Dear comrades
Where to start the tale of this epic golfing weekend? So many highlights to report. A week has passed and I am still tired!
Friday night feast of fish, pasta and multiple beers and wine and general chit chat was a terrific start.
Video footage commences from round 1, Steve and myself on the delightful par 3, 7th, at 13th Beach, still covered in thick fog (please add your ratings and comments on the YouTube vids for prosperity...). Slide to round 2 and enjoy watching the Chief and Schnapper on the same hole and also Chief remove himself from an outrageous hanging lie in the bunker on the par 5, 14th. Craw found Saturday all too much and collapsed after dinner - at the kitchen table.
Day 2 started badly for everyone as Shirls paraded semi-naked. I think there was general agreement that the Creek Course was not a pinch on the Beach course, but still enjoyable. From memory, Doc and I played mostly like axe murderers on the front nine (6 down at the turn, I think), although Doc was a bit worse than me (sorry, champ, but that cold-top-shank on the 9th was very shabby, I think the woo-woo bird went further!). Doc's drive on the 7th (?) was an obvious exception, and to his great credit he dug very deep and found some form on the back, culminating in binning a slippery downhiller on the last for a par to halve the 9 and salvage some pride. I think we lost 10 holes to Craw and Damien!
I admit to being a little weary on Sunday afternoon and I didnt think Barwon Heads would match 13th Beach for sheer golfing enjoyment. I was pleased to be wrong. What a super course! Bellringer's birdie on the 1st after snap hooking his drive into a house was any early highlight. Holes 4 thru 10 completely brilliant, with the 9th a show-stopper. Here Shirls tonks off down the hill on the par 5, 5th. The par 4, 15th an absolute cracker too.
Beers, dinner and fine wine in the clubhouse was a top way to end the day - the hardy ones kicking on for snooker.
Monday dawned cool and fine. I really should start the long drive home, I thought, four rounds is plenty. Bloody whoosbag! Again, very glad I played. Shirls and I had a bonza match against Barnsey and Tim Cole - Shirls' handicap shots on 17 and 18 the difference, especially after he smashed a 4-wood to 7 feet on the 15th for an easy par to draw the match level. The par 3, 13th is a lovely hole looking back towards the territory we conquered (?) on the weekend and some footage available of Tim, myself, Barnsey and Shirls.
Well done, Damien on the great victory. Well done the 'Evens' in the team championships, bad luck the 'Odds'.
Look forward to doing it all again next year!
PS All my photos are available from this album. I'm happy to upload and or link from the blog any other pics or video you have.
Hugs
Fergus
