Returning to Mill Ride after a couple of years on a good weather day although a little windy at times. The course has several long holes and although these had not changed, the dry weather helped the run of the balls – so it was still long but felt shorter too!
The society members must be learning – fines for ‘Loud’ clothing did not appear this time, however, fines still came in thick and fast from our masterly captain.
Some highlights - Bryan Carter almost holed his second shot on the Par 5 first but with a simple Putt guaranteed the Nearest the Pin in 3 accolade – shame couldn’t stay for dinner to collect the prize - but it made someone else happy to get one!
Dave (the Clone) Shorter, what can we say – his nick name ‘First Tee Shorter’ has been officially dropped as he outdrove his team with ease on the first tee and many others to follow. He puts it all down to his special purchase of a £23 ebay driver – and we heard all about it – a lot of times! 😊
Alan Sutcliffe and Dave Shorter visited the tree’s whilst playing the 7th only to find out playing the 8th that a certain tree – literally feet from them previously - was actually on fire. This same tree was then hit at high level by Luke Peters (well it hit some trees in the same area) whilst playing the 8th then proceeded to collapse as he walked towards it – was the wind speed of his balling passing it.
Dave Flavell did the ‘Barnes Wallace’ shot on the Par 3 11th
Well done to Bryan – 36 points winning total closely followed by Dave Shorter on 35 (shame about the shot with the Non Ebay £23 wood!)
We must welcome our visitor Ian Dowdeswell. – a 9 handicapper who obviously had a few nerves playing is such distinguished company, took time to settle down and failed to score on the first 3 holes – in fact failed to recover fully and ended up being the strongest player.
Well Done to Skill Prize winners – NP (8th) Dave Sturgeon, NP (15th) Ian T, NP2 (7th) Prev, NP3 (1st) Bryan C – in the hole!
Unfortunately Bryan had to leave early so we have no photo of Bryan receiving his winnings, but we do have a picture of Bryan's almost Albatross on the 1st.
Stand-in rover: Ian Turvill