What a day! Rain, rain, rain, cake, and more rain! Oh and some golf!
Perennial early arrives Alan and Frazer were again pipped by Steve who decided to get there at 7.30am, and then went on to polish off at least 5 bits of cake, god knows how many coffees, all to the bemusement of the bar staff! Unfortunately a couple of drop outs the day before due to covid and other illnesses, so we wish Dave F and Prevo speedy recoveries. You'd have thought by now that the Secretary would have learnt his lesson and not print out the order of play the day before the event, but no, after 2 revamps of the order and 2 more print outs, there was more changes as Pradeep failed to turn up in time for his tee-time so a quick movement of players and more changes! Pradeep was promptly fined for causing the Secretary to a) change the order again, and b) force him to play with Steve :-)
Speaking of Steve " The Cake" Walsh, it turned out to be an expensive day on the fines front :- fined for trying to tee off a metre in front of the markers, and then fined for arguing about it for the next 4 holes! Fined again for turning up on 2 tee's without a club, and last;y for dambustering the pond on the 10th which he then went on to par!
Elsewhere on the fines front:
- Rob for using his phone in the clubhouse
- Luke for putting off the green on the 13th
- Rick for stating that the light rain shower would not amount to anything, just as the heavens opened, and the monsoon started
- Dave S for aiming so far left to avoid out of bounds, that he almost reached Hampshire!
- Nigel (taking over from Luke) with a fine for the most garish outfit
- Luke for practicing at Wentworth the week before
- Mark T for being shit
- Tony for aiming but failing to hit the captain (would he have been fined if he'd hit him we wonder!)
- Tony, again, as Vice Captain had him in the draw and he failed to win
- Steve, again, for dressing in the car park
- Steve, again, for moaning that the changing room door was locked - he was pushing instead of pulling!
- James for turning up in his court suit!
- Frazer for aimlessly wandering across a par 3 fairway when the group was teeing off
- Ian T for leaving his card in the car
- Colin T for leaving his dobs card in the car
Congratulations to all the prize winners, with Chris T receiving the winners trophy from Captain Shorter.
And as today was the last OOM event for 2022, we had an extra presentation to the 2022 champion golfer, who was Ian T. Congratulations to Ian for a pretty solid performance throughout the year, even though he tried his best to cock it up in the last 2 events, and was close to letting his son Chris pip him at the final hurdle. Thanks to Steve The Cake for refurbishing the OOM trophy.
See you all soon!
Editor: Frazer Webb