Two wins on the board!

Well, after a double defeat last week, Kay and I were raring to go this week, however, our opponents were the mighty Gillespie brothers, the Ronnie n Reggie of the golfing world!

This year as we are a mixed team, we play off the ladies stroke index so the start was tough for us being two down after two was not quite what we were after. However, in the next 9 holes, every hole was won with pars, seven by us two by Dave and Rich, putting us three up on twelve, an incredible run of holes. We then halved twelve and thirteen, lost fourteen to be two up with four to go. With solid pars on fifteen and sixteen, we closed out the game to get our first victory.

On Tuesday, we played two new pairings of Tim Smith, Lloyd Hoarton and Paul Wynn with one familiar foe, John Walton! Perhaps still giddy from our first success on Saturday, we found ourselves three down against Tim and Lloyd and two down to John and Paul after three holes, so a tricky position, however, after 9 holes we moved to one up on Tim and Lloyd and only one down to John and Paul, so a bit of a comeback.

After losing the ten to both pairs, we stopped and enjoyed some of Tom’s culinary delights which I’m sure many of you are doing (thanks to the bar staff for all their hard work on that front)? This seemed to inspire our opponents more than us, John and Paul played very steady all the way round and beat us on the fifteenth winning 5&3.

Our other game went down to the wire as we won eighteen to halve the match and then hit it the closest in three on the first extra hole to sneak another win. We now have two wins out of five, and I’m getting over my nerves playing with Kay.

Portsmouth and Saints both third at the point of writing in their respective leagues and Christmas is around the corner, happy days. Kay and I offer our apologies to those members who know John Walton and will have to listen to him talking through every hole of his win, again our sincerest apologies.