It is always great to wake up on New Years Day. Made it into another year.
First golf round of the year being the Friday Monthly Tournament which fell nicely on the 2nd of January.
The starter was going to send us off as a five. But the group behind us was a three. To even the groups up, I dropped off the five to join the later group to make both groups fours.
The players I joined were all from Manukorihi and despite that we had a good day. They were good fun to play with.
I had a pretty good day with a 20 point front nine and 18 point back nine, for a 38 point total. Two under my handicap, so pleased with the result, but, it was a frustrating day where I missed 4-5 short one meter and under putts. Each one I missed made the next one harder. Such is golf.
As per usual we played for a beer in an internal haggle. Jim was on a 10, Pooch on a 13, Me on a 14 and Les on a 16. An even contest. We jumped out into a 3 hole lead as Les had problems on the first few holes. They came back at us and we ended up only one up after the first nine. Then we managed to lose the next three to go two down. Good fortune and some better putting from me got us back to all square after fifteen. We then lost sixteen as I missed another short one. On to the seventeenth and I managed to miss another short putt, my partner had a bad hole and we were buying the beer. Well done guys.
My 38 points was enough to get me third in the senior division. I will find out my prize money the next time I play.
Funnily enough I was reading my Facebook memories and 10 years ago I also managed third in the monthly tournament on the 2nd of January. It's a funny old world.
Final comment: the group in front of me, which were all Inglewood players, were disqualified from the tournament because they were 'mid week' members which does not entitle them to play in tournaments held on Public Holidays. Only full membership players have that right. What gets me is that if a player from another club enters the same competition they get to play no matter what their membership status might be at their home club. A little anomaly that is not quite right.
It was a beautiful day with a bit of cloud and light winds. Slip, slop, slap, day with the sunscreen!
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