Day 277 - Yellow Ball

I had to be at the Club for 0745 this morning to get our new Yellow Ball Competition up and running: this meant an alarm call at 0700...which is 0200 Florida time... yuk!

And to add to my general feeling of joy, as I was driving up to the Clubhouse, it was through a flurry of snow and sleet....  All very different from the fine weather I had been enjoying in Sarasota: no shorts and polo shirts here, instead I was wrapped up against the elements, wearing multiple layers to keep the very cold wind at bay.  It was brutal...

We were playing in a team game for 4 players (myself plus Kevin, John and Colin) in which one of us took responsibility for the yellow ball on each hole in turn: then, we were to take the score with that ball plus one other to get to the team's score.  We started off disastrously: after 4 holes, we had lost the yellow ball twice (at a cost of £5/time for the Captains' Charity) and managed to score precisely 0 points with it too.  Things improved somewhat later on but our score was never going to be enough...

And neither was it. When it came time to hand out the prizes, the Vice Captain's foursome was streets ahead of everyone else...and we were only just ahead of those winning the booby prize!  I hung around for lunch and drinks at the Club afterwards, enjoying to opportunity to reconnect with friends that I had not seen for a few weeks.

Back home where I ended up getting stuck into the film American Sniper - a great one to watch with Kathryn out of town!