Day 314 - Another sunny day's golf...

Tuesday is Ladies Day at Burhill so when we got to the Club this morning, we checked what their plans were  and, according to the information we were given, there were fewer than normal playing and they would be playing on the Old Course, teeing off at 0930.  Perfect: we were playing in two groups of three and were good to go at 0900 so we headed for the first tee.

As we approached the second fairway, we spotted the course marshall heading our way purposefully...  Unbeknownst to him (or us), the Ladies event was actually a multi-tee start at 10:00 with groups starting off the 1st, 3rd, 6th and 9th tees.  Oops.... It was now 09:17 and the question was whether or not our two groups could beetle around and be past the 6th hole in time....

That all sounded too much like hard work, so we opted instead ourselves to move off the 2nd green to the 9th tee. A wise decision, as we inconvenienced nobody and never even saw any of the Ladies groups. 

When we got back to the beginning of the course, from the 18th, there were lots of people out playing, so we decided to play the first two holes for a second time and make it a 20-hole match (as you know, the best way to take 4 shots off your round is only to play 17 holes... so we were doing the reverse!).

The Beef - RIP

As things turned out (contrary to their initial assertions!) our three-ball had easily beaten than coming behind us, in part due to the fact that I managed to one-putt five (or was it six?) holes... and this was the same course that I played yesterday?

At home, I was on dinner duty again tonight: for the 5th day in a row we were eating some of the Christmas beef - which continued to be delicious and, given the number of meals we had gotten out of it, perhaps not so expensive after all...