This is it! I think! Click on the above link for the first ever FMI audio! a mini podcast if you will! It is from the FMI/Tweet up! Take a listen! Let me know what you think!
OK, this is new! We will be playing this week at Queenstown – probably teeing off at 8:00 so try to show up around 7:30 – however it would be indredibly helpful if you can let me know if you are going to make it and how many you have coming. Thank you! I hope to see some of you there for what will be one of our last outings this year – but stay tuned for details of our 18 hole BINGO BANGO BONGO Bash! No date yet set…
Filed under: Golf stuff
Yesterday I had the opportunity to watch the very end of the Maryland State High School Golf Championships at Potomac Ridge. The place looked amazing, especially with the very full parking lot. But more importantly it reminded me of a music festival, there were people all over the property just hanging out and enjoying a spectacular day. It was fun just driving in and seeing some of the tee shots – the ones I never make!
Mike Harvey and all of the staff at Potomac Ridge do a fantastic job everyday, and it showed perfectly yesterday. I spoke with several coaches as well as a couple of the contestants and everyone was very pleased. These events are the future of golf – these are not only the golfers of tomorrow, but also of today.
To prove my point is the 2nd place winner in the girls’ category, Mckenzie Cutter. Mckenzie is a Junior Member at Potomac Ridge. And she has a fifth, a fourth, and now a second place. Next year – Mike is predicting a first! She is the one all the way to the right in this picture. I spoke to Mckenzie and some of the other girls and they were all very nice and very professional. It is inspiring (ok, also scary) to watch them golf!
Thanks to Mike and John and all the staff for a great event and for being strong advocates of youth golf. This was a special event for us and for all of the families and especially the competitors.
Filed under: Charity, Friday Morning Irregulars, Golf stuff, The Brick Companies Classic Golf Tournament!
Greetings Faithful Irregulars!
We will be meeting at Potomac Ridge this week – so bring $15 and show up at 7:15! and next week on Tuesday is the Classic! Yow! I will be selling raffle tickets for the 52″ TV!! let me know if you NEED some tickets! Yeah!
…. AND we have GERRY Swarbrick and PHIL Gardner playing music at the Classic this year -
- you know, plus Godzilla, raw bar, specialty vodka drinks, breakfast, lunch, dinner, the inflatable Chicken (from Chikfila) – of course the floating golf green – the air target, cigars, the Greene Turtle, and assorted circus animals.
Congratulations for Heather (for the Summit School) and Reggie Broddie (for the Boys & GIrls Clubs of Annapolis and Anne Arundel County) for hosting great tournaments at South River.
Hope to see you at Potomac Ridge! Here is our classic 18th hole video tip, if you have missed it!
Filed under: Charity, Friday Morning Irregulars, Golf stuff, The Brick Companies Classic Golf Tournament!, Wine Nine and Whiskey!!
Greetings Faithful Irregulars!
Lots going on – but no golf this Friday! Why you ask? Cause I will have the Airtarget and Godzilla at the Maryland Seafood Festival! So come on over and have some crab soup and visit my booth – and Isabel and I (more commonly known as “Girl on Mars!” will be performing on the acoustic stage at about 1:30 on Saturday for… oh,.. maybe 10 of 15 minutes! really!
VOLUNTEERS: I will be manning this booth mostly myself, and will probably just close it when Isabel and I have our set, but if any of you would like FREE tickets to the festival with VIP PARKING … let me know! I have the tickets and could sure use a spare hand! Many thanks to all the people, like Janie, who always try to help out. Shelly Ford has already volunteered – but it is a long three days! Thanks for thinking of it!
CHECK THIS OUT!!!! here is a link to a radio show that Brendan and I did to promote the festival! WITH a banjo joke! (that is for you Chris Muhly!) http://atlanticgolf.wordpress.com - just click on the carrot to the right of the speaker button underneath the heading: Charlie Birney: on-air & on a banjo. Give it a listen! I think it is pretty good!
SO—– This Thursday is the Wine, Nine, Vodka and Whiskey at South River! Gerry Swarbrick will be playing and it will be a blast. We will be on the deck NOT in the pavilion, but we will have a tent and it will be perfect. Thank you Gerry!
and the Classic! We have about 130 golfers signed up already! the date is October 6th and if you are interested in participating – let me know! I am hoping to finish filling it up over the next two weeks.
Here are some pictures from the TWEET up! that was fantastic! THANKS to everyone for coming out!
Melissa, Garret, EJ and Dan Franko!
I LOVE the socks! YEAH!
Doug, Phil, Donna and Gerry!
