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[Mark Pearce]

BUDAites,
I can confirm that I have booked Silloth On Solway GC for Wednesday 5th to Friday 7th September.  A dinner will be held, as per tradition, at Silloth on the Wednesday evening.   We have 6 times (which we may be able to add to if there's enough interest) starting at 9.30 am and 2.30 pm on Wednesday and Thursday and enough time on the Friday to get everyone off in singles, starting at 10.30.  As with BUDA I, BUDA X will be a one course event.
Ran's profile of Silloth is here: http://www.golfclubatlas.com/courses-by-country/england/silloth1/
Scott Warren effused about the place here: http://www.golfclubatlas.com/forum/index.php/topic,44053.0.html and Sean Arble profiled it here: http://www.golfclubatlas.com/forum/index.php/topic,48672.0.html.
Bernard Darwin said of Silloth: "I never more violently fell in love with a course at first sight".

Golf at Silloth will cost £45 for a single round and £52 for 36 in a day.  So that's £149 for 5 rounds or £156 for anyone wanting to play on the Friday afternoon as well.  As good value as there is in golf, in my book.
As of this morning the list of those attending BUDA is as follows:
Bob Jenkins   CAN      
Bryan Izatt   CAN      
Chris Shaida   USA      
Eric Smith   USA      S
Jeff Warne   USA      S
John Mayhugh   USA      Y
Lynn Shackleford   USA      Y
Mike Whitaker   USA      Y
Rich Goodale   USA      Y
Stan Dodd   USA      
Donal O’Ceallaigh   IRL     S
Adam Lawrence   GB      
Ben Stephens   GB      Y
Conrad Gamble   GB      Y
James Boon   GB      Y
Mark Pearce   GB      Y
Niall Carlton   GB      Y
Simon Holt   GB      Y
David Nelson   GB      Y
Giles Payne   GB      Y
Nick Leefe   GB      
Andrew Mitchell   GB      

If anyone would like to join us we still have a few places available.  If there’s anyone on the list who can no longer attend, please let me know.
We will have dinner at the club on Wednesday 5 September and I hope the club historian will be available to tell us a little about the history of the course.  Dinner menu choices are available on another thread.  Please let me have your choices (if you haven’t already) on that thread.  On the Thursday evening the more intrepid of us will be attending the annual Silloth Music and Beer Festival.  Sadly Sweet Lou Duran will not be there this year, so I may not get quite the same pasting on the Friday as was handed to me last year!  Eric Smith has purchased tickets for the Festival and anyone wanting to attend should contact him at first, though once all his have gone I imagine there may be some left from the organisers.
The democratic process has been completed and, by universal acclaim, the Captains of this year’s teams will be John Mayhugh, for the sinister side of the pond and James Boon for the right side.  It would be useful if everyone could let me have current handicaps, so that the annual dog fight over how to fix USGA handicaps to tip the odds in favour of the US can begin.  I will leave that to the captains but will be willing to offer my advice and experience to Boony, if needed.
I have 11 or 12 rooms booked in the Golf Hotel and have the following in those rooms: Ben Stephens, Conrad Gamble, Mark Pearce, James Boon, Giles Payne, Niall Carlton, Simon Holt, David Nelson, Chris Shaida, John Mayhugh, Lynn Shackleford, Mike Whitaker and Rich Goodale.  I assume everyone else has made their accommodation plans.
         

[Brian Sheehy]

Hi Mark, I know it's all booked at this stage and I don't want to upset the apple cart, but is weekend golf out of the equation? If days 2 and 3 were on a Sat and Sunday, I think that would open it up to a lot more folk on the UK side of things and involve two days less holiday leave to request...

[Mark Pearce]

Brian,

We could have had Thursday to Saturday, with singles on the Saturday but there's no way, realistically, that we could have had both days on the weekend.  It's a busy members club (with, unusually, competitions mostly on Sundays).  The club were very accomodating but the earliest start we could have on a Sunday would have been 11.30, ruling out 36 holes and even on a Saturday we couldn't start before 10.30.  We looked at June dates but there are clashes there with a US GCA event (The President's Putter, I think) and the US Open, which some regular BUDAites will be attending.  July is out because they're hosting the English Amateur.

