Golden Ball

Saturday 25th November

Golden Ball!

The weather today was very similar to Thursday. The forecast said there would be a downpour at 11 oclock, so with the the strong winds and cold air we shortened the contest.

We would play 15 holes if the weather remained ok...if not we'd stop after 11, the first group out would make the call.

As the morning went on we played with scudding clouds and some sunshine... then north of us a huge cloud formation appeared...there were rainbows and we could see the showers but fortunately it missed us!

The storm the missed us!

Fifteen Ladies played today in teams of three. We rotated the golden ball among us, we had to count two scores, one of which was to be the golden one.

The golden ball has the advantage of doubling its points so we were keen to hold on to it if we could.

This proved difficult for the first team out... a huge bird of the crow family picked it up and flew off to the 17th!

It was not found but it was replaced!

One way stormy clouds the other blue skies!

It was tough out there but also great to be out in the fresh air, even though we were battling the elements.

Three teams came in  with scores in the mid 50s... but there were two teams who were a cut above the rest of us!

Antoinette, Lindsay and Jenny were second with 70 points

but the winners scored 73 points and they were the team of Jean, Fran and Lyn!

Well played indeed!

Tomorrow some of us will be out there again for the Jack Arnold Scramble.

Next Thursday is the Ladies v Seniors (I'm still short of a couple of players if you can make it)

and next Saturday is a Medal.

Thanks as always to Mark and his team for the condition of the course.