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The 2017 Newport Cup at Talamore Resort (Pinehurst, NC)


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Is Colorado an "Eastern" state? I notice I was awarded "Eastern Team Candidate", but when I look it shows the red cup and gives the description for the Western team. Could be a bug on my end though, it says Western on my profile but hovering on the award underneath this post displays Eastern.

I'm not sure if trash talk is allowed yet, but regarding the 11-7 count doesn't quality beat quantity?

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15 minutes ago, Pretzel said:

Is Colorado an "Eastern" state? I notice I was awarded "Eastern Team Candidate", but when I look it shows the red cup and gives the description for the Western team. Could be a bug on my end though, it says Western on my profile but hovering on the award underneath this post displays Eastern.

Fixed.

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Im not good enough for something like this yet but Im excited for all of you that are. What a cool thing to do. Good luck yall and Hit Em Good !! Does anything cool like that happen in North Florida , haha.

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5 hours ago, Golfingdad said:

I'll add, to anybody who is on the fence that you should read up about the last one.  If it ends and any portion of your reason for not participating was that you just didn't think it would be any fun, then you're probably going to regret that decision. :) ...

I'll echo everyone who has said how much fun we had in 2015.  I was lucky to be invited, as a relative newbie to the site, had never met any of the guys, and really hadn't been here long enough to get a real good impression of more than 3 or 4 of them.  I was a tiny bit hesitant.  Thankfully, my wife encouraged me, and I couldn't have had more fun.  I feel like I made 13 new friends, every one of whom loves golf.  I'd urge anyone who can get there, and whose handicap is in the right range, to give yourselves a chance.  You won't regret it.

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By the way, does the Western team have to be red? Any other color would be fine with me. Just not red. Ugh. :-P

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2 hours ago, DeadMan said:

By the way, does the Western team have to be red? Any other color would be fine with me. Just not red. Ugh. :-P

The colors were muted last year so our "red" was really more like pink.  Is that better? :beer:

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2 hours ago, DeadMan said:

By the way, does the Western team have to be red? Any other color would be fine with me. Just not red. Ugh. :-P

Yep. Red and blue. The Newport Cup is based on the name of the site of the first U.S. Open.

We could have named it after a famous "sand trap" (i.e. bunker), or called it something goofy like "The Sahara Cup" or something. But we didn't. We went with a U.S. theme. So white is the color for both teams, with red and blue.

1 hour ago, JxQx said:

I am potentially interested.

Okay. Post more.

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1 hour ago, Golfingdad said:

The colors were muted last year so our "red" was really more like pink.  Is that better? :beer:

Salmon color, really :-P

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1 hour ago, Golfingdad said:

The colors were muted last year so our "red" was really more like pink.  Is that better? :beer:

Actually, yes. I much prefer pink.

Just thinking about it - I barely have any red in my wardrobe. All the red I have is either related to giving blood or Arsenal. I may or may not have a sickness.

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4 minutes ago, DeadMan said:

Actually, yes. I much prefer pink.

Just thinking about it - I barely have any red in my wardrobe. All the red I have is either related to giving blood or Arsenal. I may or may not have a sickness.

Well, you have three options:

  • I can remove you from the list of Candidates.
  • You can move to the eastern half of the United States.
  • You can put up with it.

What's it gonna be, @DeadMan? :-D:banana:

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On 12/14/2016 at 9:38 AM, iacas said:

Travel is whatever it is for you.

The total cost for the lodging/golf last year was, what, $550?

I have to correct myself. It was only $450 last year. We'll do all we can, as I said, to keep that cost down.

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2 hours ago, iacas said:

Well, you have three options:

  • I can remove you from the list of Candidates.
  • You can move to the eastern half of the United States.
  • You can put up with it.

What's it gonna be, @DeadMan? :-D:banana:

Where's option 4: put up with it but grumble passive aggressively about it? :-D

 

 

 

Obviously - I'm joking here. Not a big deal at all. Although it's nice to have a built in excuse if I tank. I could just never get comfortable in that red shirt, I swear...

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I'm interested.

You know, assuming I make single digit before the cutoff.

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13 minutes ago, billchao said:

I'm interested.

You know, assuming I make single digit before the cutoff.

You got that ... your swing has "looked" single digit for a long time.

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2 hours ago, 14ledo81 said:

You got that ... your swing has "looked" single digit for a long time.

Thanks. Still a long road ahead, I'm not going to fool myself into thinking it's going to be easy.

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Please mark me down as a candidate, @iacas.

Reasons I can likely make it and should be picked. :-D

1) I have a nice wardrobe of red shirts I can wear! :beer:

2) I love going on golf trips to meet new people and NC is not somewhere I've been.

3) I'm gonna actually work on my game this year instead of being a slacker.

4) I'm single with no kids. :-P

Only reasons I wouldn't be able to make it would be work conflicts or a lack of vacation days. 

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19 hours ago, shortstop20 said:

Please mark me down as a candidate, @iacas.

Reasons I can likely make it and should be picked. :-D

1) I have a nice wardrobe of red shirts I can wear! :beer:

2) I love going on golf trips to meet new people and NC is not somewhere I've been.

3) I'm gonna actually work on my game this year instead of being a slacker.

4) I'm single with no kids. :-P

Only reasons I wouldn't be able to make it would be work conflicts or a lack of vacation days. 

Joel

You've got it, Joel!

As in 2015, active participation is one of the criteria. :-) </hint>

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