So after lunch, we got in our golf cart and drove across to the Clubhouse. In the parking area here, they have an area designated for shotgun starts: every space is marked with a hole number and the people who are due to start there, back their carts into the double slot until everyone can see at a glance if all have turned up. Once it is time, you then head off in order to your designated starting hole and the competition gets going.
Before leaving we discovered exactly what a Modified Chapman competition is: play was open to (married/cohabiting) couples only and both of them was then to tee off on every hole, after which each partner would then take their second shot with the other's ball. At that point, the team were to choose one ball and it would then be hit into the hole in alternating shot format: a kind of 2-shot Greensomes competition.
Clearly this is an easier format than either Foursomes or Greensomes and the scores certainly reflected that with the winners recording a nett 58 (or 14 better than their allocated handicap). We were nowhere near there, with a nett 70 with which we were briefly not disappointed: until we got back to the Clubhouse and saw the scores that is! Our partners for the day were Len and Rita, from Toronto, for whom this was still their first week of membership - making us seem like old lags!
After the golf, we had a very pleasant meal, cooked by Chef Andy (who is from Essex originally!) who will be moving to a new role at the end of the month and who will be sorely missed. Now where have I heard that before...?
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