Woke up to the news that a friend of mine had broken his leg playing tennis and that
Tiger Woods had announced his retirement from golf ...but both of them turned out to be April Fool's jokes. This got me thinking how, when we lived in Belgium as children, the equivalent thing to do there on 1st April as to stick a paper fish onto someone's back without them noticing - hence I suppose the translation of an April Fool's prank into a poisson d'avril.
What was no joke this morning was getting up at 06:30 to be at the Club for an 07:30 briefing: I had signed up to spend a couple of hours as a starter for the second round of the EuropPro Qualifying tournament. Once armed with my instructions and my metal case with radio and general paraphernalia, I headed off to the New Course. The sun was shining and the gale force winds of the day before had abated somewhat but it was still decidedly parky! I was mighty glad of my two sweaters...
I discovered that two entrants had shot first round scores of 70 (2 under par) the previous day in what must have been seriously difficult conditions, and off the back tees making the course over 7,000 yards. And this is just a qualifying tournament....
I very much enjoyed my morning: all the players were very friendly and appreciative of the facilities. They all praised the course in general and the greens in particular and I must admit I thought everything looked splendid. I shall look at the
results on-line tonight to see the names of the 37 players who made it through to the next round.
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