Desert Storm 2020 - September 10-12 - now VIRTUAL!

hobbit · 2020-04-07T15:26:55+00:00

Given the covid precautions, our founder suggested a Virtual Desert Storm. We would all play on the same day, submit scorecards, and have a virtual toast at...

hobbit

We Ko Pa is extending the resident rate to everyone - $85/round. That helps reduce the 36 hole rate as well.
Kudos to them!

Mattyv

hobbit

Excellent. Now they are taking care of the travelers as well. In the summer, the resident rate is $45.

FauxAmish

Flying in nine days, meeting in same...
Swinging the clubs the next day.
Let's hope that this Desert Storm is a continuance of Justin's vision.
Btw ...
I just was thinking, I know it's an amazing concept... but doesn't the humbling and sometimes bumbling creator of this website live in the San Diego area along with jimeng ?
Is the hobbit and his cohort rangerx planning something near the border, or is an old friend dreaming ???

I'm hoping it is not the latter.

hobbit

OK folks - its just a week away!

For those participating virtually - once you know the course/tees you're playing please update this thread. This will make scoring on Saturday much faster. You can still tell us day of, just easier this way.

Also - anyone playing with us in Phoenix, please double check the roster and let me know if there are any mistakes.
@customgolfcenter - you able to play on Saturday, or not ready for golf yet?

Thursday - Troon North Pinnacle, 7:15AM ($135)
Thursday Morning: hobbit, fauxamish, rangerx, AliG, TheVinman
Thursday Afternoon: hobbit, fauxamish, rangerx, AliG

Friday - Golf Club of Estrella, 8:14AM ($41)
Friday Morning: hobbit, fauxamish, rangerx, AliG, seymore101, TheVinman
Friday Afternoon: hobbit, fauxamish, rangerx, AliG

Saturday - We Ko Pa Saguaro, 7:30AM ($85)
Saturday Morning: hobbit, fauxamish, rangerx, AliG, baaab, mattyv, TheVinman, customgolfcenter, Sal, kchacker
Saturday Afternoon (Cholla 12:50PM): hobbit, fauxamish, rangerx, Alig, baaab, kchacker

hobbit

OH - and Handicaps - please provide no later than next Friday.

Thanks!

The_Vinman

Name: Vincent Treola
Current Handicap Index: 8.6

Mattyv

Looks good to me. I hope my back holds up. I am playing 36 hole on Friday at Talking Stick with my best buds. I thought I was going to miss out on my September golf week this year because of COVID. I am playing on Monday, Friday and Saturday so I am getting in a bunch of rounds anyway. Looking forward to finally getting to play with some more of the guys on FGI/Golfbuzz!

MartinD

Playing my round on Saturday 12th at Longniddry Golf Club (white tees - 70.1/117). Current handicap is 3.5.

Weirfan

My index has moved to 7.5, course and tees I am playing remain the same

Weirfan

UPDATE to keep it honest.
Shot my lowest round in 30 years yesterday so my index/factor dropped from 7.5 to 6.5.....but if it's too late to change it...thats cool 😉

hobbit

Example of what we're working on - more participants to come!

Par4QC

hobbit We cannot make reservations more than a couple days out, but am planning to play Golfmohr Golf Club. May be a cold, soggy one with the current forecast for next week.

Slope=108.
Current handicap=7.4. ugh!

sdandrea1

Steve D'Andrea
HC index 11.3
Gauntlet Golf Club, white tees. 67.2/130

https://www.golfgauntlet.com/

hobbit

sdandrea1
Heck of a slope for short-ish tees. Must be... well I was close - its P.B. Dye. I immediately thought Pete Dye. 🤣 🤣

Mattyv

I will report my cap after this weekend. Currently at a 12.7. I am going to Sandbag my round on Monday and my two rounds next Friday to get that sucker up!😁

FauxAmish

hobbit

You forgot "Effin Die Pete".

sdandrea1

hobbit Heck of a slope for short-ish tees. Must be... well I was close - its P.B. Dye. I immediately thought Pete Dye.

P.B. Dye courses - where decent shots still get punished........his motto: "why make it fair?"
🤣

Spartan

sdandrea1 I belonged to a club for five years that was a P.B. Dye course. It took away my passion for the game. None of the holes were unfair by themselves, but as a group it was unfair. It just never let up. No holes where if you got hold of a drive, you'd be a club or two closer to the green, you'd be in a bunker or a lake instead. Almost all the greens were mounded so a slight miss would go bounding off. Eff P.B. Dye.

CallMeAl

Rick, my h'cap is 9.7 as of today. I might get 1 more round in before we post scores.

I'll be playing Incline Village.
68.7/127

sdandrea1

Spartan Almost all the greens were mounded so a slight miss would go bounding off

Signature design move. Almost all of our greens are elevated and will send a slight miss into a Lake, the woods or a bunker. No slight miss goes unpunished. It's a fucking Gauntlet!

hobbit

7Up Hi. I'm still in Phoenix - have been playing golf anyway, so I'd be in

Can you let me know what rounds in Phoenix you are in for? I need to inform the courses about numbers very soon. Thanks!

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