Kooralbyn Copperhead 25th Jan 8:20 am

[PeteyD]

Any love for a trip out for the copperhead the day before Australia Day? I haven't confirmed availability and costs ($55 on the web site. Carts are compulsory I think) yet, and need permission myself, but thought I'd see if there is any interest.

PeteyD 98/71
Jarro 81
Eags 85
dc68 79

[dc68]

If I can scam the day off I am in.

[dc68]

Hmmm that would suit me better no need to grovel to the resource co-ordinator!!

[PeteyD]

hmm the boss is probably working the public holiday which would count me out. Will have t ofind out.

[perci]

Might be available keep me posted.

[Jarro]

i'm keen

[Eag's]

I am off that day as well, count me in :mrgreen:

[PeteyD]

Okay, For the Thursday we have:


PeteyD (pencil)
DC68 (pencil)
Jarro
Eags
Perci (pencil)Anyone else? Would be good to get 8.

I will call about availability soon.

Fees are higher on Friday - Sunday and public holidays too for those interested on the Friday.

[dc68]

I am out for the Thursday can't swing it.

[PeteyD]

Okay, For the Thursday we have:

PeteyD (pencil)
Jarro
Eags
Perci (pencil)Perci, What chance are you for this??

If everyone can confirm I will call about booking it.

[Jarro]

Pete, i'm in mate ... got a day off that day 8)

[PeteyD]

Okay have tentatively booked for 10:40 and 10:50 (On Thursday the 25th). Easy enough to cancel the seond one if we don't want it. If there is going to only be one group we could get on a bit earlier.

[BrisVegas]

Sorry, I'm playing my annual golf game with the missus on Australia Day.

[PeteyD]

This is the thursday before Australia day. Take the day off work Dion! You can bring the zippy new car

[Jarro]

Okay have tentatively booked for 10:40 and 10:50. Easy enough to cancel the seond one if we don't want it. If there is going to only be one group we could get on a bit earlier.

I'd like to get an earlier tee-time if possible mate.

See how we go with a second group.

Eags ... car pool ?????

[PeteyD]

I'll ring back on Monday. How early you want?

[Jarro]

around 8'ish would be fine mate.

Don't wanna be there all day that's all ;)

[PeteyD]

8 ish means I have to leave home pretty early .... hmm.

Times are changed to 8:20 and 8:30. Sound better?

Pete

[AndyP]

Don't wanna be there all day that's all ;)
Why not? You can show off your new putter on the mini golf greens.

[Jarro]

8 ish means I have to leave home pretty early .... hmm.

Times are changed to 8:20 and 8:30. Sound better?

Pete

Thanks mate :)

[PeteyD]

Anymore interest in this one? I will ring them on Tuesday to cancel the second tee time if nop one else signs up.

[dc68]

I can now play.....woohoo. after I bag the crappers out of it!!! I will be able to assess the situation for myself.


Pick up anyone? will throw in for juice.

[PeteyD]

I'll get ya Dave. Probably about 6:30 or so, need to Map Maker it and see.

We now have 5 although Perci is still a pencil.

[dc68]

Sweet thanks Pete.

[Jarro]

I don't think Perci is that keen on going out there :???:

[PeteyD]

I'll have a chat with him this arvo. He was kind of interested.

[PeteyD]

Ok anyone else coming? Is Reg320 coming after chat room discussions or not? If we are gonna have 5 I will ring and see if they will let a group of 5 play, and cancel the second spot.

[PeteyD]

hehe. True true true. We may have to play as a 3 and a 2. C'mon Rich, You can get the morning off for some investigation of successful designs that don't drown a dozen balls (except if you get fixated with the tee shot on 15 or 17).

[PeteyD]

yea that is a good deal. Particularly since golf on Friday is normally $77!!

[Jarro]

Don't listen to him Pete .. go ahead and ask if we can go out as a 5-some.

[reg320]

ok, I am in.

[dc68]

2 X 3 then? anyone heard from Perci? I know he is away, I went to pick up a little something last night and his missus was saying all she was doing was handing out golf clubs. haha

[PeteyD]

We shall find out but he was keen. I think it depends on what the family is doing that day.

[prmeier]

Stayed there for a few days before Xmas. Course is great but the greens were a bit rough. They are in the process of fixing them up though.

[Jarro]

Thanks for that Peter.

I hope they aren't too bad.... nothing's worse than playing a great course that has crappy greens :(

[prmeier]

Hate to say it Jarro. But they were probably the crappiest greens I've played on. Mainly overun with weeds as the course was let run down. Now it's being fixed up they are getting better but it takes time. It is a great layout though.

