“Ed: Note – Good news to see the first outing by MikeW following his knee replacement. Also Roger back from Covid. Summer must be coming.”
From our correspondent:
“When checking in with Mike at the pro shop for today’s game we had 6 players and 3 buggies (for MikeW, JohnT and Peter). Mike the golf pro was quite inquisitive as to the health and bodily functions of the rest of the Ballbashers, which I thought was most caring. Only to find out he was due to have a budget meeting with Keith later in the day and was thinking of suggesting (on the basis of the current trajectory) the purchase of more buggies to cater for the Ballbashers in 2023 and beyond.
Stuart suggested that he, Pete and Roger took on those in buggies who named themselves “The Raspberry Ripples” (cockney rhyming slang apparently – ed: what for?) in this Novelty match. The scoring system was stableford, one yellow ball each hole (which scored double points), strict rotation of yellow ball, and then multiply best 2 out of 3 stableford scores for each hole for the team score. This created numerous opportunities for Pete to round off several holes with a putt for 18 points (yellow 3 already down for 6, putting for 3, ie 3×6=18), which was invariably missed not least because his helpful teammates were keen to stress its importance as he was addressing the ball!
As it turned out the Raspberries scored 48 on the front nine and 47 on the back (total 95), whereas Stuart’s team scored 92 on the front nine and 51 on the way back (total 143) – so all the BashCoins go to Stuart, Roger and Pete.”
Editor: 92 points seems extraordinary in view of the assertion by the correspondent that Pete missed multiple opportunities to increase their score – suggests a definite need for a Steward’s Enquiry into yet another interest-generating score by a team including Pete?
