| Winner | Runner-Up | |||
| Player of the Year | no player of the year | |||
| Points Champion | D. Pearce | 15.0 | A. Tegenkamp | 13.5 |
| Scoring Champion | no scoring champion | |||
| Pyramid Tournament | still in progress | |||
| Winners Tournament | tournament not held | |||
| Club Championship | tournament not held | |||
| Low Gross Club Championship | tournament not held | |||
| 2018 & 2019 Valero Cups | Not held yet | |||
| Barbara Juris Award | no award | |||
| # 1 Ranked Golfer at the end of the year | F. Duggins | 21.23 | N. Stachowicz | 15.85 |
| Most Tour. as the # 1 ranked golfer | N. Stachowicz | 1 | F. Duggins | 1 |
| Most Improved Handicap | none | |||
| Most Improved Player | none | |||
| Most Tournament Wins | S. Cook | 1 | D. Pearce | 1 |
| A. Tegenkamp | 1 | N. Williamson | 1 | |
| Most Top 3’s | D. Pearce | 2 | ||
| A. Tegenkamp | 2 | |||
| Most Eagles | none | |||
| Most Birdies | F. Longoria | 2 | ||
| Most Long Drives | R. Butler | 1 | A. Tegenkamp | 1 |
| D. Pearce | 1 | N. Williamson | 1 | |
| Most Closest to the Pin | D. Pearce | 2 | ||
| Number of Tournaments | 2 | |||
| Avg # of players per tournament | 11 | |||
| Different players winning 1st place | 4 | |||
| Different players winning 2nd place | 3 | |||
| Players eligible for the Winners Tournament | 5 | |||
2020 Highlights Notes;
On a very sad note we lost three long time players with the club, Howard Nitzkowski, Debbie Menzel & Denzil Storbeck
Achieved 550 Tournament Points – D. Pearce, 550.0
Achieved 425 Tournament Points – S. Cook, 426.5
| Valero Golf Club records set or tied | Previous record or runner-up |
| none |
As it was the last couple of years we didn’t have a tournament director but it didn’t really matter, COVID-19 ruined almost the entire season. We did manage to get Nemon Williamson’s farewell Tournament in early in the year and a lone Hiddenbrooke Tournament.
The Nemon Williamson Farewell Tournament was held at Paradise Valley GC on Thursday, February 27th starting at 10:03 am. For late February the weather was beautiful, temperature at 80 degrees at the end of play with a very unusual northeast wind on the second nine. The turnout was great, 13 players from the golf club, four more from the refinery plus an a additional three from Nemon’s SIR’s group golfers. Other players stopped by to say farewell, Larry Campbell, Sue Gustofson and Rob Yarbrough plus e-mails from others. The greens had just been aerated but putted pretty well with a light coating of sand on them. Play started on the back nine. Nemon Williamson decided that if he was leaving he’d go out with a bang. He took first place (his 39th), won a CP (his 30th) and a LD plus one birdie. Finishing in second place was Dave Pearce, Randy Butler took third place. In the second flight it was Sandie Cook and Alex Tegenkamp tying for first place, Floyd Duggins took second and Steve Blotzer third. Nemon Williamson and Fred Longoria won the CP’s, Nemon and Randy Butler won the LD’s. There were six birdies for the field, Fred Longoria led the way with two, Floyd Duggins, Alex Tegenkamp, Ed Vegas and Nemon Williamson had one apiece. Fred Longoria had the round of the day shooting an excellent gross 75. Mike Cook presented Nemon with a framed document listing all of his career stats from 1993 until 2019. The rankings were changed a bit, the idle Neal Stachowicz took over the # 1 position, Floyd Duggins slipped to # 2.
The Tom Stead Scramble sponsored by Mike and Sandie Cook was not played this year but a contribution for the American Heart Association in Tom’s name was made putting us over the $9000.00 mark, total to date is $9124.00.
The sixth Kamp-Devlin Classic sponsored by Vickie Devlin and Alex Tegenkamp was held at the Hiddenbrooke GC on Saturday, August 8th but because of COVID-19 the turnout was very small. Vicki Devlin, Dave Pearce and Alex Tegenkamp played with Vicki picking up after the par 5 fifth hole. This left Alex and Dave in a two man shootout for the win. Dave shot an excellent net 64, Alex shot a very good net 69.
The 2018 & 2019 Valero Cup tournaments have not been played yet.
