Carnoustie’s Alternate Open Golf Championship
Carnoustie HSFP Rugby Club 2nd Annual Golf Outing
Burnside and Buddon Links Courses, Carnoustie
18th April 2009
ITINERY
Entry Fee £25.00 per player
11.15 am -- Rugby Club open
Carnoustie Rugby Club, Links Parade, Carnoustie
Bacon Rolls, Tea and Coffee
Pitching and Putting Competitions
Order of Play and Team news
1.00 – 2.15 pm
Tee Times (3 ½ hours per round)
Singles and Team Stableford Competition
Nearest the Pin and Longest Drive Competitions
6.30 – late pm
Buffet, Free Prize Draw and Presentation of Prizes
Happy Hour and Beers
ENTRY FORM
Complete and Return Entry Forms with Fee by Sunday 15th March 2009 to ........
Alex Robertson (07709323242), Grant Linnen (07749641794)
Matt Edmond (07889255277), Stewart Howlett (07716291818), Kevin Robertson (07734703808)
Name Carnoustie Links Membership No. or
Home Address Handicap or Experience Willing to Use ONE Concession Entry Fee Paid
£25.00
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2 The 60 players from last year said this was a great day, well worth it
Looking for 80 players this year over two courses
Rugby and Yachting Club members and guests wishing to play see
Alex, Grant, Matt, Stewart or Kevin
To help get golf course paid and prizes organised and bought please
Get your names and fee in quick
Lets look forward to a great day and a few beers
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COMPETION RULES
Singles and Team Competitions to be played over 18 holes of golf
Play will be over either the Burnside or Buddon Links, Carnoustie
Teams will consist of mixed experience and ability
Order of Play and Teams to be drawn prior to day of play
Order of Play and Teams to be published in Guide & Gazzette the week and day before play
Order of Play and Teams to be displayed in the rugby club the day before and on day of play
Single and Team Competitions to be played by Stableford Rules with full handicap difference
Singles winner will be the player who scores the highest number of points
Team winners will be the team who scores the highest accumulative number of points
Team scores will be the highest 3 out of 4 accumulative scores
In the event of a draw there’ll be a countback over the last 3 holes until a winner is found
Scorecard will indicate the Stroke Index and order at which handicap strokes are recieved
Local Rule : two shot penalty for a lost ball, drop and play from approximate area
Local Rule : two shot penalty for being out of bounds, drop and play from approximate area
Local Rule : two shot penalty for playing an incorrect ball
Local Rule : free lift and drop from all paths
All other rules per R&A Rules Book
Players cannot win more than 1 nearest the pin or 1 longest drive
No blue denim jeans or drinking of alcohol permitted on the course
Players can drink as much alcohol as they want in the Rugby Club
YOU MUST ENJOY YOURSELF
Stableford Points System, (taken from R&A Rules Book)
2 or more over Par zero points
1 over Par (bogey) 1 point
Par 2 points
1 under Par (birdie) 3 points
2 under Par (eagle) 4 points
3 or more under Par (albatross) 5 points
Friday, 9 January 2009
Here come the girls
Well we all know that on average that girls are smarter than boys.
I think its generally accepted that until the upper echelons of intellengence. girls are vastly supperior to blokes. Until Oppenheimer, John Nash and Berty Einstein come in to the fray perhaps born in the male body but not real men ( They were highly sexed unlike real men LOL). Obsessed with evolution without knowing the end result.
Well after watching the excellent Christmas program with James Martin in the Mille Miglla. A ''nice'' guy obssesed with perhaps the greatest road race in the world. He gets his ''subserviant'' co driver who happens to be a lady to plan the route. He has invested £700,000 in an exotic Italian car. He then witnesses his assitant writing over the dash with a pen. He looks over in dismay and tells her to stop and mentions thats it s not 3500rpm its 4500rpm on the rev counter. 100 miles down the road, the race car is finished. Why because the man does not listen to the lady.
Sometimes we take sport too seriously, Colin Mcrae for me was the ultimate, Heathers
watching. She says well if he is the ultimate why does he have a man next to him telling Colin where to go. I reply he is the navigator, Heather says if he knows where to go why doesn't he drive. Bloody Women.
Its been a long time since we have had a game. Unfortunatley tommorow the pitch is unplayable. Its phyclologicaly tough, training knowing we don't have a game, but we need to make the effort.This is the diffrence between our growing success and choosing the pub team way.
Happy New Year
Peter
I think its generally accepted that until the upper echelons of intellengence. girls are vastly supperior to blokes. Until Oppenheimer, John Nash and Berty Einstein come in to the fray perhaps born in the male body but not real men ( They were highly sexed unlike real men LOL). Obsessed with evolution without knowing the end result.
