Day 140 - Jubilee II

Another Monday, another sunny day, another day without having to face neither the M25 nor South West Trains: life is good....!

Today was the day for our second match in the Jubilee Goblets: with the Lady Captain as my partner, we have challenged each of the six best pairs from the original tournament to a foursomes matchplay game. 

This was the second such match and I am afraid to report that we lost again: both Helen and Jonny were too strong for us. Their recipe for success: hitting it down the middle of the course and making few mistakes... not a bad strategy!

It was a fun match, played in excellent spirits with nobody else in sight on the course, and we managed to make it until the 16th hole but then it was curtains.  And the few raindrops that we felt all day were only as we were packing up our clubs, so no complaints there.

Home in time to watch Andy Murray play against the 6'11" Ivo Karlovic in the last 16 of this year's Wimbledon Championships. It looked hard going the whole match through and the relief on the Scot's face when he managed to clinch the 4th set was palpable.

There can surely be few such imposing opponents in the game of tennis...