It Was Another Amazing Year With You At GOMACO Invitational #36!

GOMACO Invitational #36 was a great year with two days of golfing, and the time to make new friends in the industry and relax with your colleagues. Thank you to everyone for traveling to our small hometown of Ida Grove, Iowa, and joining us for two days of fun golfing events.

Feel free to browse through the pages of this web site to re-experience #36!

The GOMACO Invitational is our way of saying "thank you" for choosing our paving products, and to thank our business partners for their support through the years. Thank you again for coming, and we hope to see you at #37 in September 2018.

GOMACO Invitational #36 brought together the concrete construction industry on September 19 and 20, 2017. We had a total of 254 participate in the two-person Putting Tournament on Tuesday, and 304 in the big four-person, 18-hole Scramble Tournament on Wednesday on golf courses in Ida Grove, Holstein, Mapleton, and Odebolt. This year we also had more than 100 contractors in attendance, and 63 guests experiencing their first Invitational.

First Time Attendees Win Big

First-time attendee Brad Auch of D&G Concrete Construction was on the champion team in the Contractors' Shoot-Out. Conner Martin of Pavers, Inc., was a first timer and was on the second place team in the shoot-out, and Jeff Eberhardt of Adelman Concrete was on the third place team.

Phil Rodriguez of Hayden-Murphy Equipment was on the champion team from Mapleton in the Scramble Tournament at his first GOMACO Invitational. Sam Craghead of Craghead Building Co., another first-time guest, was on the champion team from Odebolt in the Scramble Tournament.

Two first-time guests were in the Putting Tournament Championship. Tim Mollner of Hawkins Construction was on the second place team, and Andrew Jensen of Treasure State, Inc., was on the fourth place team.

Team #416 Wins Four Hole Prizes In Odebolt Scramble Tournament

During the Scramble Tournament in Odebolt, team #416 managed to earn four of the nine special hole prizes on the course. David Barthel of Faris Machinery hit the longest drive on holes #3 and #6, and sank the longest putt on hole #4. Teammate Mark Catalanello of Casappa Corporation hit closest to the pin in two shots on hole #1. Rounding out the foursome were Randy Cleland of Minnich Manufacturing and Steve Moses of Cornejo & Sons.

2017 "Grand" & Ida Grove Champions
Jeff Sherman of Holmes Murphy & Associates, Gary Godbersen of GOMACO Corporation, Tim Tometich of Manatt's, Inc., and Rick Blesi of Construction Equipment Magazine

2017 Holstein Champions
Thom Kuhn of Millstone Weber, LLC, DeWayne Krayenhagen of GOMACO Corporation, Jeff Bryan of CON-E-CO, and Mark Weaver of Weaver-Bailey Contracting

2017 Mapleton Champions
Tom Giefer of Kansas Heavy Constr., LLC, Dennis Clausen of GOMACO Corporation, Phil Rodriguez of Hayden-Murphy Equipment Co., and Doug Jones of Alliance Construction Group

2017 Odebolt Champions
Tim Malloy of Northstar Power LLC, Chris Wilsey of TAB Construction Company, Logan Mohr of GOMACO Corporation, and Sam Craghead of Craghead Building Co.

2017 Putting Champions
Steve Baker of Baker Concrete and Exc., and Bill Buckles of Murphy Tractor & Equipment Co.

2017 Contractors' Shoot-Out Champions
Ron Michael, Jr., of Turner-Michael Construction, Blake Driskell of Gerdan Slipforming, Inc., and Brad Auch of D&G Concrete Construction