Day 322 - T&T

It's the 6th of January and today is the occasion of my first golf game of the year...what a slacker!

I joined up with my usual gang here in Sarasota for the Wednesday game. As always, this is the largest group of the week and today was no different.

There were 26 people playing, which meant two 3-balls and 5 4-balls.  On this occasion, I was put into the group who went out first, along with Ray and Les.  One of our jobs was to place the Nearest the Pin flags on the 10 (yes, 10: all the par 3s, par 5s and one par4 on each nine) holes that had been selected by John, the organiser.  This we did pretty well.... only having to drive back to a hole that we had forgotten on just one occasion!

The game we were playing today was for teams of four, with three scores counting on each hole (one of which was to be a gross score, the other two net of handicap allowance - not an easy format!).  Since we were a man short, we had to choose one of the other players' scores to be used as a proxy for our missing team member.

Ginless G&T - not to be recommended!

Being only a three ball with a clear open course in front of us, we played very efficiently (only once spending a moment looking for a lost ball) and finished our round in 3 hours flat - a rarity here!  The final group, who had started 45 mins behind us, did not finish till 2 hours later which meant there was a lot of hanging around (and there are only so many gin-free G&Ts that you can drink!).  Eventually our proxy player came in: unfortunately he had not had a stellar round so he was not able to rescue our team score which meant that we came in 5th out of 7... and won a princely sum of $2/man for our efforts!

My own round was indifferent: pretty good off the tee but scrappy with my short irons and useless on the greens. They were much quicker than I had been used to of late at Burhill ...at least that's my excuse!