Gentlemen:
The time has come to start planning the Fourth Coptic Ryder Cup. Yes, I know. . . it's more than 4 months away but I am tired of dealing with wedding stuff and thinking about golf is the only thing that will keep me from loosing it completely. With that being said, several decisions need to be made with regards to the 2008 tournament.
1. When should be schedule it? I have tentatively scheduled it for May 30 - June 1, 2008. This is the weekend after Memorial Day in the US and two weekends after Victoria Day in Canada. The benefit to this is that most courses are still offering decent packages (most raise their rates the following weekend). The weekend after is also a possibility June 6-8, 2008?
2. Where should we go? We could go back to one of the ones we've played before (Shanty Creek, The Chief, or A-Ga-Ming) or we could do to a new place (Boyne or Treetops). I have called both Boyne and Treetops. Boyne is the better bargin $220 (unlimited golf, breakfast buffet on sat. and sun. lodging in hotel rooms) we can play any of the courses except for Bay Harbor. Several of us have played these courses and the Donald Ross and Crooked Tree are very nice courses. The web site is www.boyne.com. Treetops is a great golf resort. . The package for treetops is $225 (2 rounds of golf and lodging in hotel rooms). Both have condos available for approx 30 more per person. The lodging at Boyne will be nicer than the lodging at treetops. Neither will be as nice as the condos from A-Ga-Ming or at the Chief. The one problem with Boyne is that the courses are a 20 - 30 minute drive from where we are staying. I personally have no problem with going back to any of the three that we played before (Shanty Creek, The Chief, and A-Ga-Ming). They will all give us very good deals. . .
3. Format? The guys from Canada have been wanting to make this a Canada v. US competition.
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mark, embed the poll on the blog
They have stated that they will get enough
assuming that they'll match the amount of guys we bring to the tourney...how many will be comprising our team?
If you really want a Battle of the Border, let me know early on as I will make sure we get enough guys. I know that some people were interested in that type of Competition.
I will let you know that there are many who will initially say they are interested and then flake out close to last minute though.
If that is the way you want to go then I will get a serious committment from they boys here and let you know how many we shall have. I am guessing it will be 12 vs 12 or around that number??? Mark - let me know what numbers you are looking at from your end.
Last year we had 14 guys from the US and 6 from Canada.
For it to be US v. Canada we would need a minimum of 12 guys from Canada. I can almost guarantee that we will have 12 guys from the US. John do you think you can get 12 SOLID commitments from the guys in Canada.
As for which resort, it's looking more like Boyne as Treetops wants to charge a $100 more now.
I will see what I can do in the next couple of weeks. We shall be in touch.
Glad to see that the blog is up and running. My vote is for Canada v. US but I think we'll have a lot more US participants...if that's the case, then my vote would be for a fair-mix of US/Canada on each team. The young v. old is getting old.
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