One of the nicer events we play every year is the Vets Invitational Day: this is when every Club against whom we play friendly matches receives an invitation to enter a three-man team into a Stableford Competition. These players are then mixed up and a Burhill member accompanies each group to make up a four-ball. At the lunch that follows, there are prizes awarded to the winning teams from the visitors and the home players also have their own team competition. In addition, there are also prizes for the best individual performances.
The weather today was just ideal for golf: blue skies, a few clouds, warm temperatures and a slight breeze. The course too was in splendid nick: no excuses at all for everyone not to record some outstanding scores...or so you would think!
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Terry Milson from West Hill
receiving the winner's salver |
I was the only non-Scot in my four ball and, once I had got over this inadequacy, we proved to have a very pleasant game. We were one of the lower handicapped groupings which gave us the privilege of starting off from the third tee with nobody else in front. We took full advantage of this, finishing our round in about 3 and a half hours. Sadly though the scoring was not stellar: in my case, the problem was a combination of over-familiarity with the Old Course's bunkers and the inability to hole some crucial putts...plus, of course, my feeling so sorry for one of our group who lost a pink plastic tee on the 17th hole....
A fine lunch followed after which it was time to go home to catch up with the day's sport. Should we watch the tennis or the cricket? In the end, the latter was on the big screen with the tennis on the laptop as the tension generated by watching Murray's game against Federer was simply too much for Mrs L.... This turned out to be a wise choice!
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