* Official Spring Game Golf Outing Thread *

TG1996 · Post by **TG1996** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 11:44 pm

Bleeding Orange wrote:Well, if you decide to take up the game again in the next year you'll fit right in with the rest of us.

Speak for yourself, shanky.

Jacobs4Heisman · Post by **Jacobs4Heisman** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 11:24 am

I had a great time as well, weather aside. I'd have finished the round, but all the pansies that wore shorts were afraid they're catch a wittle cold.

I would have to say the highlight was my incredibly nutritious raincheck, and the fact that Metz now owes me two muffins. It certainly wasn't my golf game.

hammb · Post by **hammb** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 11:32 am

Jacobs4Heisman wrote:I had a great time as well, weather aside. I'd have finished the round, but all the pansies that wore shorts were afraid they're catch a wittle cold.

I would have to say the highlight was my incredibly nutritious raincheck, and the fact that Metz now owes me two muffins. It certainly wasn't my golf game.

That was quite the raincheck!

Justin's game actually got better after it got colder and rainer, not sure what that means...

Jacobs4Heisman · Post by **Jacobs4Heisman** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 11:58 am

hammb wrote:
Jacobs4Heisman wrote:I had a great time as well, weather aside. I'd have finished the round, but all the pansies that wore shorts were afraid they're catch a wittle cold.

I would have to say the highlight was my incredibly nutritious raincheck, and the fact that Metz now owes me two muffins. It certainly wasn't my golf game.
That was quite the raincheck!

Justin's game actually got better after it got colder and rainer, not sure what that means...

Me neither, but it can't be good.

Bleeding Orange · Post by **Bleeding Orange** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 1:18 pm

Jacobs4Heisman wrote:
hammb wrote:
Jacobs4Heisman wrote:I had a great time as well, weather aside. I'd have finished the round, but all the pansies that wore shorts were afraid they're catch a wittle cold.

I would have to say the highlight was my incredibly nutritious raincheck, and the fact that Metz now owes me two muffins. It certainly wasn't my golf game.
That was quite the raincheck!

Justin's game actually got better after it got colder and rainer, not sure what that means...
Me neither, but it can't be good.

It just means you're completely screwed once summer hits.

Warthog · Post by **Warthog** » Mon May 05, 2008 10:49 pm

Heard on 1470 tonight that they are doing "free golf" giveaways this week. As part of that, on Thursday at 3 pm, you can go to their website and get a half-priced gift certificate for Riverby. Not sure how that will work, but I thought if anyone still has their raincheck, you could couple with the gift certificate and play some cheap golf.

TG1996 · Post by **TG1996** » Mon May 05, 2008 11:11 pm

Warthog wrote:Heard on 1470 tonight that they are doing "free golf" giveaways this week. As part of that, on Thursday at 3 pm, you can go to their website and get a half-priced gift certificate for Riverby. Not sure how that will work, but I thought if anyone still has their raincheck, you could couple with the gift certificate and play some cheap golf.

A station in Indy does that with golf, restaurants, spas, etc.... you basically buy a round of golf for half price, and get a gift certificate in the mail for the round of golf. So I don't think the raincheck would help you out there, necessarily, unless you can use it again in the proshop.

Muffins anyone?

Jacobs4Heisman · Post by **Jacobs4Heisman** » Tue May 06, 2008 9:50 am

TG1996 wrote:
Warthog wrote:Heard on 1470 tonight that they are doing "free golf" giveaways this week. As part of that, on Thursday at 3 pm, you can go to their website and get a half-priced gift certificate for Riverby. Not sure how that will work, but I thought if anyone still has their raincheck, you could couple with the gift certificate and play some cheap golf.
A station in Indy does that with golf, restaurants, spas, etc.... you basically buy a round of golf for half price, and get a gift certificate in the mail for the round of golf. So I don't think the raincheck would help you out there, necessarily, unless you can use it again in the proshop.

Muffins anyone?

mmmmmmm...... mufffffinssss......

Warthog · Post by **Warthog** » Tue May 06, 2008 10:29 am

You're probably right TG. (Man that was hard to say). But I didn't know how the certificate and its cost would work out. Are they giving half price on a weekday green fee and you still pay for the cart? Or is it 18 hole weekend with cart cert? Or something in between? Might be some potential to tie it together with the rain check still.

hammb · Post by **hammb** » Tue May 06, 2008 10:33 am

Warthog wrote:You're probably right TG. (Man that was hard to say). But I didn't know how the certificate and its cost would work out. Are they giving half price on a weekday green fee and you still pay for the cart? Or is it 18 hole weekend with cart cert? Or something in between? Might be some potential to tie it together with the rain check still.

From what I've heard on the 1470 radio commercials, it sounds as though you log in through their website and make a tee time. That tee time is then for half price.

I have not tried it, so I don't know if you're restricted to certain dates/times, and I don't know if you need a credit card or whatever up front.

Either way the rainchecks are basically vouchers for $6 at Riverby. You can spend that towards golf/cart/food/beer however you want. At least that's my understanding, I haven't been back since the day of the spring game.

TG1996 · Post by **TG1996** » Tue May 06, 2008 10:42 am

The way it works in Indy, usually, they have a set number of certs to give away and you can get up to 2 or 4 of them. It's just a normal greens fee and cart for half the normal price. (Not sure if they base it on days or weekends, it might be half the weekend rate.)

For example

Warthog · Post by **Warthog** » Tue May 06, 2008 11:37 am

Oh, so you would have to know when you want to play to make use of the "half price golf gift certificate". That is hard for me to do.

But if you can just get $50 worth for $25, I might do that. Weekend plus a cart is $41. So it would still save money in that it would only cost me an additional $25. Plus I'd have my $6 rain check and the leftover $9 for beer!

TG1996 · Post by **TG1996** » Tue May 06, 2008 12:30 pm

Warthog wrote:Oh, so you would have to know when you want to play to make use of the "half price golf gift certificate". That is hard for me to do.

But if you can just get $50 worth for $25, I might do that. Weekend plus a cart is $41. So it would still save money in that it would only cost me an additional $25. Plus I'd have my $6 rain check and the leftover $9 for beer!

I don't think you have to know when you want to play at all. The times I've used them, I just turn them over like a free pass.

If they base their price on weekends with a cart, you'd pay $20.50ish for the round (I think they add S/H, too, which seemed more like overhead than shipping...kinda bullshit, but still makes for a good deal, esp. if you find a deal on a pricier course.)

EDIT TO ADD: Just saw hammb's post. That sounds different from how they do it here at the station in Indy. I like our way better.

Sounds like Toledo is working it more like "tee time auctions", which some courses do here, where you "bid" on tee times and can get them cheaper, but you have to play at the time you bid for.

* Official Spring Game Golf Outing Thread *

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