2025 Spy Meetup General Discussion Thread

[GolfSpy SAM]

Is it still 2024?  Check.

Are we already planning the 2025 Outing?  Check.

Is there going to be a SECOND 2025 Outing?  Very possibly check.

 

How's that for a teaser?

 

Alright! So after an INCREDIBLY successful 2024 outing at Kingsmill (thanks to @GolfSpy AFG and @Golfspy_CG2 for organizing the HELL out of that event!), we're already looking to next year for another incredible outing.  

Here's what we know so far, and we'll add to this as we get closer to the actual date, but we wanted to start stirring up some excitement early on and gauging of some interest.  DON'T WORRY! We're not asking for deposits, or interest, or anything at this point - we're simply putting the information out there so that you can start to plan as early as you want/can.

MGS SPRING OUTING 2025:

Where?  Myrtle Beach, baby!   

When?  May of 2025 (exact dates still to be determined)

Why? To be honest, because of YOU, dear readers.  After MANY years of fielding requests/suggestions/demands (you know who you are) for us to host the event in "The Golf Capital of the World", you've finally worn us down. 

Details are still in the planning stages, but we have some INCREDIBLE courses to choose from, and we're busy at work finding the best deal for the most amount of people.  Feel free to chime in here with "must plays" that you're familiar with, though the Outing Committee will have final say on any/all courses lined up to play.

 

(No, that's not me...I WISH I had that kind of residual payment...)

MGS SPRING OUTING 2025:

We've been playing this fairly close to the chest/vest (whichever idiom you prefer is correct in this instance), but we're about 90% that we'll be hosting a SECOND outing, sometime in September/October of next year.  The details are still being worked out, but we know that May (or the Myrtle area in this case) isn't always ideal for everyone, and there are enough of you that have pondered the idea of a second outing (as well as those of us who want to do two meet-ups per year) that we're going to try to make this work.

 

So...what do you all think?  Excited?  Not so much?  Let us know below!  I'll for sure be at at least one of them - the goal is both, but ... the family may have a say in that, lol.  

 

Can't wait to tee it up with as many of you as possible!

Matt (and the rest of the Forum Staff)

[GolfSpy SAM]

@GolfSpy_APH

@GolfSpy AFG
 @GolfSpy BOS

@GolfSpy_BEN

@GolfSpy_BNG

@Golfspy_CG2

@GolfSpy_KFT

Tagging you all so you're in on the discussions

[GolfSpy_BOS]

In. Didn’t read, don’t care. I’m in. 

[TSauer]

I definitely gotta make at least one of these!

[CFreddie]

In?  

[Tom the Golf Nut]

I'm in as long as it doesn't interfere with my daughters graduation from college. 

[GolfSpy_BOS]

Just now, Tom the Golf Nut said:

I'm in as long as it doesn't interfere with my daughters graduation from college. 

Just tell her you’ll be there for her Grad School graduation.

[Josh Parker]

I am def making at least one this next year. 

[Tom the Golf Nut]

Just now, GolfSpy BOS said:

Just tell her you’ll be there for her Grad School graduation.

I already shot my career low round. Missing that would put me below ground.

[TJ Hall]

This is awesome, hopefully can make it work!

[GolfSpy_BOS]

4 minutes ago, Tom the Golf Nut said:

I already shot my career low round. Missing that would put me below ground.

6 under is a really low score!!!

[Tom the Golf Nut]

2 minutes ago, GolfSpy BOS said:

6 under is a really low score!!!

Not as good as my Saturday score. 

[Tom the Golf Nut]

I just checked Saturday May 17th is her college graduation. I'm in for any other weekend. 

[Tom the Golf Nut]

Yo Big Stu were coming to get ya.

[GolfSpy_BEN]

Not sure if I can swing Myrtle, but I’m locked in for the hypothetical “fall” outing that is still being workshopped. 

[BIG STU]

I had caught wind of it the other week in the CC before my internet conked out due to the storm

Of course I will be in if it is in Myrtle after all I live here. Actually 8 miles south of "Dirty Myrtle" in the Garden City/Murrells Inlet area

With that being said to all of the staff anything I can do to help let me know. I know quite a few folks in the golf business here. One of my friends runs one of the Vacation Golf Booking Services here and has all the hook ups. This would be great for me since I cannot travel long distances by car anymore and I will not get on an airplane

4 minutes ago, Tom the Golf Nut said:

Yo Big Stu were coming to get ya.

