Yuletide Texas Scramble - 14th December 2011

Quite a day with 68 very animated entries, a Captain struggling to maintain order and Xmas presents everywhere.

 

Shotgun start at 8.45am off the Gainsborough and sure enough the Bandits went on the high jack trail straight away.

 

There were no complaints about the condition of the course given that we played on 18 real greens which was a credit to the Greenstaff given the downpour the day before. 

 

Birdies everywhere and sure enough a hole in one to which I shall refer to later. As usual it was a very competitve event and completed in good time given it was a Scramble.

 

There was was an air of inevitability in the Coffee Shop when Steve Wright arrived looking like Banquo's ghost moaning that he still did not feel right (Pardon the Pun). Yes, he and his "Robbin" Robin (Owen) and the two other merry men, Jerry Latham and Mal Jones really did do the robbing, only that the poor saw nothing! To be serious, a score of  61.4 net on a cold and windy morning was  not to be sniffed at. 

 

 

 

 

Third place was Roger Fleuty, Graham Randle, Doug Chapman and Ted Woods.

 

 

 

The hole in one came on the 11th when Ian Kent creamed a recovery wood with a touch of draw. The writer saw it and remarked "that sought of shot you see on Sky TV". As we reached the green only three balls were visible and thats when Ian became agitated. "Where's my ball then, its got to be here that was a good shot of mine". We said perhaps tongue in cheek, "have a look in the hole then." The rest is history.

 

 

The party after was very noisy and the Captain was positively "purring". Some very amusing presents changed hands, Viagra,  a medical book with particular advice on swollen testicles and a truss. Ian's club card took a bit of a bashing as did the mince pies.

 

 

 A real Vets Day Out.