[Jarro]

Crappy greens sounds bad :(

[PeteyD]

we'll worry about it when we get there. If they suck and we complain they might give us some vouchers or something.

Incidentally the resort page proudly says New Greens, so I guess we might find out.

[dc68]

I am cool with it..... I am used to crappy greens.

[prmeier]

I think they have introduced 3 new holes so they can rotate holes out of play as they work on them. It is definitely a course worth playing, just takes the icing off because the greens are a bit patchy.

[perci]

Sorry guy's can't make this one.

[PeteyD]

Curses!

[Jarro]

Time to ask about the 5-some again 'eh Pete ;)

[dc68]

Assuming this is still all sweet?

Ok for 630 p/u Petey?

[PeteyD]

Mitchell said he'd be pretty happy to let us play as a 5, as long as we keep moving etc, which should not be an issue.

[PeteyD]

Dave might make it a bit earlier, probably closer to 6:15

[dc68]

Good as gold mate.

[reg320]

Sorry fellas, work has thrown a spanner in my mental health day so at least there won't be a problem with a five man group. Many appologies.

[PeteyD]

bugga

oh well 1 group is good.

[Jarro]

sorry to hear that Reg, some other time mate ;)

Pete, do the green fees include range balls ? Eag's and i will be leaving around 6am so we'll have plenty of time to get there and hit a few before we tee off 8)

[PeteyD]

dunno. Call em on 1300 073 108 and ask for the golf shop but I expect not.

[Jarro]

okey dokey


+1

[dc68]

See ya tomorrow fellas.

see you at 615ish Pete, any probs gimme a bell.

[PeteyD]

Looks like it might have got a wee bit of rain this evening

[Jarro]

yeah, i saw on the news they had 50mm of rain at Boonah

[AndyP]

We can't be far away from getting a report for this. I don't give a rats about the scores......but the course report is what I'd like to hear.

[Grunt]

Great minds must think alike AP, I was just wondering the same thing. Who gives a Flying F$%^ about the results but the course that is another matter.

[Eag's]

Well in that case, you both can kiss my butt!!
To tired to care at the moment.

[Grunt]

gee thanks Eag's

[PeteyD]

Scores up. Was good. greens were dodgy. Course layout is still a great challenge. Hopefully the 'money' they are spending on it is over the next few months and they come up good.

[Jarro]

Not worth $55 in my opinion.

Thanks for the hit anyway guys, was fun 8)

Good timing too .. we just missed that storm ;)

[Jarro]

coupla pics i took with the phone :

dc68 hits his approach into 1
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/9060/golfclubs1009um.th.jpg (http://img153.imageshack.us/my.php?image=golfclubs1009um.jpg)

First green
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/9163/golfclubs1017cj.th.jpg (http://img100.imageshack.us/my.php?image=golfclubs1017cj.jpg)

Second tee
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/1682/golfclubs1024nd.th.jpg (http://img100.imageshack.us/my.php?image=golfclubs1024nd.jpg)

PeteyD on the tee, par 3 5th (220 meters)
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/9003/golfclubs1033hf.th.jpg (http://img100.imageshack.us/my.php?image=golfclubs1033hf.jpg)

PeteyD on the tee, par 5 13th
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15th Tee
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18th tee, and Eags with his approach shot into the green
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[PeteyD]

On the 18th. The water in front of Eags is the first one. There is water in front of the green as well. Should be a par 5.

And how come my fat ass makes a double appearance?

[goughy]

Not worth $55 in my opinion.



That tells me a lot. I don't think any course is worth $55 :smt002

Is it a worthy venue for the champs? Is the spending going to make it worthwhile. Remembering that while the course is important, the rest of the facilities and the fact we are all together could tip it in our favour.

[Jarro]

That tells me a lot. I don't think any course is worth $55 :smt002

well you should've been in the chatroom earlier, we covered everything in there ;)

[goughy]

Some of us don't have lives ;)

[PeteyD]

I reckon the $139 for both rounds and accomodation and breakfast can't be beaten.

[Eag's]

Have to agree with Jarro, not worth $55
The course will need to improve quite a bit before I would be happy to play the Champs there.
I know it is about 10 months before the Champs, but I still don't think it will be up to scratch buy then.
Jarro spoke to one of the green keepers and he said they had done a heap of work to get it to it's current state.

I had thousands out there today but it had no bearing on my feelings about the place (I have thousands everywhere :oops: )

Dave & Pete will disagree, they both enjoyed the layout, but I will let them have their say.

