GM Forum Help for Heroes Fundraising Day 2012

[Snelly]

Great work Rick and Richard. An excellent day out. Well done to all involved and raising £11.5K is just brilliant.

Nice to see some forum friends again too.

Shame about the 14th for me - I coulda bin a contender!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Fantastic achievement. Well done to everyone but especially those who put the hard yards in getting it sorted in the first place, getting the prizes and those working with Blackmoor to make it such a good day. Gutted to have missed it but some things in life take precedence - even for me. Here's to next year and an even bigger and better day

 

[User20205]

just got in, cheers for a cracking day ! Rich & Rick for organising :thup: Ian. Alex & Chris for their company :thup: Gordon for driving :thup:

gutted that I didn't win a GM flag

 

[Tiger]

Great work Rick and Richard. An excellent day out. Well done to all involved and raising £11.5K is just brilliant.

Nice to see some forum friends again too.

Shame about the 14th for me - I coulda bin a contender!

I'd second that! :thup:

Rick, Rich, Greg and everyone else who pitched in. Tremendous day out , phenomenal amount of cash raised and a cracking golf course. Thanks to Paul, Duncan and Steve for your company today and to Craig for chauffeuring me from Chelmsford. Sat now waiting for my train. Long day but totally worth it!!!

 

[Midnight]

Thanks for a cracking day , everything about the day was great. Got to meet loads more people and played golf with a man who has the biggest calf muscles I have seen (no wonder he wears shorts).:whoo:

Really enjoyable meet , thanks to Rich and Rick and all of the Blackmoor staff. Look forward to the next one , when is it ?

 

[Imurg]

Imurg for losing his ball on the last in the most amazing fashion........he chipped from the thick heather 20 yards right of the green, the ball airmailed the green, bounced along the patio of the clubhouse and disappeared down a drain,

The Rules guy said the the good news was that the drain was an unmovable object and he could get relief
the bad news was that he was out of bounds....Oh how we laughed

Fragger:whoo:

More hacked than chipped to be fair.
Looking at the ball in the Heather, and Murph will back me up on this, I was thinking I'd be lucky to advance it 10 yards into the bunker.
It was right down at the roots and well covered.
A swift hack with a GW and it flew out of the Heather like a Greyhound out of the trap. The rest is as Fragger described it..
I genuinely cannot believe I got so much of it.
Un real.....

Quality day, quality course and although my Golf went down the drain - see what I did there - I was 10 points better off than last year's effort.

Huge thanks to Rick, Rich, Blackmoor members and Staff, Vicky, Sam and the other helpers too.
To raise £11.5k is a phenomenal effort and everyone should be proud.

Good to see Old Buddies and meet some new faces too.

Roll on Woburn next year!

 

[Scazza]

I am finally back in Taunton! Made very good time on the way home and I am in one piece thank god (I did see a nasty accident though involving a Honda Jazz & a Van though, hope all are ok there!).

This was my first forum meet & I must say I will be returning for more! Great group of people! Must say a huge thank you to JustOne & PieMan, both excellent golfers and have brilliant banter to go with it!

Well done to all that made it happen and well done to everyone who turned up, played & raised some serious cash for HFH!

It has been a long day, hence the short but sweet post!

 

[HotDogAssassin]

I'm home now, huge thanks to Rick, Richard and all others that helped to make this a fanstastic day! Amazing achievement by all of us to raise £11.5k :clap:

This was my first forum meet and definitely won't be my last. I happily scored 29pts so pleased that I did a half decent job.

Thanks to RichardC for great company!

 

[Brookesy]

Excellent meet and an amazing achievement to raise 11.5k

Personally had a great time, course company and food was brilliant, shot 34 points myself with 9 3 putts! To the putting green to practice!

 

[full_throttle]

Just want to echo all the above. Thanks to Rick and Richard for their organisation, all the helpers and the staff at Blackmoor. Thanks to Robin (Fish), Steve (Steve79) and Lee for your company, some decent golf out there lads, Fish congratulations on your victory.

Thanks to my wife for the GoKart.

And to Malcolm (sweatysock41) thanks for driving, as always it's a pleasure to be in your company.

 

[G1BB0]

well got back about 9:10 so just over an hour, shame it took 3 hrs this morning due to the car park (M25).

Had a cracking day, played like a numpty but no surprise there! Smiffy was charming as always, Aztecs and Robobum were great company too.

Aztecs would have won tbh but had 13 3 putts and a kamikaze fly that apparently put him off a putt!

well done all for raising a phenomenal amount and big thanks to Rick, Richard for their organisation and Blackmoor for being excellent hosts.

