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Hi all,

We have just set up groups for all the different regions. This will make it easier to find playing partners in your region, and to arrange games. It will also make it easier to have tournaments within your own groups and then ultimately an inter region tournament to find the greatest group on golfshake!!

Check out your local one...

The East, The Midlands, The North, The South, The South East, The South West, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales, International

There is also a seperate group for all of you ladies on golfshake

So get involved and make your regions group, the best on golfshake!!!

That's assuming they answer your pm's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Have had no response before, hopefully this might make it better Luke

As a general note, until you click "Return to golfshake" in the top right hand corner of the society page, you are still logged into that scoiety. So make sure you "return to golfshake" before trying to view any other scoiety pages!!!

Luke, not sure about having a separate "Ladies" section????????

Some ladies like to play with all players I assume they would still be able to do that???

How about having a North West section??

Blimey Mate don't start doing things too quick we're not used to it with Darren!!!!!

OK.

So Luke/Wayne it looks like nobody really wants the "Women Only" Group - I'm the only member on it (Other than Luke who is the Moderator).

That may well say it all!!

Sandra 

I've passed that idea around for over a year Paul.

The idea being that each regions participant pays extra to cover the cost of the "Finalist's" having the final for free, with sponsorship for prizes and reduced green fee's from the many sponsors the site has.

Depending on how many regions/areas we have depends on how many could qualify, top 3 or 4 for example. 

Could even have three sections like 0-9, 10-18 & 19+ qualifiers

Final could be held in the midlands area as a central point possibly Belfry/Forest of Arden.

There are enough volunteer members around the country to help organise & run this on a yearly basis, with the final being run by Golfshake.

You'd even get supporters of the regions qualifiers going to support their players.

(Right that's it i've hit 2000)

with regards to paying for the final, if i were lucky enough to qualify for it, i'd be more than happy to pay for my green fee for the day,( after all, it would still be like the format of the other golfshake events!)

i like the sections idea! gives everybody a chance!

with the right planning this could be set up to start from april 2009, with the final to be played either june/july. as you said wayne, to be a yearly event! i have sent a pm to luke tricker to get his thoughts on the matter. do you think that if we harp on about it enough golfshake will make our dreams a reality? this definatley could be the ultimate golf event or us amatuers to aspire too! we need more people to respond to this thread.

Hi Paul.  This has been discussed many times, on the forums, at other events, over the phone and within the golfshake offices. Thanks for bringing it up again and do keep the momentum going and get others interested

The only reason we haven't done anything to date is agreeing the format.  

I too will now give this further thought, watch this forum and think about how we can getting this going for April 2009. Although April is usually the date for the North vs South annual event, so it may be May - Sep or something.

Wayne is also right and one of the keys to success is get the members involved. This hopefully helps to increase the area that the events take place.

Kind regards, Darren.

other than the international region, there are nine regions! if we could get one person from each region to act as the chairperson for that region, then sound out everyone in there own region. then with the help of golfshake each region organize there own qualifiers within a two month date between april/may 2009.  each qualifing round having the three handicap sections (ideally there would need to be around 30 players in each qualifing round) with the top two/three from each section then going forward to the final.

thats when we would need golfshake's help and formally make it there event. if anyone has any other idea's please feel free to add to this!

sorry for any spelling errors, i've just finished a night shift and haven't slept for 26 hours! going to bed shortly, but this thread has me buzzing!

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hi Allan, once all the volunteers have committed, say about 6 weeks from now. the region's in some cases have more than one volunteer. once thats established these groups will be broken in half etc, take your group North East both yuorself and Paul Cook have volunteered, so between you the group will be divided. i say between you because you both know more about your region than me or wayne. if it can't be decided we'll just split it in half etc.

I'm still hopeful for more volunteers!!!!!!!!!!!!!

regards Paul.