Day 329 - The Eagle Has Landed

A busy day for the Lawrences States-side: Kathryn had a meeting of the Board of the University Women's Club, where she is responsible for the monthly newsletter, in the morning and then had her first meeting of the Richmond Park (i.e. the community in which we live) Book Club. The book they discussed was Fates and Furies, which has some pretty good reviews but I am not sue that it is my cup of tea...  And Martin had his usual Wednesday golf game which pretty much takes care of the whole day...

The weather here has taken a turn for the worse: it was definitely chillier last night and this carried over to this morning.  No shorts and short sleeves this morning... but rather long trousers and a fleece top, at least until the sun came out later in the day.

I was again put out in the first group: good because we can set our own pace, less so as a result of the fact that it meant we were again first in the bar afterwards and had to wait an age and a day until the rest of the gang came in.

The format we played today was a more difficult one: in groups of four, we were to record the three best nett scores on the Par 4s and 5s, whilst on the Par 3s it was the best two gross and one nett scores.  Our team played pretty well to start with but then we had a couple of disaster hole.

We had a pretty good finish though which helped, as did our performance on the Par 5 Hole 14 where your truly managed a gross eagle (poor drive, excellent 5W and a 9i from 118 yards into the hole...).  A thing of beauty.

All of which meant that I ended up on the right side of line money-wise today: our team came 4th and I managed 2 skins and 2 closest to the pins all added up to $28... I'm rich!