BUDA VI--Home Page/Hotel Provisionally Booked, Expressions of Interest Needed

[Gary Slatter]

make that a definite, will pay you cash when we meet for a pint before Christmas!

[Ulrich Mayring]

Ok, thanks for the heads-up with respect to definition of "formal" etc. - I think the clothing rules for the courses are similar here, although we don't have that "knee-length socks" thing - I actually wonder whether it is worth it at all - wouldn't that actually be hotter than long trousers anyway?

Ulrich

[Rich Goodale]

Ulrich

I'm sure you have heard of the phraSe "Mad Dogs and Engishmen."  Well, the members at Elie are as close to Englishmen as you can find in Scotland.  That's what makes them and their Club so charming.

Rich

[Rich Goodale]

We now have 29 people interested, 19 of whom are probable to attend, plus a number of members from both clubs who are interested in joining us.  What we need now is cash to cement these commitments.  As per recent BUDA's, while we will be flexible in terms of trying to accomodate everybody, if we oversubscribe for some days it will be first come/first serve in terms playing in the event.

Several people have already paid and others have agreed to pay.  As mentioned on the home page above, the deposit required will be £75 or $155 and is non-refundable in most circumstances. by check or cash.  The address is as on the home page above.

Please pay now or forever hold your peace.

Rich

[Bill_McBride]

Rich, I just emailed my gang to either get their deposits off to you ASAP or figure out somewhere else to play during the Buda.  Most have indicated they'd love to join the festivities.

[Rich Goodale]

Thanks, Bill

I've got about 10 deposits either here or wending their way here, so the sooner the better.  That being said, if we do end up in the serendipitous (and unprecedented) position of getting over-subscribed, it should be no problem in accommodating the stragglers by helping set up satellite events at other nearby courses.

BUDA VI could be the next great mini-tour stop.  Could you bring some Hooters girls along with you from Pensacola?

Rich

[Bill_McBride]

Thanks, Bill

I've got about 10 deposits either here or wending their way here, so the sooner the better.  That being said, if we do end up in the serendipitous (and unprecedented) position of getting over-subscribed, it should be no problem in accommodating the stragglers by helping set up satellite events at other nearby courses.

BUDA VI could be the next great mini-tour stop.  Could you bring some Hooters girls along with you from Pensacola?

Rich

Funny you mention that, we did have a Hooters Tour stop in Pensacola last year.  But I don't think I could bring any of the Hooters girls with me, that would obviously be a violation of the Mann Act!  

[Tony_Muldoon]

I'm in for Monday and Tuesday

I will be availbale for golf Sunday.

I'd be interested if anyone was up for 36 at Elie?
Following that, a 3 club challenge (or just 7 irons?) to play as many holes as we can before it gets dark at Anstruther.  

Craig?(I could regret this ).


I plan to arrive in St Andrews late on Friday night.   Does anyone know of a B&B in town who would enter me in the ballot on Friday for a tee time Saturday?

Roll on 2008.

[Michael Whitaker]

We now have 29 people interested, 19 of whom are probable to attend, plus a number of members from both clubs who are interested in joining us.  What we need now is cash to cement these commitments.  As per recent BUDA's, while we will be flexible in terms of trying to accomodate everybody, if we oversubscribe for some days it will be first come/first serve in terms playing in the event.

Several people have already paid and others have agreed to pay.  As mentioned on the home page above, the deposit required will be £75 or $155 and is non-refundable in most circumstances. by check or cash.  The address is as on the home page above.

Please pay now or forever hold your peace.

Rich

Rich - My check is on the way.

[Bill_McBride]

I'm in for Monday and Tuesday

I will be availbale for golf Sunday.

I'd be interested if anyone was up for 36 at Elie?
Following that, a 3 club challenge (or just 7 irons?) to play as many holes as we can before it gets dark at Anstruther.  

Craig?(I could regret this ).


I plan to arrive in St Andrews late on Friday night.   Does anyone know of a B&B in town who would enter me in the ballot on Friday for a tee time Saturday?

Roll on 2008.

Call Tony Campbell at the Vardon House B&B on Mayfair off the Scores.  Tony will take care of you.  We have four guys staying there during the Buda, a mere 60 quid a night single.

http://www.vardonhouse.com/

[Mark Pearce]

I'm in for Monday and Tuesday

I will be availbale for golf Sunday.

I'd be interested if anyone was up for 36 at Elie?
Following that, a 3 club challenge (or just 7 irons?) to play as many holes as we can before it gets dark at Anstruther.  

Craig?(I could regret this ).


I plan to arrive in St Andrews late on Friday night.   Does anyone know of a B&B in town who would enter me in the ballot on Friday for a tee time Saturday?

Roll on 2008.

Tony,

Almost certain I'll be up for thew Saturday and Sunday, so happy to join you on Sunday.  Might struggle to get 36 at Elie on a Sunday, though, it's normally very busy with members on a weekend.  I'll be able to connfirm my movements early next year.  If you're looking for playing partners on the Saturday, let me know.

Mark

[Tony_Muldoon]

Mark I'll be happy to hook up with others I jsut wanted to throw some suggestions out there.

36 - at Crail (if possible)  £85 or Kingsbarn's £190, 2007 prices.

I don't propse to book anything until the numbers are settled.

[Mark Pearce]

Tony,

With a following wind I'll be a member at Crail by next June, so should be able to sort something out there if that's what we want to do.

[Andrew Mitchell]

Rich et al

Count me in, cheque posted last night.

I'll probably try & travel up Sunday morning, stay until Wednesday/Thursday. I'd like to try & fit a game in Sunday afternoon if others are about and interested.

[Rich Goodale]

Thanks Andrew, et. al.

