Andy

To be fair, the idea for last years meeting was originally James Edwards'--I just picked up the ball when it just seemed to be sitting there, unclaimed, in the GCA.com rough.......

PS--Thanks for reminding me that it is May 18-20 rather than what I had thought.  I'm sure it would have have been an interesting look on the face of the Secretary at Littlestone when I rolled up on 12 May with Bluto McBride, Dee Dee Krystnak and Otter Huckaby in my big American Car.......

BTW, vis a vis "ratings", Painwsick may well be a 2.527 or whatever on the Doak scale, but I'd travel to play it again more readily than I would for more than a few of the 6+'s I have played, and I've played more than my share of those.

PS--Bill McBride.  Rye is definitely vaut le detour.  I haven't played there since 1981, so let's see if we can pretend we are posh and weasel our way on!

Sean

The event is not by any means oversubscribed.  Put it on your calendar, keep your eyes open on this site, and you'll be in.

Hello again everybody.  It's been an age since I posted, but I can't resist a Painswick thread.  I've already written enough guff praising this course (wanted to use the word eulogise, but I don't think I know how to spell it!) to write any more, but I thought you all might like to know that I have written an essay about it for Paul Daley's book, 'Golf Architecture-Volume 287', which will be richly endowed with pictures of the course taken during the GCA Ryder Cup week.  

If I haven't mentioned it before, I must say that those three days at Painswick were the most fun I have had playing golf for a long, long time, excepting giving Mr. Goodale a right royal stuffing at Dornoch.  Oops, did I write that out loud!  

I second what Tom Doak said about our stellar fourball match.  It was a veritable birdie fest, with Rich and Tom richly deserving their victory on the last green, damn them!  

With a bit of luck I should also be available for next years match, having just moved down to the south of England to take up a position with European Golf Design.  It is celeb central down here.  As I look out of the window at this very second, I can see Darren Clarke sat in his black Ferrari, tipping fag ash onto the Sunningdale tarmac.  Oh, and here comes Gary Lineker wearing a bobble hat.  This is not made up, I promise you.  

Now that I've got broadband connection, I hope to keep up with you fellas a bit more often.  I hope everyone is well.