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Title: Speed golf for charity
Post by: lucky_scrote on September 15, 2009, 11:27:19 PM
Some time during winter, me and two other golfers will be participating in "speed golf for charity".

The particpants are:

Oliver field (3)
Curtis Childs (2)
Daniel Carter (7)

The aim of the game is to get the ball in the hole the in least amount of shots, as fast as possible! It will take place sometime during early winter when the weather is suitable for running about and the golf course and it is a bit quiter. It will take place at Cleeve hill golf course off the yellow tees.

The way it works:

We will be playing alternate shot, but we will take it in turns to tee off. For example, if Curtis tee's off on the 1st hole, regardless who holes out on the 1st hole, Oliver will tee off on the 2nd hole and obviously that leaves Daniel to tee off on the 3rd hole. Normal golf rules will apply except a maximum of two minutes will be spent on looking for a lost golf ball. Putting with the pin left in is fine, but bunkers will be raked and pitchmarks repaired.



So, if we shoot a score of 90 in a time of 1 hour 30 minutes 25 seconds then that is 90+90.25 = 180.25 (The reason for seconds being used is to decide tie breakers).

It costs £5 a guess and you can have more than one guess if you wish! Out of all monies collected, 50% will go to charity and the remaining to the winner.


Extra info:

Cleeve hill is a very long, hilly course so this could factor into making decisions. The par is 69 and 6200 yards.


Money can be sent to Paypal.

Paypal e-mail: dan_is_the_king247 [at] hotmail [dot] com. Please remember to post your guess on the forum AND to leave a message with your forum name AND your guess when sending me the money (makes it a lot easier for me).



The chosen charity is PWSA (Prader-Willi Syndrome Association). Registered charity no. 284583 Prader-Willi Syndrome Association (UK) (http://pwsa.co.uk/main.php)



Any questions leave them here.


Title: Re: Speed golf for charity
Post by: lucky_scrote on September 16, 2009, 11:42:45 AM
Nobody wants to have the first guess, cmoooooooon it's for charity :).


Title: Re: Speed golf for charity
Post by: kinboshi on September 16, 2009, 11:50:23 AM
I'm waiting for someone else to go first ;)


Title: Re: Speed golf for charity
Post by: Nakor on September 16, 2009, 12:27:04 PM
Do you all have to be on or around T box as first ball is struck each hole? Or can you be down the fairway waiting?


Title: Re: Speed golf for charity
Post by: GreekStein on September 16, 2009, 12:29:58 PM
Can you post your 100m, 400m and 1500m times pls?


Title: Re: Speed golf for charity
Post by: lucky_scrote on September 16, 2009, 12:42:59 PM
Do you all have to be on or around T box as first ball is struck each hole? Or can you be down the fairway waiting?


Nope, we will try and position ourselves as best as possible on the fairway or on the green.


Can you post your 100m, 400m and 1500m times pls?

I'd say for me and Curt we could do 100m in just an average speed, and 1500m in a pretty poor time. I do know my mate Olly can do 1500m in 5:30 if thats any good.




I'm waiting for someone else to go first ;)

The first go is on me!


Title: Re: Speed golf for charity
Post by: GreekStein on September 16, 2009, 12:47:43 PM
How much do your golf bags weigh?


Title: Re: Speed golf for charity
Post by: lucky_scrote on September 16, 2009, 01:16:06 PM
How much do your golf bags weigh?

We will all be using pencil bags that are super light, probably only be carrying 6 clubs each so I'd say about 6-7KG total.


Title: Re: Speed golf for charity
Post by: GreekStein on September 16, 2009, 02:10:57 PM
Cool great, I think I'm getting nearer to having my guess.

How often do go to the gym if at all?

Please can you break down a standard session for me including weights and repetitions.


Title: Re: Speed golf for charity
Post by: bolt pp on September 16, 2009, 02:18:15 PM
Cool great, I think I'm getting nearer to having my guess.

How often do go to the gym if at all?

Please can you break down a standard session for me including weights and repetitions.

lol


Title: Re: Speed golf for charity
Post by: celtic on September 16, 2009, 03:41:23 PM
Have to say Mr Scrote, whilst I admire anyone that will do something to raise money and awareness for charity, I feel that you won't be getting many guesses as to who will be the winner. The reason being that 50% of any money raised goes to the winner! WTF? Why would members of blonde want to line the pockets of someone they don't know? Why would someone want to make money out of an event that is to raise money for charity? Wouldnlt it make more sense for 100% to go to charity and the participants have some sort of prop bet?

Good luck with it but it's not for me.


Title: Re: Speed golf for charity
Post by: gatso on September 16, 2009, 03:55:56 PM
Have to say Mr Scrote, whilst I admire anyone that will do something to raise money and awareness for charity, I feel that you won't be getting many guesses as to who will be the winner. The reason being that 50% of any money raised goes to the winner! WTF? Why would members of blonde want to line the pockets of someone they don't know? Why would someone want to make money out of an event that is to raise money for charity? Wouldnlt it make more sense for 100% to go to charity and the participants have some sort of prop bet?

Good luck with it but it's not for me.

err, if you guess right then that makes you the winner therefore you're lining your own pockets


Title: Re: Speed golf for charity
Post by: celtic on September 16, 2009, 03:58:37 PM
How does that help the charity then?