Topny--I love the idea of a Sunday night 3 club assault on Anstruther!

[Mark Pearce]

Rich,

I've spoken to Conrad and Giles.  Giles is struggling with the dates, so should probably be relegated to possibly, not probably.  Conrad is a definite and will send you a deposit this week.

Fish and chips from the best chippy in Scotland and three clubs at Anstruther?  A perfect Sunday evening in Fife.

[Rich Goodale]

Mark

I have made the Anstruther Avant Golfe event part of the official calendar.

Great to see Conrad coming again, and we hold out hopes for Giles--the only GCA/BUDA golfer ever to outdrive Philip "The Out of African Animal" Gawith.

[Bill_McBride]

Mark

I have made the Anstruther Avant Golfe event part of the official calendar.

Great to see Conrad coming again, and we hold out hopes for Giles--the only GCA/BUDA golfer ever to outdrive Philip "The Out of African Animal" Gawith.

One of my great golf memories is playing foursomes with Philip as my partner at Muirfield.  To make a long story short, we both hit second shots from places we don't usually play from!     He handled it with terrific aplomb.  For example, he ripped a long iron on #8 over the cross bunkers, over the greenside bunkers, to 20'.  Hell of a shot from maybe 230 yards!  

I, on the other hand, had 8-iron into #1.  That was fun.

[Andrew Mitchell]

Mark

I have made the Anstruther Avant Golfe event part of the official calendar.

Great to see Conrad coming again, and we hold out hopes for Giles--the only GCA/BUDA golfer ever to outdrive Philip "The Out of African Animal" Gawith.

One of my great golf memories is playing foursomes with Philip as my partner at Muirfield.  To make a long story short, we both hit second shots from places we don't usually play from!     He handled it with terrific aplomb.  For example, he ripped a long iron on #8 over the cross bunkers, over the greenside bunkers, to 20'.  Hell of a shot from maybe 230 yards!  

I, on the other hand, had 8-iron into #1.  That was fun.

Bill
I too have great memories of that round.  Unfortunately I was the one driving off with Philip on each (alternate) tee with you and James Bennett waiting to play the second shot from our drives.  Do you recollect ever playing your second shot before James?  

[Bill_McBride]

Mark

I have made the Anstruther Avant Golfe event part of the official calendar.

Great to see Conrad coming again, and we hold out hopes for Giles--the only GCA/BUDA golfer ever to outdrive Philip "The Out of African Animal" Gawith.

One of my great golf memories is playing foursomes with Philip as my partner at Muirfield.  To make a long story short, we both hit second shots from places we don't usually play from!     He handled it with terrific aplomb.  For example, he ripped a long iron on #8 over the cross bunkers, over the greenside bunkers, to 20'.  Hell of a shot from maybe 230 yards!  

I, on the other hand, had 8-iron into #1.  That was fun.

Bill
I too have great memories of that round.  Unfortunately I was the one driving off with Philip on each (alternate) tee with you and James Bennett waiting to play the second shot from our drives.  Do you recollect ever playing your second shot before James?  

I don't remember that, but I DO remember Philip and I clawing our way from 2 up to losing that match 1 down in the last four holes, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory!  

[Bill_McBride]

Rich, indications are strong that all seven of McBride's Gang of 7 will want to play as many Buda matches as possible.  These guys are animals.  Not like Philip Gwaith, but animals nonetheless.  You should be receiving deposit checks.  We're going to be applying for the Old Course ballot every day, so will need to figure out a way to communicate with you in the event we are successful and need to skip a Buda match.  This will test your vaunted organizational skills!

So it's Bill McBride, Mike Whitaker, Joe Buehler, Mike Mazenko, Bill Linne, Jarry Taylor and John Reynolds - the Gang of 7, Brent Hutto having planned to bail out after Dornoch.

[Mark Pearce]

Looks like we're going to need to plan some "training" rounds at other venues during BUDA to keep the squads in good nick!  Sounds like we're going to have a ball.

[Andy Levett]

Can you get a deep-fried Mars bar at the Anstruther chippie?
Even if they're too grand, I'm in for that, and the ensuing three days. My cheque is winging its way up the Great North Road.
 

[Rich Goodale]

Bill

Before your last post I was thinking we might be able to arrange the teams as Fife vs. Rest of the World, but now it may have to be The Redneck Riviera vs. Civilisation As We Know It.  Do any of your gang play cricket?  If so, maybe we could arrange a game on the mudflats of Elie--it is one of the finest of Fife sporting traditions, of which Mark Pearce will know far more than me.  Bravo, Ace!

Mark

Speaking of balls, what about the cricket idea?  And, yes, we are going to have to set up sub-committees to handle all the extraneous activities.

Andy

The East Neuk is getting to be a pretty posh place these days, and I am told that the chippes sell deep fried mousse au chocolate, strawberry pavlova and sticky toffee pudding, as well as the traditional Mars Bars.

All

We are now 19, and expanding as rapidly as the universe did 13.7 billion years ago.  I can visualise this as being a BUDA Olympics, with opening and closing ceremonies, and Fringe venues just like the Edinburgh Festival.  And where should I invest all this deposit money?  Is it time to jump back into the sub-prime market?

Rich

[Bill_McBride]

Bill

Before your last post I was thinking we might be able to arrange the teams as Fife vs. Rest of the World, but now it may have to be The Redneck Riviera vs. Civilisation As We Know It.  Do any of your gang play cricket?  If so, maybe we could arrange a game on the mudflats of Elie--it is one of the finest of Fife sporting traditions, of which Mark Pearce will know far more than me.  Bravo, Ace!

No cricketeers, but maybe we can rent enough muscle cars for some NASCAR!