Day 304 - Global Warming

Up and out this morning whilst it was still dark: I thought that I'd be nice and early at the Club for the Saturday Roll-up but was amazed to find the bar crowded when I arrived: next time, I shall have t get up even earlier!  That being said, it made no difference as when I arrived at Burhill, I bumped straight into a three-ball looking for a fourth, which is how I found myself in the second group off the first tee of the Old Course just before 8 o'clock.

Cobham December 2010

It was barely light as we walked down the first fairway, but it was amazingly warm for this time of year: the temperature today hit 16°C (61°F) today in the week before Christmas. Strange to think that, 5 years ago in December, we were all deep under snow and today there were players playing golf in short trousers at the equivalent time of the year!

We did see the sun at some point in our round but more of an issue was the wind: yet again, we had to compete with strong winds making some of the holes play a lot longer than normal - at least that's my excuse to explain why I was not very good today.  Unfortunately, my partner chose the same day to be less than his stellar best too - all this meant that we really struggled against two players who drove well and putted brilliantly: we lost 4&3, which in truth was a pretty fair result.

A quick drink and we were on our way: Xenos had to go to see Father Christmas with his daughters today and even wild reindeers couldn't keep him away... The rest of us merely headed home early in the hopes of some pre-Christmas domestic brownie points...

In the afternoon, we went for coffee to meet up with Kenneth and Lois, friends from our days in Switzerland. We hadn't seen each other for a couple of years so there was lots of family news to catch up - a great way of spending an afternoon at this time of year!