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Hillside On Friday.

Official Results

King of Kings Final

jimbob.someroo- 83 (88) on countback/lowest gross
mexicomark- 83 (101)
rickg- 84 (90)***
ger147- 86 (105)
Chefi0- 89 (107)
pokerjoke- N/R***
Cherry13- N/R
thepodgster- N/R

Congratulations again to Jim.

Best Of The Rest

Liverbirdie- 35 points
upsidedown- 33 points
Lincoln_Quaker- 32 points
Topoftheflop- 32 points
Chris Jones - 30 points
Birchy- 30 points
pbrown7582- 30 points
the hammer- 29 points
Paperboy- 28 points
Andy Willoughby- 28 points
garyinderry- 27 points
MashleyR7- 27 points
Oxfordcomma- 27 points
Junior- 26 points
Qwerty- 25 points
MadAdey- 24 points
crazyface- 23 points
Stu_C- 23 points
virtuocity- 20 points
Scouser- 19 points
Valentino- 19 points
hamshanker- 18 points
Colin Dale- 18 points
davemc1- 15 points
Bigfoot- 15 points
peterlav- 14 points
Odvan- 11 points***
Fish- 10 points

***Magic 2 winner pays out £12 each
 
 
Who is number 4 Robin :D loving the one leg hope :rofl:

Looks and sounds a cracking day out
 
What a GREAT DAY !!!!! Many thanks to the organizer of this amazing day out, and to my playing partners for keeping me laughing when things weren't going great. Links golf would be so much easier if there was no wind. I HATE WIND !!!! I had plans to shower change and have the crack in the bar afterwards, but the 51/2 hour round shot that to hell, and I appologise for not staying, I had arranged to collect my son at 6, made it for 7. For those who haven't played Hillside, IT IS AWESOME !!!! Well defined holes, not just wide open patch of land. They should really go and buy a few petrol strimmers and get the rough down a bit. Balls sometimes easy to find, but you try getting them out. When you do get them out, they just bugger off into the, many, bunkers. I was covered in sand, many many times. For the balls you loose, you usually find replacements. Except if your names Fish, who saved his "best" drive for the 18th, where he attempted to lash the ball onto Birkdales course. Sorry mate, it has to be recorded. So once again thanks to Fish, for the funny stuff, The Hammer for the dancing and stunning drives INTO THE WIND, and Dave for the amazing striking of the ball for the first few holes, 27....POINT 1, yeah right, who would have won by a street until the golf gods started to remind him how tough the game is. Loved the story about the Coke. Cheers everyone. Great day. Well done the winners !!!
 
He certainly gets through the ball with a bit of power - looked a great strike

But sorry we need to see the vid of your jumping ( well falling ) around Robin :D
 
Liverpoolphil said:
He certainly gets through the ball with a bit of power - looked a great strike

But sorry we need to see the vid of your jumping ( well falling ) around Robin :D
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It was a great strike to be fair. After his 1st heading towards the railway he had to make sure his provi made the fairway.

See post #168 by oxford comma its there!
 
fundy said:
Wouldve loved to, Hillside a great venue but the date clashed with something else this end :(
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Shame that fella, they hold opens throughout the year there at about 70% of the £110 GF.

In my opinion it's worth every penny.
 
Stuart_C said:
Shame that fella, they hold opens throughout the year there at about 70% of the £110 GF.

In my opinion it's worth every penny.
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At one of my prev clubs used to go with a group of guys and stay in Stockport for 3 or 4 days each year and play in that area, some great courses in that neck of the woods (oh what id give for that choice where im currently based lol)
 
Well that was a fun couple of days!

Headed out the house at 0645 on Thursday morning and headed down to Liverpool. Traffic was nice and calm and I headed to Lee Park, arriving early.

Hosted by Stu_C and joined by scouser, it was a really fun afternoon of indifferent golf and decent chat. Scouser was a putt away from winning the day but Stu's luck was in all the way round to be fair (!) and followed the round with a nice cider.

