Off topic golf thread!

I'd say take a look on BRSGolf in the open competitions section. Looks like there are plenty of options available on there

Booked in for the K Club Palmer North open. I got the 2nd last spot on the tee sheet. Really excited to test my abilities on a big course, should be an awesome day out.

Boards.ie, GDPR and all our data is now hosted in Canada...

I must admit, I know very little about data protection but the fact that all our data is now hosted outside of Ireland and that we were never alerted to this before it happened is more than a little disconcerting. Particularly if you read some of the posts made by people who seem to be quite knowledgeable in the thread. The lack of responses by the boards.ie staff to the issues raised irks me

yep

its a mess on mobile

Would agree, it's woeful on mobile, so hard to find anything. On discord and Reddit alot more at the minute, hopefully boards improves soon before it dies.

So you win the captains prize and you are called upon to give a speech.

Oh Sh1t - you freeze and a jumbled lot of words come from your mouth and you get a sympathetic applause. - If only you could lose that fear of speaking.

Toastmasters now have a dedicated online club for golf enthusiasts

https://www.facebook.com/Toastmasters4Golf (next meeting this Friday)

It also has an attached golf society.

First closure from 25th March 2020 to 18th May 2020

Second closure from 22nd October 2020 to 1st December 2020

Third closure from 30th December 2020 to 26th April 2021

That's about as accurately as I could get them based on emails I received outlining the various closures and re-openings.

Not exactly off topic, but doesnt deserve it's own thread..... does anybody know if membership at Elmgreen includes balls at the range?

The website says membership includes "Access to 24-bay driving range." It doesn't specify anything about balls so I don't know if they're included.

Or is that wishful thinking?

Thanks. I'll ask them when I'm in next.

You say you've renewed so you're obviously happy there. Would you recommend it? Never been a member of a club before so I'm pretty clueless about it. Price seems reasonable enough and it's handy for me to get to aswell.

Grand, thanks for the info.

I just gave them a call and membership is at capacity for the 5 day full membership which is what I'm after. A shame really, but I'll go onto a waiting list for when one becomes available. Hopefully not too long of a wait.

Yeah Elmgreen has about a 40% turn over so never waiting more than a couple weeks to get in

€50 credit was removed last year and is been replaced with 2 free lessons with Graham Sweeney

When I spoke to them a few weeks ago I was told it could be around February by the time a slot becomes available for me for the 5 day membership.

I was told I could get a 7 day no problem but it's an extra 300 quid and a bit more than I wanted to spend.

They also offered me 5 day in Corballis which gives reciprocal playing rights in Elmgreen but it doesnt give you access to tee sheets etc.

A real shame as I'm looking to join asap and Elmgreen suits perfectly.

I also asked about the credit and was told they don't offer any. No mention of lessons or anything. Funny enough though, that would've been perfect as I just paid for a lesson with Graham yesterday!

They dont care. Tried my best to change it but gave up

Lets just say the run they had in All Ireland 4ball final will probably never happen again

Yeah that seems to be the case alright.

I'm not even that interested in any special offers/incentives. I just want to get my membership sorted. The guy from Carr was trying to push the 7 day on me but I explained I really had no need for it and I didn't really have the extra cash for it. He said "the committee would kill him" if he allowed in another 5 day membership as they are already over-subscribed.

Looks like I'll just be waiting around until a slot becomes available. Possibly late January or early February according to him.

Haven't been following it closely so likely have a very wrong set of details, but it seems like an absolute joke to me. Seems to be some fairly overt racism at play.

Might have some details wrong but did i see that they are using a technicality so that they even managed to get a charge for carrying a gun thrown out, because, what, the gun had too long a barrel?

The kid walked down a street openly carrying a gun and killed and they manage to drop a charge for carrying a gun? It might be legal to carry it, but thats the part thats wrong there.

System seems to be broken over there. As i saw a few saying...if it was a group of white people protesting/rioting, however you want to describe it, and a black kid walked down the street carrying an AR-15 and shot someone, it would be a very different case.

Actually, it wouldn't likely be a case because the black kid would be dead

America is a mental place. You can walk down a street, openly carrying a gun, shoot 2 people dead and have a chance of walking out of a courtroom on self defence (again this is just what I'm gathering about the overall case, i haven't actuallu been following the testimony, etc... just random bits that pop up on twitter)