Thanks Crawford

[Toad]

Just want to say thanks to Crawford for organising a great weekends golf at Machrihanish, oh and well done GCD winning a 4ball at the Dunes course despite moaning about the walking between holes all weekend , was bad for his arthritic hips apparently lol.

Was some great golf on show and round of the day apart from mine of course had to be young Andy the assistant pro, shot 71 despite being locked our his room most of the night as it was busy and finding the beach on the first.

 

[Grumps]

Great weekend well organised and ready to put name down for next years trip already .

 

[DelB]

Great weekend well organised and ready to put name down for next years trip already .

+1.

 

[bobmac]

We're waiting for the pictures/ videos/ results/ stories

 

[thecraw]

I'm in the process of doing the report and pictures will follow ASAP, however I have two little monsters in tow today and they don't like doing what daddy tells them.

A report will be posted ASAP.

I've managed to upload all the Machrihanish Dunes Photographs onto Photobucket and I'll transfer them onto here later. I just need to get the Machrihanish ones done as well.

Just about to put my little girl down for an afternoon nap.

Cheers guys.

 

[Bunkers]

"Piss-up" and "Brewery" are just two words i could use to describe the craw-organised Machrihanish 2011 golf outing...

"Piss-up" would accurately describe the events of Saturday evening and "Brewery" perfectly sums up the smell of the assembled crowd as we waited on the first tee on Sunday morning to tee off!

Quite simply, this was a great weekend. Beautiful weather, great company, quality banter and some (patches of) good golf.


SATURDAY


Machrihanish Dunes on saturday was definitely a Marmite track but one thing was undeniable...it is feckin' long! For those interested in facts / figures etc, the total walking distance was in the region of 9000 - 10,000 yards and some groups took almost 5 & 1/2 hours to get round! A tough track with many nice features but too many blind shots for me. All in we got coffee and bacon rolls, dinner, bag-tags, strokesavers, pencils, bottled water, more tees than Grumps could carry etc and an epic round of golf, all for £50 - great value.

Here's a few pics from Saturday

Fabian and Graeme negotiate the 10th...

Bunkering of the par 3 15th

Paul and Andy on the 11th green

View towards the 7th green

SATURDAY NIGHT ... DELETED SCENE



SUNDAY

Sunday morning saw more glorious weather for golf. Bright skies, little wind and more sunshine, if a little cooler than Saturday. First tee nerves abounded as 32 hungover golfers crowded around the 1st tee in anticipation of the first diddy to drive it onto the beach (young Andy). Some more cracking golf (played sporadically), great banter and a truly fantastic links masterpiece soon had us all forgetting about alcohol...well almost all of us.


Here’s a few pics from the day

Madandra takes to the first

Crawford stopped greeting about his finger long enough to have a few swings

DelB calmed his nerved to get away a great drive on the first

Patrick gets it away safely

Myself crapping it on the first prior to hitting a career drive a good 240 (or 360 for the forum) down the middle

Cheers to Andy, Paul and Toad for the company on Saturday and Graeme, John and Callum for the game on Sunday. Thanks to everyone else for the banter and last, but my no means least, thanks to Crawford for organising the whole she-bang! Top quality weekend and i’m already looking forward to next year!

Ray

 

[DelB]

Great write-up and quality photography, Ray. Well done mate.

 

[stevek1969]

looks like you guys had a cracking weekend and the weather was spot on to,well done craw 2 years on the bounce for good weather and you must have put in a load of work to organise it ,hopefully can make it next year if invited

 

[Farneyman]

Great stuff again Crawford. Really enjoyed it. I will post some photos later.