Since 2007, the annual Cordillera Cup, a Ryder Cup-style match between Team Hill and Team Northington, has been a weekend of friendly competition, good times and hijinks between captains David Hill and Mac Northington, close friends since their college days UT. This weekend was no exception.
By:
Corey Roberson, Director of Golf
The 2024 edition of the Cordillera Cup was held on October 12 – 13. Going into this year’s matches, the tally was Northington 12 vs Hill 5. Northington dominated the early years by winning eight in a row but recently, Hill has captured four out of the last six matches, including a little three-in-a-row stretch from 2020 to 2022.
While we’ve made some small tweaks to this event over the years, the general structure is the same — two 9-hole matches on Saturday (fourball and foursomes) and an 18-hole singles match on Sunday. Team Hill took a two-point advantage after the fourball matches and Team Northington returned the favor with a two-point advantage in the foursomes matches. With this format, an overall tie would mean Team Northington would retain the Cup since they won in 2023.
Team Hill took an early lead in the singles matches on Sunday morning but there were still a lot of points up for the taking. At about 2:00pm, it looked like Team Hill was going to narrowly scratch out their 6th victory if they could secure all the tentative points on the board. The clinching point came from Zane Price — Captain David Hill’s son-in-law. He was 2 down with 3 to play and managed to flip his match on #18 to secure the winning point.
In typical fashion, Captain Mac Northington blamed the Golf Shop for his loss while Team Hill rejoiced in their victory. Mac keeps telling everyone that David’s tab is still open in the Men’s Grille!
Corey Roberson is the Director of Golf at The Clubs of Cordillera Ranch. He can be reached at croberson@cordilleraranch.com and 830.336.4653.
