Q4

From http://bsvgolf.blogspot.com/

Rob has done his weekly report and also remembered his camera (for a change), so I had originally planned to do nothing this week other than update the database (already completed and available at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BanchorySquashVeteransGolf/files/Summer%20Quaich/Summer%20Quaich%202011.xls), but I changed my mind and decided to add a few stats for those of you who need your weekly fix, so here goes:

• The exceptional weather we've had since we got back from Turkey is not, it transpires, really that exceptional. Last night's 19 C was surpassed in the Aprils of 2007 and 2003, both of which hit 22 C.
• Four of the eleven who played yesterday wore shorts - Rob, Hugh, Ian and I.
• Dan is the only ever-present this season.
• Best overall attendance this season - 7 conventional plus 4 early birds = 11.
• I was the first winner this season playing at the conventional/traditional time - i.e. not an early bird.
• It was Malcolm's first ever recorded DoD in the Quaich.
• I went from zero to hero - last week's DoD to this week's winner.
• It was Dan's 2nd 40-pointer this season - and my first - equal highest points this season (40).
• My 75 last night was the best Gross score so far this season.
• Like Dan last night, I too, was pipped on countback 2 years ago from making it 3 wins in a row. I perhaps misled Rob a bit last night when I said 3 wins in a row had never been done before, however - what I meant was it hadn't been done in more recent times. I don't have the full details available, but I'm pretty sure that in Terry's magical year of 1998 when he won 11 times in all, that he must have had at least 3 in a row then - if he didn't it was a real statistical quirk.

To finish, a couple of photos from last night:

Full bloom at the 6th - the trees, that is, not Hugh!

Rob had just got up off his knees, hence the pregnant duck pose.