Inerness (2) Royal Dornoch, Castle Stuart ** updated **

[patricks148]

Re: Inverness (2) Royal Dornoch, Castle Stuart ** updated **

I am not a yank, i do not possess shorts (suitable for golf)

I wear shorts from end of March though to end of Sept/Oct.

except when playing Tain/ Brora or Bonner Bridge... the reason? Ticks! Sheep on and around Tain, sheep, on Brora and Deer at Bonner! Ticks,horrible things.

 

[Liverbirdie]

Re: Inverness (2) Royal Dornoch, Castle Stuart ** updated **

Competition details and draw to follow very soon...............

 

[IanG]

Re: Inverness (2) Royal Dornoch, Castle Stuart ** updated **

Competition details and draw to follow very soon...............

oh, you are an awful tease ...... can't wait.:clap:

 

[chellie]

Re: Inverness (2) Royal Dornoch, Castle Stuart ** updated **

Competition details and draw to follow very soon...............

Bet everyone is hoping they don't get me...........

 

[Liverbirdie]

Re: Inverness (2) Royal Dornoch, Castle Stuart ** updated **

oh, you are an awful tease ...... can't wait.:clap:

Just awaiting final sign off......

 

[Liverbirdie]

Re: Inverness (2) Royal Dornoch, Castle Stuart ** updated **

Hi all,

Well after many, many weeks of discussions and deliberations we have decided on what comp to have.

Believe me, there were 80 plus e-mails exchanged between us all on the committee. We have tried to make it as enjoyable, fair and equitable a comp as possible discussing par, SSS, tees, handicaps, formats and fairness to all in terms of ability, gender and nationality. Anyhoose, here is the format and a few rules and guides.

The GM/OGN Highland Earl of Dunmore (Dunmore than all the other chompers)

£10 entry each (entry into both the singles and blind pairs competitions)

Singles

Medal nett score less stableford score
Example 1. 74 nett medal score less 36 stableford points would equal a score of 38
Example 2. 70 nett medal score less 30 stableford points would equal a score of 40
Lowest score wins, if a tie, best nett medal score takes precedence.

Guide:-
1. Full handicap for all players (current at start of the 1st day).
2. CS (Castle Stuart) is the stableford round. RD (Royal Dornoch is the medal round).
3. CS is par 72 for all players (there is no SSS) but men can play off whatever tees they desire (except the womens/seniors), women can play of what tees they desire.
4. RD is played to SSS (Yellows is 71(par), whites is 73 (extra 2 shots),reds is 76 (extra 5 shots). Remember the ladies arent getting any extra shots at CS!!!!
5. So people can play off whatever tees they like, this is for everyone's own enjoyment, as well as for their own tactical reasons!!!
6. If people pick the white tees, they must play the whole round off the white tees, same if off the yellow etc. (no picking and choosing per hole).
7. For the medal round, as this is a tough course and there may be a problem with pace of play, there will be a high score of 10 per hole (no matter what the par is), just in case someone has absolute mare hole. N/R's will also count as a 10 on a hole.
8. No Gimmees!!!!!!!

Pairs comp (half - blind)

The grand draw will take place on the Saturday night at the curry house. One person will draw the pairs, which will remain secret. All you will know is that one of the four in your fourball on the Sunday will be your partner. Glyn seems the soul of discretion, so he will be the only one who knows. We will also draw his one separately.

Unless someone jugs out, as we have uneven numbers(27 CS, 28 RD), we may have to have one pair entry where we have to have a single use both cards.

Simples - Out of each pair the best nett medal score/best stableford combination, BUT one card from each player has to be used, not two cards by the same player.

We sincerely hope that everyone will enter, but if someone doesn’t want to, please PM me. We’ll collect the money on the day. Chiefio and lanark golfer - can you also let your mates aware of the above and confirm that they are entering, or not.

If you have now lost the will to live, and are happy with the above you don’t need to read any further............actually, I’ll put the rest on a separate thread.

 

[Liverbirdie]

Re: Inverness (2) Royal Dornoch, Castle Stuart ** updated **

Thinking, on the above:-

Format - We know that in Scotland that Stableford isn't as prevalent as in England, which is why we have picked both formats.

Low handicappers/high handicappers - 7/8th's was considered but to also get the balance right, and so we could also do it off full handicap, we decided on one medal as well as one stableford round, so as not to favour any types of handicap.

Tees/SSS/CSS - Also discussed at length and to be fair the lady on the committee has probably given up more than was necessary. As CS has no SSS it was hard to sort something out fully, so decided on the Par for one course (women get no extra shots) and the SSS for the other. Women have 5 extra shots, but gents can pick what tees they are comfortable with. Yellows get par, whites gain an extra 2 shots on their handicap - which do you want? Rules for mixed comps have also been taken into account.

BTW CS recommend certain tees for certain handicaps, this is still down to the individual though, but may help in your decision.

We aren't the RandA, and hope everything will run as smooth as possible, but hope it is mainly played for the fun of it as well as in a competitive spirit. if there are any decisions to be made by the committee, we hope to do it as fair as possible. In the event of any disagreements, Birchy's decision will be final - wahey!

We hope that we have found a good comp which will also be fun, but also lets players test themselves as much as they desire. The tee options available may depend on the club;s own instructions for the day, so we will have to abide by that.

The committee was made up of myself, Birchy, Karen, Glyn and Martin who were all equally to blame as me. They all deserve your thanks IMHO. Lots of ideas, formats were talked about, dispensed with, retained, thrown out again before this was unanimously settled on.

