Fréttir 2005

29. apríl 2005:
Ice Cup: GGT will be putting their nose in the curling business

Imagine a golf club that gets its name from Icelands biggest bull. Then imagine members of this golf club leaving theyr golf clubs behind, driving from Reykjavik to Akureyri, picking up brooms instead of their golfclubs. Well you now have a picture of one of the team playing in Ice Cup in your mind. GGT is a team of enthusiastic sportsmen, mainly taking interest in golf but now getting more and more hooked on curling. Some of them are working hard on forming a curling club in Reykjavik and plan to curl there in the season 2005-2006. The full name of the golf club is Golfklúbbur Guttorms tudda – which could be translated as Golf Club of Guttormur the Bull.

Guttormur is actually Icelands biggest bull, weighing 942 kilos in April 2001. He lives at Reykjavik Park and Zoo – see him and his wifes at http://husdyragardur.is/husdyr/nautgripir - and something about him in Icelandic at “his” golfclub’s website here: http://ggtgolf.com/tuddinn.htm

And now to the team: GGT’s president for life, Þorgeir Einarsson (Thorgeir), is the primus motor of curling in GGT. He got curling-sick after listening to his friend, Haraldur “the webmaster” Ingólfsson constantly talking about curling. With him in the team is Ágúst Guðmundsson, a peculiar minded natural comedian, Guðmundur Ingi Sveinsson, an enthusiastic try everything sportsman and taxi driver, and two brothers who actually grew up in Akureyri, electrician Páll Stefánsson, good in all sports, and former national soccer goalkeeper of Iceland, Árni Stefánsson.

Þorgeir and Guðmundur recently won the Reykjavik Open – a curling spiel held in Akureyri (!). Þorgeir, Ágúst and Páll were all in GGT’s team playing in the first Ice Cup in 2004, not finishing in last place! Árni is said to have curled in Sweden a long time ago when he was a student.

So if you ask which team there is no chance you can calculate in advance – the answer is surely: GGT – Golfklúbbur Gutttorms tudda.

And since we don't have a photo featuring the whole team - we took the second option and "borrowed" a photo of the four legged Guttormur at www.husdyragardur.is.