I know several people would prefer a weekend but BUDA has tended to be during the week, for the reasons above.  This is all less of an issue for the opposition, who have mostly flown the Atlantic to participate.

I hope you can make it, BUDA really is a special event.

[Mark Chaplin]

Mark I will try my best but these dates fall within the Olympic period and I'm unlikely to get any leave from mid July to mid September.

[SArble]

Mark

Thanks for organizing - I know its a pain in the arse.

Same story as this year - which didn't work out.  If there is a Friday afternoon game at Silloth or if guys are playing elsewhere on the bookends of the week I would like to play.  I defintely won't be there for Wednesday or Thursday.

Ciao

 

[Mark Pearce]

Sean,

Pretty sure there will be a Friday afternoon game.  Also fairly confident that smaller groups will find golf on the Saturday and Sunday.  getting small groups on at weekends is easy, it's harder to tkae enough times for 24 golfers on a weekend!

[Craig Disher]

Mark,
Thanks for your efforts. I'll do all I can to be there.

I've heard so much good about SoS that my preference would be to hold all matches there. The prospect of 2 hours in a car - assuming we'll be in one hotel for the event - isn't appealing, especially if the quality quotient tilts heavily towards SoS.

[Bill_McBride]

Please put Drinkin' Joe Buehler and Bill McBride on the list.  Thanks for accommodating the June Kings Putter dates, as Bob Jenkins will be hosting in British Columbia and that's very appealing.   

I will work on Joe's pace of play, but it's like talking to my coffee table.

[Simon Holt]

Mark,

I would be really keen to attend.

Thanks for all your work.

Simon

[Jason Topp]

I'd love to attend but suspect work will not allow me to attend next year.

[Bill_McBride]

According to Google Maps, it's 2 hrs 41 minutes from Edinburgh Airport to Silloth.

The weekend before is a bank holiday long weekend for the Americans (Labor Day).  To be  there for a Wednesday morning start we'd have to leave on the holiday.   Fly Monday, arrive Tuesday, drive down to Silloth, Buda Wednesday.   I recommend either slipping back a week or a day to Thursday-Saturday.

How would one travel to Machrihanish post-Buda?

[Adam Lawrence]

Mark, I would love to play - please put my name on the list.

Bill, Silloth to Machrihanish is going to be a long and tricky journey. You have a range of options:

* Drive and take ferries via Arran or Cowal peninsula - Google says 206 miles and about five and threequarter hours.

* Drive via Loch Lomond and the Long and Winding Road of song fame. 260 miles, probably also five hours and then some

* Drive to Troon (between two and a half and three hours) then take Kintye Express foot ferry, if running, to Campbeltown. Then cab to Machrihanish.

* Drive or train/cab to Glasgow Airport, then 20 minute flight to Campbeltown.

Sadly there is no easy way to get to Machrihanish without a private plane or your own boat!

[Mark Pearce]

According to Google Maps, it's 2 hrs 41 minutes from Edinburgh Airport to Silloth.

Glasgow is about 25 minutes closer, Manchester about the same as Edinburgh.

The weekend before is a bank holiday long weekend for the Americans (Labor Day).  To be  there for a Wednesday morning start we'd have to leave on the holiday.   Fly Monday, arrive Tuesday, drive down to Silloth, Buda Wednesday.   I recommend either slipping back a week or a day to Thursday-Saturday.

Noted.  I'll speak to the secretary at Silloth on Monday.  I suspect either is a possibility.

How would one travel to Machrihanish post-Buda?

Drive.  Google Maps says 5hrs 42 mins.  It occurs to me that Machrihanish and Machrihanish Dunes would be a great BUDA venue one day......

[Bill_McBride]

Mark, I would love to play - please put my name on the list.

Bill, Silloth to Machrihanish is going to be a long and tricky journey. You have a range of options:

* Drive and take ferries via Arran or Cowal peninsula - Google says 206 miles and about five and threequarter hours.

* Drive via Loch Lomond and the Long and Winding Road of song fame. 260 miles, probably also five hours and then some

* Drive to Troon (between two and a half and three hours) then take Kintye Express foot ferry, if running, to Campbeltown. Then cab to Machrihanish.

