What a bloody game!

We've had the first couple or three of the summer comps now, and I'm a bit more used to playing off the white pots again. The course seemed very long indeed for the first comp, played when everything was still wet through, but last weekend and this have been a lot more like it. Last week was an am/am. Poor Peter (son, off 25): he didn't play with me, but played with three chaps who are new members, joined late last year. NINETY SIX points, they put in, Peter played like a golfing god. Won by eight.......until one of the blokes was found to have an inactive handicap. His scores were take off, and they were down to 82 points and well out of the prizes. I agree with the new rules on inactive handicaps, people should keep their handicaps active etc, but this was a bit 'law of unintended consequences'. Nice bunch of blokes, joined late in the year, have played all winter, when there are no qualifiers, caught out. Maybe we should have given a month's grace or something. Peter was, of course, extremely disappointed.

Sunday was the monthly mixed, we were just outside the prizes but Julie and I both played well. Difficult to say, but I think I would probably have had a 78! Would have been a new record. Flushed with confidence Peter and I both went out in this week's monthly medal. I had a 92 and Peter N/R'd. Just goes to show.