Terrace Creek: Terrace Creek: Weekly Doubles

[sillybizz]

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


This will be the last 'normal' doubles for a while. The monotony of random doubles week after week needs to be broken both for myself and for others. We will be playing a different event every week, we are going to play hat trick doubles, singles, and other fun events yet to be named.

Also, Tuesday the 15th of December starting at 6pm will be having night golf random doubles and if we get enough interested then it will be a weekly or bi weekly event, the buy in is $5, that's $3 to play, $1 to the ace pot (the ace pot for this and doubles will be the same) and $1 for a CTP, which will be either straight cash or a brand new disc or two, and if you want to donate a non inked new disc, I will pay for your buy in. We will play the front nine twice as I don't want to make people play the back nine in the dark. You will need to bring a flashlight, bring extras just in case someone else doesn't have one and LED lights or glow discs, and if you don't have any I can provide some at no charge, also whenever you throw a disc it has to be either a glow disc or have an LED on it or it's not legal, that means no putting with a putter that's not lighted, sorry.

I'm thinking of lowering the buy in for Saturday doubles from $8 ($5 to play, $2 for the ace pot and $1 for the course fund) to $5 ($3 to play, $1 for the ace pot and $1 for the course fund) but I want feed back from everyone else so I'm going to create a poll in the 'Terrace Creek' section on this website, please vote. If you have any questions, concerns, comments or just want to talk, either PM me or send me an email at sillybizz@yahoo.com

[cefire]

You da man Tom, I love the concept of shaking it up a bit. Triples is really fun and Terrace would be a good course for it...

I'm not sure what hat trick doubles is???

[sillybizz]

Originally Posted by cefire

You da man Tom, I love the concept of shaking it up a bit. Triples is really fun and Terrace would be a good course for it...

I'm not sure what hat trick doubles is???

Hat trick doubles is where after six holes you switch partners, so if you are in a four person group everyone would play with everyone else. It pays like singles. The score card has separate scores for each person and when you and your partner get a birdie it goes on both your score and his. If there is three or five or an odd number in a group then there is a rolling cali as well. I can't take credit for this one, Jub and Jim run this at Arlington every sunday. Triples sounds like fun, I'll probably do that.

[cefire]

Originally Posted by sillybizz

Hat trick doubles is where after six holes you switch partners, so if you are in a four person group everyone would play with everyone else. It pays like singles. The score card has separate scores for each person and when you and your partner get a birdie it goes on both your score and his. If there is three or five or an odd number in a group then there is a rolling cali as well. I can't credit for this one, Jub and Jim run this at Arlington every sunday. Triples sounds like fun, I'll probably do that.

Hat trick sounds like fun too! It would help eliminate some of the pro/pro pairing advantage since you'd only get them for a few holes. Of course you could get a foursome like Wayne, Ming, Aaron, and Eric in which case you'd be screwed anyway

[sillybizz]

Originally Posted by cefire

Hat trick sounds like fun too! It would help eliminate some of the pro/pro pairing advantage since you'd only get them for a few holes. Of course you could get a foursome like Wayne, Ming, Aaron, and Eric in which case you'd be screwed anyway

Yeah that would be a brutal group to try and beat for sure but that would be a rare case, most times I have played HTD it's pretty fair groupings but of course it's all random.

[sillybizz]

It was a cold day with slick tee pads but sunny, here are the scores from this mornings doubles:

Wayne/Art: -7
Andrew Rivers playing Cali: -4
Joe/Mickey: -3
Todd/Sheila: -3
Doug/Evan: -3
Eric/Thomas: -1

[sillybizz]

Just to let everyone know this Saturday will be random format, there are about a dozen different formats and we will draw to see which one we will play the day of, so no one knows in advance. From here on out we will play random format EXCEPT the first Saturday of the month which will be normal best shot random doubles. The ace pot is in effect and it is at $300 and will be capped there for a while to build a back up pot. If you have any format ideas for doubles please send me a message, I have a bunch already, and a couple I made up.

