 1.08 birdies per round when Europe’s average was 1.02 birdies per round.

Congratulations, Captain Stewart Cink and congrats all the US golfers who are with us in this historic tournament!

Time to start to chase this week’s challenge: The Continent with Better Par 3 Average!

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Tournament Week 1 -(July 30 – Aug 5)

The first week’s contest category:  the winner is the continent that makes most birdies.

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August 4,2012

GameBook Team, led by Mane Manerus, played 18 holes in the Helsinki Golf Club resulting in four birdies. Here’s Mane scorecard, he made three of those.

Mikko ‘Mane’ Manerus scorecard from Aug 4, 2012.

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Toni Aalto from Pori, Finland, continues to support the Team Europe.

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August 3, 2012 

The status of the weekly challenge is as follows:

Team USA leads with a tiny margin! Well done and congrats Captain Stewart Cink!

So, this weekend Team Europe should work hard! Two more days to go and defend your continents pride. The GameBook team will play early tomorrow morning, led by Mikko ‘Mane’ Manerus. Birdies ordered!

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August 3, 2012

Team Europe is fighting hard >

Continued good game by Mikko Ilonen and Tuomas Siivonen, resulting in four (4) birdies for Europe. Awesome!

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Peter Uihlein played well today!

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August 1, 2012

Finnish Challenge – part of the European Challenge – in Kytäjä Golf started with Pro-Am. GameBook’ s Olli Lehtonen took some nice pictures of the happy crowd making birdies for the cup.

Here’s a link to the Flickr picture set from Kytäjä Golf Pro-Am:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/golfgamebook/sets/72157630867591580/show/

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Kalle Väinölä  & Mikko Ilonen @ Challenge Tour Pro-Am

Mikko Ilonen made three birdies for the Team Europe in the Golf GameBook Cup during the Pro-Am in Kytäjä Golf.

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Happy golfer announces his successful golf round which resulted in four birdies. Well done, Tuomas!

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Birdie from Pori, thanks Toni Aalto!

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Kalle Väinölä made an eagle from 82 meters, and asks if that could be counted as two birdies 🙂
In par with Mikko Ilonen’s Kalle also made three birdies during the Pro-Am.

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Kick off July 30, 2012 USA

Captain of the Team USA Stewart Cink speaks to his fellow golfers in the USA

Kick off July 30, 2012 in Finland

GameBook founder Kalle Väinölä, together with Mikko Rantanen and Markus Mikola from the GameBook team and their business partner Jussi Wacklin, started early in the morning of July 30th by playing a round, for Team Europe. It resulted in six (6) birdies, by Kalle Väinölä (3) & Mikko Rantanen (3).

Few more pictures from the kick off tour at Hirsala Golf.

 

 

 

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