WEATHER FOR SUNDAY

BALCOMIE 

LINKS  

Weather looking okay for Sunday 

St Andrews five-day forecast

Date	Time	Weather	Temp	Wind			Visibility
				Dir	Speed	Gust
Wed 13 Nov	1200		8 °C	SW	16 mph		Very Good
	1500		8 °C	SSW	20 mph	33 mph	Very Good
	1800		8 °C	SSW	21 mph	34 mph	Very Good
	2100		8 °C	SW	19 mph	32 mph	Very Good
Thu 14 Nov	0000		8 °C	WSW	20 mph	33 mph	Very Good
	0300		7 °C	W	21 mph	34 mph	Excellent
	0600		6 °C	W	19 mph	31 mph	Very Good
	0900		6 °C	WNW	20 mph	31 mph	Very Good
	1200		8 °C	WNW	21 mph	33 mph	Very Good
	1500		8 °C	NW	20 mph	32 mph	Very Good
	1800		7 °C	NW	17 mph	27 mph	Very Good
	Night		3 °C	W	9 mph		Very Good
Fri 15 Nov	Day		10 °C	WSW	16 mph	27 mph	Good
	Night		8 °C	SW	16 mph	26 mph	Good
Sat 16 Nov	Day		11 °C	SW	17 mph	29 mph	Good
	Night		5 °C	WNW	9 mph		Good
Sun 17 Nov	Day		8 °C	SW	6 mph		Good
	Night		5 °C	SW	10 mph		Good
Last updated: 0901 on Wed 13 Nov 2013

OFFER FROM THE ARCHERFIELD BOYS

Scott Kennedy and Steven Gibson have asked me to post a offer of some golf at Archerfield Links for the Hackers.

They are both members there and are looking for 2 players to make up a 4 ball. The cost for each player would be £40.

This offer is for a few rounds so give either of them a phone or text to discuss a date and time.

They have run out of people to play with as they are over there playing most days !!!!

Archerfield is a private members club situated just along the coast from Muirfield and Gullane and they have 2 courses. I have played the Fidra Course and it was very good. You will not see a nicer club house in the country.

Well worth £40

You just have to put up with Gibby chopping up the course and throwing his wedges about as he duffs his chips.

ROUND 3 CRAIL

BALCOMIE 

COURSE 

CRAIL

Round 3

Sunday 17th November

First tee time 10.00am

Draw 9.40am

Golf only £30.00 (less your deposit)

I have booked soup and sandwiches for afterwards.

Rolls etc will be available before if you want  them.

I took the photo above last year. Lets hope for a similar day.

Players Entered

R Chalmers
G Sinclair
N Keir
D Revie
A Smart
J Cullen
G Cullen
S Wylie
G Leadbitter
D Drew
M Drummond
T Nicholson
B Gibson
S Gibson
I Fox
J Byrne
B Murphy
D Mitchell
A Alexander
G Dickie
D Graham
B Newall
J Wynn
G McGill N/P

24 players entered

If you never made the last round when the above players entered and would like to play please contact me and let me know.

TOP AND BOTTOM AFTER 2 ROUNDS

HACKERS TOUR 2013/14


A long way to go but here is a quick look at who is setting the pace and who is still to get out the starters box.


AFTER 2 ROUNDS

TOP 4


Davie Revie        77
Davy Graham     75
Gordon Sinclair   71
Alex Smart          70


BOTTOM 4


Stuart McPherson       55
Neil Keir                    54
Andrew Alexander    53
Jim Cullen                 50

THE CULLEN TRADITION CONTINUES

JIM CULLEN

DRUMOIG WINNER WITH 18 POINTS

JUST ON EBAY TONIGHT

"FOR SALE ANOTHER SET OF FUCKING IRONS NEVER REALLY USED "

