Smiffy
Grand Slam Winner
To take on the Gainsborough 8???
We, (myself, Ray Taylor, JustOne, CaptainRon, Full Throttle, LIG, Leftie & Rosecott) are returning to Gainsborough Golf Club on Sunday 2nd August next year for our annual trip away.
Gainsborough GC is the home of Ping UK and is home to two great 18 hole courses, the Karsten Lakes and Thonock Park. Details can be found here.......
http://www.gainsboroughgc.co.uk/index.php
The "Lakes" is a stadium type course and was designed with the intention of playing the Solheim Cup there. Lots of water (as the name implies) and some tremendous holes. A real test.
The "Thonock" course is totally different, a really nicely laid out parkland course that has beautiful treelined fairways and whilst not having quite so much water as the Lakes, has it's own hazards in the shape of strategically placed trees and fairway bunkers.
We will be playing one round on the Sunday afternoon, two rounds on Monday and another round on the Tuesday morning. We left there at 2pm this year so unless you lived in the outer Hebrides you would get home at a reasonably sensible time.
We are looking for 8 like minded individuals who fancy coming up and having a bash at trying to beat us, Ryder Cup style.
I have negotiated what I think is a terrific rate with the club, basically you will get all four rounds of golf together with a 3 course evening meal (held in the clubhouse restaurant) on both the Sunday and Monday evenings for £125.00 all in. The quality (and quantity!!) of the food you get has to be seen to be believed.
The "Gainsborough 8" will be staying at the course as they have two purpose built apartments there so our opponents would have to stay elsewhere locally, but Fish (who was going to organise it this year) found two or three reasonably priced places within easy driving distance of the course so it shouldn't be a problem, neither should it be too expensive. I am sure there are plenty of cheap hotels or B&B's around to make this a doddle.
The idea is to play four rounds of differing matchplay events (we won't bother with greensomes because nobody seems to like that) so it should be a good laugh.
If anybody is interested please let me know on here, but only if you are seriously interested.
I'm not being funny, but I used to organise a lot of meets on the forum but got totally cheesed off with the number of people who originally put their names down and then pulled out at the last minute thereby dropping me in the cart.
I am not asking for deposits at this stage, but WILL ask for some nearer the time to confirm your commitment.
Please remember, this is a 3 day event that will start on Sunday 2nd August so it means taking Monday/Tuesday off work if you are interested.
Please let me know.
Rob
We, (myself, Ray Taylor, JustOne, CaptainRon, Full Throttle, LIG, Leftie & Rosecott) are returning to Gainsborough Golf Club on Sunday 2nd August next year for our annual trip away.
Gainsborough GC is the home of Ping UK and is home to two great 18 hole courses, the Karsten Lakes and Thonock Park. Details can be found here.......
http://www.gainsboroughgc.co.uk/index.php
The "Lakes" is a stadium type course and was designed with the intention of playing the Solheim Cup there. Lots of water (as the name implies) and some tremendous holes. A real test.
The "Thonock" course is totally different, a really nicely laid out parkland course that has beautiful treelined fairways and whilst not having quite so much water as the Lakes, has it's own hazards in the shape of strategically placed trees and fairway bunkers.
We will be playing one round on the Sunday afternoon, two rounds on Monday and another round on the Tuesday morning. We left there at 2pm this year so unless you lived in the outer Hebrides you would get home at a reasonably sensible time.
We are looking for 8 like minded individuals who fancy coming up and having a bash at trying to beat us, Ryder Cup style.
I have negotiated what I think is a terrific rate with the club, basically you will get all four rounds of golf together with a 3 course evening meal (held in the clubhouse restaurant) on both the Sunday and Monday evenings for £125.00 all in. The quality (and quantity!!) of the food you get has to be seen to be believed.
The "Gainsborough 8" will be staying at the course as they have two purpose built apartments there so our opponents would have to stay elsewhere locally, but Fish (who was going to organise it this year) found two or three reasonably priced places within easy driving distance of the course so it shouldn't be a problem, neither should it be too expensive. I am sure there are plenty of cheap hotels or B&B's around to make this a doddle.
The idea is to play four rounds of differing matchplay events (we won't bother with greensomes because nobody seems to like that) so it should be a good laugh.
If anybody is interested please let me know on here, but only if you are seriously interested.
I'm not being funny, but I used to organise a lot of meets on the forum but got totally cheesed off with the number of people who originally put their names down and then pulled out at the last minute thereby dropping me in the cart.
I am not asking for deposits at this stage, but WILL ask for some nearer the time to confirm your commitment.
Please remember, this is a 3 day event that will start on Sunday 2nd August so it means taking Monday/Tuesday off work if you are interested.
Please let me know.
Rob
