Social Media Open

ssbob

Anyone gonna play this next year? Looks like it's going to be on the masters weekend aswell:

https://twitter.com/SMOpen

Seems like a good bit of craic and some great golf courses:

Adare Manor
Castlemartyr
Old Head
Mount Juliet

Reganovski

ssbob wrote: »

Anyone gonna play this next year? Looks like it's going to be on the masters weekend aswell:

https://twitter.com/SMOpen

Seems like a good bit of craic and some great golf courses:

Adare Manor
Castlemartyr
Old Head
Mount Juliet

Yeah it a good idea and sounds good but not sure what sort of international pairings will come.
They also want a deposit paid by 30th Nov when the competition wont be on until April/May which is a bit much I think

ssbob

Reganovski wrote: »

Yeah it a good idea and sounds good but not sure what sort of international pairings will come.
They also want a deposit paid by 30th Nov when the competition wont be on until April/May which is a bit much I think

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Got an e-mail this morning saying they basically want €150 per team so only €75 each and for the quality of course we would be playing I would not let that put me off personally, full e-mail:

Hi Everybody,
I hope all is well. You are included on this email because you indicated your interest in the Social Media Open, if you want to be excluded from future emails please me know.
We now have 2 options in terms of dates and packages as the finalised costs with the hotels and golf courses have affected the overall initial package price. Proposed itineraries as follows:
PACKAGE 1
Day 1, Thursday 25th April 2013
Golf at Adare Manor Hotel & Golf Resort, Overnight in Kinsale with Meet and Greet and optional Pints at White Lady Hotel (Finger Food may be arranged closer to the time)
Day 2, Friday 26th April 2013
Golf at Castlemartyr, Overnight in Kinsale
Day 3, Saturday 27th April 2013
Rest Day / Optional Golf / Sightseeing / Possible Pub Crawl of the Town
Day 4, Sunday 28th April 2013
Golf at Old Head Golf Links, Overnight in Kinsale
Day 5, Monday 29th April 2013
Final Day's Golf at Mount Juliet, Prize Giving Dinner at Mount Juliet Clubhouse, Optional Overnight in Mount Juliet or Kilkenny
Day 6, Tuesday 30th April 2013
Depart for Home
PACKAGE PRICE, GOLF & ACCOMMODATION (4 ROUNDS, 4 NIGHTS) €465. GOLF ONLY €275
PACKAGE 2
Day 1, Thursday 30th May 2013
Golf at Mount Juliet, Overnight in Kinsale with Meet and Greet and optional Pints at White Lady Hotel (Finger Food may be arranged closer to the time)
Day 2, Friday 31st May 2013
Golf at Castlemartyr, Overnight in Kinsale
Day 3, Saturday 1st June 2013
Rest Day/Optional Golf/Sightseeing
Day 4, Sunday 2nd June 2013
Golf at Adare Manor Hotel & Golf Resort (day trip), Overnight in Kinsale with possible Pub Crawl of the Town!
Day 5, Monday 3rd June 2013
Final Day's Golf at Old Head, Prize Giving Dinner at Old Head Clubhouse, Overnight in Kinsale
Day 6, Tuesday 4th June 2013
Depart for Home
PACKAGE PRICE, GOLF & ACCOMMODATION (4 ROUNDS, 5 NIGHTS) €560. GOLF ONLY €340
What we now need is a consensus of which dates suits best and if the May/June weekend suits then is everybody happy paying that bit extra? The weather should be better but, of course, no guarantees there however. During the June Bank Holiday weekend there will be more happening around Kinsale alright so this may be a consideration in terms of after golf activities!
If transfers are required between golf courses and the hotel we will finalise these extras closer to the date of play or once the entry deadline has passed. A Deposit of €150 per Team of 2 is required to guarantee your booking and places will be given on a first come first served basis. The deadline for entries is 30th November 2012.
Anybody that wants to enter please get back to me at your earliest convenience and I will pass on details for this. I look forward to hearing back from ye soon and hopefully seeing ye on the course and in the pub after golf during the Inaugural Social Media Open in 2013!

Yours in Golf,
Tom Kennedy[/QUOTE]

Reganovski

ssbob wrote: »

Got an e-mail this morning saying they basically want €150 per team so only €75 each and for the quality of course we would be playing I would not let that put me off personally

I thought it was €150 each so yes not as bad as I originally thought.

ssbob

Reganovski wrote: »

I thought it was €150 each so yes not as bad as I originally thought.

Would be good for a bit of banter anyway and the fact that it is more than likely on Masters weekend would make it more interesting.

charlieIRL

wonder is that the same Tom Kennedy formerly of MGS? Thought he was working in Mount Juliet now?

ssbob

charlieIRL wrote: »

wonder is that the same Tom Kennedy formerly of MGS? Thought he was working in Mount Juliet now?

Yep that's him, I suppose he is involved in everything golfwise.:D

If only I could make a full time job out of this!!

Tin_Cup

Sounds class. Would love to play as some class courses!

pistolpetes11

Following James and Kierans progress in this ,

Good round yesterday , hopefully the form continues today :

Day 1 Leader board



Day 2

ssbob

What a week of golf, I am completely panned out, if you haven't already, you should really try to get to all the courses we played, Adare standing out on it's own but the experience of the old head was like nothing else I have ever played.

PARlance

ssbob wrote: »

What a week of golf, I am completely panned out, if you haven't already, you should really try to get to all the courses we played, Adare standing out on it's own but the experience of the old head was like nothing else I have ever played.

Great stuff ssbob, did ye rally on Day 3 & 4?

