The 2026 Tour of the Brookfields May event – The Still Harts Open – is in the books!

This TOB event at Quail Hollow Golf & Country Club in Oakham, MA was held on the chilly morning of Saturday, May 23rd, 2026. At least we had no rain.

Our longtime sponsor was Still Harts Cafe in North Brookfield, MA. We had 92 players on 23 teams that were competing in three divisions.

2026 Still Harts Open Results

The three divisions were extremely competitive, with no division being won by more than 3 strokes. In two of the three divisions, we had playoffs. In the Player Division, 4 teams vied in a playoff. Meanwhile, in the Palmer Division, 2 teams fought it out for the win.

Let’s get to the results.

Nicklaus Division

In the Nicklaus Division, the team of Scott Fairbanks, Bob DeMaio, Brian Chaffee, and Susan Benoit won with an astounding score of 13-under par! This was the best score for any team in the entire tournament. In second place in the Nicklaus Division at 10-under par was the team of Ryan Toomey, Dave Russell, Rob Peterson, and Sherri Peterson.

Player Division

In the Player Division, we had an unbelievably competitive race up and down the standings. Of the 7 teams, all were in three strokes of each other. To top THAT off, 4 of the 7 came in tied at 8-under par and had to playoff for the honor of being the top team in the Player Division. The team that finally rose to the top was the team of Brandon McEvoy, Lisa Kularski, Tom Korzec, and Barbara Orszulak. In second place, the other three teams in the playoff were:

• Fran Lamothe, Kevin Kokansky, Jeff McLeod, and Mike McCarthy
• Tom Savage, Dave Fiske, Nancy Shores, and Greg Wypych
• Matt Desimone, Kristen Depasse, Denis Miner, and Joseph Pinto

Palmer Division

Here again, we had tight match leading to a playoff. Two teams finished their 18-holes at 6-under par. Both had to battle it out in a playoff for the bragging rights of top team in the Palmer Division. Rising to victory was the team of Brian Lacroix, Bill Gaudette, Johnny Wheeler, and Paul Wyman. They edged out a close two-hole playoff victory over the Still Harts sponsor team of Steve Doros, Ed McLeod, Paul Sanborn, and George Fiske.

Skins and Closest to the Pin on the 17th Hole

As usual, we also ran a skins contest within each division. There were 14 total skins awarded: four in the Nicklaus Division, three in the Player Division, and a whooping seven in the Palmer Division. The winners are as shown on the consolidated list below.

Ryan Toomey was the winner of the closest to the pin contest at 2′ 3″.

Big Congrats again to the winners and thanks to all the players!

The Next Tournament and Some Notes

Special thanks again to Still Harts for their longtime and dedicated sponsorship of this event.

Also, as always, a special thank you to Carl Fitz, Matt Paakkonen, and all the staff at Quail Hollow who work so hard to make the Tour of the Brookfields possible.

VERY IMPORTANT!!! THE NEXT EVENT IS COMING UP QUICKLY!

The next tournament is on Saturday, June 13th at Quail Hollow. It will be the Toomey-Lovett Classic Open – another very-highly attended event. It will be held at Quail Hollow. The signups for this event will close on Sunday, June 7th – so we only have a VERY SHORT window for signups.

Sign ups will be coming down on JUNE 7th or when we are full, which ever comes FIRST!

That usually happens VERY QUICKLY and we expect the event to fill up!

If you want in, sign up early at Still Harts, at Quail Hollow, or on the Tour of the Brookfields Facebook page! When its full, its full!

A FEW REQUESTS:

First, thanks everyone for being timely in arriving. It helps us to get going much faster, please keep that going!

Second, if you want to sign up, PLEASE use one of the three sign up opportunities (Still Harts, at Quail Hollow, or on the event section of the Tour of the Brookfields Facebook page). Texts do sometimes get lost or buried…so please use the lists.

Also, I do try to post on Facebook who has signed up right before we take the signups down. That way, folks can be reminded and helps to verify the list. Despite my doing that we still had a couple of players miss the deadline – so sign up early!

Remember, to qualify for the FINALS you need to play in at least three of the 6 regular season events. Just 4 events are left to play in before the FINALS – so plan accordingly!

PLEASE – if you sign up and subsequently need to drop, make sure you do so before the sign up cutoff. After we make teams when someone drops and that person could have let us know before we picked teams – well, that is a completely avoidable pain in the…you know what…

I managed a few photos and a video this time. No award will be given for my narration! The video can be seen here on Instagram:

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A Few Photos:

Thanks again to all the players and we will see you soon.

REMEMBER – all updates on the results of our events can be found here on this blog throughout the year leading up to the FINALS!