Still looking for sponsors....

3 weeks since our last post so what have we been up to? 

We want to see if we can get some major sponsors on board to help out with the things we don't have, like 2 dozen of the same golf shirts that need to be embroidered or 6 pairs of golf shoes that we'll need to keep our feet dry and comfortable. So we've been sending out inquiries to see if any companies want to get on board with what we are doing and supporting us with these things. Obviously our fall back is to purchase all of this ourselves but we'd love to get the backing of a company that sees our challenge as great PR and something that they really want to get involved with. Anyway, so far we've had a couple of replies and neither positive, as expected most companies get inundated with requests and have already pledged allegiance to a certain charity and committed their donations. We continue to live in hope and plug away to find someone who's interested. If you're reading this and you work for one of those companies and you're interested, please get in touch

On the courses front unfortunately Ballyclare have a junior competition on the day we're in Northern Ireland so Rachel at Tourism Ireland is making some inquiries at other venues. We have 3 courses confirmed and have written to them to start making arrangements for the days and look forward to working with them in the coming months to really get a buzz around what we are doing and hopefully get some cold hard cash against our donation target.

We continue working on our training schedules and practice sessions to get ourselves physically and mentally ready for the challenge. We've had one day playing 42 holes non stop, which wasn't too bad but was less than half a day of our challenge so we've got another longer day planned in for Easter Monday where we hope to complete 4 rounds. Beadlow Manor Golf club have allowed us to use their 2 courses to practice via a short term membership so big thanks to them.

We've also started to make inquiries into the nutrition side of things so that we understand the demands our bodies will have during the challenge and can put together a detailed meal plan for the week. We've found @GC_Nutrition on twitter and we're discussing the possibility of them doing something for us.

A final mention goes to our latest supporter, @skycaddieSteve from @skycaddie. He has been in touch and offered to loan us some devices for our challenge. We are really grateful to him for this support, with the quality of sky caddie devices it will really help with courses we don't know and the speed of play. If you've not done before check out their products they really are good. We look forward to meeting Steve in early June to collect the devices and get a demonstration.

So all in all things are ticking along. We've got some plans to put in place regarding collecting sponsorship, particularly around the Manchester Golf Show and our sponsor a hole and "guess our scores" competition. If you're at the show or going to it please look out for us and come and have a chat.