BGS 2024 - Round 6 Macreddin - 17th August 13:40

Alanm · 05-08-2024 7:57pm #1

The last outing before our Captains weekend is coming soon. Macreddin is one of the courses I've been really looking forward to and it will be a first for the society where everyone will be in a Buggy. Believe me, after playing it early in the year, it is a good course to have a buggy on - even just for the distance between the 9th green and the 10th tee box (it'd be a long walk).

The course itself has a lovely variety of holes with some short par 4's, doglegs, a lovely shortish downhill par 3, a couple of par 5's that require a bit of thought and strategy.

NTP will probably be the 4th and LD the 15th - if anyone knows the course well, please let me know if there are better holes for these (especially the LD hole)

Tee times start from 13:40 and booking will open soon - I'll update this post with the opening details shortly.

blue note · 06-08-2024 2:08pm

I'm disappointed to miss this one. I've played the course twice and it's wonderful. I'm not sure of my score exactly, but I'd say I definitely broke 40 points over those two days. It's a brutally hard course - long, narrow and the misses are often into gorse bush. But it's tremendous fun. The downhill par 3 is great - you're taking off about 3 clubs it's so far downhill. Then one of the days it was into a big wind, so I was adding on a few more. The ball in the air and I had no idea if I was going to land short of all the stuff you need to clear or fly all the way over the green into the trees. It was the latter. The par 4 12th is a great hole - it's not so much about being brave on the hole or not - it's more that you'll have to choose to be brave on the tee or your approach.

17 is a perfect NTP hole, but I think 4th is a little better again due to the element of chance with the tee shot. I think 15 should be grand for LD - the only thing I'm wondering about is whether the path running across the fairway could catch the really long drives if the conditions are favourable. I wonder would 10 be a good one? I think the green is just out of range, but it's a relatively safe drive and really you're just lashing it in the direction of the green. Or on the front 9 the 3rd and 8th have endless room to keep running on the fairway. I just wouldn't recommend missing the fairway on either. But any of those 3 or the one you mentioned will be perfect really.

Seve OB · 06-08-2024 3:04pm

looking forward to this one very much as I was sure to play it a few times but always frosted off, so as I don’t expect frost in the middle of August, I relish the chance to play it for the first time

awec · 06-08-2024 5:04pm

It's been quite a while since I played here, but I think the front 9 is the one that has more gorse etc in the rough with tight holes snaking up/down/across the valley, while the back 9 is a bit more parkland-like with trees and water hazards?

Alanm · 06-08-2024 5:43pm

This is now open for booking. Please also check the poll for captains day and vote in it if possible.

Thanks,
Alan.

TrueDub · 06-08-2024 5:47pm

Booked in.

For various boring reasons I need to be out early so if re-orgs are needed I’d appreciate being let out as early as possible please.

Also, does the fee include buggy hire?

Alanm · 06-08-2024 5:59pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122471113#Comment_122471113

Yep, price includes buggy.

a post punk · 07-08-2024 3:59pm

Looking forward to this 1 also and scratch another course off the list. I’m hitting for 80 played now and done a good few this year. Great reports on this aswell and a buggy might be nice considering the travel time for this, I might get out as early as possible and probably not hang around afterwards with the later tee time unfortunately.
PP

bakerbhoy · 07-08-2024 9:07pm

Having issue trying to book.

incorrect selection.

Sorbet · 07-08-2024 10:30pm

I had trouble trying to book onto an existing line - was only able to book alone - maybe someone is trying to tell me something 😉. Feel free to move to any time slot. Looking forward to this one.

Alanm · 07-08-2024 11:10pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122476543#Comment_122476543

What version of the app have you got? Looks like the latest one is 1.0.99

doublecross · 07-08-2024 11:38pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122477068#Comment_122477068

I'm having the same issue. My app version is 1.0.99

Alanm · 07-08-2024 11:48pm

Thanks for letting us know, we'll try to get it checked tomorrow…

Macker1 · 07-08-2024 11:55pm

Same issue here when trying to book onto any line that already had players booked. No issue in booking onto another line that had no players.

Strange !!!!

Also on app version 1.0.99

Snackbox20 · 08-08-2024 12:06am

Looking forward to this course, like @a post punk was saying earlier, this will be another new course for me.

Must top up the purse and get booked in asap

Snackbox20 · 08-08-2024 12:13am

Hi guys,

Having same issue trying to book on some of the lines available. I have app version 1.0.99

Thank you

kev_s88 · 08-08-2024 8:04am

Booked in now. After missing the last one I'm really looking forward to this. It's a course that's been on the bucket list for a while so glad to get it ticked off

Snackbox20 · 08-08-2024 8:59am

Uninstall and reinstall app but unfortunately was unable to book a tee time for macreddin

bakerbhoy · 08-08-2024 9:54am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122477068#Comment_122477068

App version 1.0.99

Logged out etc… No difference

I am unable to post, well type any message from my Phone .. its up to date on software updates. As soon as i space the message disapears and returns to first character.