EDMOND - A team from Oak Tree Country Club in Edmond beat out more than 50 teams from Invited clubs around the country to take the top spot during the 2017 Acura Invited Champions Classic/Ross Division – one of the largest private club national tournaments of its kind – held at Pinehurst Resort Sept. 6-10.
The winning team, comprised of (pictured, from left:) members Stephen Grimes and Kyle Maguire, Chad Bakken, Oak Tree Director of Instruction, and members John Cook and Tyson Hickey, ended the 54-hole shamble quota format tournament, where points are earned on each hole, with a score of +52.

As the winners of the tournament – now in its 31^st year – the Oak Tree players were presented with Putter Boy Trophies. The tournament included a round on the legendary No. 2 Course, site of three U.S. Opens Championships, Course No. 6 and Course No. 8. The five-day event included cocktails receptions and dinners nightly, Acura Guest Drives, and on-course competitions daily.

Sponsors of this year’s tournament included Title sponsor Acura, and longtime sponsors Titleist/FootJoy and E-Z-Go, plus Adidas, Ahead, American Express, Avis Budget Group, Blue Moon, Callaway, Casa Noble Tequila, Chateau St. Michelle, Coors Lite, Corona, Cutter & Buck, Ecolab, Greg Norman Collection, Grey Goose, GT Golf Supplies, Jameson, Kim Crawford, Los Cabos Tourism, Meiomi, Miller Lite, Oakley, PING, Specialty Cigars, Svedka Vodka, TaylorMade, Textron, Toro, Under Armour and Maui Jim.

The Acura Invited Champions Classic is one of several annual national golf and tennis tournaments offered to members of clubs in the Invited family. Additional tournaments include the Two Person Best Ball Challenge and the Parent Child Better Ball, both held at Firestone Country Club; Couples Tournament held this year at The Ritz Carlton Reynolds, Lake Oconee; and the Women’s Tennis Challenge Club held this year at Wild Dunes Resort in Isles of Palm, South Carolina. For more information about the tournaments, visit Invited.com/tournaments.

About Invited

Since its founding in 1957, Dallas-based Invited has operated with the central purpose of Building Relationships and Enriching Lives®. Invited is a leading owner-operator of private golf and country clubs and private business clubs in North America. Invited owns or operates a portfolio of over 200 golf and country clubs, business clubs, sports clubs, and alumni clubs in 28 states, the District of Columbia and two foreign countries that serve over 430,000 members, with approximately 20,000 peak-season employees. Invited properties include: Firestone Country Club (Akron, Ohio); Mission Hills Country Club (Rancho Mirage, California); The Woodlands Country Club (The Woodlands, Texas); Capital Club Beijing; and Metropolitan Club Chicago. You can find Invited on Facebook at facebook.com/Invited and on Twitter at @Invited.