It was very much a day for the beach and those of us who cycled out to MacAndrew Bay into the teeth of a gnarly Nor'Easterly wind can attest that indeed there were a fair few soaking up the rays on the beach at said bay.

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Back to the golf.  A very warm afternoon for golf in Dunedin today, however the North Easterly wind got up to make conditions very testy for most players. There were a few players however who mastered the art of golf in the wind, and played to their handicap.  It's no surprise that Scotsman ( and Kiwi ) Duncan Harvie mastered it all better than anyone because if anyone knows how to play golf in the wind it's a Scotsman.  Never a still day ........ Eric Olsen, Nick Nicolson, Phil Ellis and David Peart also did better than their handicap suggested they should.
 
With 28 players in the field the prize pool for the split sixes was a healthy $140 and for the first split the winning team of Olsen, Parsons, Keenan and Croudis won the loot with 33 points. The second six was won in 41 points by Harvie, Morgan, West and Cooper. The final split was won with a tidy score of 49 points by team Alexander, Nicolson, Ellis and Derek Todd.
 
The blue jacket was won in 40 points by Duncan Harvie, followed closely by President Eric Olsen with 39 points.
 
The Swingers Trophy was won by David Peart with two birdies and a count back to 36 stableford points.
 
The raffle was won by Mahmoud Nikou with number 33.
 
We did have an incident on hole three where Vaughn had to rescue Eric’s trundler from the greenside bunker. Apparently it had been left unattended while still in gear and was seen by Vaughn upside down in the sand with wheels still spinning.  I seem to recall a similar incident at Akarana Golf Club some years ago when Vaughn had to carry Eric’s clubs after his trundler disintegrated. This time it got away on him down a concrete path and crashed into a macrocarpa tree at the bottom of the hill.