I was rather hoping that, for once, Rob would remember his camera and would save me the burden of supplying this week's photos, as well as the usual stats - but, no, the silly old b....r forgot again, so here goes.
It was a fine summer's evening at the start and there was a sight to behold on the 1st tee:
Not often seen in shorts, Mr. Salter - he says they were his Florida shorts - the Salters don't have many clothes to wear as they're homeless just now. Harry was later spotted wearing some rather blingy trainers in the bar - Green Flashes they were not.
And then there was the unusual sight of a son admiring his father's swing - at least I think that's what Graeme was doing as Ian teed off:
Behind them, Keith hitched up, ready for the battle:
At the 7th hole, Dick's skinny tee shot went through the gap to the back of the green and he gratefully chipped and putted to snaffle up a par 3 and then marched smartly off towards the 8th tee, where the bags are usually left. Not this time - he had forgotten he had taken his clubs round to where his tee shot had landed. A relatively innocent and generally unremarkable event, but the group behind us spotted what was going on and started whistling, waving and gesticulating at me - it was a bit like golf charades - I eventually sussed that Rob and Les were encouraging me to record the event for the blog - so I did:
The late evening shift was populated as usual by the younger, work-afflicted trio of Black, Riches and McRae. Here they are on the 15th tee:
It was a pretty slow round and we were waiting to play most of our shots. By the time we got to the 18th, Dick's body language was telling us all he wanted to get back in to the clubhouse - quickly:
And, finally, in accordance with well established tradition, last week's winner presented this week's with his prize ball:
Now the bit you've all been waiting for - the stats:
- Steve's score was the highest of the season so far, beating Dan's early season 42 points.
- Three 40 pointers in one evening was the best haul from our group for 2 years.
- We have now had a total of eleven 40-pointers from 8 different people.
- It was the joint best attendance of the season - 15.
- It was Steve's first win since 10th May, 2006.
- Jack joined the ranks of multiple DoD-ers this season - there are now 5 in this elite group.
- There was a strange disparity in the the scores this week - one third of our group were better than CSS and got some kind of handicap reduction, whilst one third were below 30 points, leaving the remaining one third in the respectability corridor.
There was some movement in terms of places in the top 10 this week - Keith and Ian D each moved up a place at the expense of Dick and John M respectively. Keith and Ian D also had the biggest improvements in their top 10 scores - 9 and 10. I improved my top 10 by 4 points, but Ian Sh trumped that, bettering his score by 6 and thus moved further ahead at the top of the table. Ian now has a 3 point lead over me, with us both having 34 points to drop off next week.
Just 4 weeks left now and the full details of all the scores are on the Yahoo site - just click on the following link, if, like Harry, you would like to see scores other than the top 10 - http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/BanchorySquashVeteransGolf/files/Summer%20Quaich/
For the rest, here's the quick version, with scores required to level the existing leading score of 372 in brackets:
- Ian Sharp 372
- Ian Stewart 369 (37)
- Keith Gray 363 (41)
- Dick Taylor 360 (46)
- Ian Dring 357 (48)
- John Meaden 353 (51)
- Rob Pollard 348 (54)
- Jack Simpson 339 (60)
- Archie Cook 326 (66)
- Ian McRae 323 (77)
I still think the winning total will be 380 +, so there's a lot of work to be done yet.
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