The date and place has been finalized, all that is left is the exact courses and participants.
This years King's Putter (XIII?) will be May 3-5 on the central coast of California and will commemorate the Battle of Chancellorsville's 150 anniversary. Again it will feature north versus south. I've been preparing my beard for months.
I have a piece of a beach house in Cayucos, California -- just north of Morro Bay, and about a half hour north of San Luis Obispo. The plan is to make this King's Putter more geared toward people who have tighter money issues. If you aren't picky about your sleepy arraignments you can stay at the beach house in Cayucos for free. It is a four bedroom, so if you wan to reserve one of the bedrooms you'll have to kick in on the cleaning fees ($180). Otherwise there is plenty of futons and floor space to crash.
The course will also be reasonably cheep (as cheep as California ever gets.) I haven't made any tee times yet (hoping to get a decent head count first) but we will probably play the Links as Paso Robles on Friday (on Highway 46, almost half way point between the L.A. area and the Bay Area) with some playing San Luis CC in the afternoon. I figured Saturday would be a good day to play Dairy Creek or Morro Bay -- hopefully early enough to get in 36. On Sunday we might play one of the newer courses just south of SLO.
I'd like to get an idea of how many people might be showing up. Either respond here or send me a message if you think you might be able to make it. If you want to play San Luis CC on Friday message Neal Meagher to let him know asap. Gib and Neal did some work at SLCC, and he has arraigned a limited number of tee times for Friday.
More than likely we will have plenty of drinking, card playing and maybe some beach golf between rounds, so all the money you are going to save on lodging, bring it along for some poker and other gambling. There are also some nice lodging choices in and around Cayucos, so let me know if you want to find more traditional lodging.
Cheers,
Dan King
Splosh! One of the finest sights in the world: the other man's ball dropping in the water - preferably so that he can see it but cannot quite reach it and has therefore to leave it there, thus rendering himself so mad that he loses the next hole as well.
--Henry Longhurst, 1959