Kings Acre - Wed 29th September

[DelB]

Hi John.

Apologies for the late notice, but it looks like I won't manage along tomorrow. I had hoped to get through a mountain of work today and it just didn't happen, for a number of reasons, so I want to get back on top of things rather than Thursday being twice as bad! I'm going to work on tonight, but I can't see me being up to date for tomorrow.

Hope you guys have a good game and I'll catch up with you soon.

Apologies once again.

 

[John_Findlay]

No worries Derek. The weather forecast isn't great anyway. However, Toad is determined to try out his new scuba gear so he's coming down and we're playing come rain or shine, hopefully with Stuart too, cos' he's just daft.

He's gonna have trouble swinging in that!

 

[John_Findlay]

Well, after arriving to a course which was closed, due to flooding, myself, StuardD & Toad must have been the only golfers on the east coast to get a game yesterday.

We had resigned ourselves to abandoning our plans when we arrived to flooded greens and pouring rain and thought maybe a bash at the driving range was the only option. However, after coffee and a bacon roll the rain subsided and we were given the green light to play "if we were daft enough".

We were very fortunate to have a rain free first 9 with no wind and the scoring was accordingly quite good (38,38,39) probably because we thought we weren't going to play at all. The greens had drained amazingly quickly and a few good putts were being drained (pun) particularly by Stuart who had moaned that his least favourite hole was the 4th, only to can a good putt for birdie. I should maybe try that.

Unfortunately, our initial euphoria must have worn off and the scoring on the back 9 wasn't quite so good, mainly because it started to pour again on the 15th tee though to the 18th tee with the greens topping themselves up again which led to putting problems. But we had a great day, good natter and some good golf in there too.

Was funny to watch Toad's trousers gradually soak up more and more water by a process of osmosis throughout the day. He promised to drive home in his knickers only and Stuart dubbed him SpongePants SquareBob.

Until the next time lads. Nice one.

 

[Toad]

John,

Think we were very fortunate to get that 3 hour window, it did not look pronmising when we arrived and saw the puddless on the greens.

Thanks again for the invite, had a ball as usual with yourself and Stuart.