The Cape Henlopen Football Booster Club is holding its golf fundraiser Friday, Aug. 7, at Mulligan’s Pointe near Georgetown. 

Net proceeds help offset team expenses for travel, training equipment and meals.

Player entries for both individuals ($140) and four-player teams ($500) cover the golf and lunch. A cash bar will be available in the clubhouse.

The scramble format event has a 10 a.m. shotgun start. On-site registration begins at 7:30 a.m.

Additional money-makers include a raffle and silent auction and up to four mulligans per team at $20 each. Prizes will also be awarded.

Sponsorship opportunities remain available from $175 to $1,100.

To register or for more information about sponsorships, go to capevikingsfootball.com/contact-us. 

Tick-tock

New Zealand’s Ryan Fox took only 22 seconds to make the winning 11-foot birdie putt at The Open Championship July 19 at Royal Birkdale.

More golfers should follow his example. 

At the 2026 DIAA State Championships at Baywood Greens, some players used more than 90 seconds to make far shorter putts.

Agonizing.

Noble Biomaterials

The 2026 PGA Show included a section for companies that specialize in apparel production. 

These included not only the factories where the clothes are made, but also suppliers to those factories, such as Noble Biomaterials of Scranton, Pa.

I met company representative Allon Cone at its show booth, where we discussed Noble’s products.

I had not previously heard of metalizing fabrics and fibers, but there is always a first time.

Cone said the company’s processes embeds silver ions within nylon structures. The metal elements provide several features, not least of which are reflective elements, he said. Ionic+ has fantastic antimicrobial properties, which led to fabrics first used in wound care. 

From there, the company found other applications for the metalized fabric, such as the athleisure apparel made for Lululemon.

“We now have a whole line of ionized material that becomes the yarn eventually made into clothing,” Cone said.

Lululemon uses it for its antimicrobial benefits.

“It preserves the fabric from microbes being built up on it, degrading the yarn or fabric,” he said.

The microbes are what cause the staining.

“Our product removes the microbes," he said. 

“The silver ions are positively charged and attack the negatively charged bacteria. It neutralizes and destroys the bacteria,” Cone said.

The difference between this treatment and others is the ions are bonded to the material. Other antimicrobial treatment essentially coats the fabric, which dissipates with repeated washings.

“That’s how we changed the game,” he said.

“Ionic+ is the trade name. We distribute the yarn to manufacturers throughout the global supply chain,” Cone said. “It’s part of the synthetic yarn industry.”

“We also work with another company called E-Dye,” he said, describing what the company calls Prism. “We take the silver ion technology and also the color technology and spec the color before it becomes a yarn. That allows us to get rid of all that dyeing process, which takes a tremendous amount of water and a tremendous amount of chemistry. We take out 80% of the water required for the process. We also take six weeks out of the process because you don’t have to dye the fabric.”

“You have to educate the designers because you have to spec the color at the beginning. There’s a debate on how to integrate that fact into what’s been an ingrained part of the process,” Cone said.

Cone said there was a “learning curve for the designers,” but the environmental and time-saving features were a definite plus toward adding more clients.

With all the talk about specialized fabric treatments, I asked Cone if Noble ever had any business with ILC Dover in Frederica, the company most famous for its space suits and now part of Ingersoll Rand. He smiled and described the Noble fabrics they delivered to ILC. 

Delaware’s small world syndrome struck again.

As we discussed the range of uses for Noble’s products and therefore its customers, Cone said, “We go from Lululemon to Lockheed Martin.”

Whenever you can use a bit of alliteration for your marketing materials, you probably should.

Local club competition results

The Kings Creek 9-Hole LGA League played a 3 Clubs and a Putter team scramble July 16.

Christine Emery, Vicki St. Germain, Barbara Morales and Farah Englert won first place. Mary Murray, Tracy Gordon, Deborah Hinderer and Diane Knizer took second, with Anita McMullin, Deborah Chase, Nathalie McGregor and Nancy Derrickson finishing third.

The Kings Creek CC 18-Hole LGA League played a Hate-Em game in flights and in gross and net categories July 16. 

Jacqueline Everett and Deborah Ward tied for first gross in the first flight. Judy Wetzel won the second flight gross, with Lisa Smith taking first gross in the third flight.

Mitzi Reitnouer won first-place net in the first flight, followed by Jennifer Flinchbaugh in second and Lisa Powell in third. Gail Bender won first net in the second flight, with Ann Barry in second and Jeannine Doane in third. 

Roberta Monkman won first net in the third flight, followed by Leslie Ledogar in second, Patricia Magee in third and Teri Caswell in fourth.