Predictions for Woodhall Spa Pensioners v Athletes meet

Oi, I was unbeaten.

At snooker.

Thanks to adey.

Golf? not so good but a valuable half from dormie two down today. Conditions were terrible. Still thawing out. Gear drying out all over the house.

Smiffy walked in after 5 holes. Ponce. He was 5 down though, so the match only had 4 holes left in it.

I know my wedges are black finished, and are supposed to develope a rusty finish over time, but I expected more than 4 hours. They were going orange as I looked at them. More orange than Rickg. (should I mention he was humped by region 3? Perhaps I'd better not, oops. I just did).

Fun weekend guys. Thanks to all, esp smiffy for organising, and the guys I played with, Calvin, Jeremy, yerman, ray, gibbo, and Greg. It was fun. Almost. Congrats to gibbo for a stunning win in the singles. Thanks also to the snooker boys, and pieman and Justone for the company on the drive. What goes on tour stays on tour.

Next year? Not sure. I really really hate the bracken course.
 
MadAdey said:
I was a little fuzzy when I woke up also. That snooker may have been classy, but not as classy as my new hat. Funny old thing.....like you, the girlfriend also thinks I look a **** in it....:mmm:
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That hat is not a good look.

Matching trews and suitcase? Hmmm.
 
Just back from my wet weekend at Woodhall.
A couple of thanks first.
To Smiffy for arranging the trip.
And to Paul are captain,for putting up with my moaning,and
of course captaining the winning team.
To Smiffy,mike,and Adey my partner on Sat for there company.
Myself and Adey got beat 3 and 2,due to an inspired putting lesson
by Mike and Smiffy around the turn.
Just a note about Adey,great company,and he can drive a long way.
Cant putt to save his life.
Sunday was singles,got beat by TXL 2 and 1.Very,very nice guy.
We also had the pleasure of playing with Region and Rickg,two great guys.
We had lots of laughs,but these two play serious golf.
To be fair Gary was just too good,his driving is awsome.
Great company,good weekend despite the weather.
 
What a weekend! Cold and not raining on Saturday but seriously wet underfoot. Then just plain freezing, windy and wet today.

Huge thanks to Rob (Smiffy) for arranging everything, shame you could not get the same weather as either last year or at Woburn. Thanks to Justone, G1bbo and Hobbit for their company on Saturday, shame we could not keep up with James' good golf - G1bbo a 28 handicap?? no way, more like 20!

Sunday's game was a real survival test! A few failed, but there were enough hardy souls that stayed out to the end, I think everyone that managed to complete their rounds should be awarded a medal! Many thanks to Pokerjoke for a really good match. I agree, we were treated to some superb golf from Region3 & RickG.
 
Back home, thawed and dried out and another with gear dripping all over the house.

Memorable weekend, I even enjoyed some of it!
Seriously, many thanks to Smiffy for organising another great meet (weather aside) and to both young and not so young for making the whole thing what it was, golfers united against adversity, a great weekend

Thanks to Greg Lindley, Steve79 and Achilles on the Saturday, especially to Greg whose knock down irons into the greens went a long way to sealing our win.
Thanks to Achilles, Calvin and GJBike on the Sunday when we were blown all over the course, and modesty won't prevent me from saying I added another point to the oldies total!

Well done to Calvin who chased his brolly half way back down one of the holes and caught it before it blew into a bunker.

Wierdest thing for me was I found very few of the bunkers and only lost two balls over the weekend.
 
Our 4 had to complete 18 holes. Gibbo was dormie one up, I was dormie two down. If I had won 5 and 4, would I have played on? Possibly not. Although the worst had gone by the end, and the sunglasses came out on the drive home.
 
Been back about an hour or so and had to leave before the last match came in, so I'm glad to hear we took the spoils. It was inevitable really!

Despite the weather, absolute belter of a weekend.

Gutted missed the fun at the snooker table last night but had two really enjoyable rounds of golf.

Cheers, as always, to PieMan yesterday. Usually a formidable team, we played well enough that an other days,we'd have bought home a point, but unfortunately we played RickG and Vig on a day where they played out of their skin and pipped us 2&1 despite several heroics from myself and Paul along the way. Rick was terrific company, as usual, and it was a pleasure to go round with Vig for the 1st time, a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon.

