Day 234 - X Country

Having stayed the night in Reading, I had an early start this morning but on a Saturday, with no traffic, this was no problem and I was at the Club in plenty of time.   Another day of good weather greeted me, which was great as we had a fun day planned: the annual Cross Country competition.

This year, as last, it was played on the New Course (see attached picture) where our course designer for the day, Kevin, had designed a series of holes designed to test everyone.  In this competition, we play the course in a topsy-turvey fashion - for example playing to the 18th green not from the usual tee box but instead from the tee box on the 1st hole. This makes the hole a rather more challenging one than normal... as was the case with many of the case with many others we played today.

Sometimes we were crossing two fairways, on other occasions going around high trees or else over them. It was played as a Texas Scramble and was an enjoyable day for all.  My team of Xenos, John and Joe looked very good on paper but, as things turned out, we didn't hole enough putts nor get our approach shots close enough to challenge for the winning places.  We played very tidily (scoring 5 birdies) apart from a very messy last hole about which the least said, the better.

A filling lunch of fish pie/cottage pie followed by apple tart closed off proceedings and then it was time to go home for some serious rugby watching: we are almost at the end of the group stage of the RWC.  The English result against Uruguay left a bitter taste: it would have been enough to put the home side through had they gone for the penalty kick at the end of the Welsh game...