It was a bit of a Les and Keith evening, photo-wise, on Thursday as 6 of us turned out for Q16, postponed by Wednesday's rain. First of all, Les had some trolley trouble (again) and was caught in the act of putting it all back together again after it all seemed to fall apart:
Then, eschewing the conventional, when he put one out of bounds at the 6th, using the garden gate was too much bother, so over the wall he went, and returned:
At the 7th hole, Keith pulled his tee shot and his ball ended up perched on top of the rim of the fairway bunker on the 6th, so he had to stand in the bunker and try and play his approach shot with the ball about thigh-high. I am taking this photo from the back of the 7th green:
Amazingly, he put this shot to 3 feet - but then, typically, he missed his par putt!
Les featured again when he was showing off his top with the sleeves that unzip - the only problem was that he couldn't do it himself, so he had to get Dick to help him undress:
Keith again - he found himself in a very similar situation at the 14th, but this time completely fluffed the shot:
It had turned in to a lovely evening and we thought we would pose at the 17th tee:
Les, Dick, Keith and I started a full hour before the work inflicted pair of Riches and McRae, but they raced round and finally caught up with us at the last, so it was a small sociable gathering in the clubhouse to present Ian with the winner's ball - his first since May last year:
Ian beat Keith on countback and became the 9th weekly winner this season. In that same period, there have been 10 DoD's, with Les completing the hat-trick this week.
It was the lowest turnout of the season, but apart from that, there is little to report statistically this week, other than the fact that the 3 youngsters comfortably out-scored the over 60's.
Dick couldn't improve on his top 10 total of 354 and remains 10 points behind Ian Sharp. I moved up to 2nd place (on countback), but Ian still looks very comfortable at the top of the table - a bit like Louis Oosthuizen - only difference beng that Ian doesn't exactly have Tiger and co chasing him!
Writing this early on Sunday morning, I'm speculating whether this could still be Spain's month - Nadal won at Wimbledon, Spain won the World Cup, they have 2 riders sitting 2nd and 3rd in the Tour de France, and Canizares is in 4th place in the Open on 7 under?
Anyway, back to the Quaich, the full file has already been posted to the Yahoo site (http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/BanchorySquashVeteransGolf/files/Summer%20Quaich/), but the quick details of the top 10 are:
- Sharp, Ian 364
- Stewart, Ian 354
- Taylor, Dick 354
- Meaden, John 348
- Dring, Ian 343
- Pollard, Rob 340
- Simpson, Jack 332
- Gray, Keith 314
- Cook, Archie 306
- McRae, Ian 288
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