While the family guys and girls head off to crowded beaches and theme parks for their offspring, I am out on the course in my bright golf trews & basking in the sunny English weather.
This month I have played for two different societies in matches against the Chartered Accountants Golf Society. In the first match I managed one and a half points and we drew. In the second I managed 1 and a half points as well with a spectacular win for the first time for the society in 10 years! So I am feeling confident against Accountants. I come against them in a third match in September for yet another society! I’m starting to feel like Poulter in the Ryder Cup being marked by the Americans – except better dressed of course in my R&A Plaid a Blinder trews!
There was a strange experience last Sunday at my home club. On a Sunday we take the first tee off which is at 7.30am. We get to the third fairway and see two guys looking for a ball on the fifth. We are held up on the 8th and the 9th and we catch up at the 10th when they let us through. We casually ask what their tee time was, to which they reply 7.02. We tell them the first tee time is 7.30 and we had it to which they respond must have been 8.02 and they were early… A bit suspect!
We call the clubhouse and call in a suspicion they are pinching a round of golf! One of the pro shop staff come out and question them. They give a members name and say he hasn’t turned up but it turns out he doesn’t even have a tee time. The next thing we see as we leave the 14th green is them scuttling off the 13th and it into the sunset. I thought I’d seen most things on the golf course and can understand Sevy sneaking on when he’s 7 but seriously 2 grown men!
Roger Southam / @rogerbow / www.rogersoutham.co.uk