Anybody coming over/up for the open?

[ManchesterGolfer]

If anybodys coming over to England (upto the North west fellow brits) for the open at Royal Liverpool this year and fancys a game with a fellow Shot talker give me a shout. I live in Manchester about 35-40 miles from Liverpool and your more than welcome to come for a round at my home course, North Manchester.

[Canadriver]

I'm going to the open!!!





Well ... it's actually the Canadian Open in Hamilton! I won't be doing any golfing however ... my wife will be with me and I'll be attempting to get as many good photographs as possible. I am hoping to do a series of charcoal paintings of some of the Pros next winter [when I'm locked inside by the brutal weather!].

Sorry there MG! Believe me, I'd loooooove to get over there to the British Open sometime!!

[Adam Pettman]

MG I'm very tempted to try and get down to liverpool. It wouldnt be that hard either now I think about it I could stay with freinds in Glossop (just outside Manchester) and get a train into liverpool now all I need is money.

Originally Posted by Canadriver

I'm going to the open!!!
Well ... it's actually the Canadian Open in Hamilton! I won't be doing any golfing however ... my wife will be with me and I'll be attempting to get as many good photographs as possible. I am hoping to do a series of charcoal paintings of some of the Pros next winter [when I'm locked inside by the brutal weather!].

Never new you were a golf type artist like my uncle Harold Riley although he doesnt do charcoal sketches, his last painting sold for 1 mill USD.

[Canadriver]

Originally Posted by Adam Pettman

Never new you were a golf type artist like my uncle Harold Riley although he doesnt do charcoal sketches, his last painting sold for 1 mill USD.

Wow! Adam that sure sounds sweet! I think I'll have to be dead for a while before mine go for that much.

[Andy_79]

Yep, myself & 3 mates are going to Amsterdam for a coupla days, then back to Liverpool for the Saturday & Sunday of The Open. Getting into it for free as well, so happy days 50 quid per person, per day, too, so thank feck I am getting it for choicers !! Those few days should be great steam....

[Eracer]

Originally Posted by Andy_79

Yep, myself & 3 mates are going to Amsterdam for a coupla days, then back to Liverpool for the Saturday & Sunday of The Open. Getting into it for free as well, so happy days 50 quid per person, per day, too, so thank feck I am getting it for choicers !! Those few days should be great steam....

I am so looking forward to next month's trip to Scotland. As much for the golf as for the fun of drinking a few pints and trying to make sense of the native-speak.

"getting it for choicers"

"should be a great steam"

That's great stuff. And I'm not making a joke at anyone's expense here, I promise. I think it's amazing how the US and the UK are so closely related, and yet the language has so many differences. Just like I'm amazed with the different dialects within our countries.




I really think I'm going to have a great time mixing it up with the locals.

[Andy_79]

Originally Posted by Eracer

Just like I'm amazed with the different dialects within our countries.

Seconded. You won't believe some of the "English" being spoken in some parts of Scotland, though. Even I can't understand some of them, and being on the north coast of N.I., we talk very, very similar to them in parts. It's like Trainspotting all over again....

[dave.]

I'm going Sunday,first practice day,in for a fiver

[ManchesterGolfer]

Hackers day, always a laugh & never a queue at the bar or bogs!!!

[dave.]

Correct...

[Andy_79]

If time in your diary permits it, guys, consider taking a few days off and going to work there for the few days. It ain't the greatest amount of money - was £100 in '98 & '99, but that got you in all week, and the work on the 4 days was relatively straight-forward with not too many hours involved. You looked as if you were of high authority, too
I remember doing Greenside Control - receiving stats from those walking behind a certain group and inputing the data into a handheld machine and having to walk right across a fairway in front of hundreds upon hundreds. Everyone looking at me thinking I was some dood of very high authority. lol.
It was really good craic, although its a hard job drinking the bit out, then getting up early to head to the course. I can recall boking under the scoreboard stand at the 14th at Birkdale. Truely shocking......but funny when looking back at it !!