Congratulations in advance to you and Mrs. damn_speaketh
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Signed up! Been following NLU for sometime but new to the refuge and new to AZ.
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Alright, at the moment we’ve passed the 24 person mark, so shooting to cap it at 28 (7 foursomes, 14v14).
@BattleBornGolf I am contacting the 500 Club Golf Course today to try and get the tee times finalized.
Looking like a 7am shotgun start at the Futures Course to help make sure we don’t back that course up too much since we will be doing 2 loops.
Then we will be going to the 18 hole at 12pm. So there should be a nice little break to grab some lunch and a drink with everyone (food not provided haha).
Update: the 28 tee times starting at 12:04 pm have been booked for the 500 Club.
Waiting on an email from the Future’s Course for the 7am start time, but I don’t see any issues coming from that.
Time to find 3 more people to close this out, and then let the shit talking begin!
I will gladly accept your nomination to be the trophy/plaque creator haha.
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I was really hoping the 'cup" portion would be an athletic cup.
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Hmm, at this point I assumed they were confirmed. If not, and we fall to below 24, then we still have some time to get there. I’m planning on setting the signup deadline as 1/28 (two weeks before).
Currently in negotiations. Will know for sure within a day or so.
aaaaaaand they forgot they have an event lined up every Friday morning, and a skins game that Friday afternoon
I’ll try reaching back out to Aguila to see if there is a way to get something finalized on their schedule for both of their courses.
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How about 36 on the big course at a somewhat discounted deal for the trouble?
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Unfortunately not seeing any discounted rate happening the weekend of the Phoenix Open. Also turns out they treat those courses as completely separate entities. When I tried calling the main course to book the whole thing, they told me I’d need to call the Futures Course separately to try and book times there.
I just called Aguila and they told me to call back on Tuesday when the director is there to discuss the plan for that day.
I hope they don’t see any issue with 24+ people looking to book tee times at the full public rate, and also spending money at their restaurant that’s literally called “The Nest” haha.
Aguila is also a First Tee of Phoenix location, so we could make that the charity donation.
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Just my $.02, but I’d say if the 9-hole course doesn’t work out at Aguila too, let’s still do the event just 18 holes, and maybe we can still do three formats just in 6-hole increments?
1-6 is fourball
7-12 is alt shot
13-18 is singles
Of course you’d be playing with the same group all the way through, but better than not doing it
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Don’t hate it. Probably just revise it to front 9 fourball, and back 9 singles. That way everyone still gets to play their ball a full 18 holes, especially if they haven’t played the course in the past.
We can also try and think of a pre round 14v14 chipping or putting contest that’ll be worth a point each. Just something that creates a little more team camaraderie.
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Also any thoughts on potentially having it the next day on the 12th? Might mess up peoples schedules though.
I had that thought as well, but figured it’ll be too late to try and change things up.
Also feel like Saturday would be more difficult for any parents.
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How bad did you want to say long drive contest? (kidding, I know there is next to no way to track this)
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If we are really leaning in to the Super Bowl portion of this…Sunday might play too.
As far as I can tell, there isn’t much out of state travel happening aside from your buddies…and it sounds like weekend might be preferable to them
I just brought it up because there may be fewer conflicts with things like skin games and such on the weekend. Since we all like the event format I figure if it can be booked Saturday (or Sunday) then we can probably all make it work?
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With at least a few week’s notice, I am personally good for whatever.
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