Fourteen years of golf, competition, and camaraderie. What started as a small group chasing a good time has grown into a full-blown tradition, with trophies, team rivalries, and a destination list that keeps getting better. From Doral to Pinehurst, west to Utah and Torrey Pines, up to the Pacific Northwest for Chambers Bay, and now a new chapter being written in the high desert of Bend, Oregon.
Six trips, five different battlegrounds, and one trophy, the Banana Split Shootout Team Champ Cup, that's been fought over since 2021. Two eras: Whites vs. Asians (2021–2023, 2025), then OGs vs. Newbies (2024, 2026).
Six years of Team Champ Cup history lived on a growing plaque and a shared memory, until 2026, when it finally got the hardware it deserved. A gold cup, a banana split on top, a red B.S.S. burgee flying above it all, and every Team Champion etched into the base going back to 2021. It's the kind of thing you can't help but pick up and hold a little too long for photos.
None of it happens without Brett Pinholster, a founding board member of BSS since day one. Brett has spent years quietly building the scaffolding this whole tradition stands on: the history, the records, the trophies, the reason a golf trip with your buddies turned into something with its own mythology. This cup is his idea made physical, and it's already the most coveted thing in the group. Every name on it will be fought for.
This year's trip ran the Washington coast-to-desert double: the fescue and Puget Sound views of Chambers Bay into the high desert links of Gamble Sands, with a stop at Newcastle overlooking the Seattle skyline. Four rounds, one back-to-back champion, and a new name on the Top Ramen trophy.
Tanner Darrell entered the week as the reigning Lo Mein champion and left as the first two-time winner in trophy history. A 75-82-76-71 for 304 gross, nineteen shots clear of second place, closing with a final-round 71 to seal it. His name now sits on the trophy twice in a row, a first for the event.
The OGs celebrating a dominant win in Washington, 16–10 over the Newbies.
OG members: Stephen Liao, Dennis Choi, Brett Pinholster, Jesse Shen, Tim Franklin-Hensler, Bobby Tran, Thomas Massalone, Jeff Marsicano
Three trophies decided every year on the individual leaderboard: gross scoring, and a net scoring split between the low man and the... less low man.
* Tied with Bryan Ochocki at 359 net, won on tiebreaker · † Won a four-player playoff in 2026
A 280 net at Chambers Bay put Collin Brown's name on the Top Ramen trophy for the first time, the best net score the award has seen since it was introduced in 2022, beating Lawrence Chen's inaugural 319 by nearly forty strokes.
2025 Arcadia Bluffs (427) into 2026 Chambers Bay (304): a 123-stroke total improvement and the first repeat Lo Mein win in the trophy's history. The 2026 card: 75-82-76-71, closing with a 71 to seal it.
Every Lo Mein champion earns the crest and, apparently, a gold blazer to go with it, the BSS answer to Augusta's green jacket. Jesse Shen (2024 winner, center) with fellow champions, patch and all.
BSS 2027 fills its 20th and final spot with Edwin Fuh, and the ranking board just got a lot more interesting.
A plus-2 handicap walks into the field, and suddenly Tanner Darrell's back-to-back Lo Mein reign looks a lot shakier — Edwin is the new overall favorite the moment he tees it up, the lowest handicap BSS has ever welcomed. His credentials check out just as well: Edwin worked directly with Bryson DeChambeau at the 2024 U.S. Open, seen here with him and the trophy itself, and as far as BSS lore is concerned, he's the reason Bryson won it (satire — but we're not ruling it out).
He joins the field with zero BSS scoring history, which puts him dead last on the all-time ranking board below, for now. Nobody expects him to stay there.
Match play points earned across four Team Champ Cup trips (2022 Pinehurst, 2024 St. George, 2025 Arcadia Bluffs, 2026 Washington). A win is 1 point, a tie is 0.5. Click any column to sort: this is the board the captains draft from.
| Rank | Player | Pinehurst '22 | St. George '24 | Arcadia '25 | Washington '26 | Overall W-L-T | Points | Win % |
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Trophy ranks (1–3) mark all-time Team Champions. Dash = did not attend that trip.
The next Banana Split Shootout heads to the high desert. Twenty players, five days, and the start of a brand new team era.
Central Oregon's high-desert golf country: ponderosa pines, volcanic rock, and some of the best public and resort golf in the Pacific Northwest. The group's largest trip yet, and the debut of the Lo Mein vs. General Tso team format.
Full field, no waitlist. Handicaps span roughly 0.5 to 20.1, from Tanner Darrell's scratch game at the top to the high side anchoring the pool. That spread is exactly what makes the draft interesting: two captains building rosters from the same shallow and deep ends of the field.
Housing total awaiting confirmation; Lawrence to provide.
For the first time, BSS teams aren't assigned by seniority or ethnicity-coded tradition; they're drafted. Two captains, one snake draft, nineteen players on the board.