MATCHPLAY CHAMPIONSHIP 2013

HACKERS 2013

MATCHPLAY 

CHAMPION

JOHN WYNN

WINNER JOHN WYNN

RUNNER UP GORDON SINCLAIR

IN 3RD PLACE SIMON JESNEY

WINNERS AND LOSERS

DRUMOIG 

GOLF CLUB

WINNER DAVID GRAHAM 41 POINTS

RUNNER UP SIMON JESSNEY 39 POINTS

IN 3RD PLACE DAVIE REVIE  38 POINTS

NEAREST THE PIN WAS THE 3 PUTTING MACHINE
STEVEN GIBSON 

NEAREST THE PIN SCOTT WYLIE

DRUMOIG GOLF CLUB

ROUND 2

Yesterday saw us hack our way round a very windy Drumoig for our second round of this years Winter Tour.

The best score yesterday was a very impressive 41 points by the current Florida Champion Davy Graham. David is definitely the man on form and at this early stage of the Tour he could be the man to beat this winter.

The main obstacle for Davy could be finding the courses for each round as he was lost in Dundee or somewhere else and just made his tee time with minutes to spare. Maybe he will buy a sat nav with all his winnings.

Davids young son Cameron shot a very good 37 points and he certainly showed most of us up.

In second place was Simon Jessney with a solid 39 points and he also took 3rd place in the Matchplay Championship by beating Ian Baird 7-5 in the play off for 3rd place. So good days work for Simon.

In 3rd place was another player who is showing some nice steady golf and that was Davie Revie. Davie beat Stevie Paul and John Wynn on count back with all 3 of them having 38 points. Davie had a great 23 points on the back 9, John had 22 and Stevie 21 points.

The nearest the pins went to Scott Wylie and Steven Gibson. It is worth pointing out that Gibby put his tee shot to 10 feet and never got his par !!

SPOON BOY WAS JIM CULLEN WINNING IT FOR THE SECOND TIME WITH JUST 18 POINTS.

MATCHPLAY CHAMPIONSHIP 2013

In the final John Wynn beat Gordon Sinclair 4-2 to win our first ever Summer Matchplay Competition. Congratulations to John our Matchplay Champion for 2013.

The Matchplay seems to have went okay this year and we can maybe look at continuing it next summer if everyone is happy to do so.


FULL RESULTS

D Graham            41
S Jessney             39
D Revie               38
J Wynn                38
S Paul                  38
S Wylie               36
P James               35
A Smart              34
G Cullen             34
T Nicholson       34
M Drummond    33
C Weir               33
D Drew             32
B Murphy         32
B Gibson          31
I Fox                 31
S Gibson           30
G Dickie           29
N Keir               29
G Leadbittter     29
J Nugent           29
A Alexander     28
G Sinclair         28
S McPherson    26
R Chalmers       26
D Mitchell         25
I Baird              24
B Newall          23
J Cullen            18

Photos of prizewinners to follow.

DRUMOIG UPDATE

Hackers Winter Tour
Rd 2
Drumoig Golf Club
November 3rd

First time 10.04am

DRAW 9.40AM 

Cost

Golf     £16.00
Buggy  £7.50
Food    £13.50

Food includes bacon roll before and a 2 course meal after.

PLAYERS ENTERED

R Chalmers
G Sinclair
N Keir
A Smart
D Drew
J Cullen
G Cullen
G Leadbitter
D Revie
M Drummond
T Nicholson
S Jessney
S Gibson
B Gibson
I Fox
S McPherson
C Weir
I Baird
B Murphy
J Nugent
P James
D Mitchell
A Alexander
G Dickie
D Graham
B Newall
R Aitken
J Wynn
S Wylie
C Graham

30 players Entered

We have 28 players in the draw. Big Davy and his son are going out in a 2 ball before we tee off. They are at a wedding on Saturday night in Fife and are going to join us up there.

As I said in Sunday nights post if you were not at St Andrews at the weekend and want to be entered for the next 2 rounds text or email me. The dates are all at the top of the site.

