The rain clouds parted for Friday morning's Birthday competition at Pallanne — just as well because there were 34 of us out on the course. We had two separate competitions — the Musketeers had 30 players in a shotgun start competing in an individual Stableford, and the ladies played a team scramble.
Running parallel to the main competition, we had invited Miguel, the Pro, to play and it was announced that any player beating him would win a prize.
There were some good scores, some average scores and some poor scores. But it didn't matter because we all had a good time. On returning to the clubhouse the weather stayed dry while we all enjoyed one of the Porky Boys' superb barbecues.
The full results are shown on the Results page and there is a serious of pictures on the Pictures page, but the winner of the Musketeers competition was Clive Robinson, and the result for the ladies was that they were all declared winners and all received a prize.
The good news for me, sponsoring the prizes, was that Miguel played brilliantly having birdies on the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th and 12th.
Despite having his tee shot spin back into the lake on the 10th and despite mysteriously losing his ball near the 18th green he still came in at level par. His score of 36 points was the best of the day and so nobody picked up a prize for beating him. Thanks Miguel, you saved me a fortune.
There were nearest the pin competitions on the 10th and 16th (won by Neville Woodley-Jones and Jean-Marc Doré) and we also had a shortest drive competition. There were several contenders for this dubious honour which was won on a pace-back by John Wilkinson. It turned out to be quite an appropriate prize — just like the overall winner, John received an individual lesson with Miguel.
I was delighted with the excellent turnout and my thanks go to all those who helped to make it a marvellous way to celebrate becoming a golfing pensioner.
Running parallel to the main competition, we had invited Miguel, the Pro, to play and it was announced that any player beating him would win a prize.
There were some good scores, some average scores and some poor scores. But it didn't matter because we all had a good time. On returning to the clubhouse the weather stayed dry while we all enjoyed one of the Porky Boys' superb barbecues.
The full results are shown on the Results page and there is a serious of pictures on the Pictures page, but the winner of the Musketeers competition was Clive Robinson, and the result for the ladies was that they were all declared winners and all received a prize.
The good news for me, sponsoring the prizes, was that Miguel played brilliantly having birdies on the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th and 12th.
Despite having his tee shot spin back into the lake on the 10th and despite mysteriously losing his ball near the 18th green he still came in at level par. His score of 36 points was the best of the day and so nobody picked up a prize for beating him. Thanks Miguel, you saved me a fortune.
There were nearest the pin competitions on the 10th and 16th (won by Neville Woodley-Jones and Jean-Marc Doré) and we also had a shortest drive competition. There were several contenders for this dubious honour which was won on a pace-back by John Wilkinson. It turned out to be quite an appropriate prize — just like the overall winner, John received an individual lesson with Miguel.
I was delighted with the excellent turnout and my thanks go to all those who helped to make it a marvellous way to celebrate becoming a golfing pensioner.
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