Anybody fancy a week in Scotland early September????

[Bratty]

well the thing is smiffy, my mum lives in cumbria so would drop kids off on way up if driving

I drive for a living so an arse rest every few hrs then I plod on

I have done cumbria then back with a 15 mins break for a brew b4 total about 10hrs (traffic back was gash)

Where does your Mum live, mate?
I'll possibly be driving up to Arnside on the Friday night, then heading on up to Scotland on Saturday morning.

 

[Bratty]

As i remember, someone asked me to organise some games on the links courses around end Aug/Sept. The games were going to be Tain, Golsie, Brora and poss Dornoch. Got some cheap deals on green fees and meals for the. Date was set. Then smiffy comes along and books accom not to play the first game organised on the saturday

Woah Patrick!!
It wasn't a case of us booking accommodation NOT to play the Saturday. We COULDN'T play the Saturday. The accommodation rental available to us ran from Saturday to Saturday. We are flying up on the Saturday.
How on earth could we play on the Saturday when we are 30,000ft up in the air????
This week-end wasn't initially arranged for the lot South of the border. We were coming up to join you for a few games. It wasn't arranged around us, we were trying to "fit in" as best we could.
And nothing has been set in stone about where WE are playing on the Sunday!!
And the last post from yourself on the subject was over 4 months ago mate! How are we supposed to remember exactly what's going on?
And who the feck is Ken?

Smiffy you can play where you like mate, but you and a few guys coming with you replied to the orig post which was for games around Tain, Golspie, Brora, Dornoch. You even posted saying you were looking forward to playing Golpie. I have not posted anything in a few month cos there was nothing to post. I had arranged at deal with all these clubs to get a greatly reduced green fee. Tain was arranged as £10 Brora and Golspie were goining to do a two course meal and green fee for £38.
I have gone out of my way to make sure the the costs are low. The normal green fee for these clubs in normally £40 anyway.
I got these cost as i had confirmed that the numbers would be over ten and we would have been off the championship tees. The other scottish guys were prob only going to play Sat/sun and couple on the monday.
The orig idea was to give some of you guys a taste of what i take for granted. 5 world class links courses sited around the Dornoch Firth.

If you want to travel 600 miles to stay in the middle of this area and then go and travel 90 miles each way to play a flat parkland track go ahead. Do't get me wrong newtonnore is a nice course, i've played it myself only a couple of times, the reason is there are far better more challenging course closer.

Rant over

I must confess to thinking we were joining up with Patrick's crowd from Sunday, then playing some others after Tuesday, when I believe Patrick et al will be finised?

 

[Dodger]

Not read the whole thread but thought this may interest you if ya man up there cannot produce the goods....

http://www.dornochfirthgolf.co.uk/default.php

 

[patricks148]

Not read the whole thread but thought this may interest you if ya man up there cannot produce the goods....

http://www.dornochfirthgolf.co.uk/default.php

Dodge Not a case of not producing the goods i'd arranged to play 3 of the courses at much lower than the Golf pass rate and a couple of them had food too. Smiffy has decided they are not going to play on the days i'd arranged and for one of the day was going to play at Newtonmore a flat parkland track 90 miles away!

 

[Smiffy]

Smiffy has decided they are not going to play on the days i'd arranged and for one of the day was going to play at Newtonmore a flat parkland track 90 miles away!

You have arranged to play on Sat/Sun/Mon Patrick.
We can't play on Saturday as we will be 30,000ft up in the air.
We can play on Monday, no problem.
It was the Sunday we were talking about. £20.00 for 36 holes to play in an Open competition as a warm up for our week up there.
And I love flat courses. I play my best golf on flat courses. And it's a 90 mile round trip, not 90 miles there and back.

 

[patricks148]

Smiffy old boy don't know where you think newtonmore is but i asure you its 90 miles each way.

Check it out for yourself on a route planner.

I live in inverness, i travel to Tain most Satursdays and it 35 miles door to door, Dornoch is prob another 10 miles north and Embo is further north again.

From inverness, newtonmore is 40 to 45 miles
south!
Don't take my word for it;
http://www.theaa.com/route-planner/index.jsp#fromNode=218260000184561%7CEmbo,%20Dornoch%7CSTREET%7C281682%7C892894%7CtoNode=218260000158377%7CNewtonmore,%20Highland%7CSTREET%7C271468%7C799199

 

[Dodger]

As the man says Smiffy it'll be at least a 3.5 hr round trip.

Bloody southerners eh Patrick?!

 

[patricks148]

Aye

 

[Smiffy]

Smiffy old boy don't know where you think newtonmore is but i asure you its 90 miles each way.

Check it out for yourself on a route planner.

You could be right Patrick.
I was only going by what Vig told me...

So where are we playing on Sunday then mate? Old mucker? I knew I could rely on you

 

[bobmac]

Thats it, blame Vig

 

[patricks148]

Smiffy old boy don't know where you think newtonmore is but i asure you its 90 miles each way.

Check it out for yourself on a route planner.

You could be right Patrick.
I was only going by what Vig told me...



So where are we playing on Sunday then mate? Old mucker? I knew I could rely on you

Smiffy my dear old thing I humbly except your apology

If you are keen to play an open, lets wait till the end of march when all the clubs publish their open fixtures in the paper I work for. Most don't charge much more than a tenner and I'll post options ken.

By the way you do know that there is nothing in Embo except a huge caravan site called Grannies Heiland Hame don't you.

 

[thecraw]

Thats why the old Romeo went there, grab a Granny night!

 

[Smiffy]

By the way you do know that there is nothing in Embo except a huge caravan site called Grannies Heiland Hame don't you.

Along with a group of 6 or 7 Englishmen raring to sow their seeds and breed some good looks into you ugly buggers up there

 

[patricks148]

By the way you do know that there is nothing in Embo except a huge caravan site called Grannies Heiland Hame don't you.

Along with a group of 6 or 7 Englishmen raring to sow their seeds and breed some good looks into you ugly buggers up there

You would have been better off staying in Brora Golf Clubs Cottage, the sheep would have been more your thing ken.

 

[Smiffy]

By the way you do know that there is nothing in Embo except a huge caravan site called Grannies Heiland Hame don't you.

Along with a group of 6 or 7 Englishmen raring to sow their seeds and breed some good looks into you ugly buggers up there

You would have been better off staying in Brora Golf Clubs Cottage, the sheep would have been more your thing ken.

Who is this Ken Geezer?????

 

[thecraw]

I've told you already Smiffy, Ken is Barbie's man!

 

[grumpyjock]

By the way you do know that there is nothing in Embo except a huge caravan site called Grannies Heiland Hame don't you.

Along with a group of 6 or 7 Englishmen raring to sow their seeds and breed some good looks into you ugly buggers up there

You would have been better off staying in Brora Golf Clubs Cottage, the sheep would have been more your thing ken.

Who is this Ken Geezer?????

Ye ken wha ken is dont ya ken.

 

[thecraw]

Aye, Fit like ken, furryboots ya fae?

 

[grumpyjock]

Hows it goin loon, fa cake city.

 

[vig]

Smiffy old boy don't know where you think newtonmore is but i asure you its 90 miles each way.

Check it out for yourself on a route planner.

You could be right Patrick.
I was only going by what Vig told me...

Vig told you my arse, I don't even know where the course is you cock!!!!!

You better pack three pairs of jammy bottoms you nonce