For the 2nd week in a row, Wednesday was a wash-out and the Quaich had to revert to Thursday. Good choice in the end - it was a beautiful evening and 9 of us showed up at various intervals to take part.
Archie had visitors arriving from Alaska and was under orders to be home sharp, so he had arranged an early tee time with Dan - and I managed to get away from work early enough to join them. As the arrangements for the evening were necessarily all a bit last-minute, and I'm always told that many of our group are not permanently attached to their PC's, I thought I'd revert to old technology and so I left a large A4 sheet, emblazoned with our logo, with the names and start times for the later groups on the desk of the pro shop - right next to where the score cards get picked up:
Nothing could be clearer surely? Well, not for our bunch of retards - they were as confused as ever - who's playing? Where's Ian? Some later claimed never to have seen said notice - and those who did confess to having seen it, apparently didn't tell the others until much later - and still couldn't understand what was going on!
Anyway, I had fun and games with my playing partners. Dan's tee shot at the first screamed off at a 90 degree angle straight towards the car park and buildings on the right. Of course, Dan never saw a thing - "where did that go?". He played a provisional but we walked over and found his ball - and it wasn't out of bounds:
It was a difficult shot and he only just managed to move it a few feet, so this was Dan's 3rd shot - still with 300 yards to go the green:
To be fair to Dan, he did get to the green eventually and even managed to scramble a point with a 6.
The next problem we had to witness - along with the shrieks - was Archie, who was having one of those evenings frequented with those not-to-be-mentioned types of shots. Poor man - he got pretty strung up about it - not surprisingly - but he battled it out to the end. On the 13th, I told him I would video his tee shot and this would then guarantee that he wouldn't s***k - and he didn't:
Back to Dan again - he duffed his tee shot at the same hole and then scurried off to play his 2nd as quickly as he could - probably trying to beat the prying lens of yours truly - but he failed:
Back to Archie's continuing woes - this time at the Doo'cot:
Wedding cake avoided, and he still manfully carried on to the last, where, yet again, there were shrieks of pain as his 2nd shot careered towards the greenkeepers sheds. A cursory look, then he stomped off:
It was still warm and sunny when we finished so we had our first pint on the balcony and we were joined by Eileen and their Alaskan guests, who then had a meal in the dining room, with Dan joining them. The next groups were still out on the course, so this left me sitting on the balcony on my own - Billy No Mates:
I wasn't the only one left in the lurch - poor Hugh couldn't get anyone to play with him at the later time of 6:15, so he had to make do with a few holes with some un-named female - or was it Jackie?
Ian McRae joined us for a beer and Ken Black came along too, then went out for some solo practice:
Finally, scores on the evening were:
- Dick - 38
- Me - 37
- Les - 36
- Dan - 35
- Keith - 34
- Gordon - 34
- Steve - 31
- Peter - 28
- Archie - 20
The presentation was made to Dick on the balcony:
Now the stats:
- Peter's first appearance in the Quaich this year, becoming the 23rd name on the 2010 database.
- Aggregate points scored this season passed the 6,000 mark.
- Archie's first DoD since April, 2008.
- Dick's second win of the season with his highest score to date.
- Dick's wins now match his DoD's for this season.
- 40 pointers still very thin on the ground - only 7 so far this season - well below average.
Just 6 weeks to go now and Ian is still well in front and remains firm favourite, but Dick and I narrowed the gap a little this evening. Dick moved back in to 2nd place and is now 5 points behind Ian, and needs 38 points next week to level Ian's existing total of 364. It's likely, however, that the winning total this season will be between 380 and 390 points, so there's still a bit of work to be done by everyone.
As usual, the full stats file is on the Yahoo site - http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/BanchorySquashVeteransGolf/files/Summer%20Quaich/ - but here's the latest top 10 with dropping scores in brackets:
- Sharp, Ian 364 (32)
- Taylor, Dick 359 (33)
- Stewart, Ian 358 (34)
- Gray, Keith 348 (28)
- Meaden, John 348 (32)
- Dring, Ian 343 (30)
- Pollard, Rob 340 (29)
- Simpson, Jack 332 (27)
- Cook, Archie 326 (20)
- McRae, Ian 288
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