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Jim Hoak

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Big Nellie or Big Bertha?
« on: July 20, 2019, 12:28:35 PM »
Not that it really matters, but is the name of the gigantic bunker on the old #17 of Royal Portrush Big Nellie or Big Bertha?  I have seen it referred to both ways.  And it shows both ways when Googled.  They talk about a replica of it being constructed on the new #7.
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Ally Mcintosh

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Re: Big Nellie or Big Bertha?
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2019, 12:50:34 PM »
Nellie
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Jim Hoak

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Re: Big Nellie or Big Bertha?
« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2019, 12:52:57 PM »
Where did the name come from?
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Tony_Muldoon

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Re: Big Nellie or Big Bertha?
« Reply #3 on: July 20, 2019, 01:08:14 PM »
I like to think this has something to do with it(but I'm guessing)


https://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/20/messages/107.html



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Ally Mcintosh

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Re: Big Nellie or Big Bertha?
« Reply #4 on: July 20, 2019, 01:19:41 PM »
I don’t know either. My total guess is that someone used it as a not so complimentary comparison to a club character...


Couple of Portrush members on here who probably know.
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Garland Bayley

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Re: Big Nellie or Big Bertha?
« Reply #5 on: July 20, 2019, 01:53:25 PM »
Quote from: Ally Mcintosh on July 20, 2019, 12:50:34 PM
Nellie

Big Bertha would be at Marine Drive Golf Club in Vancouver, BC
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Jamie Pyper

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Re: Big Nellie or Big Bertha?
« Reply #6 on: July 22, 2019, 11:44:16 AM »
Its always been Big Nellie, nicknamed after a large lady who worked in the kitchen half a century ago.
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Tommy Williamsen

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Re: Big Nellie or Big Bertha?
« Reply #7 on: July 23, 2019, 10:33:13 AM »
Isn’t big Bertha at Royal Saint George? Did a search and can’t find it Saint TSG.
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