Some Extra Curricular Stuff First
Here's a picture of a man doing it tough. Although we might ask - where's the beer ? It's Fairway Phil somewhere on a boat somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea. Thanks for sharing Phil and trust you're having a great holiday.
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Then we have this picture from Government House in Wellington.
So here we have Lord Mackaiser of Riversdale in his very comfortable environment of rubbing shoulders in the nation's capital with women called Cindy. He looks so at home doesn't he. But this picture does raise a few questions. You can see the importance of the occasion. There's some bloke in the background wearing a crown. There are gongs and medals everywhere. Yet it looks like our Jamie couldn't even be bothered to get his hair cut. Is this to reinforce his image of his tough Southern Man persona ? The farmer's farmer from Southland, sent to Wellington to upset the local woke population ?
Who knows but once again congratulations Jamie.
Beautiful Spring Day For Golf
The grass is growing, the trees are in blossom, the lambs are frolicking in the fields, it's the wonderful time of the year as the temperatures start to warm up and the whole of the summer is ahead. And so it didn't disappoint this week with mild temperatures, breezes here and there, and a course in good condition. An ideal recipe for low scores and high points.
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Good turnout as well. Deano is back in town, Cuts was in the hood, and we had 29 golfers in the field. First of all we had to sort out the whisky stuff. Now we have a number of shared birthdays. I share with Geoff Laney, Duncan with Fairway Phil, Eddie and John Marsh, and Deano and Eric. There could be others. It's a crowded annual calendar to get in all the whisky we need to drink but a unanimous resolution was passed that said even if you share a birthday, you don't share a birthday shout and you must stand your own corner. Glad that's all sorted out.
Here we have our favourite bar man Sudjan all very nicely dressed. He'll never win a Blue Jacket but I guess it's been on his list of things to do. Looks good on him don't you think.
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If that picture confused you a bit it was that kind of day. David Peart and Deano have trundlers and bags which look similar. David Peart being a good soldier took a blue bucket of sand on the first tee and put on what he thought was his trundler. But going up the fourth fairway he said to me, "David, I took a little blue bucket to help out with the fairway condition but I appear to have lost it". "That's funny" said Deano, "I've got one on my bag and I have no idea where it came from."
In the sixes just about every team ( except us ) got some money and so everyone ( except us ) got their money back. For the record 30 points, 41 points and 48 points were the winning scores. Our team had very little chance of winning any chocolates given one of our team finished dead last, another was second last and another was third last. It wasn't a high quality haggle though we did have 4 birdies in the mix.
Nick was off to the rugby to watch Otago play the Wellington Lions. Before he departed he thought a feed might be a good idea and ordered a burger. It looked good as well and I wasn't the only one feeling peckish as Nick proceeded to make short work of the 4 inch thick meat, vegetable and bread construction.
And The Winners Are ....
On the back of 40 points, Bruce managed to get a shoulder in the Blue Jacket, his first for the year. He advised the jacket needs Bob Charles action gussets to make it fit better. Special mention should go to Derek Todd who knocked it round in 73 and was 1 under the card at the turn. Good golf that man.
Cuts won the Balclutha ticket on the back of 3 birdies. He was a double winner for the day as his number 12 was drawn in the raffle.
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We sang Happy Birthday to Geoff for his 66th recorded on Thursday last week and there was other whisky from the usual culprit being a misdemeanour on McGlashans.
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And that was the Wednesday that was.