[PeteyD]

Hehe there you go. We have the same situation as before!! If there are enough people that will be put off if the course is not in great condition then I guess somewhere else is the go.

The Robina Colonial deal is good. Accomodation will need to be sorted.

[AndyP]

And how come my fat ass makes a double appearance?
A photo for each cheek.

[Moe Norman]

so was the layout poor (ie: changed) or was the grass just not in good nick?

condition of a course varies month to month, it can't be guaranteed anywhere this far out.

[PeteyD]

Only layout changes were 1 and 18. The rest is the same. I loved it still, thought little of the cahnges to 1 and 18 needs to played a few times I think. For short hitters like me it is definately a 3 shot hole.

1 is now a Par 5, tee is back near the road, and the old tee is about driving distance (passing near the back of the old 18th green), then dogleg right down the old fairway.

18th tee is near the 17th green, coming into the resort (so into the old par 3 course). The first water hazard is unsited from the tee, and definately driving distance for you guys that can hit. Short of the water leaves you a long way out, with a creek across in front of the green. The hole should probably be a par 5, with the tees a bit further back. The green itself doesn;t look like it was built correctly. The mowed surface alternated between patches of almost dirt and grass (as if it was wobbly? )

[Moe Norman]

is 18 index 1?

if so it is a 3 shot hole for 99.9% of the golfing population.

ignoring the assigned Par - is the hole any good?

[PeteyD]

Yes it is index 1 so being a 3 shot 4 is fine. Taking that into account I think it is a solid hole. The green needs to be sorted out (it is a bit of a mess). It doesn't 'feel' like the rest of the course, but that could be just because it is new.

[PeteyD]

Just rang Kooralbyn and I won it!! hehe Invite to next years copperhead championship etc! I won a dozen balls and a shirt.

Must have been a fairly small field though. Jarro got NTP on the 8th and it is 1 ball!

CCR was 74, so I beat that by 3 shots! Can someone let me know what my reduction is from 26.6 so I play off the correct handicap tomorrow?


Black markers are same distance as blue except for the 14th which is 193m, not 160!

[AndyP]

Just rang Kooralbyn and I won it!! hehe Invite to next years copperhead championship etc! I won a dozen balls and a shirt.

Must have been a fairly small field though. Jarro got NTP on the 8th and it is 1 ball!

CCR was 74, so I beat that by 3 shots! Can someone let me know what my reduction is from 26.6 so I play off the correct handicap tomorrow?
You should lose 0.4 for each shot, so that will be 24.4. Congrats.

If it isn't in Golflink yet, do you have to play off 24 though? I didn't think we were responsible for our own handicaps.

[PeteyD]

No idea. As they are not on Golflink they will fax through for a Ad Hoc score to be entered. I will ask the pro tomorrow morning.

[goughy]

I would suggest asking the club you're going to play at about it. And also ring your home club. Between them I would guess you will get 2 answers ;)

[Grunt]

If I remember correctly we as men have to play off the golflink handicap on the system but women under WGA actually are responsible for keeping track of their handicaps.

[Moe Norman]

your home club will enter it as an ad hoc, this will likely not take CCR into account.

i always play off what golf link says, thats the point of the system.

[Grunt]

your home club will enter it as an ad hoc, this will likely not take CCR into account.
When they enter it they only put the CCR (the club that you play at supplies this)and not the ACR in Moe. I have had a few scores that have gone back to Bathurst for them to put into my golflink.

[Moe Norman]

sometimes they don't supply it, thats why i said it was likely they wouldn't.

sometimes they do, sometimes they don't.

[Grunt]

No worries, but how do they handicap you if they dont give a ACR or CCR? do they just give it a 72 and handicap to that. That would make some really interesting handicapping results to some players. For example a player shoots 42 points at a ACR 66 course that rated 64 for the day, the home club then rates it at 72. The resultant difference in handicap would be huge! 8 shots different and is really 2 over not 6 under!

[PeteyD]

I think they are both 74 for Kooralbyn anyway

[Moe Norman]

if they're lazy (like I was when I used to do it at Indro) they just enter the courses ACR as the CCR.

[dc68]

Thanks to the boys for an enjoyable hit....course wasn't in fantastic shape but the potential is there. I myself would have no problems playing the champs there. Did not get a lie all day that I could honestly whinge about,the greens were a bit patchy and were 2 paced.

anyways that is my 2 cents worth.

[Jarro]

.. but you're easily pleased mate ;)