Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[Machka]

I just stumbled across a website showing some pretty iconic photographs or people that have been "Photoshopped" throughout the ages..

Lincoln



Stalin

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King George VI / Queen Elizabeth

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Lots more here:

http://www.fourandsix.com/photo-tampering-history/

[david3103]

What is your lowest round to par? Wish i was sick at golf

Me? 65 on a 72 par (standard scratch score was 74 though!) was once 8 under through 14 holes in a match too but the guy I beat 6&4 wanted to walk in .... Meh!

Would swap my golfing skills for a WPT title and million dollars in a heart beat though

Did you never think of trying to turn Pro, Greg?

I cannot begin to imagine playing off +2, or shooting 65 on a par 74. Well done you.

Not good enough, although could have made a living as a course based teaching pro. I grew up playing with Oliver Wilson as my county forsomes partner and he was a bit special. Can't get in world top 100 at the moment though! Too many good players around. If you are not playing off plus 4 by the age of 18 then you can forget it!

Justin Rose was the main man when we were kids, always destined for greatness and to be honest was a different gravy. + 4 at 16 and in a different league. I hear he has now done quite well for himself

+4? Jeez.

I would assume that at some stage in your early golf days you played up at Lindrick, near Worksop, & met Lee Westwood? I believe he is still associated with it, too.

Truly wonderful course, where the Open Quallies used to be staged, & was, back in the fifties, a Ryder Cup Venue, of all things. Sadly, such a thing could never happen at such wonderful courses nowadays, it has gone all corporate.

It was, of course, way too tough for me, but I have fond memories of the course, very very pretty. I imagine Ralphy boy has played up there, too.

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Three courses in the Top100 all within a small-ish circle when you add Sherwood Forest.



Lindrick was beautiful the day we played, although having to cross the main road to play part of the back 9 meant taking your life in your hands in a duel with the HGVs

[Karabiner]

What is your lowest round to par? Wish i was sick at golf

Me? 65 on a 72 par (standard scratch score was 74 though!) was once 8 under through 14 holes in a match too but the guy I beat 6&4 wanted to walk in .... Meh!

Would swap my golfing skills for a WPT title and million dollars in a heart beat though

Did you never think of trying to turn Pro, Greg?

I cannot begin to imagine playing off +2, or shooting 65 on a par 74. Well done you.

Not good enough, although could have made a living as a course based teaching pro. I grew up playing with Oliver Wilson as my county forsomes partner and he was a bit special. Can't get in world top 100 at the moment though! Too many good players around. If you are not playing off plus 4 by the age of 18 then you can forget it!

Justin Rose was the main man when we were kids, always destined for greatness and to be honest was a different gravy. + 4 at 16 and in a different league. I hear he has now done quite well for himself

+4? Jeez.

I would assume that at some stage in your early golf days you played up at Lindrick, near Worksop, & met Lee Westwood? I believe he is still associated with it, too.

Truly wonderful course, where the Open Quallies used to be staged, & was, back in the fifties, a Ryder Cup Venue, of all things. Sadly, such a thing could never happen at such wonderful courses nowadays, it has gone all corporate.

It was, of course, way too tough for me, but I have fond memories of the course, very very pretty. I imagine Ralphy boy has played up there, too.

Click to see full-size image.

I played Lindrick just the once c1979 as the guest of the pro at the time who was a nice lad called Doug Poole IIRC.
I knew Doug from when he was an assistant pro to Dick Burton at Coombe Hill where I was lucky enough to play for four or five years as a junior member in the late sixties.

I played really well that day and holed putts from everywhere, even when I hit them offline they were going in which must have driven Doug and his partner spare because my partner Monty Corman and I beat the two pros, who were giving us both our full handicap quota of eight shots, fairly comfortably. I took five at the last which is a par-three and still shot 77.

It is a really gorgeous golf course which I would love to play again sometime, but I don't think Lee Westwood has any connection to it other than they are both from or near Worksop.

[Junior Senior]

Westwood is from worksop, has a massive estate there a few miles north of the club, has like three houses on it, a driving range and short game area and a helipad i think.

Lindrick is only a couple of miles from worksop but totally different members.  lindrick despite its location is ultra snooty and traditional but a lovely course. Not as good as Hollinwell though.

[Junior Senior]

What is your lowest round to par? Wish i was sick at golf

Me? 65 on a 72 par (standard scratch score was 74 though!) was once 8 under through 14 holes in a match too but the guy I beat 6&4 wanted to walk in .... Meh!

Would swap my golfing skills for a WPT title and million dollars in a heart beat though

Absolutely sick, we have to play golf one day please, i wonder if gramps and Ralph would join us to make 4....

What handicap you play off Flushy?

Get involved in the DTD golf day, usually 30 or so play and its a good crack! Usually happens september ish

[Karabiner]

What is your lowest round to par? Wish i was sick at golf

Me? 65 on a 72 par (standard scratch score was 74 though!) was once 8 under through 14 holes in a match too but the guy I beat 6&4 wanted to walk in .... Meh!

Would swap my golfing skills for a WPT title and million dollars in a heart beat though

Absolutely sick, we have to play golf one day please, i wonder if gramps and Ralph would join us to make 4....

What handicap you play off Flushy?

