Winter Golf................Turkey Trot!!!

Well, the first frost of the year at Wychwood and the real Winter Golf.

Crisp chill in the air and TEMPORARY GREENS!!!!

The greens obviously make it a bit of a lottery and it certainly took away the advantage of my strength which is Putting. Obvious after 4 putting the first and second. 1 point from two holes, not a good start.

Got it moving and pars on 5, 6, 7 and 8 pulled the scores back before cutting the second on 9 into the water and no points. (17 points with 2 blobs is still 17 points!)

Bacon Roll and Coffee (with the addition of a drop of Jack Daniels) at the new "half way house" was a positive start to the back nine, before teeing up on the bogie hole that is 14.

This is the Capatain's charity hole and we have selected any of the water hazards on the 14th as a penalty of 50p to the charity! Mainly because I'm always in one of the many hazards. Cost me 50p and 2 shots last week, so I decided to lay up. Hit the shot perfect. Long shot in to the temporary green, but I'd been hitting this distance no problem so far today. Cut is badly and it looked like going into the water short of the green, but cut it so badly that it sliced across the face of the water and was on the slope down to the water. Got away with it. Just chip up over the wooden slats that separate the green from the water and chance of a par!

Thin it into the wooden wall and luckily hit the ice on top of the water and landed back my side, but only a 6 for 1 point!

So fought my way around the rest of the nine and came in with a reasonable 34 points of my 16 handicap. Happy with that as 8 weeks ago off 20 I was struggliung to get 28 points!

Big scores in today, plethora of 38's with a couple of 40 points, but then in came Chris Brayne with 42.

Chris is usually dressed, well shall we say, very brightly to go with his blonde spike hair, think Blone Sid Vicious, but to day, all grey! (not the hair!!!)  So the Glenmoranige heading Chris's way!!! (Thought he might have offered it round!)

Good turn out, although a couple knobbed off to Market Drayton! I'd rather play off temporary greens at Wychwood than play Market Drayton. Anyway up to them I guess, but they did potentially take someone elses spot!

Anyway, Texas Scramble next week and there is a buzz about the place! That's the great thing about Winter Golf, there's something special about getting making it around in wintery conditions and sharing tales in the clubhouse. Smaller fields means most people hang around and theres a lot of chat.

I love winter golf (and not because we play off forward tees and i can hit the 8th Fairway!!!