Welcome to the
Winnipeg GeoGolf Tournament!
Geocaching and Golfing have a lot in
common, especially the way I golf. Think about it.
- You spend
a lot of time skulking around bushes and trees looking for (a
geocache or a golf ball)
- Both
sports gets you out of the house and wandering/driving around the
outdoors
- You can
(cache or play a round) alone, with strangers you met (caching or
on the course) or with friends
- You can
regale others with tales of your (caching or golfing)
adventures
- Quite
often while (caching or golfing) you find golf
balls
But with
Geocaching:
- There are
NO green fees (unless you WANT to give me money)
- You only
“play” the same cache twice to watch/torment someone else during
their struggle to find what you have already found
- You can
play during the winter
- A
high-end GPSr is still cheaper than
high-end golf clubs
- And the
participation of the GLOBAL GEOCACHING COMMUNITY makes this fun
WORLD WIDE!
So, I invite you to play 9 (maybe 18 soon) GeoGolf Caches with me! Caches will range in
difficulty and type. I invite you to keep score. Prizes may be
awarded (hey, I just gave you 9 - maybe 18? caches, I am not made
of money!) to the best score.
How do you score?
Well, like golf, this is an “on your honour” system. Each cache location has a numbered
or coloured die. Roll the die and log
the colour or number. At a later date
we will randomly select numbers to correlate to the color at the
hole and viola, you have a score. Before the 19th Hole
Event (in September or October) all GeoGolf caches must be completed in order to
determine the tournament winner. All caches will remain active for
all future finders, just not part of the tournament. That should
give you ample time to tour the city and pickup the caches. Of
course you can do them all within one day if you like! But no bonus
points! Any GeoGolf caches not
completed by tournament end date will result in
an automatic 10 points added to your score. So you are
better off finding the cache!
Congratulations to
GG+J on the FTF
!