Thursday

7th April

What a beautiful day...

Beautiful... but very windy and bitterly cold!

Sixteen lovely ladies turned up for golf this morning and despite it looking beautiful, the golf was a struggle.

 We played the Front Nine and it has to be said that only 5 ladies made double figures... and three of them only just!

In the "A" group, Judy was our wonderful winner with 15, Chris J in second with 14 and Lindsay 3rd (on countback). 

The "B" group winner was Jean, and Lynne was second - again on countback.
Well played ladies! 

One of our number clearly had a good breakfast! Her drive on the 5th connected with an out of bounds white marker post. The ball lay innocently on the fairway! The post? Disintegrated into tiny pieces! Ooops!

Di decided she would have won a 'blobs' competition had there been one... but she was not alone - between us we racked up 64 blobs! An average of four  each!!!

This was despite the fact that the rough between the fairways has been cut to a good length making the ball easy to find and play out of. Many thanks to the greenkeeping staff for this!

The New Rough

Talking of which, Mark Prisk is taking over as Head Greenkeeper. He is hoping to begin top dressing next week and to repeat the process in May. Leather jackets, the larvae of the Daddy Long legs, have damaged the 12th, 14th and 16th greens but he will treat these as soon as is possible.

'Winter Rules' are over, so back to normal play.

Sonia putting the third.