Apologies for the delayed reports - late tee times the last 2 days being the root cause. Saturday at the National course - the original one here - was a slow one. The first 6 holes took 2 hours and it was 3 hours for the front nine, but it did speed up on the back nine and we did make it in before dusk - just! Syd was the winner with 30 points and took the prize from Nigel:
Yesterday at Carya was an even bigger farce. With a 2pm tee time, we knew it would be tight to get in 18 holes before darkness descended, but we consoled ourselves with the fact that the clocks had gone forward and we had an extra hour of evening daylight - or so we thought. The clocks in our rooms were updated automatically and we all appeared downstairs waiting for our 12:30 pm pick-up. For once our very punctual driver wasn't there - where was he?
Well, it transpired that the Turkish Government had made a late decree that the onset of summer should be delayed by 24 hours - due apparently to some university entrance examinations. So it was still only 11:30 am and our driver wouldn't appear for another hour. The real cock-up was with our 2:06 tee time - it was so busy and there was no way we were getting round 18 holes - and we didn't. Despite virtually running the last 3 or 4 holes, the leading group only managed 16 holes, with those behind one less.
The greens at Carya were as bad as we had been warned - covered in sand, but like concrete. The whole experience was foul and we decided the day should be declared null and void - although we could not deny Keith the credit of a daily win with his score of 23 points for 16 holes:
Back to our home course again today - as long as the clocks have now actually moved forward!
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