HawkeyeMS
Ryder Cup Winner
It was all going so well today. Got to work early as I was leaving early for our Nike match. In the car at 3pm to pick Homer up from the club, make our way to Maidenhead , warm up and see if we can't get a win.
But no, the M3 was closed so getting out of Basingstoke was pratically impossible so I end up making my way to the M4 and driving past Maidenhead to get back to Ascot to pick Homer up. All is going well until I hit roadworks on the A329M. Still, we're OK as Homer has told the Oppo we'll be a bit late, and then it hits me: I don't remember putting my shoes in the boot. Jump out of the car and check the boot and low and behold, no shoes. So I have to drive past Ascot to go home, get my shoes then head back to the club to get Homer and on to Maidenhead 30 minutes after we were supposed to tee off and 2 1/2 hours after I'd left work on a journey that should have taken little over an hour.
By this time I'm totally cheesed off, would rather be anywhere but playing golf. Lose the first to a birdie, the second to another and the 3rd and 4th to pars. My swing is all over the place as is Homer's and it's clear neither of us are really in the right frame of mind for golf. The oppo birdie 5 & 6 to send us 6 down and we lose 7 to another par. So 7 down after 7, the oppo are 4 under gross and neither of us look like hitting a decent shot. We would have gone 8 down through 8 if I hadn't halved the hole with a birdie but another birdie from the oppo on 9 sees us 8 down with 9 to play and them 6 under through 9 holes. By this point, all we could do is laugh, they were rolling in putts from all over the place for birdies and while neither of us were playing particularly well I doubt we could have done much anyway. It's was all over after the 10th when we both stuff our tee sots into the bunker and failed to get up and down and they made par. So a rather embarressing 9&8 defeat with the oppo 6 under.
That one will just have to go in the drawer marked "one of those days"
Ho Hum
But no, the M3 was closed so getting out of Basingstoke was pratically impossible so I end up making my way to the M4 and driving past Maidenhead to get back to Ascot to pick Homer up. All is going well until I hit roadworks on the A329M. Still, we're OK as Homer has told the Oppo we'll be a bit late, and then it hits me: I don't remember putting my shoes in the boot. Jump out of the car and check the boot and low and behold, no shoes. So I have to drive past Ascot to go home, get my shoes then head back to the club to get Homer and on to Maidenhead 30 minutes after we were supposed to tee off and 2 1/2 hours after I'd left work on a journey that should have taken little over an hour.
By this time I'm totally cheesed off, would rather be anywhere but playing golf. Lose the first to a birdie, the second to another and the 3rd and 4th to pars. My swing is all over the place as is Homer's and it's clear neither of us are really in the right frame of mind for golf. The oppo birdie 5 & 6 to send us 6 down and we lose 7 to another par. So 7 down after 7, the oppo are 4 under gross and neither of us look like hitting a decent shot. We would have gone 8 down through 8 if I hadn't halved the hole with a birdie but another birdie from the oppo on 9 sees us 8 down with 9 to play and them 6 under through 9 holes. By this point, all we could do is laugh, they were rolling in putts from all over the place for birdies and while neither of us were playing particularly well I doubt we could have done much anyway. It's was all over after the 10th when we both stuff our tee sots into the bunker and failed to get up and down and they made par. So a rather embarressing 9&8 defeat with the oppo 6 under.
That one will just have to go in the drawer marked "one of those days"
Ho Hum
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. By the sounds of it these guys were running riot from the start!
