About Eagle Crest Men’s Golf Club

How to Sign-up and Play, How to Join:

Anyone with an active GHIN number may play in our weekly Wednesday golf rounds. 

If you are visiting Eagle Crest and would like to join us on a Wednesday Men’s Day , simply email Mike Bessonette (mebessonette@bendcable.com) with the date or dates you would like to play and your GHIN number. Usually we have space available with enough advance notice. Your cost to play will be $10 to the weekly prize fund and a $5 guest fees. 

Existing, local members signup by responding to invitation emails sent out through use of Eagle Crest Golf s licensed copy of the web based USGA Tournament Management system (aka Golf Genius). 

We play a variety of different games on Men’s Day as listed on our round schedule. Our annual membership fee in 2026 of $55 (same as in 2025) is required to join the EC Men’s Golf Club. To Join, download and complete and finally submit the member application to the Ridge Proshop.

Handicaps:

As a USGA/OGA sanctioned golf club, ECMGC provides opportunities to establish or renew golfer GHIN handicaps through the EC proshop. Interested golfers can fill out an application (TBD)  and submit that form with the annual fee as noted on the application at the Ridge Proshop front desk. The club’s Membership committee will work with golfers new to the sport in establishing their handicap.

Men’s Day:

Wednesday golf is normally setup with early morning tee times although shotgun starts are common for major tournaments and events. Winter golf on the Ridge course are generally 11:00 am shotgun starts. Winter golf on the Challenge course have assigned tee times.

Golfers check-in with tournament directors at least 30 minutes before their tee time. Each golfer pays a $10 contribution to the kitty and receives range balls and a golf cart assignment. 


We are a social / competitive club. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Wednesdays generally count for USGA handicap records. 1st Wednesdays are usually individual competitions. 2nd Wednesdays are usually two-man games, 3rd Wednesday are often four-man games, and any Wednesdays left in the month are other formats like scrambles, shambles etc. Golfers get to play with a different set of partners throughout the season.  Games for each Wednesday are listed on our annual season’s round schedule; descriptions of games are posted under Competitions.  All winnings from the collected kitty are paid out to an average 40% of the field in credits toward merchandise in the proshop (including $10 each to the low gross and low net individual that day). We are an amateur golf club. All scores are posted by the tournament directors and results are typically emailed to the entire men’s club roster later that day.

Preferred Tees:

Each golfer can play any tee position on any course they find comfortable for their game. The World Golf Handicap System allows fair competition between players teeing off from different positions. Golfers new to the ECMGC should provide tournament managers with their preferred tees for each course so this information can be stored in Golf Genius database. Golfers can change these preferred tee settings any time throughout the golf season.

Member Privileges

ECMGC members can compete in the club’s four major summer tournaments as well as home & home (H&H) events (although non-members may be used to backfill H&H events when empty spots exist). Information such as walking versus riding preference, preferred tees on our three courses, round counts are all listed on our Golf Genius Portal website.

Major Tournaments and Events:

ECMGC holds four tournaments during the spring, summer and fall months: Eagle Crest Cup, Match Play, Club Championship and the Fall Classic. Plus the season long Niblick Cup, sponsored by the Niblick & Greens restaurant at the Eagle Crest Resort. 

These events are described in detail in the Competitions section. Entry fees for these tournaments are higher, but so are payouts. Every odd year, the club hosts a mixer with the Eagle Crest Women’s Golf League, typically in the spring (the ECWGG runs the event in even years). 

Finally, the EC Men’s Golf Club holds home & home events with the men’s clubs from the Juniper , Crooked River Ranch, and Meadow Lakes Golf courses. H&H s are setup such that each club plays at the other’s course either early or later in the summer. Competitions pit 2-man best ball matches between each club for points, the winner of which gets to keep a coveted trophy for its own trophy case. Entry fees are typically $35 – $20 (includes $10 for prizes) plus $15 for a nice lunch if offered.


The Niblick Cup is a season long points competition which favors those golfers who play often and play well. Points are awarded each week to the top 10 net scorers. At our annual awards luncheon (held in November) cash awards are announced and handed out to the three ECMGC members with the highest total season long points.


NOTE: members qualify for entry into the Eagle Crest Cup, Match Play and Club Championship by participating in at least five regular rounds during the previous calendar year going back from the week of the major tournament being played. Regular rounds include all rounds hosted by ECMGC excluding rounds in the four major tournaments. Members who support ECMGC by playing five or more regular rounds are referred to as Regular Members.


Hole-In-One Insurance:

Club members are protected by Hole-in-One insurance. Every few years a $15 insurance premium is charged to members. The Hole-In-One reserve fund, thus established, is managed by the ECMGC Treasurer.

Any Hole-In-One made by a member during a Men’s Day event will pay for one beer, wine or pop for all the days players. Once the current fund runs dry 😊, a new Insurance Policy will be started, and a Hole-In-One premium is added to the annual renewal fee. Some years we only have one Ace. but you never know; one year we had 5.


Resort Cup:

ECMCG has been the winner of the Resort Cup in both 2024 and 2025.

Four golf resort men’s clubs within central Oregon compete for a large trophy the Resort Cup . Scheduled for the most part on the first or second Monday each month through June (Eagle Crest), July (Black Butte Ranch), August (Widgi Creek) and September (Sunriver Resort)

Each men’s club sends 10 golfers plus a pro to compete for Stableford points in one of three flights: Pro, A-Flight (five each with handicap indexes < 14) and B-Flight (five with handicap indexes >= 14). Points are accumulated though the four rounds; the club with the highest point total wins the Resort Cup.

Green fees are $55 plus $5 for prize money (i.e. $5 only for Eagle Crest AM annual pass holders playing in June). The top three finishers in A & B flight earn proshop credits at the course played. For more details click here, or contact ECMGC’s Resort Cup Captain, Greg Middlebrook(gmiddlebrook1940@gmail.com) to sign up.


Other Golf Groups In or Around Eagle Crest Resort:

Opportunities exist for playing organized golf in addition to the ECMGC for those living in or visiting Central Oregon. Some of these include:

  • The Eagle Crest Women’s Golf Group.
  • The High Desert Seniors includes golfers from several golf courses around Central Oregon including Eagle Crest. For more details contact ECMGC’s High Desert Seniors representative, Greg Middlebrook. 
  • The West Ridge Men’s Golf group plays on Tuesdays at most courses in the area. Because they typically bring a large group to these venues, members get a nice price break on green fees. Contact Pat Scheibe (patrickscheibe3@gmail.com ) for details.
  • The B&S Golf League (aka Beer & Sandwich group) plays Mondays on the Resort Course fielding up to 24 golfers with tee times starting around 10 AM. The league gets its name from its higher stakes / fewer winners theme if you play well, you may win enough to buy a large beer and nice sandwich at the snack bar possibly beers for your friends too. Contact Mark Haskin (eggman549@gmail.com) for details.


The GG Portal – Navigating Our Companion Website:

As described above, the ECMGC uses Golf Genius (GG) to setup and run tournaments. 

Golf Genius maintains a companion website referred to as The Golf Genius Portal. Each calendar year a new GG Portal is created. The annual GG Portal manages signups and event results for all rounds, collecting statistics for players such as # birdies, pars, bogeys as well as total winnings and any incentive points earned while playing regular men’s day rounds or in its special events. 


All the event information including round signups (or round cancelling), and the detailed round statistics are accessed by members with a Golf Genius account (login name and password) by clicking on the Golf Genius Members Portal menu link. To create an account on our GG Portal, contact Eric Erickson( )