Welcome to The Donkey Cup 2025 Competition

The elite golfing competition is spreading its wings into the mecca of golf in America, Talamore Golf Resort in Southern Pines, NC, and will pit two opposing teams of friends from all across the country in a Ryder Cup style format competition. This annual clash has evolved into the premier fun, competitive, and entertaining event since 2001.

Event Schedule

WELCOME GENTLEMAN DRINKERS AND GOLFERS

The Donkey Cup returns the first week of May for great golfing weather. So dust off those nipple accentuating golf shirts, skin-tight sweater-vests, and mark your calendars for May 1st-4th. And this year, let's toast those who can't be with us this year and those joining for the first time. Now, let the countdown begin...

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Total will vary this year, will include 4 nights, 3 total rounds of golf, and a few other goodies. If you have not paid your deposit yet, please do so online or get more info from Leighty.

Schedule

Check here for event tee times and courses being played by round.

Rooming List

Need to know who you should collect money from to establish a bail fund, cover emergency room fees, and/or hiring a late night wall repair expert? Click above to see who you'll be sharing a condo.

Matchups

Begin stategizing your game plan by checking out who you match-up against on the course.

Leaderboard

Track the competition live here or by visiting the Golf Game Book links.

Event Tracker

Go back and see how teams faired since the Donkey Cup adopted team match-play competition scoring.

Rankings

See how you rank compared to other golfers in various match-play statistics or your own personal record with and against other golfers.

Hall of Fame

Curious to know who was on the winning teams of years past? The Hall of Fame list winning team members by year.

Wall of Champions

See a list of top golfing champions based the number of times their name is on the trophy.

Golfers

View all of the golfers who have participated in the Donkey Cup competition and sort by current, recent, and past members.

Photo Albums

check out the good times in picture form by viewing photo albums from past years - and witness the physical evolution of some of our golfers.

Video Archive

Fun time-lapse videos of some of the early years of the competition - Warning, not suitable for some viewers, such as: young kids, Legends staff, or law enforcement.

Map

Get an aeral view of the Legends courses and roads that lead to the resort.

Team Champions

Check out the winning teams from past years.

2024 Donkey Cup: Fewer Rounds!

This year's event will bring a reduction in competitive rounds making each match that much more vital to the outcome! In addition, the change bring more free time to eat, drink, sleep, socialize and explore Pinehurst/Southern Pines. Here's to less swings and greater recovering time!

New Course Alert!

Just like 2024 introduced us to another fine Pinehurst area golf course in Mid Pines, 2025 will take us to the 1906 Donald Ross designed Southern Pines GC!

2024 Champs!

Congratulations to Team Bartels for taking the 2024 Donkey Cup trophy for captain Aaron B. by out-sprinting Team Loadwick: 14 to 10.

Event Tracker

The results are in! Check out the Event Track page for the final results of all the DC events back to 2013!

Personal Rankings!

See your personal results for each Donkey Cup year since 2014 including match play scores and records with and against other golfers! Now on the rankings page!

Course Stats

UPDATE - With new courses comes new chances to establish your mark on the stats page! Check back after the event to see how you, your partner, and your team faired on the challenging courses at Pinehurst.

Meet the Souther Pines Courses

Follow the links below to view each Talamore Golf Resort course via their website.

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Talamore

Greens were restored to the original Rees Jones and Arnold Palmer designs, resulting in a 25 percent larger putting surface, and the addition of generous 60-inch Tif Eagle Bermuda green collars. The new Champion Bermuda putting surfaces provide significantly better playing conditions than its bent grass predecessor and put Talamore’s and Mid South’ greens on par with the other top courses in the area.

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Mid South Club

Mid South Club is one of the Carolinas most attractive private residential golf communities. Five hundred forty five acres of longleaf pine forests, lakes and gently rolling hillsides provide a backdrop for a place of beauty and serenity. The Arnold Palmer signature golf course offers its members a challenging yet enjoyable championship layout on which to test their skills.

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Southern Pines Golf Club

Open for play in 1906, Southern Pines Golf Course is one of Donald Ross’s earliest original course designs. Winding around a series of knolls and ridges, the course offers some of the most dramatic golf terrain in the Sandhills, making it difficult to tell where nature’s design ends and Ross’s begins. At 6,500 yards, this extraordinary course challenges every level of play.

Top Ranked Golfers

Top 3 All-Time Win % (since 2013)

1. Aaron Bartels

2. Jason Ruth

3. Rob Loadwick