Today was a Different story with playing with our Captain taking on Smiffy and his mate Norman, who I was up against in the singles. Personally, myself and Norman had a classic match play battle which went down the last and ended up as a half each but both he and Paul were great company in the cold and rain, as was Smiffy until he walked in after 5 holes.

PS huge thanks again to Rob for organising the weekend.
 
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Back home now with a house of wet stuff and need to get sorted for tomorrow but just want a shower and bed ASAP! What bad luck on the weather, it was a stinker - the Bracken had lakes for fairwys with standing water nearly everywhere - fourth time on that course and it has not grown on me!! Today was pure eveil howling wind and horizontal rain - the odd calm spell for 30 seconds gave a bit of hope before it all went downhill again. However, the Hotchkin is a pure clas golf course, in contrast to the much-inferior Bracken. It was pretty dry until the 13th - although 14 and 15 were very wet as this bit of the course is on clay not sand.

As usual Rob did a great job organising and was a far more organised captain than me - although that didn't matter in the end :D:):whoo:The old boys had their posturing hats on in the bar on Saturday - but the youngsters rallied in the face of adversity and di the business - we will give them a chance for revenge son - although maybe in mid summer!

It was great to see old friends and many new faces. Gary put on great display on Saturday as we beat Malcolm and Norman - although Malcolm battled hard and took it further than it looked like it would go after the first few holes - 31 points for Gary with 7 3 putts and 6 over today - he is on his way to Cat 1 and I think the old farts wish he was already there! Norman had an off day - although he made up for it in style today with a great half against Jon - both of whom parred the tough final hole with Jon looking like a single-figure golfer for 4 straight shots! I kept them company after Rob had enough after 5 holes - the birdie, birdie on 4 and 5 reminded me that I can sometimes play a few good shots

Looking forward to the next meet
 
Cracking weekend away, despite the weather today! The Pro Shop did very well out of me over the last couple of days with waterproof trousers, wet weather gloves and hat!! :(

Huge thanks to Grandad Smiffy for his excellent organisation of the whole thing - top man Roberto! Many congrats to the Whipper Skipper - no doubt he'll be making good use of the bragging rights for the next 12 months!

Thanks to my playing partners over the last two days - Jon, Vig, Rick, Adey, Rich and Jeremy; thoroughly enjoyed your company and the banter fellas. Was also good to meet some new faces, and also catch up with some old friends.

Finally, massive thank you to Murph for driving us up there and back - cheers mate. And to my roomie JustOne for talking me to sleep this morning at 3.30am! Hopefully the video footage of the both of us stack and tilting in our kecks last night just before we climbed into our single bed won't see the light of day on this forum.........................!!!
 
My first forum meet but will definitely not be the last. Played woeful both days really but somehow secured a point from 3 down with five to play in the singles (sorry Mal but had to be mentioned). Great company...for the most part :D had a real laugh and despite the terrible conditions I enjoyed both courses but the Hotchkin really is a cut above.

We may have been down after the first day but the result was never in doubt :)
 
murphthemog said:
That hat is not a good look.

Matching trews and suitcase? Hmmm.
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That hat is awesome, I love it. The matching pink trews and case was just a coincidende.

But what a fantastic weekend, great way to meet some of the lads from the forum.

Thanks for the putting lesson on Saturday smiffy, mike you was solid and deserved to take me and pokerjoke down 4&3. We just never got going did we mate. Glad you enjoyed watching me hitting the big dog, I think I would have still missed puts if we had been using a dustbin.

Great laugh in the snooker room lads cheers for that, you made me feel really welcome, even though you all k.ow each other well from other meets.

Rich, great company today. We will have a rematch sometime when the weather gets better, winning 6&4 was nice, but I just settled down quicker in that weather and got a good lead up. Next time will be closer I'm sure. Pieman and jeremy made up the 4-ball, thanks for the banter this morning really enjoyed your company.
 
First forum meet done and what a great weekend! I've just about thawed / dried out!

Many thanks to Crow, Greg Lindley, and Steve79 for their company on the Saturday. The old boys taught Steve and I a lesson. We just couldn't compete with their consistency. The Bracken was very wet indeed - getting a face full of water after playing from a soggy lie certainly woke me up. As for my drive on the 18th, which looked like a good 'un...I'll post the pic later. Suffice to say I didn't know oak tree trunks could be so cavernous!

