Again a (very) early start this morning: the challenge being to get to Wentworth for a Vets match at 08:30 without risking getting snarled up in the traffic jam that is the M25. The solution: leaving the house at 07:00 and taking the back roads. This did mean arriving by 07:30 but this is far less stressful than the alternative.
We played our return match against the Last of the Summer Wine (as the Wentwoth Vets are called) on the Edinburgh Course. This was in better shape than I remembered last year, with the large greens posing plenty of problems for those of us not used to them. We had thrashed them in the home fixture in April and they were clearly out for to level the score.
Ron and I played the same pair as we had in the home fixture and, when one of them holed a 40+ft putt on the first for par, we knew we were in trouble... before we could even turn around, we were three holes down and seriously concerned that the match was going to slip away for us. Gradually though we hauled them back in, arriving onto the 18th tee just 1 down.
It wasn't to be though: with his partner OB off the tee, the other Wentworther played zigzag golf until he put a ball to within 6 inches from 90yds out. Revenge is sweet.... if you are the not the revengee that is....
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