Title: Re: Speed golf for charity
Post by: cia260895 on September 16, 2009, 03:59:19 PM
Have to say Mr Scrote, whilst I admire anyone that will do something to raise money and awareness for charity, I feel that you won't be getting many guesses as to who will be the winner. The reason being that 50% of any money raised goes to the winner! WTF? Why would members of blonde want to line the pockets of someone they don't know? Why would someone want to make money out of an event that is to raise money for charity? Wouldnlt it make more sense for 100% to go to charity and the participants have some sort of prop bet?

Good luck with it but it's not for me.

err, if you guess right then that makes you the winner therefore you're lining your own pockets

lol i thoght this b4 i re-read the op


Title: Re: Speed golf for charity
Post by: gatso on September 16, 2009, 04:00:24 PM
How does that help the charity then?

they get 1/2 the money


Title: Re: Speed golf for charity
Post by: Bongo on September 16, 2009, 04:00:38 PM
How does that help the charity then?

Half goes to the charity, half goes to the person with the best guess.

I'd like to know how there can be a winner of the golf when all 3 are on the same 'side'.


Title: Re: Speed golf for charity
Post by: cia260895 on September 16, 2009, 04:02:58 PM
say there are 20 guesses @ £5 each = £100

50% to winning guess =£50

50% to winning guess =£50



DUCY

its a collective time that all 3 are taking it in turns to hit 1 ball around the course


Title: Re: Speed golf for charity
Post by: bolt pp on September 16, 2009, 04:03:34 PM
someone lend me a fiver


Title: Re: Speed golf for charity
Post by: GreekStein on September 16, 2009, 04:06:37 PM
How does that help the charity then?

Half goes to the charity, half goes to the person with the best guess.

I'd like to know how there can be a winner of the golf when all 3 are on the same 'side'.

level bongo!?

it's not about competing against one another.

Kinda agree with celtic tho, if I'm giving money to charity I'd rather just donate £5 rather than half go to someone, even if I won.


Title: Re: Speed golf for charity
Post by: cia260895 on September 16, 2009, 04:07:31 PM
someone lend me a fiver

I tried to scan a fiver but the scanner wouldnt let me copy it......came up with some message about not being alllowed to copy ££££'s


Title: Re: Speed golf for charity
Post by: gatso on September 16, 2009, 04:09:43 PM
Kinda agree with celtic tho, if I'm giving money to charity I'd rather just donate £5 rather than half go to someone, even if I won.

how can you agree with celtic? he has no idea what's going on


Title: Re: Speed golf for charity
Post by: Bongo on September 16, 2009, 04:14:22 PM
How does that help the charity then?

Half goes to the charity, half goes to the person with the best guess.

I'd like to know how there can be a winner of the golf when all 3 are on the same 'side'.

level bongo!?

it's not about competing against one another.

That's what I said!


Title: Re: Speed golf for charity
Post by: fatshaft on September 16, 2009, 04:14:42 PM
Amazing. Some members of Blonde have never heard of a raffle with prizes  ;gobsmacked;

I think it is a very clever spin on the spondored 'whatever' theme, well done on the lads for coming up with the idea.


Title: Re: Speed golf for charity
Post by: GreekStein on September 16, 2009, 04:18:26 PM
Either way let's get this thread back on track.

Dan pls can I have a guess for fun and donate £10 to your charity but without any going into the raffle prize bit?


Title: Re: Speed golf for charity
Post by: lucky_scrote on September 16, 2009, 05:34:30 PM
Either way let's get this thread back on track.

Dan pls can I have a guess for fun and donate £10 to your charity but without any going into the raffle prize bit?

Absoloutly.


I'm sorry to people who don't like the idea, I did something similar 5 years ago where me and two other friends played left handed and people had to guess the score. It worked quite well then, but that was just at my local golf club.



Title: Re: Speed golf for charity
Post by: Nakor on September 16, 2009, 05:39:15 PM
Dan,

You should smash an hour for this IMO.

Anyway we can arrange Stars transfer and you could put the cash in the pot?


Title: Re: Speed golf for charity
Post by: lucky_scrote on September 16, 2009, 06:07:23 PM
Dan,

You should smash an hour for this IMO.

Anyway we can arrange Stars transfer and you could put the cash in the pot?

Yeah, stars transfer is ok if you can't do paypal.

UN: danistheking


Someone have a go already! I've already said the first guess is on me :).


Title: Re: Speed golf for charity
Post by: Nakor on September 16, 2009, 06:31:48 PM
Ill take 48min 50 seconds, and 57min 01 seconds.

Will transfer cash when on Stars later.

Good luck with this, have had a couple of goes myself in the past and if you play well, are fit and the distance Green to next T is reasonable you will break the hour IMO - needless to say I never did.


Title: Re: Speed golf for charity
Post by: lucky_scrote on September 16, 2009, 11:22:54 PM
Ill take 48min 50 seconds, and 57min 01 seconds.

Will transfer cash when on Stars later.

Good luck with this, have had a couple of goes myself in the past and if you play well, are fit and the distance Green to next T is reasonable you will break the hour IMO - needless to say I never did.

If you read the OP, you also need to guess what we will shoot.

Scoring works like this:

We shoot 90 in 60 minutes 5 seconds then score = 150.05

We shoot 70 in 120 minutes then score = 190