[sillybizz]

Had a good turnout this morning in the 25 degree weather. We picked a format at random out of the bag and we played 18 holes of tough shot doubles! Here are the scores for this week:

Wayne/Kyle B: +4
Evan/Joe: +5
Andrew/Doug: +6
Artie playing skitzo: +12
Sheila/Thomas: +16

[cefire]

Tough shot was fun and it didn't even take as long as I thought it might

[sillybizz]

Originally Posted by cefire

Tough shot was fun and it didn't even take as long as I thought it might

Wait till WORST shot!

By the way I forgot to announce it at doubles this week but next week the buy in is going to be reduced to $5. That's $3 to payout, $1 to the ace pot and $1 to the stinking course fund.

NO MORE COURSE FUND, READ POST NUMBER 91

[sillybizz]

Originally Posted by sillybizz

By the way I forgot to announce it at doubles this week but next week the buy in is going to be reduced to $5.

I've made the decision to not charge for the course fund for a while basically because there is enough in it right now and there isn't much being done at the course and the same people are showing up every week and the die-hard players have put enough into the fund over the years that we don't need to charge you guys over and over every single week, that's a bit much.

The buy in goes down this week to $5, that's $4 to the pay out and $1 to the ace pot which is capped at $300 and we are building a back up, how much is in that one I don't know as I don't have all of the ace pot (I need to get together with Tim) and I haven't counted what I have but my estimate would be around $20-$50 in the back up.

I still have hand warmers from the night golf event which I will bring to doubles every week, they are free of charge. Hope to see you guys out there!

I forgot to mention that there will be a special surprise this week and I highly recommend that everyone come out.

[sillybizz]

I lowered the buy in($5) and the turnout doubles. 20 people this week. We drew a random format and picked 666 doubles, which is 6 holes best shot, 6 holes tough shot and 6 holes alternate shot. Here are the scores:

Ming/Ron: -4
Kyle B./Artie: -2
Eric M./Anton: -1
Wayne/Mike: +1
Aaron/Evan: +3
Andrew/Sheila: +3
Mark/Doug: +4
Joe/Dave: +12
Don/Curt: +12
Samantha/Thomas: +12

[DMajor]

Is there doubles this saturday?

[sillybizz]

Originally Posted by DMajor

Is there doubles this saturday?

That's up in the air right now. I might have to do the Christmas thing on Saturday and my family isn't real good about planning ahead. I'll post here as soon as I know anything. There will NOT be doubles on the 2nd of January because I'm playing Freeze in the Trees at Lake Stevens.

[sillybizz]

Doubles is on for this Saturday, see you all there. Still only $5, enjoy it while it lasts.

[sillybizz]

OK next week Aaron Thor will be taking over for me as I am playing the Freeze in the Trees at Lake Stevens. It will be regular old random best shot doubles and the week after we will go back to random format.

Today we had 14 players show up. We drew Hat Trick Doubles which pays like singles but played like doubles out at random and it was a little confusing as it was the first time I've had to TD with this format so I'm sorry for that. Most of us had fun... Here are the scores:

Wayne: -10
Rob: -8 (Second Place)
Doug: -8 (Third Place)
Aaron: -8 (Four Place)
Ron: -3
Chris: -2
Brian: -1
Nate: -1
Eric: +1
Dave: +2
Kurt: +3
Artie: +3
Thomas: +4
Jessie: DNF

[sillybizz]

Aaron did a great job for me on Saturday, thank you again Aaron for doing that for me.

There were eight players out last Saturday, Aaron and Evan won in a playoff both teams were -4, good job guys.

This Saturday it's back to .... RANDOM FORMAT!!! See you all out there I hope.

I'm working on some ideas for the ace pot to keep it in check so we don't end up with an almost $1000 ace pot again, this was a bit rediculous, especially for me who is holding the money. More info on that to come.

[aaron]

whats wrong with a $1000 ace pot? its not that hard to run a random draw dubs for 40+ people at the last minute just ask tim.

[sillybizz]

Nothing when you're the one hitting the ace... AARON! lol

[sillybizz]

15 people out on a beautiful day filled with casual golfers and low scores. Pulled a random format out and drew best shot, here are the scores:

Michael/Kyle: -11
Ming/Eric: -10
????????: -8
Wayne/Toby: -8
????????: -5
John/John: -4
Thomas/Don: -2
Mark playing Cali +5