This trophy’s origins date back as far as the VAG Society itself, although the competition was ‘lost’ for a period in the early 90’s. A casualty of difficult times, when the Society was not always able to travel away on tour and proceedings were reduced to just one day.

There was more than a hint of what this competition was all about in its original name (i.e Singles Stableford). The members went head-to-head over 18 holes, using the stableford scoring technique to decide the winner. Playing partnerships during the rest of The Tour were forgotten and even ‘roomies’ could find themselves pitted against each other in a toe-to-toe, dog-eat-dog, winner-takes-all, may-the-best-man-win kind of thing.

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However, in the wake of the '2004 revolution' (see VAG Pairs), this competition was rendered somewhat of a maverick, given that its very nature was 'every man for himself' as opposed to 'all for one, and one for all'. With that in mind, the format and name were changed in 2005 to mirror the Society's 'muskaterial' shift in direction. The American Stableford replaced The Singles Stableford and the rules applied for the next 10 years of the adapted event were a somewhat contrived adaptation of the stableford scoring system developed by Bud-swilling, burger-bingeing Americans. Being an adaptation of an adaptation, many Society members found the scoring system rather hard to remember.

It was inevitable then, that this competition would come under severe scrutiny when The Society embarked on yet further evaluation of its golfing structure. After some heavyweight debate a decison was made that met with the general approval of all and the 2015 Tour saw the Society significantly expand the use of its favourite format with the advent of the VAG Texas Two Stableford

This event requires both partnerships to show their mettle, as the scoring system combines the Stableford points achieved by each pairing, and a target of 63 points is required for the Society to come up trumps and claim its prize. This rather unusual benchmark resulted from the theory that 1 x Par and 1 x Bogey between the pairings would be a bit too easy (54 points) and 2 x Pars a bit too hard (72 points). An average of the two seemed about right and the initial target was therefore established.

With all members now able to stride the fairways/ride buggies with each of their fellow competitors in turn, the only stipulation in terms of partner selection is that the pairings differ from those employed for The Cleek & Chip Maisey.