Down In One Golf Society

Since the last newsletter the society has held its annual Christmas competition and experienced another successful golfing break, this time in Sussex.

Christmas 2004

On 15th January Rob, Andzrej, Richard, David & Rod played in a 9 hole stableford competition at Pachesham Park. David won the Christmas trophy by coming third with 17 points. The highest scorer was Richard with 20 points.

The competition was followed by the traditional Christmas meal in South East HQ. Although Andrzej could not make the meal, Ian was able to join us for what turned out to be a relatively peaceful meal.

Presentation of the Secretary’s Cup

The venue for the first competition, the Secretary’s Cup, was the Mid Sussex golf club.

Ian won the competition with 34 stableford points, easily beating the rest of the field as the next highest score was 27 points. Part of his reward for coming first was a handicap cut of 2 strokes.

Rob came last and as so his handicap was increased by 2 strokes. This gave him a distinct advantage in the next days’ competition.

Why is Andrzej poking Nina?

The Veteran, obviously suffering from the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, insisted on ordering more cobras even though we still had full glasses in front of us. When the bill came he also thought it would be a good time to ask for the “free brandies”. The waiter quickly obliged and then added the cost of these “free” drinks to our bill.

Back in the pub we rounded the evening off with a few more drinks and feeble attempts to chat up Nina. As always the hairy hat was the centre of attention, perhaps we should get one each.

During all of the mayhem we did manage to introduce the potential new country member to the gentle art of veteran baiting and also to add a new word to his vocabulary “scintilla”. 

In another local pub after the meal we treated the locals to various renditions of popular songs including Sailing. Richard suggested we should replace the word sailing with golfing and as a result this song has now become the society’s anthem. The words of this anthem are proudly displayed at the end of this newsletter together with a song for HELP.

Not content with just singing, Andrzej thought he should treat the locals to his impersonation of Russ Conway.

Russ Conway impersonators

On a windy Monday we made our way up to Lewes golf club to compete for the President’s Putter and DIOGS Bowl. As there were now only 7 players, the planned four ball better ball was abandoned in favour of stroke play. 

Under very challenging conditions, Andrzej came in with an amazing net score of 72 and won the President’s Putter. Ian came second with a net score of 76 and won the DIOGS Bowl.

A good time was had by all.