Brilliant!!! Read this and cheer your day up!!

[Dodger]

I have had an awful day at work and got in 10 mins ago and logged onto my usual sites to be met with this that made me chortle and made life feel soooo much better............we've all been there.....

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 04, 2012

McCREADIE FAILS TO BREAK 100 AT SKIBO

GOLF COPY AND SCORES CREDIT CAL CARSON GOLF AGENCY FROM COLIN FARQUHARSON IN CORK JASON McCREADIE GOES OVER THE 100 MARK IN GALE-SWEPT CARNEGIE INVITATIONAL Twice Northern Open champion Jason McCreadie ran up an astonishing score of 102 - 31 over par - in a gale-force wind that threatened to wreck the first round of the 36-hole Carnegie Invitational over the Skibo Castle course near Dornoch today (Tuesday). McCreadie, who led for a spell in last week's Aberdeen Asset Management Northern Open, coped well for half the round, reaching the turn in only three-over-par 38. Then the roof fell in, metaphorically. The Buchanan Castle tour pro took 64 blows for the second nine, including a 10 at the par-4 11th, another 10 at the par-4 12th, a 12 at the par-5 15th, and an 8 at the par-4 17th. Jason was not alone in trials and tribulations. Even the bang-in-form Paul Lawrie had a four-over-par 75 which led for most of the day. Paul had a triple bogey 7 at the 16th and double bogeys at the short fourth and also the 11th. He had only one birdie. Then along came former Northern Open champion Gordon Law, almost the last man to finish, and he took the lead with a three-over 74. Birdie 2s at the sixth and 15th were the backbone of his score but, unlike most of his rivals, he had no double bogeys on his card. Third placed Stephen Gray (Hayston) had a 76 which included a 7 and only one birdie. CARNEGIE 36-HOLE INVITATIONL Carnegie Links, Skibo Castle. FIRST ROUND 74 Gordon Law (Uphall) 75 Paul Lawrie (Paul Lawrie Golf Centre). 76 Stephen Gray (Hayston) 77 Colin Gillies (Kingsfield) 78 Greig Hutcheon (Banchory) 79 David Thomson (Carnegie), Alan Tait (Marriott Dalmahoy). 80 Neil Fenwick (Dunbar) 82 Kenny Hutton (Downfield) 83 Mark King (Kingsfield) 84 Ronan Rafferty (Roxburghe), Scott Henderson (Kings Links) 86 Fraser Cromarty (Castle Stuart) 87 Judy Rostock (Carnegie), Craig Ronald (Carluke). 89 Campbell Elliott (Haggs Castle). 101 Jack Bailey (Carnegie) 102 Jason McCreadie (Buchanan Castle)

 

[kev_off_the_tee]

It does encourage me as a useless amateur when I see good golfers hit over 100 but then think what I would have hit on the day in those conditions? substantially higher I'm guessing

 

[Liverbirdie]

The 101 from the fella on his own course, IMHO is even worse.

 

[DCB]

Aye, but what was the average wind speed up there today, with gusts of 60mph forecast it must have been blowing a hoolie at the best of times.

 

[Dodger]

Aye, but what was the average wind speed up there today, with gusts of 60mph forecast it must have been blowing a hoolie at the best of times.

Poofs. Mild zephyr.

 

[patricks148]

Poofs. Mild zephyr.

Yeah, was not that bad today, I played this morning and prob was no more than a 3/4 club wind.