Costa del very Sol

At last, it was wall to wall sunshine today as we played Santa Clara. We'd had a buffet dinner in the hotel restaurant last night and popped round to the Horseshoe Inn again to watch the Arsenal match, where Jas was displaying his new goggles:

We'd last played Santa Clara when it was newly opened at the start of the Millennium. It was certainly more open than the previous 3 courses and allowed the big hitters to open their shoulders - although some of them fared better than others. You can probably guess who fell in to which camp from this photo at the hotel pool bar afterwards:

Harry was probably still thinking about what we all thought was a superb drive at the blind downhill  par-5 on the front nine. He lost his ball here, but the views were lovely:

Here's the others back at the pool bar:

 Malcolm was today's winner with 32 points and Ken presented the ball to him:

The leader board is getting tighter after 4 rounds:

Davies, John	104
Stewart, Ian	101
Bhagrath, Jas	101
Salter, Harry	99
Grigor, Malcolm	97
Taylor, Dick	94
Freeman, Syd	91
Page, Ken	86
Street, Peter	80

John and I have a 22-point score to drop (hopefully), while Jas has 20, Harry 21 and Malcolm just 19.

The Medium Handicappers still lead, despite today's win by the Low Handicappers but the gap is just one point now, with the High Handicappers adrift a further 2.5 points behind.

Harry still leads the Eclectic:

Salter, Harry	45
Bhagrath, Jas	44
Grigor, Malcolm	43
Stewart, Ian	43
Davies, John	43
Page, Ken	42
Taylor, Dick	40
Freeman, Syd	37
Street, Peter	34

Santa Maria tomorrow.