Nearly everyone turned up to a slightly damp Drift, for an afternoon of fun in the Sun! Well it was sunny some of the time, in between the odd tropical storm! Nice weather we're having for this time of year.
A slightly shocked look appeared on everyone's faces when each group found out that Ian had kindly arranged with his home club for us to be able to play off the white tees. Apparently it only makes a difference on a couple of holes! :-) Some suggested he was attempting to protect his Order Of Merit lead, especially when it was announced that the final OOM event was at his old home course. Ian went on to prove this was all nonsense when he posted one of his worst rounds of the season so far. Not surprisingly he was fined - for which bit we're still not sure!
Everyone was on form - I don't mean the golf! Various notable on-course events resulted in one of the biggest haul of fines this year. Some notable excerpts were:
- Steve was fined for his outfit - it was an improvement on his previous one, as it was a new shirt to replace the one his wife had burnt (as it was so bad!)
- Ian (eventful day for him) was fined for not even passing the ladies tee on the 5th
- Paul H for hitting almost every tree on the course, but always ending up back in the middle of the fairway
- Captain Dave for playing the wrong ball on the 1st hole
- John F for playing a running putt on the 16th so he was out in the monsoon rain for as little as possible. Oh by the way, he missed it!
- Luke for leaving his scorecard in the car .... again
- Paul B for wearing pink shorts with some dodgy white stains on them
- Ian D, Paul S both for some fruity language
- Paul B for driving what looked like Postman Pat's van
- Tony P got fined cos he's such a nice bloke!
- Michael got fined for playing some good golf
- Ray and Ian D for on the course phone use
- The whole of the 1st group got fined cos they were the only ones that stayed completely dry
- Ray, Rob, Alan, Steve for wearing shorts at dinner
- Frazer, Luke, Michael, Dave S, Phil, Rick, Paul H, James for playing in the summer in long trousers
- Frazer for knocking the Fines Meister off the Nearest The Pin in 2 winning list
- Rob for saying look at that Kingfisher ...... it was a wood pecker!
- Michael for locking his key in his car
- Paul H for being dressed/looking like a bank manager
- Frazer and Phil for poor putting - Phil for putting off the green, Frazer for 3 putting from 6 foot
Mr Wentworth (aka Tony) voluntarily took a handicap reduction because his club handicap was a lot lower than his society handicap. After his best ever round of 6 over a few weeks ago, Tony was obviously confident he didn't need the shots! Well 2nd place with 36 points he obviously didn't, but as you'll see in the results, nobody could hold a peso to the beardless mexican bandit!
Congratulations to all the prize winners, with Vice-Captain Fine Meister Paul Beard receiving the winners trophy from Captain Shorter.
Next time out is the Order Of Merit final, and after this performance today there isn't much change at the top, so all to play for between Ian and Phil, with a mathematical chance of a last gasp dash by Chris! Knowing our weather at the moment, we'll be playing that in Snow!
See you all soon!
Editor: Frazer Webb