Golf Day 2009
November 2009
This weekend Michele organised a Club golf day at Brandon Woods golf course. You'll see from below pictures that there seem to be a lot of winners. If you are slightly sceptical of this then click here for the scorecards and evidence (of the true legal type) of those that deserve the glory and those that...don't!
The results (after scrutiny of the score cards) were:-
Carl’s Cowboys came 1st with 46 points
Rodney’s Rogues came 2nd with 45 points after the proper count on Stapleford and not just the 39 that was recorded, (note to self Rodney). There was one fault on the score index where 3 points were actually 2 points)
Ok so The Dream Team moved down a place to 3rd with 43 points and
The Vets (renamed because I don’t think The Old Gits went down too well) came in with a very close 42 points
Carl Edwards snatched the Longest Drive from Chris Anderson, when he whopped it from Chris Nason.
Michaela Maixnerova played a sneaky drive that just kept rolling past Linda’s drive to get Nearest the Pin
When asked for a few quotes about the day, we were slightly inundated. Here's a selection:-
Rodney's comments:-
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We got off to a great start with this on the first green. Our group had about a 35 foot put for par. Andy Putted about 6 feet short - Alana put it about 7 foot long and as Al was about to putt I said put it somewhere in the middle to which he stepped up to the ball had one long look and then proceeded to sink the 35 footer, it didn't even rattle around the hole just disappeared right into the heart of the cup.
On the 2nd, a par 3 we were on the edge of the fringe and again we had a shot of about 18 feet. After one chip short and one long. The comment was made, try to put it in the middle of our previous efforts and Alana stepped up took one look at the hole and proceeded to chip in from off the green from about 18feet and a magic 2.
This gave our group an absolutely superb start. Well done you two.
However the prize for our team comedy moment went to Al. We as a group were about 30 yards from the green and Al stepped up to hopefully make another of his outstanding approach shots. Al had a couple of perfectly smooth and weighted practise swings for the distance. However on the 3 practice swing he got a little close to the ball and caught the tinniest edge of it sending it 3 yards to his right. The look on his face when he looked up was magical, if you could imagine how he looked at 4 years of age and knew he'd been naughty, followed by the little voice asking " does that count".
Well done to Andy, Al and Alana for the great company and a great day golfing. Apologies for not completing the score cards correctly."
Carl's comments:-
"My contribution for the comedy moment in our team. An honourable mention for John’s hat. A fine effort and there should have been an award for “classiest item of golf clothing of the day” I reckon. He was a clear winner. Or Michaela’s shoe’s were... Always assuming we’re ignoring Al’s designer duffel coat in the last group, of course.
So Michaela had been gradually working her way up to unleashing a monster drive all day. She’d seen her gallant male companions majestically smiting their (golf) balls all day and you could see from the determined set of her jaw that something a bit special was about to be unleashed. The adrenalin was high from the previous green where she’d craftily snuck in a low shot under the wind to pinch the nearest the pin prize (her foolish male companions all took on the adventurous route of getting the ball high into the air where the wind could play tricks on it).
As you’ll no doubt remember, the ladies tee on the 12th was some way forward of the men’s. Michaela had therefore had a few minutes to psych herself up for the shot of a lifetime and as it was into the teeth of a ferocious gale, it needed just that little bit more “welly”. Settling herself in a textbook stance, nice relaxed shoulders, eye firmly on the ball – the moment was here. She was going to show the ball who was boss and blast it past the pathetic efforts of her wretched teammates. One more wiggle of the bum, one last look down the fairway, a textbook takeaway movement followed by a glorious swing at the unlucky ball and the deed was done...
...making contact with approximately 3 microns of paint on the outside of the ball, which rolled in agony some 12 inches forward of her untouched tee...
Honestly, you could spend all day trying to do that and not manage. It’s one thing to take a huge divot and have the ball pootle forward a few inches, but for a pure contact to be so fine as to only make the ball move forward a foot was just top skills.
Incidentally I nicked Michaela’s “keep it low into the wind” technique on the following hole in sneaking the longest drive by keeping the ball close to the fairway. If it got more than 10ft above the ground I’d be surprised...
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Carl accepts his wine |
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Michele even won a prize! |
More prizes all round |
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I'm sensing a wine theme here! |
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More like it - Mich with the wooden spoon! |
 Michaela earned a wooden spoon too! |
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