Jeff Stalcup and I are sitting on the brick-paver patio that wraps around the clubhouse at the Orchards Golf Club, talking about the past. The Washington Township public course just celebrated its 30th anniversary and Stalcup has lots of stories and memories from his tenure as director of golf for most of the club’s history.
At the moment, it’s 1997. The morning of June 13, to be exact. Six days after Steve Yzerman led a procession of Red Wings who hoisted the Stanley Cup for the first time in 42 years.
“Yzerman pulls up in his little red Porsche with the Cup in the passenger seat,” says Stalcup, one of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet, and one who sounds like the actor John C.