Fwd: Hello from UK....golf hat on

Sent from my iPad

Begin forwarded message:

From: Tony McInerney tony@mcinerney.tv Date: 26 July 2015 8:41:16 pm BST To: Mick McInerney mickandcarolmac@bigpond.com, Bob LeClerc rleclerc@ozemail.com.au, Bryan Langsford GMAIL bryanlangsford@gmail.com, Dave Mitchell davemitch5@optusnet.com.au Cc: Blog McInerney Subject: Hello from UK....golf hat on

Hello all

Alls good in this part of the world...except Tina has turned an ankle on one of our walks..repairing slowly..still black and blue. I thought you might be interested in some golf happenings... Obviously golf highlight to date has been the Open. The weather gods were kind to us so we got to see two days instead of one. ...and we got into St Andrews on the Monday for only £10...compared with £80 for Sunday. As you know 10 of the 15 Aussies made the cut and we saw all of them at one stage or another. We had a great view of the last two holes of normal play and also all 4 playoff holes. Leishman (and Day) got SO close, but a great memory in any case. Apparently Leishman landed in a divot on the first playoff hole...but he also hit a bad first putt on the same hole. The course has to be seen to be believed....if you know this stuff, my apologies. The fairways are just meadow grass...no where near as good as RGC. It's basically an out and back course with 4 holes in the middle that go around in a circle. There are 8 shared greens which mean that often players playing holes 12 to 17 and players playing 2 to 7 have to wait for the others to holes out. Greens and tees are often very close together. Players often wait to putt until a player drives on an adjacent hole and vice versa On the way out and also on the way back, the set up of greens and the next tee are very similar to RGC 6a and 6b...often even closer We met up with a local at the 9th green. Interesting character. He has been to every Open since 1985. He is also a member at StAndrews. He told us that as a Fife county resident (which includes St A) his 7 day membership costs him £530 pa !! ...what's more that membership also gives him full access to the other 6 courses at st Andrews. His only gripe was the fact that the club closed the course to members 2 months before the Open...but he was playing on the Tuesday. When he left us he was headed to the members bar at the Club...overlooking the 18th...

Of much lesser interest, I have joined Romsey Golf Club ....(RGC ?.??). Very pretty and tight course..they are very proud of the fact that the Club was founded in 1900. We should value our Riversdale history more highly.... I had a game at Ely GC near Cambridge....another beautiful course ....annual subs again only £510. I'm getting the impression that these natural grasses must take much less maintenance and attention that our grasses...otherwise I'm not sure how they pay the bills When we were in Scotland for the Open we stayed at Blairgowrie...about 1 hour from St A. Sam Cowie told me before we left that he thought the Rosemount Course at the Blairgowrie GC was about the best in Scotland !! They have two 18 hole courses and one 9 hole course...all manicured. Their annual subs are really up market £710..... Anyhow at Peter Copes suggestion, I made a very tentative enquiry with their Manager about whether they might be interested in a reciprocal arrangement with Riversdale and the answer was positive...Peter C and Christian are now following up ....we will see if it comes to anything..

Finally.....before we left Edinburgh this morning, I played Bruntsfield Links Golf Society course which is already one of our reciprocal clubs. Apart from being a great layout with fantastic views, their history is amazing ...founded in 1761 and they claim to be the 4th oldest golf course in the world ....

Enough from me...hope you are all well Cheers Tony Mc

Sent from my iPad