Re: HP2007 Follow-up

How can one play two rounds of golf with the yips, the first to a 30
handicap on a course where too many times we had to search for balls; the
second to a 40 handicap on a course with significantly varying green speeds:
loose both matches which, had they been won would have brought the Morton
Plate South thereby letting the team down rather, and still enjoy a great
two days golf?

Answer: play in the annual North v South get-together. Already I am looking
forward to next year.

So the South lost again ? but only just.
Those Northern Whippets are going to be insufferable again for the next 12
months!
But please let us not change the format other than perhaps look at how the
ladies might have a better chance in the match play.

My congratulations and thanks to Demetri for an excellently-organised event.
It was obvious that a lot of care had gone into arranging the playing groups
for optimum enjoyment.
The little touches of his own brand of humour added to the uniqueness of
this annual event.
The tee times of 1300 on Sunday fitted well with dinner at 2000.
I was grateful for not having to get up at the crack of dawn on Monday and
to be able to enjoy a leisurely breakfast with friends, though possibly a
1030 or even 1000 start time would have been better, had the slot been
available to us.

Thanks too to Mick for organising the shirts and to John Laird for his help
with getting the Sweepstake monies quickly sorted for the end of the
prize-giving.

On Sunday I had the pleasure of partnering Maggie.
Although she carried me as a passenger on the back nine, I was able to make
the odd contribution going out with a chip in from off the green on the 2nd
for a rare birdie.
Our match against Bill Seddon and John Turner was closely fought being all
square going into 8 of the holes.
Bill and John won by just one hole when Bill sank a 12 foot putt from off
the green on the 16th. The last two holes were halved.

Congratulations to Bill, who claimed to have only played 17 holes this year,
who went on to win the coveted Williams Cup and who now has the great honour
of arranging next year?s event.

Of my singles Stableford match against Ken Hoyle the less I say the better.
My only hope of ever winning would have required Ken to have lost more balls
than the entire four-ball had in their bags.
Well played Ken. Not a great score I know, but with some of the greens cut
to fairway length putting for the best was hard.
With us were Richard Brown and Nick Webster. Richard was stroking some
lovely shots all the way round ? a very different Richard since last we
played together. A very creditable 31 points secured a much needed Southern
win.
Nick on the other hand, was handicapped with a new and decidedly
dodgy-looking Cleveland HiBore driver which surprising appears on the list
of Conforming Driver Heads. Any discount he may have had on the purchase
price was probably wiped out in lost balls.

Arriving Saturday, gave me the chance of discussing Rules with John Turner ?
always a pleasure. Though less so in our match on Sunday when he refused me
relief from what I thought be an abnormal ground condition. He is a hard
man. I pity those Irish professionals if they call for a ruling and get
John!!
Saturday evening also gave me a chance to enjoy the company of Carl Lawton,
there for the first time and who I?m sure will be back again, and Mark Myers
who both politely tolerated John?s and my Rules conversations.

I won?t go on and mention every one by name, but like us all, it was once
again a joy to be among old friends and to make new ones.

Regards,
Malcolm


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