The (Late) Midsummer Outing 2016

A glorious afternoon for our trip over the hill to Edzell, despite a very brief threat of rain early on, Shorts were very much in evidence on the first tee:

Gordon missed the team photo but I caught up with him a bit later:

Raymond Orr, Harry Salter, Peter Street and Malcolm Grigor were the only recipients of DCV's out of our group of 17.

We gathered in the clubhouse before golf for bacon butties etc and Gary was obviously excited about being drawn in a team with Les and Dan:

The individual scores were fairly tightly bunched, but Hugh was the only one to beat his handicap with 37 points - 2 points ahead of Keith and Dick. Ian D and Peter got the nearest the pins and Raymond the longest drive. Here's the winner, chatting away to Gordon over dinner:

Individual scores were:

Riches, Hugh	37
Taylor, Dick	35
Gray, Keith	35
Freeman, Syd	34
Orr, Raymond	33
Street, Peter	33
Grant, Gary	32
Grigor, Malcolm	32
Salter, Harry	32
Moir, Gordon	32
Simpson, Jack	32
Gray, Les	30
Stewart, Ian	30
Meaden, John	29
Black, Ken	29
Corbett, Daniel	26
Dring, Ian	24

The scores in the team competition were much more widely spread, with the 4-man team of Dick, Keith, Malcolm and Peter just edging it by 0.3 points - thus disproving one of Harry's long-held beliefs that a 4-man team can never win when the scores are pro-rata'd - as they were here. Here's the team scores:

Malcolm, Keith, Dick & Peter - 81.3

Syd, Raymond & Jack - 81

Hugh, Harry, Gordon & John M - 78.0

Les, Gary & Dan - 70

Ian D, Ian S & Ken B - 65

A grand day out - and a bullet dodged, judging by the difference in the weather when we returned to wet Deeside, having left Edzell at 7:30 pm when it was still 21 C.