The Ballbashers Posts

For a couple of hours yesterday the sun shone upon us and as we took off at least one layer of clothing we felt it was almost sensible to be…

Incredibly the rain stopped raining early enough for the powers-that-be at Temple to allow us out onto the whole course including real greens. Sadly the thought of the possible damage…

Continuous rain today so once again we were defeated by the weather. However it didn’t stop 6 of us having a 2 hour coffee break during which we discussed the…

Wednesday saw the first game of the very aptly named Frostbite League. It was 5 weeks since we had been able to venture out onto the course due in the…

It was a day of miracles (small m) at Temple on Wednesday. For a start the sun was shining as we gathered in front of the Pro’s shop and, not…

We immediately knew that something wasn’t right when we turned up at Winter Hill to see a large group of golfers milling around close to the 1st and 10th tees…

I am not referring to the several white flags on greens marking back pin positions but rather the White Flag of Shame i.e. the White Flag of Surrender and moreover,…

You can take your pick between snow, rain or a freezing wind since enough of all three conspired to keep the BBs off the course and, instead, enjoying lunch at…

PeteF turned up for lunch at Temple yesterday and amongst other interesting subjects for the BB players to get their teeth into, he asked us whether we dreamt about any…

Experience suggests that we should always take the BBC weather forecast with a huge pinch of salt – maybe it’s due to the failure to predict the hurricane in the…