FINAL PHOTOS FROM FLORIDA

THE FINAL 

PHOTOS 

FROM 

FLORIDA

TAMPA TPC ALEX ON THE 1ST HITS HIS DRIVE 10 YDS NEVER EVEN MADE THE LADIES TEE
HIS FACE SAYS IT ALL

AS WE LISTEN TO THE RAIN BATTER THE WINDOWS TODAY THE PHOTOS BELOW ARE A WEE REMINDER FOR THE BOYS WHAT WE LEFT BEHIND. 

TILL NEXT YEAR ??

View from lounge balcony

Up the beach towards the $28 million dollar house

Looking over towards Clearwater in the distance

A NICE FLORIDA SUNSET FROM THE BEACH TO FINISH

FLORIDA HACKERS 2013

TAMPA TPC

TAMPA

TPC

ROUND 8

This was our final round and the greens here were the best we played on this trip. Running at over 11 on the stimp they were lightning fast. This is a course we play regular as it's a great layout and always kept in good condition.
We were all feeling it after the 36 holes at World Wood but bi Davy continued his great form and easily won the Florida Championship. He had 185 points for his best 5 scores and beat Sinky by 13 points. I finished 3rd from a tight bunch chasing me.
A fantastic weeks golf.

Rd 8

Results

Davy     36
Tommy  32
Gordon  29
Alex      29
Robert    28
George    28
Brian      25
Gerry      19

Pairs Total

Smarty and Davy      65
Sinky and Tommy    61
Robert  and Dodi      56
Brian and Gerry        44

Overall Championship 

Champion

Davy       185
Gordon   172
Robert     163
Tommy    160
Alex          158
George     157
Gerry       155
Brian        142


ROLL ON NEXT YEAR !!

SOME DRINKS AND DINNER AFER 36 HOLES

THE 2013 

FLORIDA 

CHAMPION

BIG 

VJ

Big Davy had won the Singles Championship even tho we still had a round to go

In BACKWATERS for our dinner after getting back from World Woods
with our favourite waitress Heather

SIMPLY THE BEST -WORLD WOODS

WORLD WOODS 

FLORIDA

We have been going to World Woods since about 2006 I think and for me it just doesn't get any better than a day up at World Woods. It;s about 1hr.20mins from the condo and we always make a day of it and play 36 holes on their 2 Championship courses. I usually drive up if Craig is over with us and we spend the day there also.

It is in the middle of nowhere yet people travel for miles just to play the courses. Golf Digest has Pine Barrens in 4th place for the whole of Florida and Rolling Oaks in 8th place.

How much do you think we paid to play 2 of the best courses in Florida ?

$49.00 !!!!

Yes forty nine dollars for 2 rounds incl buggies.

I got a special email a few days before and we mamaged to get our booking changed on the day to get this rate. At the height of the season (Jan - May ) it's $120 for 1 round.

That is the cheapest we have ever paid to play there.

2 years ago we play decided to play as 2 teams all seeded depending on your position in the points table.

Pairs in the morning and singles matches in the afternoon.

As usual both courses were in stunning condition and the whole day was just magic from start to finish. We got the first rain of the holiday that morning as we left and in the morning round got a few heavy showers that soaked us but we all dried out as we played. It was still 90 degrees in the rain.

A SELECTION OF BOTH COURSES

SCORE FOR THE RYDER CUP MATCH 

3-3

RESULTS

Rolling Oaks

Davy    44

Robert   39

Gerry   38

George    36

Tommy  35

Gordon   34

Alex    33

Brian   28

Sinky and Gerry beat Brian and Smarty 1 up

Robert and Dodi got  a half against Tommy and Davy

Sinkys Team leading 1.5 to 0.5

Pine Barrens

Gordon 39 

Davy 37

Robert   33

Alex   31

Gerry  31

Brian  30 

Tommy  29

George   26

Sinky beat Brian   4-3

Robert and Smarty half match

Tommy beat Dodi  3-2

Davy beat Gerry ?

Final Result 

3-3

A fantastic day once again on 2 great courses.