Wonderful day out on the golf course yesterday and 25 made up the field.  It sounds like some decent haggles were played.  Ours went down to the last putt on the last green which is always good fun.  Others were similarly tight whilst there was news of a game which finished 8 and 7.  Ouch !!

In the first set of six our group were going well.  Having started on the first we made our way to the sixth tee with 25 points in the bank.  A birdie with a shot give us a great start so with one player holing out we now had 29 points accumulated with one player still to count.  It got better.  Cuts was on the green in regulation pin high left.  Though we know the sixth green is tricky if you're above the hole or sideways on.  Cuts lined it up and rolled it to about a foot from the hole.  All we needed was to sink the remaining tiddler and we'd have a 4 for 3 counting giving a team score of 32.  32 is always competitive.  But then the cowboys arrived singing yippee ai eh.  Trying to caress the ball into the hole, Cuts lined up his putt and gave the ball nothing more than a wee nudge.  We all stood and watched as the ball seemingly in slow motion sank away to the right.  Agonisingly, it missed the hole, then ran on, and on, and on.  So now John had a 2 foot putt hole uphill for 2 points.  Sadly that sneaked away as well.  So we walked off banking a 3 for 4 and a 6 for 1.  30 points in the bank.

Back to the sixes.  As the hands fell away it was left to 2 groups standing tall on 30 points - our group of me, Richard, Cuts / Jamie and Warren sharing the $ with Mahmoud, Eddie, Sandy and Phil of the Ellis variety.  If only ....

That same group of Mahmoud and co. stole the middle stanza with a miserable 39 points.  Finally team TK ( TK, Deano, John Marsh and pro shop Mike ) shared the money with Team Carvell ( BC, Neil, Les and Murray ).  44 points was enough for that little lot.