A little bit late this year for our first official Duffers Challenge, but better late than never. Here are the details:
Date: June 6th, 2009
Time: 12:00PM
Location: Hickory Woods Golf Course
Address: 1240 Hickory Woods Dr., Loveland, OH 45140
Cost: $35 w/cart
We are going to do a 9 hole warm up on Saturday March 21st at Avon Fields in North Avondale.
All are welcome to join us, just click the Signups Tab above and sign up, you do not have to have an account to do so!
Hey all! Just wanted to drop you an off-season note. I've been updating all of my sites from Drupal 5.7 to 6.8 (hopefully one of the last stable 6.x versions) and it was time to hit the ole Duffers Open. I had to switch out the themes, the one we were using was not 6.x compliant and they did not update it. Another reason I've been waiting to update is that it has taken a year to get the modules updated.
I will be working on our Duffers site a bit more, there are a few functions that are not working and some links that no longer work especially involving the Calendar and Date modules. I'll keep working on them, if nothing else deleting and recreating the databases (like you care.)
Anyway, we should be good to go for next year. Keep an eye out for a winter challenge if it warms up. Thanks for checking in!
-Mike
I just wanted to drop everyone a line. I should have done this after the outing, but just have been crazy busy.
I want to thank everyone who attended the Duffers Open this year, and other than some folks not being able to make it at the last minute and me scrambling to fill 3 groups, we had a good time. I am hoping we can do a little better next year.
I thought the scoring format was a lot of fun, but it really takes about 6 groups or more to make it work really well.
Cedar Trace was in good shape when we played, they had some rain the day before and it softened it up a little bit. I want to thank Dan at Cedar Trace for hosting our event and I am looking forward to working with him again next year.
Look for the Duffers Challenge to fire back up, we might be looking at doing a winter event depending on the interest we can generate. Reply or drop me a line if you are interested in doing a February Challenge.
See you on the links next year!
-Mike
We've got about 10 days left until the 2008 Duffers Open and I am getting pretty excited. I went out to Cedar Trace today and played 18 holes to "check up" on the course. I had a couple of bad holes, shot a 103, but all in all it was good..
The course (fairways and greens) was in very good shape so we should all be in for a decent round. The pin location for the back 9 was a little difficult, but I think they had a school meet and made it tough.
So despite the signup sheet being bare, we're 7 folks short of 6 foursomes and that is more of just not having them confirmed. We should have 5 groups at the very least.
We have room for 3 more foursomes, so if you know of anyone who would be interested in playing, by all means have them sign up! If you haven't signed up online, please do so, that way I will have everyones information and you should get a reminder via email a day or two before the event.
I can't wait until the 6th.. We're going to have a lot of fun.. See you then!
Howdy folks! All of the details for the 2008 Duffers Open have been finalized and ready to be shared with you!
Here are the quick hits:
This year we will be again moving the Duffers Open to a new course, Cedar Trace Golf Club near Batavia, OH. I've played this course a few times and for the cost, it can not be beat. It is not a terribly difficult course and has a few really fun holes, everything us duffers like to see.
Also, this year we will be holding the event the week after labor day. It seems that a lot of folks could not attend labor day weekend, so I hope pushing it back will help out in that respect. September 6th is the date! We will be teeing off around 8:30 in the AM as a shotgun start. There will be another small group going out at the same time as us so we need to be on time. The good news is that it will get us done a little earlier than in the past!
As is one of our Duffers Open Goals, we like to keep the cost of the event around thirty bucks and we will be doing just that. Cost of the round of 18 with a cart is $32. More....
Tony and I had a good time at Cedar Trace. It is looking like a serious possibility for hosting the Duffers Open in September.
As of right now, there will not be a July Duffers Challenge unless someone would like to step up and put it together. You are very welcome to in fact.
Unless someone wants to head up north to Glen Arbor MI and play with me up there. I'm going to try to sneak my clubs with me on vacation even if I only get to take 6 of them.
Stay tuned for the Duffers Open news to come. I need to call Cedar Trace and see about availability.
Ok, I know it is last minute but since no one signed up for the last event, Tony Strub and I decided to play anyway. California was packed until 2:30 so I called a course a little on the outskirts. Cedar Trace in Batavia (Owensville). I've played this course a few years back at my cousins bachleor party and remembered it being pretty decent. Cost is around $37 with a cart.
We have a 9:40 tee time and and there is room for a couple more people, so hurry and sign up!
If you'd like to find out more information, their site is CedarTrace Golf and also info at GolfLink.com.
Sign up NOW!
Well, lets try this againg for June since no one showed up for May....
Our next challenge will be June 7th and we will meet around noon again (tee time availability depending.) This month we are going to hit the west coast and play California Golf Course.. Actually, I am being told it is in California, Ohio near 275 along the river on the East side of Cincinnati off of Kellogg Ave.
California is a rather level course, although it is longer than Avon. It is a Par 70 / 5871 yard course that surrounds the Cincinnati Water Works reservoir. It is usually one of the better cared for CRC course. The other great thing about California is that Dave Parker doesn't golf there. (Dave is going to be hunting me down now, I just know it..)
You can find the CRC California golf course site Here including directions to the course. Please be sure to Resister for the event below by clicking on the >Signup function below. Tell your friends and we will see you out there on May 3rd.
UPDATE: We changed the time and place, not the date! Check the Updated Caledar.
Looks like I've had the site offline for the last day or so. Sorry folks, be sure to get signed up for the first Duffers Challenge event (Second attempt.) I'm going to be requesting tee times in a couple of days, so if I don't know if you are going to play if you don't sign up!
See you on Saturday around noon!
