Stunning Day For Golf
Stunning Performance
This is an image of The Holy Grail. We have used it before. Wikipedia suggests that The Holy Grail is "any elusive object or goal of great significance may be perceived as a "holy grail" by those seeking such." Fair enough too.
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In Waggler terms, the Holy Grail is often referred to as someone who wins all 3 sets of sixes in the normal weekly competition, AND wins the Blue Jacket, AND wins the Swinger's Trophy. It's never been done. Now this might be splitting hairs but yesterday someone came oh so close.
Already wearing the Blue Jacket on the back of 41 points, here we see Tony accepting the Balclutha Challenge from Eric on the back of 4 birdies. So what happened in the sixes ? Let's work backwards.
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I was in the same playing group as Tony as was Jamie as was Les. Fun day out. In the final set we were rolling with putts dropping from everywhere. We started with back to back 11 pointers on Tipperary and McGlashans. Les hit his tee shot to within 6 inches on 15 and the team made 8. Jamie and Tony scored birdies on 16 so the team had another 10 points. 40 points with 2 holes to play. Long story short we ended up on 18 with 55 points in the bag. "Has to be a winning score" we said, and it was by a good 5 or 6 points.
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The middle six was OK and we thought 41 points might be in with a shout. And so it was.
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So here we have 4 legs of the Holy Grail satisfied. It all comes down to the first set of six. Again long story short our team and team Duncan, The Nugget, Keith and Vaughn shared the spoils with 30 points.
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"That's not the Holy Grail" suggested most. "You have to win all 3 sets by yourself and not share any" was most of the noise. I think that's fair. So Tony scored four and a half out of 5. That's as close as anyone has ever come.
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Tony set another record yesterday. Richard Freeman, Senaka Wickramagedara, Eddie Walter, Phil Broughton and Sandy Ross have won 4 Blue Jackets in a year. Up until yesterday, no man had ever won 5 Blue Jackets in a year. Yesterday, Tony claimed his fifth.
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In other news, Jamie has become a pensioner and so we all sang and drank whisky to celebrate the occasion. Thank you Jamie. Lloyd won the raffle.
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Finally, let's support the club and show up at the St Andrews Cross dinner. It's the one night of the yerar the club puts its best foot forward socially. The meal will be good, there will be an interesting guest speaker, and the ever popular Oxo Cubans will do their stuff. Come on. we can do this.
Then There Is This Strange Story
Playing in the annual P C Plod tournament in Timaru, or at Gleniti to be more precise, he we see what looks like Mr Consistency having a whoopsy. That's right, Trevor Bolt raised his bat. "Never happened before" suggested the good man Trevor. Bring back the Black Whirlwinds I say.