My mate and I are playing in an open gents pairs at The Roxburghe tomorrow, don't know if I'm looking forward to it or not as the forecast is bloody awful !
I wish you well. MiB and myself played in one up there around September last year. A very windy day, off the whites. I still wake up occasionally in cold sweats thinking about it. It's a fabulous course but off the whites and in bad weather it is seriously tough. I was drained by the end.
. I hope you have an early morning time, based on the forecast.We played in the same one, playing very tough, we didn't threaten the leaderboard but my mate won Ntp at the 8th so we have a free 4 ball early next month, we are teeing off at 10:00, the rain is forecast to be at its worst between 11:00 - 12:00 so will no doubt get soaked, I'm nipping up to AG this afternoon to get a rain cover for my bag and some cheap gloves !I wish you well. MiB and myself played in one up there around September last year. A very windy day, off the whites. I still wake up occasionally in cold sweats thinking about it. It's a fabulous course but off the whites and in bad weather it is seriously tough. I was drained by the end.
I'd like to play it again on a nice day, off the yellow tees
Madness, you never got full on the old system
How did you get on? My open today was called off at 12.15, I was 5 holes in. Greens were waterlogged. It will get rescheduled, hopefully the weather will be better. Hopefully they will do the same for you, assuming it was also called off.
Weather wise we were absolutely fine, just a couple of light showers, course was heavy and playing very long, we both played pretty poorly, got off to a bad start and never really recovered, our pp's played well, 64 better ball for 44 points i think, just can't understand this apparent obsession with Stableford though, maybe it's just me.
I'm pleased you escaped the deluge ?.
Yeah think you are probably right with that, reflecting on yesterday our pp's were off 10 and 14 and played really well to shoot 8 under, my pp and I off 5 and 7 were never going to challenge that given the conditions and state of the course (usually in very good condition but very obviously affected by the lack of heat, needs some growth badly) coming from the immaculate greens at Dunbar we really struggled to get the ball anywhere near the hole. We have a voucher for a 4 ball and were intending to go in a few weeks before one of our guys has a knee op but it's valid until September so are going to leave it until then
Certainly seems, in reading the various threads on here, that stableford is much more the thing with you than us, we probably only play one a year along with one bogey comp, everything else is stroke play, maybe that's why Roxburghe had it as a stableford, it's too near the border !
It's hugely well regarded in Northumberland and only an hour or so away for most of us here so I'm not surprised you heard a few accents ?
Yep in Aug every year. The Sun b/ball is traditionally off Whites the remainder Yellows. It might be £30 next year as they are very actively, driving the course improvements forward.
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Yep in Aug every year. The Sun b/ball is traditionally off Whites the remainder Yellows. It might be £30 next year as they are very actively, driving the course improvements forward.