Get involved in the DTD golf day, usually 30 or so play and its a good crack! Usually happens september ish

He's a pretty decent-looking and improving 18 handicap Greg, especially for a guy that's only been playing a couple of years. (Think MrCool and Ivey before you get the cash down)

If the DTD golf day is at Lindrick I'm in, if it's at Ruddington I'm not.

If you want a game with Flushy and me at Wollaton he knows he's welcome anytime as are you and your old wrinkly dad.

I've almost given up on getting tikay on the golf course.

[celtic]

Good luck in the 6max tonight mate.

[tikay]

Good luck in the 6max tonight mate.

Lol, a perfect end to a perfect day........

How can Thewy call there? I would not mind if he had half a hand. He's as bad as a Frenchie.

[tikay]

I'm up in Walsall, at "The Village", we have no less than ten players in the GUKPT Main tomorrow (today....) , & I will be inteviewing them all to camera, photographing them (lol), blogging, Live Updating, chip counts, & generally "hosting" the Team.

So, I've no idea if I will be there just tomorrow, or until midnight Sunday, hopefully the latter, but I'll be plenty busy, for sure.

MANTIS will be there too, which I'm pleased about, I've not seen him in an age, & he is grand company, nit at all what you would expect.

Happy to stay as long as it takes, but once the last of them busts, I'll be out of there, heading home, it's been a full week, as busy as I can recall.

I've got a few stakes in the Main, too, "live" ones, too, so at least I have some personal interest, as well.

Would have been nice to play the DTD £150 - it has Late Reg until mid-evening Saturday I assume - but that would be unlikely, & mixed blessings, as I'd like at least one of our guys to make Sunday.

I arrived here at around 7.20pm, & Thewy had paid me in the £200 6 Max, a perfect way to relax for the evening.

Bumped into Tim Blake & Mrs B, Jaffa Cake, 77Dave, Dena, Stu Fox, Scotty77 (doubled up third hand with flopped nuts), & the usual crew. Was grand to see everyone, & the atmo was much better than I expected, quite friendly & relaxed actually. Not many runners though, around 60+ tonight, & they were setting the line @  160 runners for tomorrow. 

Loved my starting table, & got busy early, & got the worst of the early exchanges & my 10,000 was soon 6,500 after I made a play which went pete. No worries, Thewy was on the table, he's always ready to give me a spin.

Soon I find  & make it 250 @ 50-100. It's flatted in mid pos, then Thewy, on the button, makes it 800.

I make it 2k, mid pos quickly folds, Thewy dwells & makes what looked like a sigh call. So, about 4,400 in the middle, & I have 4,500 behind. Not much wriggle room there. 

It comes 

Me to act.

Well the plan was to jam any flop unless I smack it hard, (well actually the plan was for him to fold pre, but never mind), & as I missed the lot, & the plan said shove, I shoved.

Thewy gave it a good 90 seconds, & we have a bit of speech. "I can beat the 2" he says. Umm.....

He eventually calls (leaving him around 4k behind, so still a playable stack, which is relevant I think), & he has the 3-3.

It blanks out, "gg".

Guess I got owned! These lads can't half make good calls, though I guess my hand looks exactly what it is. 

As played (badly, probably) once we see the flop, I either shove & hope, or check fold/check call  his assumed jam, neither of which much appealed.   

Early night then.

[jakally]

Good luck to you and your team for the weekend...... be super to see one of more of them have a good result.

[TightEnd]

Good luck

Which ten do you have playing? any we know?

[tikay]

Good luck to you and your team for the weekend...... be super to see one of more of them have a good result.

Thanks Mr G.

This is the GUKPT that Scotty so nearly won last year, running an all-street bluff in the Final against the wrong guy, the taxi-driver chap from London (Alan Manbridge?) who eventually scooped about £80k I think, whilst Scotty had to settle for £8k. He's matured well since then, as a player & a guy, imo. 

Simon Deadman was in the same Final, as I recall, as was Nick Hicks - quite a final actually.

We have a few "live ones" in our Team tomorrow, so you never know. Ttayseer (sp?) might be the surprise package, & then there's 3-3 man, Thewy, who is high on confidence lately & going for a GUKPT 4 timer. 

If they run v deep, excellent, if not, see you @ DTD late on Saturday, maybe. Always gotta have a Plan B, no time to waste. 

[DMorgan]

I guess Julian just wanted to spin up or go to bed. Either that or you were wearing that AQ look

+1 to Tightys post, who are your guys in the main?

[tikay]

Good luck

Which ten do you have playing? any we know?

Well you know Thewy, Scotty, DantB10, Penguin7, Sam1986 (terrific young lad, monsta online grinder, his bro plays at Luton), then there is a hottie called "TTayseer" (Simon Taylor, I believe he came from another site recently & it a bit tidy), JingleMa (Priyesh Jani), Giant811 (Ulrich Rettig),  & the real tongue twister, "lumkming09" who rejoices in the real name of, wait for it, Kut Ming Lum.  Good luck my Live Update readers after I try speed typing that lot.

It is really going to be a busy day for me. With hindsight, a bit more staff resource might have been wise, but no matter.

[tikay]

I guess Julian just wanted to spin up or go to bed. Either that or you were wearing that AQ look

+1 to Tightys post, who are your guys in the main?

Thanks Dan.

Yeah, I fancy Thewy read me like a book. Too good for me, these pesky kids.