Well after watching the excellent Christmas program with James Martin in the Mille Miglla. A ''nice'' guy obssesed with perhaps the greatest road race in the world. He gets his ''subserviant'' co driver who happens to be a lady to plan the route. He has invested £700,000 in an exotic Italian car. He then witnesses his assitant writing over the dash with a pen. He looks over in dismay and tells her to stop and mentions thats it s not 3500rpm its 4500rpm on the rev counter. 100 miles down the road, the race car is finished. Why because the man does not listen to the lady.
Sometimes we take sport too seriously, Colin Mcrae for me was the ultimate, Heathers
watching. She says well if he is the ultimate why does he have a man next to him telling Colin where to go. I reply he is the navigator, Heather says if he knows where to go why doesn't he drive. Bloody Women.
Its been a long time since we have had a game. Unfortunatley tommorow the pitch is unplayable. Its phyclologicaly tough, training knowing we don't have a game, but we need to make the effort.This is the diffrence between our growing success and choosing the pub team way.
Happy New Year
Peter
Monday, 15 December 2008
Scottish History and Carnoustie rugby
They both have similarities.
After monumental victories over the auld enemy, Scottish armies, non paid had to retire from the battle field to tend to their families needs, crops etc.
Carnoustie after a fantastic victory retire to what seems to come naturally, massaging their ego.
If you have advanced so far over the weeks, beating the top team what better way to celebrate. Get your feet up and chill out for the week. Cool beans.It makes sense.NOT
Its obvious it doesn't work. We need to realise after coming off the pitch against Alloa, that what seemed like a 100% effort from 15 men probably wasn't that true. Some put more in than others.
I always thought that when I entered the privileged position of being a 1st 15 player, I would have to fight for my position tooth and nail. Obviously not being the most talented player, you have to train harder and play harder. From the Ist game at 17 to the age of 32 I never came off the pitch or never called off even though I was ruined on numerous occasions. Totally discarding my injuries and concussions. Until a cup game against Cowdenbeath I came off with 5 minutes to go with a dead leg. George Taylor started laughing, being the historian he said that's the first time you have retired from the field of play. I didn't even realise as all I wanted was to nail the opposition. I know I'm a muppet LOL and you would be mad to follow.
Its not supposed to be a boast, but a reflection on how I committed my life to the team. I have a stupidly partisan attitude as well, but that's just me.
So when you think you're just there to make up the numbers you're not. These sort of attitudes do the team no good at all. Every player is there to make his mark on the team. Every player has a responsibility.Every game is different, some Saturdays we may not field potentially the best team, but these are the opportunities given to the team of the day.
We are in the transition this year of building and improving the team on the field and off. Its happening, but we are just asking for a bit more of faith in yourselves.
As you read the blog (if anyone is) its not all negative, this year so far I have enjoyed myself meeting up with old friends and meeting new. Its a great feeling to be involved in the club.
The only draw back was sitting in the van coming back from Waid with John, I'm glad I didn't have any razor blades. Talk about taking a defeat hard. Its shows that during our youth someone must have dropped some sort of bitter mind altering drug on Carnoustie which has effected Billy, John and me. To name just a few (wink).I couldn't get to sleep last night thinking about Saturday.
After monumental victories over the auld enemy, Scottish armies, non paid had to retire from the battle field to tend to their families needs, crops etc.
Carnoustie after a fantastic victory retire to what seems to come naturally, massaging their ego.
If you have advanced so far over the weeks, beating the top team what better way to celebrate. Get your feet up and chill out for the week. Cool beans.It makes sense.NOT
Its obvious it doesn't work. We need to realise after coming off the pitch against Alloa, that what seemed like a 100% effort from 15 men probably wasn't that true. Some put more in than others.
I always thought that when I entered the privileged position of being a 1st 15 player, I would have to fight for my position tooth and nail. Obviously not being the most talented player, you have to train harder and play harder. From the Ist game at 17 to the age of 32 I never came off the pitch or never called off even though I was ruined on numerous occasions. Totally discarding my injuries and concussions. Until a cup game against Cowdenbeath I came off with 5 minutes to go with a dead leg. George Taylor started laughing, being the historian he said that's the first time you have retired from the field of play. I didn't even realise as all I wanted was to nail the opposition. I know I'm a muppet LOL and you would be mad to follow.
Its not supposed to be a boast, but a reflection on how I committed my life to the team. I have a stupidly partisan attitude as well, but that's just me.
So when you think you're just there to make up the numbers you're not. These sort of attitudes do the team no good at all. Every player is there to make his mark on the team. Every player has a responsibility.Every game is different, some Saturdays we may not field potentially the best team, but these are the opportunities given to the team of the day.