* Drive or train/cab to Glasgow Airport, then 20 minute flight to Campbeltown.

Sadly there is no easy way to get to Machrihanish without a private plane or your own boat!

Perhaps another trip!   Thanks for the research, hope to see you at Silloth.   I continue to really enjoy the magazine.

[SArble]

With permission from the Grande Pest, otherwise known as the Plenipoteantiary Committee, aka The Canary, I hereby offer a post Buda golfers' delight option.

I booked FORMBY http://golfclubatlas.com/forum/index.php/topic,32146.0.html  and the Dormie House for the night of Saturday 8 September. The £175 rate includes:


Saturday game at 3:36pm
Sunday game at 9:30am
Bed & Breakfast Saturday night

Friday dormie house and Formby Ladies (one time, Sat 08:22AM; is an extra £80).  Four folks booked: Whitty, Tucky, Duncan (golf only) & Lynn S.  

The house takes 10 persons with the configuration of 4 twins & 2 singles.  The two singles may as well stay in their room for Friday & Saturday, same for a twin.  SEAN ARBLE AND PAUL WHELLER to share a twin.  If folks have ideas of who they want to share with, bring it on.  


FINAL NUMBERS as of 10-8-12

Duncan to play Friday, but not stay in dormy house (£50 paid)
Whitty + Friday (£50 paid)
Chris Schaida (£50 paid)
Jeff Warne (£50 paid)
Tucky + Friday (£50 paid)
The Yank (£50 paid)
Donal (to pay Ace)
Bryan I (to pay Sweet Lou)
P Wheller (to pay B Sheehy)
L Shackelford + Friday (to pay Craig Disher)

Craig D + Friday (£50 paid) - a casualty of life
Ace + Friday ($160 paid) - a casualty of life
Sweet Lou (£50 paid) - a casualty of life
Brian Sheehy - a casualty of life

GOLF ONLY (£130 per game - no deposit required)


Ciao  

[Ben Stephens]

Looks like Boony and I will be joining the BUDA bandwagon again and then we would be playing in the Architects tournament the following Sunday/Monday in Shropshire so Formby looks also appealing to me as well.

[Brian Sheehy]

OK - Can you put me down for the Thursday and Friday please Mark? Sean - please count me in for Formby.

[Lynn_Shackelford]

Put me down for Buda X.  Let us know about deposits.  Bill M. good point on Labor Day travel from the U.S.  It would be a nightmare and pricey to boot.

[Duncan Cheslett]

I'm in!

Put me down for all three days please.

Sean - I'm up for Formby too.

[Chris Shaida]

I would love to be added to the list wherever and whenever such a list gets created.  And should I in fact get on the list let me know to whom to send some money.

[John Mayhugh]

Count me in.

[Pete_Pittock]

As usual I won't be attending.. Played there about ten years ago and y'all are in for a treat. As far as accommodations are concerned there is the Golf Hotel in Silloth, about a five minute walk. It has been upgradedsince I stayed there. If you need to self-service laundry try the caravan park next to 15(?). The city of Carlisle is on the M-6 and about a half-hour away. Manchester has  a good gateway airport and is close to Formby.

[Scott Warren]

I'm a very good chance of being a starter for this.

[Michael Whitaker]

Mark - I'm in for all three days... and any pre- or post-Buda games that get organized.

Sean - count me in for Formby.

It really would be better for the Americans if you scheduled this a week earlier. Labor Day holiday (first Monday in Sept) is a massive travel week and costs are high.

[Mark Pearce]

All,

Labor day is, I must admit, something I hadn't counted on and it seems a slight change of dates would, if possible, really help.  A week earlier takes us into our August Bank holiday week and is going to add to cost at this end and make accomodation harder to arrange.   think there will be some flexibility at Silloth and will talk to the club on Monday.  It has been suggested that moving back by a day might work (so Thurs-Sat) or a week (so Wed to Fri the following week).  A further alternative, to fit with Sean's Formby trip would be to go Monday to Wednesday.  I don't want to muck the club about but would really welcome views on which works best.  All views welcome but particular weight will be given to those travelling from the US and those indicating they will attend.

Mark