 

[Aztecs27]

Aztecs would have won tbh but had 13 3 putts and a kamikaze fly that apparently put him off a putt!

Put me right off I tells you!

Great company from two knobs and Robobum today, very enjoyable round. Upon reflection, despite the horrific amount of agonising 3 putts, 30 points after not touching a club for months was a fair effort. Ball striking was ok (if directionally impaired from time to time) but the up and down from a disgusting plugged lie in the front bunker on the 9th to finish the day with a par was a great way to top off a stellar day.

Massive thanks to Brooksey for chauffeuring and I echo everything that's been said with regards to money raised and organisation, top job by all.

Darren/Robobum - Apologies for not saying cheerio, couldn't find you at the end. Was a pleasure to meet you and really enjoyed your company, the V-Easy will be seeing some work over the winter .

Bed time soon, 14 hours at work tomorrow.

 

[noble78]

Had a great day too, really enjoyed it and good to meet some people off the forum, massive thanks to all that was involved and hope to go to another meet up soon

 

[viscount17]

Back home after a good run back.

I echo the big thanks to rickg, rickart, Blackmoor and their small army of helpers for all their hard work in getting this staged and functioning so well - can't be said enough.
At the last minute I was switched from 2nd last out to 1st out on the 10th , but unfortunately I can't blame that for a poor performance. Really good fun in great company so cheers to Duncan, pjwokingham and Tiger.
Best of all the big winner was HfH - so take a pat on the pat everyone who worked, paid, played or donated prizes.

ps GoKart bag paid for

 

[Smiffy]

Fantastic day and well done to all concerned. An amazing amount of money raised for this worthwhile charity.
Thanks to my playing partners for some great craic on the way round.
Played like a knob.
Never mind

 

[wookie]

Another cracking forum day and a great total for HfH - I think the guy collecting the cheque was rightly chuffed to bits. A big well done to Rick and Rich.

Great company from playing partners Craig, Gordon and Tim - cheers.

Just pipped to first place on countback but fitting to see the golf ball ("mounted by Sandy" - nicely put Rick) to someone ex-forces - well played Fish.

 

[Robobum]

A few awards missed being given out for our group.......

The Colin Montgomery distraction trophy goes to Aztecs for that pesky fly leaving your putt 6' short!!

The IJP stylish golfer award to Gibbo for rocking the inside out t-shirt all the way up 18!!

The Radar Riley accurate irons cup to Smiffy for hitting every branch on the only tree on SI 1 (not stroke index )

Thanks for your company fellas, blinding as always.

Amazing effort by all concerned over the last year to get the day sorted and pull in such an amazing total! Particular thanks and congrats to Rick and Rich - just terrific.

 

[CMAC]

Sounds like a fantastic day and cause, look forward to seeing the report and pics.

 

[ArnoldArmChewer]

A huge thank you to Rick for his tremendous hard work in arranging a brilliant day, he even seemed to enjoy it too!! Nice to meet some Forum members and thanks to my playing partners Sandy, Nick & Gary for putting up with me. Looking forward to the next meet.

AAC

 

[Fish]

I echo all that has been said.

Huge thanks to rickg & rickart for their excellent organising skills, all the helpers before & after helping to administer everything and standing on some tee's, to Blackmoor for being excellent hosts, to all the companies/manufacturers and especially Golf Monthly for donating prizes, the (comic) auctioneer and everyone who made a donation of any amount to raise such a fantastic figure raised to a rather chuffed James from Help for Heroes.

Thank you to my playing partners Steve (steve79), Robert (full_throttle) & Lee (Blackmoor GC) for the encouragement, support & banter around a very nice course.

I met so many great humoured GM members who seemed to know me by name but I didn't know them! Great to put names to faces but too many to remember on my first meet but I'm sure as I join in on other meets small & large around the country over the coming months/years I will get to know a lot more of you.

I had one of those purple days winning a sleeve of Pro V's for landing on the 15th green and amassing 20 points on the back 9 followed by 17 on the front to share the total points with wookie but just nicked the win on countback for the coveted mounted (by Sandy ) camouflage ball.

Chuffed also that I pared my own 7th sponsored hole for a big 4 points which looked great with pictures and logo's lifted from my website, thank you.

The car made the 5.5hrs round trip and I'm absolutely chuffed as that was not only my first GM maiden meet but the first time I have won and been awarded something since starting this great game 16 months ago.

Thank you to everyone for a great turnout for a great cause and great time.

Robin (Fish)