The Christmas spirit has obviously had an effect. We could only fill three groups and then only with the help of a couple of guests and despite the picture they didn’t include Santa. Looks like the old fella’s putting style could do with a brush up and I’m not sure what the green-keeper will think about him tromping all over the edge of the cup. And he doesn’t appear to be wearing sprigs.
There wasn’t a lot of interest in an informal comp from those that did play so how people actually went is a bit hard to guage. Plus about four seem to have managed to get lost on the course or nicked off without calling into the Clubhouse. Dennis was insisting that as it wasn’t a formal event it should be ‘no names no pack-drill’ but he was complaining that he was going to lose handicap having returned +2 in the inside comp and it probably wouldn’t be enough to win anything.
Mike the Mann had a really bad case of the ‘shanks’ and managed to give just about every tree on the course some sort of attention. He did manage to avoid the trees on the 12th, much to his relief.
Bill was trying to persuade his guest, Angelo, that it was a Club rule that guests were required to shout the field. It also seems that Angelo was so consistently down the middle that Bill didn’t need to point out bunkers and hazards (after the event).
Nobody is sure how it happened, but Harry’s tee shot on the 18th hit the ground so hard that the club shaft struck him just below the knee and caused a nice little bruise and drew blood.
On the basis of the small numbers attending, the number of tee times booked for next week has been reduced to four. If people can give an indication if they intend to turn up we might be able to squeeze in more.
The first official event for the new year will be the January Monthly Medal on 5th January.