Anyone interested in a 2019 Southern Ontario knockout tournament?

[Wayne_Kozun]

I noticed a thread on here about the GCA folks in the midwest having a knockout match play tournament.  It would be too late to do this for 2018, but anyone interested in doing this for 2019 in Southern Ontario?

[Matt Bosela]

Wayne: count me in.

[Wayne_Kozun]

It would probably be useful if everyone entered where they live.  I am in Scarborugh - Matt I believe you are in St Catherines, correct?

[Matthew MacKay]

I would be interested. I'm in the Beach in TO.

[Jason Lietaer]

I'm in.  I live in Burlington but I'm pretty flexible.  I play out of St Thomas. 

[Matt Bosela]

It would probably be useful if everyone entered where they live.  I am in Scarborugh - Matt I believe you are in St Catherines, correct?

Yes, that's right Wayne.

[Wayne_Kozun]

I'm in.  I live in Burlington but I'm pretty flexible.  I play out of St Thomas.

That's a long drive to play golf, but St. Thomas is a wonderful course.


Anyone else - we only have four so far.


I don't think we have had any GCA get togethers in Toronto in over a decade, so many of us have never met in person.

[Wayne_Kozun]

It isn't going to be much of a knockout tournament with four players - everyone makes the semi-finals.  Anyone else?

[Ronald Montesano]

If we can work this around my teaching (M-F) schedule, I would cross the border for you guys. I might be able to get Kevin Lynch to travel with me, to get us to six golfers for the moment.


RM

[Wayne_Kozun]

Now that 2019 is upon us, is anyone else interested in this?  We should have at least 8 to get a tournament going.  With 8 we could potentially do a round-robin in two groups.  I am sure TJ Rule would be interested as well.  Please forward to anyone else you know.


If the drives aren't too long then we could even have two matches in a foursome.


Ian Andrew and Jeff Mingay - any interest?  Or are you guys just too busy during the golf season?

[Ian Andrew]

Wayne,


I could make that work next year.
I live in Brantford, but no longer play out of a golf club.


Btw, I like the idea of a winter get together.
We could discuss the idea at that time and have a draw.

[Wayne_Kozun]

Great idea Ian - a winter get together could be a good way to get every together again (or for the first time for some/many).  And for many it is a less busy time.


Not belonging to a club is not a problem - I am sure that someone else could host you or play at a public course.


Hopefully we get a few more responses on here.  The Hamilton area could be a good central meeting place if we have folks coming from Toronto, Niagara, London, etc.

[Jason Lietaer]

Wayne -- I'm down for a winter get together.  I live in Burlington -- happy to organize something around here.  PM me and we can talk about some dates.  I like Ian's idea -- we could get the names of all those interested and do a draw.


Let's shoot for something in February.  Shoot me a note.


Jason

[Matt Bosela]

I'm in for a winter get-together as well.  February sounds good to me and Burlington seems like it would be a central location for everyone to meet.


Hopefully we can get a few more signups in the weeks to come.

[Mike Baillie]

I would be interested in a winter get together and / or a summer knockout tourney.

I live in Markham so an Oakville to Hamilton location would be fine in February or early March.

My club is St. Andrew's East, north of Markham / east of Aurora.  Would be surprised that many have played it.  Don't confuse with St. Andrew's Valley!  Perhaps Ian and I could play?  He could see the complete changes made in sync with his long range plan from about 2005.  The last two holes changed in 2015-7 were modified, from Ian's plan some, by Doug Carrick.

[Wayne_Kozun]

Can everyone who is interested in this and/or a get together in the next couple of months please send me their email address via the personal messaging function on here and I will create a distribution list.


I already have addresses for Ian and Jason.

[Guy Nicholson]

Interested -- PM sent!