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Fri, 6 Aug, 2010 Newsletter 26 (read more)
Oh crikey. The owner of the club's going to hit the roof....isn't he?
So there I was, standing on the 1st tee @ Trevose Golf Club (Cornwall) checking out one of the most beautiful coastal sights Britain has to offer before I tee it up and give it some umpty, admiring the ball soaring through the azure sky while it ends up 300 yards down the middle of the fairway. Well, I got the first bit right. I did proceed to smote it a very long way. The net result being the club owner shaking my hand in the 19th that evening saying....'Congratulations on your first drive today, Andy. I've lived here all my life, witnessing thousands of tee-offs, and can hand-on-heart say that I have never seen that happen before. Let me buy you a drink. (this is all true btw). What he was actually congratulating me for was managing to hoik my ball 125 yards left ricocheting off the roof of a not-so nearby house, clattering all sorts. He said that the owner had often popped into the club, returning a plastic bag of wayward balls that had ended up in his garden. But the roof is another matter altogether. The fact that I blasted my second ball way down the hey-diddle-diddle and parred the hole (i.e a double bogey) is worth absolutely diddly squat. What will go down in the annals started and ended with the drive. What made it worse is that my partner was a headteacher - a potential client for Linky to go and spread the joy to! Saying that, he's booking me up to let me loose on his bundles of joy in the Spring. There's no escaping Salmon when you're on your own with him for 4.5 hours. He didn't stand a chance. 'Two hopes' comes to mind. For the record, I beat him on the 18th. I'm only telling you this because me winning at golf is 'Blue Moon' country, as my golfing chums can confirm.
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