Q3

I had my first experience of a Hugh Quaich last night. I thought it might be eventful - and although it wasn't a classic evening by his own very high standards, it did produce a couple of honourable nominations for the Senior Moments trophy, which has been rescued this year by Rob after several attempts by others to have it consigned to history.

The first Moment occurred at the 11th green, where there is an area marked off by the greenkeepers. Hugh parked his Motocaddy then walked on to the green to putt, but his Motocaddy started up again and proceeded to mow down the guards put up by the greenkeepers:

Here's Hugh's trolley, looking rather sheepish as it finally came to rest at the other end of the green:

Hugh's explanation for the incident was that he must have pressed the start button again as he was taking his glove off to putt. If you understand that, Mister You're a Better Man than I (copyright Yardbirds 1965).

Hugh also confessed back in the clubhouse that he had forgotten to bring his golf shoes along and had had to wear his street shoes when playing:

Anyway, on to the presentations. Firstly, the retrospective award to Dick for Q1:

Then Ian did the honours again for tonight's winner:

That's a real old fashioned look Ian is giving Jack, isn't it?

Now for another Senior Moment - we think - from my underling, the Gruppenführer. Rob had caught up with the morning fourball after they finished their round and had enquired about their scores, whereupon they offered him their 4 scorecards. Rob declined, saying he would remember their scores, but he thinks he took Jas' card anyway to remind him.

All OK so far, but when it came to assessing the results in the evening, Rob wanted to double check Jas' score, so he pulled out of his bag what he thought was Jas' scorecard from earlier on:

As you can see, this appears to show only 22 points - not 36. So was Jas kidding when he told Rob he had scored 36 points, or had Rob produced a card of Jas' from a previous week in error? It was all very confusing and poor Rob was left bamboozled.