Thanks again for hosting me lads- I really enjoyed it and it was a perfect start to my trip.

Headed off to Southport, arriving at the hotel a bit tired after my early start and midday round but after a wash and change I was good to go again. Few pints with Paperboy before the arrival of Fish, Oxfordcomma and rickg. Out for a curry, good meal and company. Bad Jägerbomb and then back to the hotel exhausted.

7.30am never seemed so early the next day but a bit of breakfast and fruit juice sorted me out. Off to Hillside and I was overawed with the welcome I received from the pro and Assistant Secretary. They had everything set out just as I asked and couldn't be friendlier. They made what was a stressful morning for me much easier.

Was delighted to see everyone turn up on time and sign in. As expected, everyone was friendly and in good spirits for the day ahead. I'm not a fan of public speaking but got through that bit unscathed.

Got some photos on the first tee and really looking forward to seeing how they turn out.

Well done to the first two groups on the tee who must have been very nervous in front of a big gallery.

Considering a week ago I was fearing that we'd have to cancel the day due to threats of thunder and lightning, we got very lucky with the weather indeed. Very windy at times making the course completely unbeatable for me. I had an absolute stinker of a day off the tee and quickly learned that the course would not let you recover from a bad tee shot. A shame, considering my recent good form coming on the back of good driving but it's something I'll have a look at over the next week.

I have never played a hole as beautiful as the 11th.

It was a long round due to the toughness of the course. Maybe it was a little too tough considering the 5.5 hour round which is something we'll need to have a look at for next year- but we'll worry about this later.

My playing partners qwerty, birchy and oxfordcomma were great company and we all battled through together. We must have spent 30 minutes looking for balls- again a classic case of needing to keep it on the short stuff.

If the early Thursday start, Thursday round, night out and early Friday rising didn't knacker me, then Hillside certainly did. I was GUBBED!

Someone bought me a pint of coke- I can't even remember who! Was it birchy?!

Due to the time taken to get round the course, some people had to leave before the grub and prizes which I feel quite bad about- another learning curve- but again, we'll leave that for another day and just concentrate on the nice things!

I enjoyed the soup and sandwiches enormously, especially the salmon.

On to the speech which went better than I feared and thanks to jimbob for the kind words.

The King of Kings competition has taken a lot of twists and turns over the past 8 months or so but totally worth it after yesterday.

Well done to all of the winners and those who walked away with a little prize.

Thanks again to the regional co-ordinators who did a super job of organising venues and meets and lastly a huge thanks to everyone who supported or took part in any King of Kings event this year.
 
Well done on what appears to be a cracking comp final day and despite the ups and downs should be proud of everything to do with the comp - hopefully the dates will fall a bit more kinder for me next year and maybe a venue a bit closer to east regions could be sorted - but thats all for next year etc.

Well done again :thup:
 
Dave you done fantastic mate,well organised day out and i think considering the conditions and the course conditions which youve got to remember they are preparing for Open Final Qualifying on 1st July it will only get tougher and just shows the quality of the course to be chosen to hold the qualifiers on a regular basis and to play it with a good bunch of lads was a pleasure and is now my No1 course to have played and also to top it off how welcome we where made by staff and members so refreshing:thup:
 
Huge thanks to Virtuocity and the regional co-ordinators and Mike for organise the KoK comp and finals day.
Hillside is a great venue and unbelievable value we had yesterday.

Many thanks to my playing partners Paperboy ODvan and Colin. A great day in great company and despite the 5.5hr round it just didn't seem like it.

Roll on next year!
 
playing in those conditions really shows how good the worlds best are. how the hell do you get round there under par off the back sticks.

the rough, even the wispy stuff at hillside is evil! you think you can get a club on it, but you cant! don't even think about using a so called rescue club from the light stuff! it just grabs hold, doesn't let go and you look like a tit !
 
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