Let's Deal With The Weird Stuff First
No photo for this one but I'm reliably informed that left-handed Warren Egen took a driver from the bag of right-handed Murray Cooper then spent an inordinate amount of time weighing up his tee shot and how to hit it.
Then there's The Nugget on 14, no happy ending here apparently. The hedges look nice though.
Then we have birthday boy Bruce Carvell making hard work of the 15th.
Another Warren Egen story with him playing the 6th hole, from somewhere near the 1st green.
Finally we had to give out the Guinness frequent flyer T shirts with a number of recipients being on the receiving end of a thank you gift from the Irish brewer. When some people put them on to wear, some cruel person was heard to say " you wouldn't want to put that through a hot wash ."
Big shout out to Rick who gave a sleeve of special edition of Pro V1s to Kallum and Duncan of the Croudis whanau. They were presumably made to celebrate Father's Day and were a very appropriate gift. Nice touch.
To The Proceedings Of The Day
24 players made it out and although the bright sunshine enjoyed at the start gave way to full cloud coverage, it was a very pleasant afternoon all in all.
33 points notched up by Mahmoud, Timmsy, Alastair and Bolty won the first set of 6. 3 groups shared the second set with 41 points and too many names to mention. The ATM came good at the end with fellow partners in crime Murray Cooper and Warren Egen and a fast finishing Phantom. I think just about everyone got something back.
This man enjoyed his 66th birthday recently and thanks to Bruce we enjoyed a wee dram and a few chippies to celebrate the occasion. Thank you sir.
At one point the Swinger's Trophy was a fight between Duncan Croudis and Geoff Laney each with one birdie but with a strong finish Duncan carded 4 more to move clear of the field and score another night in Balclutha. The trophy has been severely damaged though !
Look closely and you'll see the golf club isn't where it's supposed to be.
In a closely run affair, Geoff Laney won the Blue Jacket for the third time this year. He and Alastair both had 41 points but with Geoff scoring 4 for 3 going up 18, that was enough to clinch the trophy. He left a few points out there just quietly with a more than couple of short putts not finding the bottom of the cup. Alastair was out with 23 points for the first nine and had his eye on becoming the first name to be engraved on Eric's Trophy. Alas both came up a couple short.
The Nugget redeemed himself and won the raffle and that was just about it for the day.