Castle Stuart pen pics

Name: Phil Medley
Forum username: Whereditgo
Handicap: 24 :o
Trademark shot(s): Topped 2nd (regardless of club choice!)
Golfing hero: Watson (back in the day)
Distinguishing features: Big ears, big nose, big.......
Hope for the tournament: I can cram enough balls to last the round into the bag/my pockets/a rucksack?
Fear for the tournament: That Forefortheday will wear the same shirt as me (it's MY shirt Anthony - ok?)
Post round tipple of choice: Guinness
After 10 pints on Saturday night I will be...lucky if I'm still breathing!
 
Name: John Findlay
Forum username: erm, John_Findlay
Handicap: 9
Trademark shot(s): the flubbed chip, the topped drive, the 2 iron to 3 feet & everything in between dependent on mood/nerves/alcohol content.
Golfing hero: Tom Watson/ Seve
Distinguishing features: Legs like twigs and a reflective heid. Fewer wedges each time you see me.
Hope for the tournament: That someone gets a hole in one just to see the look on their face for the bar bill.
Fear for the tournament: That I get a hole in one. I'm skint and would do a runner.
Post round tipple of choice: Jack & Coke, steadily progressing to doubles then Rusty Nails.
After 10 pints on Saturday night I will be...loving everyone and wondering if moonlit water-skiing in the Moray Firth is a good idea. Under no circumstances let me do this again. I can still taste the salt from last time 20 years ago.
 
Name: Paul O'Hagan
Forum username: PaulOH
Handicap: 5
Trademark shot(s): A necky cut with about 202 yards of carry and three yards of roll
Golfing hero: Jezz Ellwood and Walter Hagen
Distinguishing features: Likely to be wearing a number of Golf Monthly logos and in need of a shave and/or haircut.
Hope for the tournament: That I do not lose any cash to GM members of staff and that you all agree with me that Castle Stuart is a stunning golf course.
Fear for the tournament: Double vision on the first green due to beer the previous evening
Post round tipple of choice: Very cold cooking lager
After 10 pints on Saturday night I will be...On a serious mission to find food or sleep
 
Name: Colin Thompson
Forum username: Colint
Handicap: 12
Trademark shot(s): Thinned iron that I try to claim I played under the wind
Golfing hero: Seve
Distinguishing features: Tall and ginger / balding, it's a great look.
Hope for the tournament: That I get off the first in one piece
Fear for the tournament: That my first putt goes further than my first drive
Post round tipple of choice: Guinness
After 10 pints on Saturday night I will be...getting people I've just met in a headlock and telling them I love them
 
Name: Neil Jones
Forum username: Twire
Handicap: 16
Trademark shot(s): Thining my lob wedge through the green trying to do a flop shot.
Golfing hero: Seve/Westwood
Distinguishing features: 6 foot baldy, and what hair I do have is grey.
Hope for the tournament: That I manage to get my first drive past the ladies tee.
Fear for the tournament: See above
Post round tipple of choice: A pint of Proper Job will do nicely.
After 10 pints on Saturday night I will be...Very scared, as I'm sharing a caravan with two hairy paddy's
 
Name: Anthony North
Forum username: Forefortheday
Handicap: 28 :o :o
Trademark shot(s): Down into it like a Stukka
Golfing hero: Our kid
Distinguishing features: None decidely avergae in all depts :o
Hope for the tournament: That I don't top it then shank it like I did at Mottram
Fear for the tournament: That Wherediditgo will look better in MY shirt!
Post round tipple of choice: Owt wet
After 10 pints on Saturday night I will be... Wondering what it's all about!
 
Name: Jezz Ellwood
Forum username: JezzE
Handicap: 5
Trademark shot(s): Flat-footed pull; Texas wedge (especially on a links)
Golfing hero: Tom Watson/Jamie Spence (he went to the same school as me and played at the same club - Spence not Watson)
Distinguishing features: Youthful good looks despite a little greying around the edges
Hope for the tournament: That good shots outweigh bad sufficiently to make me feel I can still play and that no-one comes in with 47 points
Fear for the tournament: That editor Mike H will attempt a foolish flop shot off a tight links lie while someone is not paying full attention, and they take an eye-watering blow to the shin from the inevitable Exocet-thin
Post round tipple of choice: J2O kiwi and grape
After 10 pints on Saturday night I will be...desperately looking for the nearest loo 5 minutes later, then another 5 minutes later, then another 5 minutes later...
 
Name: Chris Chapple
Forum username: Grumpyjock
Handicap: 23
Trademark shot(s): Anywhere it lands/normally a sally G
Golfing hero: John Panton/jack/gary
Distinguishing features: Short fat hairless one as tall as Ronnie Corbett and as round as Harry Seagoon
Hope for the tournament: Not to make too much of a prat of myself
Fear for the tournament: It will be snow and windy as well
Post round tipple of choice: Guinness
After 10 pints on Saturday night I will be...Under the table dribbling like a T**t
 
Name Stuart Douglas
Forum username: StuartD
Handicap: 13
Trademark shot(s): The thinned chip and run
Golfing hero: ma da
Distinguishing features: Short greying rapidly but perfectly weighted (if I was 6ft 7”)
Hope for the tournament: That I get there That the offer of my dads car comes to fruition (if your looking in Dad check my golfing hero)
Fear for the tournament: The 9 holes I have played since Sep with 7 shanks is not enough practice
Post round tipple of choice: lager
After 10 pints on Saturday night I will be...sleeping face down in a Lamb Madras
 
Golfing hero:Jamie Spence (he went to the same school as me and played at the same club)

I played footie with him for Rusthall, and played at the Nevill. And we sold him a Mitsubishi Shogun when I worked for Silverdale Showrooms
;)

Ah, my old stomping ground. Is Silverdale showrooms still there - on Dunstan Bridge wasn't it?
 
Name:- Steve Kemlo
User:- Stevek1969
Handicap :- 6inches between my ears
Golf Hero :- Payne Stewart (legend) Moe Norman
Distinguishing Features;- big good looking bugger with a goatee beard :D
Hope for Friday; its stays dry and i last the round.
Bad Shot; Too many to mention
Post Round drink: Guinness then Tequila
After 10 pints on a Saturday: - I turn into my alter ego Raul hey ladies you wanna dance :D

Have good weekend guys pity i cant play all weekend but Friday's not to bad a track
 
Name: Dave Harris (no relation to Mike, I think)
Forum username: Can't remember (see last para)
Handicap: 14
Trademark shot(s): Parachute(hollywood) shot/knifed wedge. same shot different outcome. power fade drive
Golfing hero: Seve
Distinguishing features: Fat, grumpy, bad tempered, midget with a receding hairline & bent nose (one of these is a lie)

Hope for the tournament: That I remember how to play and have some sober moments so that i can remember the trip and someone (not JF takes one for the team on the first tee)
Fear for the tournament: That none of the above will happen and it chucks it down for the weekend
Post round tipple of choice: something wet
After 10 pints on Saturday night I will be... looking for a curry house and someone who will serve me No 11,,, oh and carrying Smiffy
 
Name; Mike Dagg
Forum Username; Dano
Hanicap; 6
Trademark Shot; Pull, Hook, Slice, Fade, Shank, Thin & Fat
Hero; Seve
Distinguished Features; Tall, Dark and always a B&H in the mouth...can be found frequently in the rough)
Hope for Tourney; Not to go to pars of the course which the greenstaff have not yet visited...!!!
Fear for Tourney; See above
Drink; Bud
After 10 pints; Macallan 10 on the rocks and to prevent Dodger going AWOL in Inverness MILF hunting...
 
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