Gather @ Gainsborough 29-31 July

Decided to go and play in the Wednesday evening 9-hole roll-up to see if I could play as badly on my own course. I found I could play even worse.
 
Behind the scenes, Leftie and I have been organising this meet again and, 2 weeks today, 8 of us will be teeing off on Gainsborough's Karsten Lakes, followed by 2 rounds on Thonock Park on the Monday and back to Karsten Lakes on the Tuesday. This will again be a North v South battle which the Southern Softies won last year by a country mile. I will not be reporting on the outcome if we play as badly as last year.
 
I have been staying at Forrest Pines using the Sunday Driver offer over the last couple of years and maybe its time for something different, could you guys offer any insight or recommendations into this place?
 
Assuming at least 1 night stay with 2 rounds of golf - 2 excellent, challenging and completely different courses which over the 8 or 9 times I have been there have been in excellent condition, top notch on site accommodation for up to 8 people (I suppose that could be 16 if you are sharing and good friends), full English breakfast that will last you all day (if you can eat it all), and a 3 course evening meal that will fill you and your doggie bag, and there will still be some left over.

The only downside now (after the room upgrades) is that after you have finished your meal (about 9.30/10.00pm say) then the large bar has no-one else there and is a bit flat. Take your own drinks and sup, chat, play cards, monopoly, whatever on the terrace. The good news is that if you are there on a Sunday night then that's the week's highlight in Gainsborough as it's the "Grab a Granny night" - so I've been told .......:whistle:

Is that a fair summary fellahs?
 
Well, I booked this year's event for last year's price (£215) as soon as we finished last year's event. I had not really expected it to go ahead due to covid-19 but had an email from Gainsborough to say it could go ahead. Leftie posted a good summary of things in the post above. It somehow evolved into a Soft Southerners v Hard Northerners as we had 4 from oop here and 4 from down there (the softies did, in fact, thrash us). There may be a vacancy for a Southerner so please PM me if you are interested, Dates are August 9/10/11.
 
rosecott said:
Well, I booked this year's event for last year's price (£215) as soon as we finished last year's event. I had not really expected it to go ahead due to covid-19 but had an email from Gainsborough to say it could go ahead. Leftie posted a good summary of things in the post above. It somehow evolved into a Soft Southerners v Hard Northerners as we had 4 from oop here and 4 from down there (the softies did, in fact, thrash us). There may be a vacancy for a Southerner so please PM me if you are interested, Dates are August 9/10/11.
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Well, I have to say that I can't wait to get there Sunday next week. Gainsborough has come up trumps even though the covid restrictions mean that we won't be having their enormous evening dinner so it's either taxis down town to pubs/restaurants or get something from the cafe before 8 o'clock closing and sup our own beer and wine sitting on the veranda. We will still, of course, be having their legendary Full English. Now we're confirmed and paid up, I can start my serious training regime. Smiffy, Captain Ron, Justone, LIG and all the other many past participants, we'll raise a glass to you.
 
rosecott said:
Now we're confirmed and paid up, I can start my serious training regime:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:.

Smiffy, Captain Ron, Justone, LIG and all the other many past participants, we'll raise several glasses to you.
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Fixed that for you Jim (y)

Just to enlighten anyone who might possibly interested, I had to drop Andy this year from the Softie Southerners team. It was really so unfair. I'm sure Rosie will correct me if my memory fails me again, but I seem to remember that his average over the 4 rounds was about 39 points with a best of (?) 42 points one round. A ringer, not a bandit, as he plays off 5. Anyway, his replacement this year is Big Barrie. H/C 8 but hasn't played to anywhere near it for at least 3 years. Not playing at all this week to try to protect his ailing back. Should be a (size 12) shoe in :)
 
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