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What a treat to have blue sky and sunshine for our Flag competition!

Fifteen brave ladies took on this interesting competition which in fact is like a medal but in another guise!!

Ready for play!

We added our course Handicap to the par of the course and played till we ran out of shots...then we marked that point on our cards. When we came in we could plant our flag on the map.

Conditions were great and the ball was running, sometimes too far where the grass had been cut more than we expected! 

In the past we have often only got as far as 15, 16 and 17 with the odd player reaching the 18th. 

Today was different!

Final positions

There were two clusters, one near the 18th green and the other on the first green!

18th green and Pond!

I was tempted to disqualify Di for writing her measurement in metres (I'm still back in the old days of feet and inches) but joking aside Di was on the 18th green 4 metres from the hole; Liz got closer and was just 1 foot from the hole... but even that was bettered by Lyn who was a hair's breadth from the hole! How it didn't drop was beyond us!

Fran and Jayne both had two shots left when they finished the 18th and were back on the first tee hoping to sail their shots down the fairway. 

Unfortunately the wretched crocodile leapt out of the pond and caught both their balls taking them back into the depths of Crocodile Creek! They both had to drop by the side of crocodile creek to use their final shot!!! Ahhhhh!

Chris L and Antoinette also had two shots left as they stood on the first tee, Chris got to 10 metres (Chris!) past the bunker (the one beyond the wall) with Antoinette  another 7 yards further on!

First Green

And so to the first green!

Here Lindsay, who'd had 4 shots left starting the first, reached the edge of the green - pin high, 37' from the hole! 

Sam had only 3 shots left as she stood on the first tee - she sailed her drive far over the wall (she drove brilliantly today), her second shot went beyond the green and her third was a great chip to within 12' of the pin!

Hilary also had 4 shots left at the start of the first and finished 9' from the pin!

Earlier Hilary had had an amazing shot on the 14th where her drive hit the bridge, flew forward and almost reached the green!

Her round today included 9 pars and a birdie! 

Back to the first...

I had also had four shots left standing on the tee.. the drive ended under the wall, I chipped over and then hit a wood up to the far end of the bunker which is to the left of the green! 

 One shot left and an impossible stance... I couldn't stand in the bunker, I was too close and I couldn't stand out of it because it was too far away! After a lot of dithering I balanced on the edge and just hit the blooming thing. Amazingly it almost went in the hole - ending up 2' from the hole!

It is strange to think that this was basically a medal by another name but it showed (in a different way) that the handicap system is working pretty well with the majority of the ladies playing to (or better than) their handicaps.

Well done everyone!

Next week is a medal called a medal!