Day 201 - Foxhills Return

The weather men have promised us a decent week's weather - very welcome after what had appeared to be the end of summer a short while back. So, it was with a sense of pleasurable anticipation that I headed off for a return Vets match at Foxhills Golf Club.  Never quite sure what Monday morning traffic had in store for me, I headed off nice and early and arrived...nice and very early!  No worries though: time for a few coffees and a chat with the opposing team.

I was paired today with Malcolm, a former Shell colleague, and we were second off playing today on the Bernard Hunt Course .  The whole place was very busy as the other course, the Longcross, was hosting a Pro-Am for the Severiano Ballesteros Foundation.   There was a Pro from Burhill in the field as well as a team of Ams so we were well represented at Foxhills today!

I had the sort of start you dream about: par, par, chip-in birdie, par for my first 4 holes - and this was good enough to give us a four hole lead too.  Another three pars in the front 9 meant that we made the turn 5 up.  An excellent sausage bap at the halfway house didn't seem to do any harm and three more pars followed before we won our match by 6&5!  I am afraid that our opponents didn't really stand a chance - but they were very good hosts and good fun to walk around with.

Afer a good lunch and the usual speeches (two good stories from the match managers!), we headed home.  I have played Foxhills a number of times in the past, but have never seen it looking and playing better. All this rain and sun we have been having has clearly helped.

This evening was spent in front of the PGA Golf - a rare treat, but they are finishing a day later than normal as it's Labor Day States-side: that means that summer is officially over....