The 24th Club Championship was not held this year.
The “50th” annual Winners Tournament sponsored by Mike and Sandie Cook was not held this year.
The 43rd Pyramid Tournament is still in progress. Mike Cook, Sandie Cook & Neal Stachowicz all won first round matches, Neal went on to win his second round match over Sandie Cook. Still needing to play in the first round is Matt Hurst vs Eddie Pereira.
The modified ranking system from 2019 having been modified to be more current was continued in 2020 which put Neal Stachowicz at # 1 to start the year off. Neal held # 1 through the Paradise Valley tournament. Floyd Duggins took # 1 after Hiddenbrooke and held it ending the year at # 1.
There was no Valero Golf Club’s Player of the Year for 2020.
2020 was the 19th year for the Valero Golf League, because of the Coronavirus pandemic, league play started later than normal, the first matches being played in late May, early June. Play continued at the Blue Rock West and East courses. The league continued to be nine hole team play starting officially at 4:30 pm every Wednesday. Playing were 6 teams of 8 players each. Steve Duff continued as the League President, Sean Black took over as the League Statistician. 2020 started out with the Hackers Unlimited holding first place for the first 4 weeks, the Seadlings took the top spot for the next 5 weeks then the Rovers for the next 4 weeks, the Birds tied the Rovers in week # 14 but the Seadlings came through to take first place by themselves in the final week of the regular season. At the end of the regular season the first place team (the Seadlings) received a bye. The Birds and the Rovers who tied for second place, played off to determine who would play the Seadlings in the Championship Finals. The Birds won and advanced on to play the Seadlings on October 14th, 2020. The Seadlings won 7.0 to 3.0 and claimed their fourth league championship. The finals match was not videoed this year. The Seadlings finished first, the team consisted of Ken Hoehn, Josh Lundholm, Randy Goudy, Josh Schmidt, Jason Allen, Nick Alexander, Brad Stephens and Mike Evans. The Birds finished second, the team consisted of James Johnson, Andrew Estrada, Randy Pockrandt, Jason Pockrandt, Trevor Blanchard, Ray Castro, George Cruz and Tony Schiwal. The Rovers finished third, the team consisted of Fernando Oroczo, Steve Duff, Frank Hartig, Randy Butler, Hadi Jammal, Jake Finnegan, Jami McDermott and Sanjeet Kamat. The Tennis Pros finished fourth, the team consisted of Brandon Welty, Jim Minkel, Dale Ramirez, Doug Nelson, Christian Amoux, Bill Quessenberry, Herb Forthuber and Tom Sullivan. The Mulligans finished fifth, the team consisted of Dexter Nigos, Ron Hall, Jim Petrellese, Zac Ronan, Eddie Pereira, Ben Pierce, Jeff Marquez, Zack Larson. The Hackers Unlimited finished sixth, the team consisted of Ben LaFountain, Ryan Murphy, Justin Blecharczyk, Andrew Sousa, Sean Black, Steve Millicevich, Mike Domgaard and Tammy, Domgaard. In the individual rankings this year; Ron Hall started out the year as # 1 and held it through week # 2, in week # 3 Josh lundholm took # 1 and held it through week # 9, in week # 10 Sanjeet Kamat and Tony Schiwal shared # 1, Tony took over # 1 by himself in week # 11 and held it through week # 12, Jake Finnegan took the top spot in week # 13 and held it until Week # 14, Josh Lundholm came back to take # 1 by himself at the end of the regular season and ended up the # 1 ranked golfer for the year. Yearlong individual honors went to Eddie Pereira who broke his own record for low gross score on Blue Rock – East, back nine, white tees with a 37. Also on Blue Rock – East back nine, white tees Frank Hartig set a new low net record with a net 30, Sean Black and Justin Blecharczyk join Brad Stephens who held the record from last year with net 31’s. A new initial record for low gross score in the playoffs on Blue Rock – West, back nine, white tees was set by Ken Hoehn and Josh Lundholm with gross 42’s. Nick Alexander was runner-up with a 43. Also in the playoffs on the west course, back nine, white tees, Trevor Blanchard set the record with a net 31, Ken Hoehn and Josh Lundholm had net 35’s. Post season play was limited because of late end of the season, the good news was the VGL completed an entire season during the COVID-19 pandemic and look forward to a more normal season in 2021. Mike Cook