We are in the transition this year of building and improving the team on the field and off. Its happening, but we are just asking for a bit more of faith in yourselves.
As you read the blog (if anyone is) its not all negative, this year so far I have enjoyed myself meeting up with old friends and meeting new. Its a great feeling to be involved in the club.
The only draw back was sitting in the van coming back from Waid with John, I'm glad I didn't have any razor blades. Talk about taking a defeat hard. Its shows that during our youth someone must have dropped some sort of bitter mind altering drug on Carnoustie which has effected Billy, John and me. To name just a few (wink).I couldn't get to sleep last night thinking about Saturday.
Sunday, 7 December 2008
Temperance society
What a great result. I don't think Alloa could believe it. Neither could the Harris firsts watching.
It all boils down to the effort at training. Thanks Bill.
Over 80 minutes they didn't have an answer. In the set pieces we were average, which is something we need to work on. If we recieved 50% from the set piece the score line would have been far greater.
Our Rucks, Maules offensive and defensive play was top notch. Again a reflection of hard work at training.
Considering one of their backs was a Scotland rugby league player, he dropped the ball more than me.
Their options were limited when they realised that we had a skinny blond guy with a daft haircut, who would drop a goal from the half way line. What do you do in these circumstances. Start a fight on the touch line.
Grant and I have been working together this week and he said it was one of the easiest games he has played in this season. Makes you think on how far we have come, but to use the old cliche were are only as good as our last game. Against Waid this Saturday its going to be tough.
An inspiration for me was seeing Neil walking off the park you could see he had commited himself to every second of the game.
So we pull off a monumental result, have loads to drink then end up failing out with each other.In the olden days we used to just batter other people. LOL (oops History error)
I had a small compliant about the blog containing a lack of stimulating content. Here we go if your bored and want a laugh or want to gain an alternative outlook on our lifes in the solar system. Written by one of the greatest men to arrive on planet earth. I just stumbled upon this whilst reading about Don Garlits other passions.
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/aliens_dont_want_to_know.htm
Wednesday, 3 December 2008
History and the Future
Here we go again were not talking about past glories etc etc.
As has already been discussed top 1st 15's, league campaigns, and cup finals. Did you say finals as in two or more, yes but that's history,
Bill and I were talking about the elusive 2nd 15. Is it possible? Well on paper it seems so. It all hinges on people who can't or don't want to train, guys who want to have a bit of fun, young lads who want to get a bit of experience in the art of cheating, before stepping up to a new level of gamesmanship etc etc. Historically oops, we have had a great 2nds winning the 2nds league and ultimately taking the piss out of the 1st's.
The future of the club lies in two teams to achieve sustainable success. Who knows what lies ahead. Look around and unless your a dumb ass you can see loads of keen young lads that will be the future. God help them if they achieve success they won't be able to talk about it .LOL
The near future, besides Saturdays game is the festive period and the infamous dook. Bruce and I talked at length, on how we can maximise the event to benefit a good cause and the club. Before we collected for a young lad called Innes Wilson. If we could do something like this again it would be great.
Lets put more effort into the Future.
I'm away for a piss, that's me back, although I'm not going to talk about it.
As has already been discussed top 1st 15's, league campaigns, and cup finals. Did you say finals as in two or more, yes but that's history,
Bill and I were talking about the elusive 2nd 15. Is it possible? Well on paper it seems so. It all hinges on people who can't or don't want to train, guys who want to have a bit of fun, young lads who want to get a bit of experience in the art of cheating, before stepping up to a new level of gamesmanship etc etc. Historically oops, we have had a great 2nds winning the 2nds league and ultimately taking the piss out of the 1st's.
The future of the club lies in two teams to achieve sustainable success. Who knows what lies ahead. Look around and unless your a dumb ass you can see loads of keen young lads that will be the future. God help them if they achieve success they won't be able to talk about it .LOL
The near future, besides Saturdays game is the festive period and the infamous dook. Bruce and I talked at length, on how we can maximise the event to benefit a good cause and the club. Before we collected for a young lad called Innes Wilson. If we could do something like this again it would be great.
Lets put more effort into the Future.
I'm away for a piss, that's me back, although I'm not going to talk about it.
Monday, 1 December 2008
The bear has landed
A great night out on Saturday. I think we looked like a team from an outsiders point of view.
I loved the SAS style Carnoustie live by.
''We are going to kick your arse Harris''. The voice resonating around the speedwell bar.
Well the art of surprise may be lost, but hey this is Rugby and maybe we are getting the idea. Telling your wife, girlfriend or even boyfriend ''Right honey that's me away to play a game of ruffty tufty rugby''. They don't realise, that not every man who walks out the door on a Saturday, is really playing rugby, by donning a strip and walking, jogging or even running around the park doesn't make you a player.