As for today, it started with G1BB0's alarm scaring the utter crap out me first thing this morning. Talk about effective!!! As for the weather, it was atrocious - how we didn't drown I'll never know. Crow, Calvin and GJBike - despite the conditions it was thoroughly enjoyable. Crow was again very solid and thanks to my game vanishing for a large chunk of the front 9, the writing was on the wall. Even when I did pull my finger out the door was promtly slammed shut in my face! Great fun all the same, particularly the brolly chasing :D

The Hotchkin itself was terrific and I will definitley be returning, hopefully in sunnier climes and with a bit more form. I will be having a bunker lesson soon too! ;)

Finally, a massive thanks to Smiffy for the organistion. Top job and I'm looking forward to my next meet....whenever and wherever it may be! I just hope he's looking happier than he was when he was walking back down the 2nd! :thup:
 
Aztecs27 said:
He thought about it then just left the gorse bushes to stop it and picked it up when they got to the green!
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To be fair Anthony was doing a grand job of chasing it but then realised it was blowing away faster than he could actually run and gave up! :D

What a great weekend, despite the conditions. We felt very lucky to stay dry on Saturday although it was pretty chilly, but as others have described, today made up for missing the rain yesterday. The most difficult conditions I have EVER played in.
The starter suggested we might like to play off the green tees. Initially I wasn't that keen as they're mostly only 5-10yds back from the reds, but what a good decision it was. It made a difficult course in dreadful conditions possible to play reasonable golf on. I was far from the longest hitter there but I give it a decent slap, and I striped a driver then a 4 wood to only just make the fringe on SI1 so still playing plenty long enough.

It was great to meet some new members as well as familiar ones. Hope to see you all again (plus some more) in the future.

Thanks to...
Smiffy once again for the organisation. We don't blame you for the weather, James has admitted he's the jinx.

Captain course-management, Malc and Norman for their company on Saturday. A game where we sneaked up early and managed to hold various small leads throughout the round until sealing it late (ish) on. I must admit the Bracken isn't a course I would ever play again if it weren't for the fact that it's part of the deal you get for the weekend. I HATE those greens!

Tony, Anthony and Rick for the game today. Bearing in mind what we were out in, I enjoyed it far too much and for that I have your company to thank.
On paper it looked like being a good close match between Rick and myself after Rick had 35pts yesterday and I'd been hitting the ball well until I got to the greens. The first 6 holes were halved before I snuck a few up thanks to some good shots and good fortune in equal measure, and despite some good golf Rick just ran out of time to get anything going.
Rick, do you think it was me parring your shot hole, sinking the 20' putt for a win, or holing out from 50yds that was the turning point? :whistle:

Saturday night was a good laugh around the snooker table, and it was obvious a few had played the game before despite the lack of any half decent breaks.
I'm obviously due for the farts team soon, as I only managed to stay up until about 1am before the lure of the bed became too much.

Also interesting to see people play snooker the same way they play golf. The snappers captain thinks SAFE is how you greet teenagers, and Murphtheshank, how do you do that on a snooker table!?

Until the next time...
 
Huge thanks to Rob for organising yet another super Forum meet. The man is a leg end. It must be said that he is losing his touch a bit with the weather though. I think that it was RickG who said something about having the wind ...

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Ooops. Sorry MikeH. Are you still trying to get rid of your remaining stock? Really nice brollies, honest :mmm:

To be fair though, one gust of wind broke my trolley brolly holder off my Motocaddy and I had to chase the brolly down the fairway and into the trees. I'm glad no-one had a camera to catch a very old, wet, cold, fart trying to catch his brolly that had gone farther than his approach shot.

Our intrepid captain didn't seem too keen on leading his team this morning ....

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Thanks to Graham (GKBike), Matt (Hooper), Greg (G Mulligan) and Mal (the legendary Sweatysocks) for their great company over the weekend.

I note that Murph was happy to be unbeaten over the 2 days. I'm far too modest to mention that I actually won both matches - albeit with more that GJ's fair share of help on Saturday.

I'll try to upload the photos taken if I can work out how to get the link. (It is a bit late, I've had a long drive, the Merlot has flowed, and nursey has retired for the night so self medication only now :cool:).
 
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