Five days have passed since 7 Ballbashers gathered together in rather cool and damp conditions at Temple to play the second game in the Eclectic League. Sadly, in this busy world, five days is too long ago for your correspondent to remember too many details about the game. But I will do my best.
The day was made vaguely notable by the fact that JohnH turned out to play, albeit in a buggy. Despite the several aeons which have passed since he last swung a club, it was clear that the firepower still remained and, once the dodgy radar issues have been fixed, I am sure that we will once again be witnessing mighty feats of golf flowing from his clubs. He was very happy to survive the full 18 holes and to rack up some pars while doing so.
The balls had fallen so that Alan, PeteF and MikeW formed an ambulatory 3-ball, or maybe that should be an ambling 3-ball as they fell some distance behind the 4-ball who preceded them comprising Roger and me on foot and PeterR and JohnH sharing a buggy.
Our game greatly resembled the Curate’s Egg in that, for the purposes of the team game in which only 3s and 4s counted towards the score, we scored either nothing or 9 points and above on each hole. This combination did result in a reasonable tally of 31 points on the front 9, but on the back 9, the score-less holes greatly out-numbered the scoring ones and we only tallied 21.
The denouement in the clubhouse revealed that our 7.75 (31 divided by 4) had easily beaten their 4 (12 divided by 3) and our 5.25 on the back 9 was just sufficient to beat their 5. So the Bashcoins were all ours.
MikeW, who is normally not much given to mathematical wonderings, did question the statistical validity of the assumption that dividing the 3-Ball’s score by 3 was equivalent to dividing the 4-Ball’s score by 4, but since none of us was equipped with an abacus, we just ignored him.
Subsequently another member of their 3-ball emailed me a query concerning the resultant Bashcoin Accounts. Unfortunately his predictive text converted this to a query about the Bassoon Accounting which I took to be a technical accounting term outside my admittedly limited accounting knowledge. But once we had sorted the translation out, it turned out he was correct and the number of Bassoons rewarded to the winning team was duly corrected (downwards of course!).
The Eclectic Results are showing the normal tight race at the early stages and the recent champions are still keeping their powder dry.