Now we seriously look like we are all turning up on Saturday to win games. This has implications for some of the above, who have decided to commit and come home with different shaped faces. Speaking of which, I went out with Scott Purdom two weekends ago. Talk about a change of face you can see he played to win.
Right back to the title ''The bear has landed'' Gavin Dissel a man of many talents as noted on Saturday.
Some people think if you play prop your not bringing much to the party. Well how untrue can that be. In my humble opinion, its only those and such as those who have the skills and hardness to play the position.
The prop is the source of everything in the modern game. Maybe in the past it was a position for ''big lads''. Well I hate to tell you this is as relevant to the modern game as dinosaurs are to mother Earth.
So Gavin Dissel is stepping into the breach. On Saturday night he was sitting at his arm wrestling table talking on all comers. I was one of the victims.
He said he wants to get into the team and he will do what it takes. Good on you Gavin.
Anybody score on Saturday?
After an onslaught of heavy golf ball fire. I was 10 over par by the time we got to the second pub.
Heather and I decided to have something to eat.We went to a Turkish. I looked at the menu and started to order , then said ''pint of lager''please. The look of the waiter was incredible. The sort of look you would get if you started to carve a pork roast at a bar mitzvah. Needless to say we left and told the Turks to shove it.
We nipped around the corner went to Zorba the Greeks kebab shop (its run by a couple of Turks) it was great.
Anyway back to the chase Alloa on Saturday a true test of team spirit.
Its hotting up on the comments page. I agree with the comments about criticism for some its harder to take,for me its been part of my life for 43 years. We are looking for positivity.
We are also looking for a Santa. Sorry Alex and Gordon your kind offer has to be refused.
I loved the SAS style Carnoustie live by.
''We are going to kick your arse Harris''. The voice resonating around the speedwell bar.
Well the art of surprise may be lost, but hey this is Rugby and maybe we are getting the idea. Telling your wife, girlfriend or even boyfriend ''Right honey that's me away to play a game of ruffty tufty rugby''. They don't realise, that not every man who walks out the door on a Saturday, is really playing rugby, by donning a strip and walking, jogging or even running around the park doesn't make you a player.
Now we seriously look like we are all turning up on Saturday to win games. This has implications for some of the above, who have decided to commit and come home with different shaped faces. Speaking of which, I went out with Scott Purdom two weekends ago. Talk about a change of face you can see he played to win.
Right back to the title ''The bear has landed'' Gavin Dissel a man of many talents as noted on Saturday.
Some people think if you play prop your not bringing much to the party. Well how untrue can that be. In my humble opinion, its only those and such as those who have the skills and hardness to play the position.
The prop is the source of everything in the modern game. Maybe in the past it was a position for ''big lads''. Well I hate to tell you this is as relevant to the modern game as dinosaurs are to mother Earth.
So Gavin Dissel is stepping into the breach. On Saturday night he was sitting at his arm wrestling table talking on all comers. I was one of the victims.
He said he wants to get into the team and he will do what it takes. Good on you Gavin.
Anybody score on Saturday?
After an onslaught of heavy golf ball fire. I was 10 over par by the time we got to the second pub.
Heather and I decided to have something to eat.We went to a Turkish. I looked at the menu and started to order , then said ''pint of lager''please. The look of the waiter was incredible. The sort of look you would get if you started to carve a pork roast at a bar mitzvah. Needless to say we left and told the Turks to shove it.
We nipped around the corner went to Zorba the Greeks kebab shop (its run by a couple of Turks) it was great.
Anyway back to the chase Alloa on Saturday a true test of team spirit.
Its hotting up on the comments page. I agree with the comments about criticism for some its harder to take,for me its been part of my life for 43 years. We are looking for positivity.
We are also looking for a Santa. Sorry Alex and Gordon your kind offer has to be refused.
Wednesday, 26 November 2008
Home and Away
Just a quick note.
Harris versus Carnoustie or Carnoustie versus Harris. Same same.
12 miles up the road lovely pitch in this encounter a home advantage doesn't count for a lot.
The Harris pitch is a pleasure to play on.
12 o'clock meet at the club ready for battle.
I won't see you on Thursday, but look forward with great anticipation to Saturday.
Remember. Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.( John Lennon)
Appreciate your family and friends always (PC)
Harris versus Carnoustie or Carnoustie versus Harris. Same same.
12 miles up the road lovely pitch in this encounter a home advantage doesn't count for a lot.
The Harris pitch is a pleasure to play on.
12 o'clock meet at the club ready for battle.
I won't see you on Thursday, but look forward with great anticipation to Saturday.
Remember. Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.( John Lennon)
Appreciate your family and friends always (PC)
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