Day 200 - Autumn Meeting Mishap

Today was the second day of the Autumn Meeting: yesterday was the competition for the low handicappers and today was the turn of the Foursomes experts.  I was playing with Brian and we were teeing off the 1st tee (as usual - Captain's privilege!).  The weather was simply stunning: not a cloud in the sky nor a breath of wind - a splendid late summer's day.

After a string of double bogeys, we soon realised that we were not going to be in the prizes and concentrated instead on enjoying the day - not difficult given the conditions. We had a few good holes in there somewhere but a four-putt on the 17th was probably the low point...  They say you should never say "sorry" when playing Foursomes: I think we managed that at least!

After the competition, it was time for Prize Giving. The table looked splendid with some of the Club's very best silverware on show: three of the solid silver trophies were simply wonderful.  We were handing out trophies back to the Spring so there were plenty of recipients from whom celebratory drinks were solicited, not always successfully. 

The winner of yesterday's competition (another serious piece of silver!) couldn't unfortunately be there for the prize giving, so then it was time for today's results. At this point, a mea culpa is required: I had inadvertently overlooked one of the cards with the same score as the pair whom I believed to have won.  Oops...

Fortunately, the mistake was soon rectified and was accepted by all with good grace. The only casualty was one red-faced Captain...  All was soon forgotten though because the appearance of the extra card meant that we had a play-off in front of us. This was supposed to take place on the 18th hole of the same course as had been played but, by popular request, we moved it to the New Course - right in front of the 100 or so people there watching.

A daunting task for the two players required to tee off: having had the experience of the Captains' Drive-in, I had more sympathy than most - which soon needed as one of the pairs made a right horlicks of the hole, allowing the other two to win with a solidly played one-over-par 4.  Cue lots of celebrations and commiserations in equal portions. It had though been one of the best finishes to a competition of the year - the atmosphere was terrific!