Greetings Nomads
Our June game at Umdoni was filled with every eventuality that you could imagine, nice weather, late starting times, cold beer, outstanding breakfast, friendly sponsors, the local Scottburgh Pro talking gibberish to his mates, the hobbits still arguing that they have got taller a fair amount of GPKO games played and a golf course set up with greens that ran at about 400 on the stint meter.
Let me first say a huge thank you to Debbie and her staff from Scottfin Insurance Brokers for the sponsorship on the day, it is always a please to have their presence on the short holes ,to encourage and to laugh at the crap shots, water bound or bush divers and occasional superb shots that was on display throughout the day.
Now we all know that the GPKO is to be played outside of our monthly games where at all possible, as will happen in many clubs the random draw, although I say that in jest, will place members who reside in say Durban against members who make Port Edward their home some 240 km . To play this game it becomes an excursion and, in some instance, a two- or three-day event, so accommodating them in the monthly draw is the gentlemanly thing to do. However as I have found out when you are drawn against the best player at match play in the province it does not help to agree to play on the course that you have never been fond of and stands up and bites you back at every turn, it also does not help that his partner contributed his fair share on more than one occasion. Besides the “snotklap” we received , it was a thing of beauty to behold, when you play off 0 and shoot 36 points to win everything on the day is magical. Well played Marco nice to watch sir.
So here comes my gripe, by now all the greenkeepers and golf directors at all the courses that are on our rotation are aware that we have requested, and this happens every year that the rule of 6 be applied to the course setup. For those who are in the dark, 6 easy , 6 moderate and 6 challenging holes, not let us challenge them for 9 holes and laugh our heads off at the next 9,
Anyway, we will be back to but try again.
Our next game is at Margate on the 12th of July let us try and full the field and now that masks and restrictions have been eased, we can accommodate more people at prize giving .
Till next time keep it on the fairway.
Shaggy