Greetings to all Friday Morning Irregulars!
This week we are on for Potomac Ridge at 7 am this friday (the 17th). I hope we have half as good as last week – which was a record setting 26!!! Thanks to everyone (and maybe the fact that I didn’t offer change…) we are now well over $1,000 raised with FMI outings this year. Microfundraising!
I hope some of you can make it to the pool party mentioned in the post below! Live Music! (including Irregulars Gerry and Phil .. and me!) Sno cones! The air target! Swimming pool! Free hot dogs! Godzilla, even! and EVERYONE is welcome! let me know if you have any questions!
Hope to see you at Potomac Ridge!
Charlie
TODAY’S DUNK with GODZILLA RESCHEDULED TO NEXT THURSDAY – JUNE 25th!!!
FMI on for 6/18 @ SR – 7 am rain or shine! (I am gonna bring the Wii this time…)
OK Folks, I know that I love to say that we never reschedule due to the weather, but, we are gonna reschedule due to the weather – so PLEASE mark your calendars and tell your friends to be at the Turtle in Edgewater from 4 to 6 pm on Thursday the 25th of June. It will be a blast with Godzilla, the Airtarget, and the dunk tank. (Yes, Doug, I will be getting in the tank, but I have a secret weapon and a week to work on my aim…)
FMI will go as usual tomorrow morning, rain or shine. I will bring the Wii and Tiger Woods golf in case we are rained out. We will repeat our earlier “closest to the pin” competition – which was a lot of fun!!
OK, this is it! Wine, Nine and Whiskey is this Friday! Blue Thrill is playing! I really hope that some of you Irregulars, especially the sleeeepy ones can make it out to Potomac Ridge – for once this is at a reasonable hour…
and I am working on a NEW mystery activity that we will try out during the drinking and socializing part of the evening. OK, calm down, it is golf related….
I hope that you all will come and join the party – it will be a fantastic time! Let me know if you have any questions – and tell everyone you know, especially in that area, to come to the party too! That means you, Patch!
Charlie
Filed under: Golf stuff
OK, I think I have relearned how to put a video on the blog. You all really need to see this. I will try to make the story brief, but it is a cool one. A friend called up to introduce me to a friend that had invented a new golf product. The inventor, Howard, was asking my opinion on the PGA show, and I encouraged him to also attend the Golf Industry Show (which is the big one for my association, the NGCOA). At the show, the Towcaddy was of course in the new product section. Well the TV guys got interested and Towcaddy got lucky and ended up on the clip below on Saturday of the matchplay! If only Tiger had made it the viewers would have even been more! BUT he got great marketing that day and now the Towcaddy is here! I have one in my office, and Howard is working (with a bunch of groups) to create some scholarship programs around the Towcaddy! I think it is really a cool device and… it is actually made in America! I hope you like it!
DON’T forget April 10th at Queenstown at 7:15 am sharp for you Irregulars! Keep sending new names!
OK, so what is the stuff on the left, anyway? Well, Atlantic Golf has a great blog now (see Darth Vader golf!) and yes, I have signed up for “Twitter”. My only intentions with it are the same as for this blog. Thanks again to Garret Ohm, who set it up for me, but my updates and tweets and whatever are going to be about our charity work, golf, the environment… and fun! That seems to really work -thanks G, that was all you.
SO, if you follow people on Twitter, please sign up! I will tweet about the Irregular dates, about the Classic and about other community events. I will not be tweeting about the twins (Dion and Isabel are 9! How is this possible…) and how amazing they are – as much as I would like to! and thanks!
The CALENDAR on the left is new and will really hold a lot of information. You can see all of our upcoming events there, and I think if you click on it, you will get additional stuff. Let me know! This is all new! BUT for you Irregulars reading this… THAT IS WHERE TO FIND OUT WHERE WE ARE GOLFING! The calendar! Amazing!
and check out the Atlantic Golf Blog too! Much better than this! You can even tweet your tee times now! Really! You can find out more about that in the post on the AG blog.
If you are an Irregular reading this, let me know what you think! Hope to see you in April!
NOTE!: faithful Irregular Patty Lewis is helping the American Business Women’s Association and their first annual golf tournament held on May 14th! Please contact me for more information about the event and what the ABWA does. Patty, I have the PDF files for the event, but haven’t figured out how to post one of those yet! I will be happy to email them to anyone who is interested!!
Dr. Frankengolf! It's Alive!
These are from the Hospice of the Chesapeake golf tournament this past week! I think I am getting really close with this thing! We really need to do a whole morning’s competition with this thing! A floating extravaganza!