Not long now.........:whoo:

 

[Cheifi0]

Re: Inverness (2) Royal Dornoch, Castle Stuart ** updated **

Wow that's a bit of a read. That's top work. It all sounds good me. My guests will
Be in for the ride.

 

[IanG]

Re: Inverness (2) Royal Dornoch, Castle Stuart ** updated **

Blimey - hope someone brings a calculator. Thanks for all the efforts everyone, I'm sure it will be great fun all round. Like The idea of the blind pairs comp.

ian

 

[NWJocko]

Re: Inverness (2) Royal Dornoch, Castle Stuart ** updated **

You shower could at least have put some thought into it....

If I'm still struggling with my knee LB I'll volunteer to sit out off the pairs comp or use my card twice. Hopefully I'll be ok by then but remains to be seen, will let you know when I'm back a week on Monday.

 

[thepodgster]

Re: Inverness (2) Royal Dornoch, Castle Stuart ** updated **

Hi all,
3. CS is par 72 for all players (there is no SSS) but men can play off whatever tees they desire (except the womens/seniors), women can play of what tees they desire.

This sounds great, I can't wait to play of the Junior's Tees

 

[Liverbirdie]

Re: Inverness (2) Royal Dornoch, Castle Stuart ** updated **

You shower could at least have put some thought into it....

If I'm still struggling with my knee LB I'll volunteer to sit out off the pairs comp or use my card twice. Hopefully I'll be ok by then but remains to be seen, will let you know when I'm back a week on Monday.

Cheers Ian, we'll see how it pans out first, but thanks if all 27 go in it, which hopefully they will.

 

[chellie]

Re: Inverness (2) Royal Dornoch, Castle Stuart ** updated **

New handicap for HID. He's been cut today after playing from "the stones" under atrocious conditions. He's gone from 21.6 to 19.5

 

[Liverbirdie]

Re: Inverness (2) Royal Dornoch, Castle Stuart ** updated **

New handicap for HID. He's been cut today after playing from "the stones" under atrocious conditions. He's gone from 21.6 to 19.5

Congrats, even thought twice about walking the dog in that today, never mind playing.

 

[chellie]

Re: Inverness (2) Royal Dornoch, Castle Stuart ** updated **

Congrats, even thought twice about walking the dog in that today, never mind playing.

Was dry when he set off. Will pass on your congrats. I went out in the worst of it but we gave up after three holes. Was told there were lots of comments about us from the men in the clubhouse at the time lols

 

[Liverbirdie]

Re: Inverness (2) Royal Dornoch, Castle Stuart ** updated **

And the draw for Castle Stuart is:-

Time
14.5O NWJocko (Ian) 7,Kaz (Karen) 5, 2Blue (Davie) 12,Podgster (Steve) 22

15.OO Toad (?????),Val (Martin) 12,Junior (Andy) 9,Chiefio+2 (Dave) 16

15.1O Scouser (Ian) 24,Chellie (Anne) 36, Chellie+1 (Simon) 20

## Later times ##

15.5O Fourdoors (Gareth) 7,IanG (Ian) 18,Liverbirdie(Peter) 7,Lig (Preet) 13

16.OO G Mcletchie (Gary) +1,Chiefio+1 (Wesley) 28,Birchy (Scott) 12,Qwerty (Dave) 8

16.1O Lanark Golfer (Paul) 6,Bernix (Bernard) 11, Willers (Andy) 11,Duffers (Paul) 17

16.2O Fourdoors+1 ( ????) 7,Chiefio (Josh) 18,Lincoln Quaker(Glyn) 10, StuC (Stuart) 16

I did a draw from four pots of low international, high international, low Anglos and high anglos. That worked out dead crap so whilst mainly keeping that split in each group I tweaked the groups around so that the handicaps were a bit more evenly spread. Otherwise one time would have a handicap of 70+ and another was 30 odd.

We have also had to put four of the Lanark lads out as late as possible, as their playing somewhere else earlier.

So that concludes the draw, the handicaps may not be the most up to date, but please advise of any changes, and any names I've missed out.

 

[thepodgster]

Re: Inverness (2) Royal Dornoch, Castle Stuart ** updated **

14.5O NWJocko (Ian) 7,Kaz (Karen) 5, 2Blue (Davie) 12

Ian, Karen and Davie, I will try not to hold you up to much, however I am all excited about this especially as I am drawn with 3 professionals - it'll be like watching Sky Sports but in 3D

 

[FairwayDodger]

Re: Inverness (2) Royal Dornoch, Castle Stuart ** updated **

14.5O NWJocko (Ian) 7,Kaz (Karen) 5, 2Blue (Davie) 12

Ian, Karen and Davie, I will try not to hold you up to much, however I am all excited about this especially as I am drawn with 3 professionals - it'll be like watching Sky Sports but in 3D

Wouldn't get too excited, the way I'm playing you'll be wondering how I ever got to that handicap!

 

[LIG]

Re: Inverness (2) Royal Dornoch, Castle Stuart ** updated **

And the draw for Castle Stuart is:-

15.5O Fourdoors (Gareth) 7,IanG (Ian) 18,Liverbirdie(Peter) 7,Lig (Preet) 13

Be prepared to carry a bit of extra weight LB.
Played (and I use the term VERY loosely) in my first ever bogey comp.... at least it was pairs!


I can see myself being "House b****" at the Ponderosa on Saturday and Sunday.

 

[Liverbirdie]

Re: Inverness (2) Royal Dornoch, Castle Stuart ** updated **

Be prepared to carry a bit of extra weight LB.
Played (and I use the term VERY loosely) in my first ever bogey comp.... at least it was pairs!


I can see myself being "House b****" at the Ponderosa on Saturday and Sunday.

I'm used to carrying excess weight Lig.