Irish Open Pro Am on Wednesday

Brodick

Does anyone know who's playing and when?

I assume there will be a timesheet but it's not on their website yet.

big_drive

Probably wont be times until that morning or late the previous evening. It was that way last couple years I think

Felexicon

Shotgun start times up here

http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2013/tournamentid=2013050/news/newsid=197664.html

Anatom

Felexicon wrote: »

Shotgun start times up here

http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2013/tournamentid=2013050/news/newsid=197664.html

Only 48 pro players in the pro-am. Is that normal? I would have thought there'd be more. Also, are the rest of Thursday's field not allowed to practice on the course that day?

bustercherry

Anatom wrote: »

Only 48 pro players in the pro-am. Is that normal? I would have thought there'd be more. Also, are the rest of Thursday's field not allowed to practice on the course that day?

Maybe they can cut in some where in the middle of the Pro Am

Anatom

bustercherry wrote: »

Maybe they can cut in some where in the middle of the Pro Am

If there's a bit of a gap like??!!

bustercherry

Anatom wrote: »

If there's a bit of a gap like??!!

Christ the slow play police will be out if they hear about that.

Anatom

bustercherry wrote: »

Christ the slow play police will be out if they hear about that.

Wouldn't that be interesting? Some poor official (a young fella of course) being told to tell Rory and Dermot Desmond, or whoever he's with, to hurry the hell up...

A YouTube moment if there ever was one!!:D

sector

official practice is today, bunch of em arrived up there last night

Wichita Lineman

I was going to go watch the Pro-am but have changed my mind and am going down on Friday instead.

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Andy Dunne11 wrote: »

I was going to go watch the Pro-am but have changed my mind and am going down on Friday instead.

Grand

Rikand

So who won ?

gman127

Harrington and his team, McIlroys 1 back

I hope this link works, if not it's on the European Tour website

http://www.europeantour.com/mm/document/tournament/tournaments/19/78/87/_english.pdf

Dr_Colossus

How do pro-ams generally work regarding tees, do the pro's tee it off the blue sticks and amateurs of the white or is everyone off the blues or whites? If I was ever to play in one would much prefer everyone to be off the same tee so you could really compare your game to the pros.

I notice some clubs occasionally have pro-am competitions with the club pros in the prizes taking a modest sum as prize money
http://pgaireland.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/pgaireland13/poy/irishoom/index.htm
How do these work, the amateur entry fees cover the prize money on offer or do the pros themselves also have to pay an entry fee and prize money and amateur prizes are all taken from the entry fee and sponsorship? Any idea how much it typically costs to enter one of these pro-am tournaments.

saintastic

Dr_Colossus wrote: »

How do pro-ams generally work regarding tees, do the pro's tee it off the blue sticks and amateurs of the white or is everyone off the blues or whites? If I was ever to play in one would much prefer everyone to be off the same tee so you could really compare your game to the pros.

I notice some clubs occasionally have pro-am competitions with the club pros in the prizes taking a modest sum as prize money
http://pgaireland.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/pgaireland13/poy/irishoom/index.htm
How do these work, the amateur entry fees cover the prize money on offer or do the pros themselves also have to pay an entry fee and prize money and amateur prizes are all taken from the entry fee and sponsorship? Any idea how much it typically costs to enter one of these pro-am tournaments.

I played in the recent one in Slieve Russell. The Pro played off the back tees, we played off whites. Team competition was best two to count including the pro, stableford points.

The amateurs pay a fee to play in the Pro-Am which can be anywhere from 200 to 500 depending on whether there is accommodation and food thrown in. The pro pays a modest fee to enter (maybe 50 quid), not sure about accommodation.

mister gullible

I played in a small pro-am a while ago (€60 inc grub) and all played off the same tees. You played with your pro for a betterball score (pro also kept his singles score). Was very enjoyable.
Went to pro-am in Carton yesterday, Harrington and McDowell in particular were unbelievably polite and friendly with everyone, especially kids. Took loads of time to chat, sign autographs and pause for pictures. Well done lads.
Pros played of back sticks and amateurs on forward tees. Almost invariably the pro put his approach shot on the green and the amateurs were 5 or 10 yards short. The pros must wonder when will we ever learn to use enough club :-(.