Great pic, great posture...tell the truth, you hadn't even tee'd up your ball at that stage and were just posing

ssbob

ajcurry123 wrote: »

Great stuff ssbob, did ye rally on Day 3 & 4?

Great pic, great posture...tell the truth, you hadn't even tee'd up your ball at that stage and were just posing

We had 37 on Day 3 which was about average and 27 on day 4 which was a little better than average I reckon, we moved up to 15th overall, so an average day one would have got us close to top 10!!

In all honesty, we were waiting on the group in front to move on and we said we'd take a few pics with practice swings, needless to say my actual swing wasn't have as balanced!!!:D:D

PARlance

ssbob wrote: »

We had 37 on Day 3 which was about average and 27 on day 4 which was a little better than average I reckon, we moved up to 15th overall, so an average day one would have got us close to top 10!!

In all honesty, we were waiting on the group in front to move on and we said we'd take a few pics with practice swings, needless to say my actual swing wasn't have as balanced!!!:D:D

It was the fact that I couldn't see a tee or the ball in the distance, I wasn't hinting that your full swing wasn't as balanced

Nice shooting, can't have been easy carrying that lad for 4 days

Keano

This might sound odd but the tee boxes look shocking?

ssbob

ajcurry123 wrote: »

Nice shooting, can't have been easy carrying that lad for 4 days

I would say over the course of the 4 days he scored on about 65% of the holes and I scored on 35%, his back is pretty sore from carrying me at this stage!!

Keano A Legend wrote: »

This might sound odd but the tee boxes look shocking?

No they were in good nick, maybe the pic is bad or something, course is only opened about a week so the hollowcoring is still settling in and they are doing repairs to different parts of the course, they seem to hollowcore the whole course aswell which is mad ie. fairways, tee-boxes and greens!

kiers47

The first day really did kill us. I will take some bit of the blame as I went out for 2pints on te Tuesday and done a bit of a bender. Hit the wall after about 7 holes in mount J..
After that I played some of the best golf I've played for a year but my putting was terrible.
Seriously enjoyable few days over all though.

kiers47

A couple of nice photos here. Wind in the old head was something to experience. On the 15th I think it was I hit my tee shot about 30 yds right of the fairway out towards the sea and ended up back in the left rough(although it could have been a hook ;-) )

PARlance

Pity the group behind ye, I'm expecting a few models to appear in the next pics ye put up.... strike a pose

Looks like a great event lads, very jealous.

kiers47

ajcurry123 wrote: »

Pity the group behind ye, I'm expecting a few models to appear in the next pics ye put up.... strike a pose

Looks like a great event lads, very jealous.

Ha. We were playing as a 2ball in the old head as the lads we were playing with walked off after 6 holes as they couldn't hack the wind. So loads of time for posing and photos!! A few models would have went down a treat but I reckon it would have affected the golf. ;-)

alxmorgan

kiers47 wrote: »

Ha. We were playing as a 2ball in the old head as the lads we were playing with walked off after 6 holes as they couldn't hack the wind. So loads of time for posing and photos!! A few models would have went down a treat but I reckon it would have affected the golf. ;-)

How did that work with putting in a card ?

ssbob

alxmorgan wrote: »

How did that work with putting in a card ?

Lads signed before we left and we are genuine blokes as you can see by our mediocre card!! Bit of a disaster really, if we had a chance of a prize, it may not have been as easy to submit a card!

alxmorgan

ssbob wrote: »

Lads signed before we left and we are genuine blokes as you can see by our mediocre card!! Bit of a disaster really, if we had a chance of a prize, it may not have been as easy to submit a card!

If ye were in with a shout then I'd hope the lads wouldn't have walked.
Were you annoyed when they did ?

charlieIRL

Lads walk off playing the old head course cause of the wind?? They need their heads examined!

pistolpetes11

Well Im signed up for this years event , looking forward to it , Il need to dust off the clubs and get back in the Saddle

Having a little one last decimated my game !

ssbob

pistolpetes11 wrote: »

Well Im signed up for this years event , looking forward to it , Il need to dust off the clubs and get back in the Saddle

Having a little one last decimated my game !

Well worth it Pete, know a lot of guys playing again this year. Would defo be going back this year if I had the cash.

Seve OB

just spotting this, few of the lads in work interested in going.

seems to be all sold out now though

charlieIRL

stevieob wrote: »

just spotting this, few of the lads in work interested in going.

seems to be all sold out now though

it sold out almost as soon as it was announced, had a good few spots pre-booked from lads who played last year too.

Seve OB

charlieIRL wrote: »

it sold out almost as soon as it was announced, had a good few spots pre-booked from lads who played last year too.

Is there many boardsies playing other than Pete? I probably wouldn't be allowed go anyway with the new arrival unless I was bringing them all away with me!

Kevinmarkham

stevieob wrote: »

just spotting this, few of the lads in work interested in going.

seems to be all sold out now though

Room for two teams - according to their Twitter feed this evening - https://twitter.com/SMOpen

Seve OB

Kevinmarkham wrote: »

Room for two teams - according to their Twitter feed this evening - https://twitter.com/SMOpen

yea i was on to them on facebook yesterday, wont be going myself (on account of new baby I wouldn't dare ask for a week away) but my work colleagues are trying to get slotted in.

benny79

can anyone go on this? seems good valve espeacially the course's been played! I take it you need a GUI.

Jarzinho

Open to all golfers, GUI Handicap are preferred but Society Handicaps accepted although they may be subject to review during the tournament. If you want further details let me know, just 2 team spots left at this stage.