Day 255 - Night and Day Golf

Arrived at the Club this morning in time for coffee and a bacon roll.  Burhill had organised a competition and meet-and-greet for recent new members today and I was there to play and do what I could to make everyone feel welcome.  The format was a two-man team competition and I was paired with Rob, who has recently moved to Burhill for Hampton Court.  Also in our four-ball were Lee, from Wentworth and Mark currently at Guildford.

It was another splendid day for golf: 20 deg, sunshine and no wind - what more could we have asked for? We played the Old Course and, it must be admitted, the greens were a bit slow... not that this did anything to stop our playing partners who amassed a fantastic score of 44 points in the better ball format.  It was a fun event and a good way to meet new members.

Back home for the Rugby World Cup Final: New Zealand were simply too strong for Australia, although the latter gave them a good run for their money.  It has been a great competition - if we skim over the England performance - so much better than the football or cricket versions which both seem to go on for ever, with endless meaningless games.

Hallowe'en Night Golf - what a scream!

At halftime, we made our way back to the Club, both to see the end of the game as well as to get ready for Night Golf.  We were to play 6 holes at 6:30 pm and arrived to find them all lit up: green lights on the tees and around the greens themselves, white sticks in the fairways and blue demarcating all hazards.  All we needed was some lit-up golf balls and we were good to go!

I played with Mrs L, along with Roger and his wife Kate.  We ended up with a very respectable 12 points, or 2 per hole, which I thought was pretty good considering that we were playing in torchlight and hitting golf balls that were definitely shorter than is the norm: we even managed a par on 7, which was more than I had done in the daylight 9 hours earlier!

An excellent supper of ghoul-ash followed by apple pie closed off the evening. It was all great fun and super to see the effort that people had made to get into the spirit of the occasion, with some great costumes on show...