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  • "Blow and Go" - Murray River - Cheap and Cheerful, no fuss...

    11 44.00%
  • "Full Service" - The Whopper - Super Pricey but sooooo worth it...

    2 8.00%
  • "Rub n Tug" - The Happy Hybrid - Pricey, still worth it, but it's not the same...

    12 48.00%
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    Default 2023 VIC Champs - TBD

    Alright, time to get serious about this shit again. I know Victoria feels like its own country these days, but if we can travel internationally by July, surely we can get in and out of Victoria in Feb 2023. Double / Triple / Quadruple / Boosted Vax will be a requirement, lets get that shit out of the way first.

    So just as a discussion point on that, I'm in two minds. The full shebang as previously discussed (if the proposed clubs are amenable to it), the big one with 2 x Peninsula-Kingswood (North and South) and another premo sandbelt for the Friday like Yarra Yarra, Cranbourne GC on the Thursday or Monday and a cheap and cheerful track for the other Thursday or Monday. This'll be a costly exercise with the trip being around $1200 from whoa to go. Then peple obviously have their flights, meals, drinks, hire cars etc on top of that.

    Another option is to save that for the 10th instalment as a big hoopla, and find somewhere cheaper in between, like a trip up to the Murray River (probably Echuca-Moama and the Rich River Resort). Have done a small amount of research on this and I feel like we could play 5 days on the Murray for around the $600-700 mark. That way if something goes horribly wrong and for some reason we can't get back deposits / full payments etc people haven't outlaid a metric ****tonne of cash.

    Or we can look at a third option with trying to get Pen North or South for the Uncivil War Friday this year, then do the other next year, with a return to possibly the Mornington to replay StAB, The Dunes, maybe Moonah Legends, Portsea, try our hardest to get onto Sorrento, something like that.

    Just a discussion point, but obviously the sooner we make our minds up the sooner people can start saving the required amounts of cash, and we can more easily make bookings.

    I know some of you will say "in for whatever" (and the first one that does I'm charging them double), but please don't as it doesn't help in making a committed decision. That's MY protocol. I genuinely would like people to state what they want from those three options.

    Have at it ladies and gents, and you can officially get excited again.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dcanto View Post
    Dotty and I played nine holes at Eagle Ridge while we were waiting for the Uncivil War to wrap up at Vic.Id happily have a hit there again. Depending on dates count me in.
    As a defender of HMB, not sure that's a glowing endorsement.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BobsYourUncle View Post
    Very good chance of me being in for this. Don't know the courses, so will follow the pack - but happy to pay for nice courses.
    Heads up mate, things get a bit loose at these on account of all the non South Australians and their inappropriate behaviour.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 4Puttpete View Post
    Heads up mate, things get a bit loose at these on account of all the non South Australians and their inappropriate behaviour.
    That's OK, I'm a Queenslander again now, or at least will be by then.

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    Quote Originally Posted by benno_r View Post
    As a defender of HMB, not sure that's a glowing endorsement.
    I wouldn't describe myself as a defender as such. I just think that the whining about the joint is a bit of over the top. 😁 It is what it is.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dcanto View Post
    I wouldn't describe myself as a defender as such. I just think that the whining about the joint is a bit of over the top. It is what it is.
    I know, but what else would we talk about??

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    Quote Originally Posted by benno_r View Post
    I know, but what else would we talk about??
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dcanto View Post
    Dotty and I played nine holes at Eagle Ridge while we were waiting for the Uncivil War to wrap up at Vic.Id happily have a hit there again. Depending on dates count me in.
    I found nothing annoying about Eagle Ridge, and it was quite fun.

    Yering Meadows on the other hand ...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ron Burgundy View Post
    Nash Old?
    Its not the same if Sluggo isnt part of the dicussion though.

    Though the pics of Hammo today reminded me that needs some discussion too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dotty View Post
    I found nothing annoying about Eagle Ridge, and it was quite fun.Yering Meadows on the other hand ...
    😂

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    I will have scraped enough brownie points for 5 days on the Muarry if that was the option. Only took 5 years. Best trip in Australian social golf for sure !
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    Quote Originally Posted by rickie prowler View Post
    I will have scraped enough brownie points for 5 days on the Muarry if that was the option. Only took 5 years. Best trip in Australian social golf for sure !
    Can you scrape any more brownie points for a Rub 'n' Tug?
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    Quote Originally Posted by rickie prowler View Post
    I will have scraped enough brownie points for 5 days on the Muarry if that was the option. Only took 5 years. Best trip in Australian social golf for sure !
    Tell her you’re going there and miss the turn.

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    Crikey
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    You are doing it wrong if you have to earn brownie points. Instead tell her you are taking her on a holiday, and while there you are playing golf too and she can do whatever she wants.
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    Ah I'm giving her a bad wrap here, plenty of notice and I'll be right. It was 2016 when I went on my one and only OZG trip, the years can really catch up on us
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    Quote Originally Posted by LeftyHoges View Post
    If you touch the 3 dots on the top right and select Web View- you can see the Google Sheet in Post #1 that has you at $400 in credit.
    So it is….. this is music to my ears.

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    I voted for the Murray River option, not for cost reasons, but just to get things going again. The country Champs in SW Vic was great fun, and this could have a similar vibe. I'd also rather not play repeat courses which would be the case for me with St Andrew's Beach, The Dunes, and Portsea.

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    I could do without playing Portsea again. Dunes and StAB I'd happily play again.





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    Quote Originally Posted by AndyP View Post
    I voted for the Murray River option, not for cost reasons, but just to get things going again. The country Champs in SW Vic was great fun, and this could have a similar vibe. I'd also rather not play repeat courses which would be the case for me with St Andrew's Beach, The Dunes, and Portsea.
    Agree. The 2 trips where we stayed at school camps were perfect. We didn’t have to worry about noise and for those that wanted to go to bed, they could. Why you would go to bed early though, I wouldn’t know. You would have to ask Wayne.

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    That joint that had the dive pool where we almost left Lucas was sweet.





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    Quote Originally Posted by PeteyD View Post
    That joint that had the dive pool where we almost left Lucas was sweet.
    Good times that trip
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    Quote Originally Posted by AndyP View Post
    I voted for the Murray River option, not for cost reasons, but just to get things going again. The country Champs in SW Vic was great fun, and this could have a similar vibe. I'd also rather not play repeat courses which would be the case for me with St Andrew's Beach, The Dunes, and Portsea.
    Portsea won't be in the rota again.
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