Come on!!!!!

[Siamese Moose]

After missing this year, I am champing at the bit to go!

[Tom the Golf Nut]

Is it ever to early to get excited. 

[cnosil]

I should be in;  wife has approved the expenditure and time away.

[William P]

I'm in! I've got a short game date with @BIG STU at Aero Club I need to fulfill as well!

[rkj427]

Should be able to make this one too.

@GolfSpy SAM I can comment on Aberdeen as I have played it many times over the years, mostly in the early spring and mid fall seasons, not May time period.

Fair course, generally in very good shape depending upon the weather there prior, as it is in a low-lying area and can get flooded and damaged.

You may also want to check out Long Bay also in Longs, and just down the road from Aberdeen, more of a premium course but reasonable rates.

[rkj427]

1 hour ago, GolfSpy BOS said:

In. Didn’t read, don’t care. I’m in. 

Need to bring @GolfSpy BOS-Dad along again too! 

[GolfSpy_BOS]

1 hour ago, cnosil said:

I should be in;  wife has approved the expenditure and time away.

The calves are in, hopefully @GolfSpy AFG can make it too.

[EasyPutter]

Put me in coach!   everything else is just the details...   and nobody tell @Yellow Ball 

[Jim Shaw]

2 hours ago, GolfSpy SAM said:

Is it still 2024?  Check.

Are we already planning the 2025 Outing?  Check.

Is there going to be a SECOND 2025 Outing?  Very possibly check.

 

How's that for a teaser?

 

Alright! So after an INCREDIBLY successful 2024 outing at Kingsmill (thanks to @GolfSpy AFG and @Golfspy_CG2 for organizing the HELL out of that event!), we're already looking to next year for another incredible outing.  

Here's what we know so far, and we'll add to this as we get closer to the actual date, but we wanted to start stirring up some excitement early on and gauging of some interest.  DON'T WORRY! We're not asking for deposits, or interest, or anything at this point - we're simply putting the information out there so that you can start to plan as early as you want/can.

MGS SPRING OUTING 2025:

Where?  Myrtle Beach, baby!   

When?  May of 2025 (exact dates still to be determined)

Why? To be honest, because of YOU, dear readers.  After MANY years of fielding requests/suggestions/demands (you know who you are) for us to host the event in "The Golf Capital of the World", you've finally worn us down. 

Details are still in the planning stages, but we have some INCREDIBLE courses to choose from, and we're busy at work finding the best deal for the most amount of people.  Feel free to chime in here with "must plays" that you're familiar with, though the Outing Committee will have final say on any/all courses lined up to play.

 

(No, that's not me...I WISH I had that kind of residual payment...)

MGS SPRING OUTING 2025:

We've been playing this fairly close to the chest/vest (whichever idiom you prefer is correct in this instance), but we're about 90% that we'll be hosting a SECOND outing, sometime in September/October of next year.  The details are still being worked out, but we know that May (or the Myrtle area in this case) isn't always ideal for everyone, and there are enough of you that have pondered the idea of a second outing (as well as those of us who want to do two meet-ups per year) that we're going to try to make this work.

 

So...what do you all think?  Excited?  Not so much?  Let us know below!  I'll for sure be at at least one of them - the goal is both, but ... the family may have a say in that, lol.  

 

Can't wait to tee it up with as many of you as possible!

Matt (and the rest of the Forum Staff)

i have been invited to go to scotland in May, so that is out and the National Men's senior amateur is in Nova Scotia (which I love by the way) in September so sorry, I am out for 2025... I know it will be great...

[Yellow Ball]

13 minutes ago, EasyPutter said:

Put me in coach!   everything else is just the details...   and nobody tell @Yellow Ball 

Like I can’t read. Haters just gonna hate. 

[bens197]

I turn 44 in May. 
 

Going to be following this thread

[Rob Person]

Can't make may, but possibly a September meet depending on location .

 

[Cfhandyman]

I think a road trip to the Carolinas is in order. Only a short 14 hour drive. I’ll have to bribe my wife with a side trip to Charleston. 

Edited August 20 by Cfhandyman

[Lefty11]

Consider hosting a tournament here next year—your American dollar will stretch 40% further! Just a thought.