2017

Gullane 3

17th February

Weather: A stoater! Unbelievable weather for the middle of February. Sunny, warm and not a breath of wind all day.

Winners: Morning – DK; Afternoon – ; Day –

IS	DL	CW	DK	DP	IA	LM	JM	PH	JG	JR	JL	JP	BW	BM
37	31	16	44	31	34	29	37	40	40	35	36	30	34
36	34	40	39	35	22	40	39	35	29	36	41	31	39	36
73	65	56	83	67	56	69	76	75	69	71	77	61	73

Highlights

Lowlights

1. Seeing Big Doog’s face wreathed in smiles at the end of the day even after being asked to hand over £30 for the privilege of playing over his own course!

2. Two nearest the pins by Johnny Gill in the morning helping him to a narrowly won second place.

3. Four twos by Juggy in the course of the day.

1. Call off by Dr, Bob on account of golfing injury.

2. Failure to appear by Hon Sec. on account of his having left the country to supervise the stashing of some cash in the British Virgin Islands.

3. Failure by webmaster to remember Juggys’ four twos, although playing with him all day. To be fair to webmaster this may have been down to Juggy’s self-declared grumpiness on the day, on account of there being a particularly fine example of PBFUmeisterness by the great man!

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2017

Goswick

31st March

Weather: Bright and pretty breezy in the morning and then the wind picked up a bit.

Winners: Morning – Smithy ; Afternoon – JM ; Day – DJ

IS	DL	DRunc	DP	DR	IA	JP	JD	JG	JM	JR	PH	TT	BW
38	33	33	24	36	33	23	30	24	33	26	28	18	27
15	26	26		30	29	26	24	27	31	24	30	24	28
53	59	59		66	62	49	54	51	64	50	58	42	55

Highlights

Lowlights

Details awaited from those who were there all day

As above

Rees Refulgent

Lanark

28th April

Weather: A bright, dry and warm morning - became a little chillier in the afternoon.

Winners: Morning – Runce; Afternoon – Runce ; Day – Runce

ID	DL	DP	Dr. B	JL	JR	DRu	IS	PH	TT	KC
24	27	26	18	20	24	35	30	28	24
21	32	21		24	21	33	25	27	25	33
45	59	47		44	45	68	55	55	49

Highlights

Lowlights

1. Jock and passenger, DL, must take pride of place here. At 8.20 they were 2 miles from Lanark, but uncertain as to location of golf club so Jock’s SatNav was summoned to help by DL. When asked whether he wished to add previous destination DL replied in the affirmative. Twenty minutes later the realisation dawned that the Sat Nav was taking them to the golf club via Dunbar. They arrived at 9.00.

2. Excellent course, very welcoming club and very good value

1. Re 1, above - why did Jock have Dunbar entered in his SatNav as a destination? Can he not find his way there by now?

2. Table becoming a flood plain at lunch time with yet another beer incident.

3. TT divot at 12th - does anybody have the faintest clue what that brief note might mean?

Runciman Rampant

9th June

The Woll

Weather: A bright, pleasant day all day

Winners: Morning – Juggy ; Afternoon – DP ; Day – DP

Highlights

Lowlights

1. A very interesting course in a beautiful location on a good day - what could be better? All that could improve it would be good food and excellent service - which is exactly what we got. Up wi’ the Souters!

2. Positive approach by DJ with satisfied exclamation of “That’s fine” as his tee shot at the 3rd presages Jordan Spieth’s poor imitation at Birkdale a few weeks later’

3. The look on Jock’s face when he learns that the only unit of the afternoon round has just earned him £22!

4. Notification being given by JM that Jack’s Thimble has been returned “anonymously.”

None noted.

BW	DRu	ID	DL	DP	DR	JL	JD	JM	JR	IA	IS
25	18	25	1832	34	21	33	33	32	37	25	25
29	22	22	32	37	34	32		36	30	34	36
54	40	47	64	71	55	65		68	67	59	61

Falkirk

25th August

Weather: For a while morning and afternoon it looked like we might get away with it, but the heavens opened both times with about half a dozen holes to go.

Winners: Morning – Digger; Afternoon – Barney; Day – Barney

Highlights

Lowlights

1. By a resounding majority the venue was regarded as a very good course in excellent condition.

2. Supply of additional sarnies on request at lunchtime

1. The weather - see below!

2. The need to request additional sarnies at lunchtime

3. The fact that 6 months advance notice was insufficient to allow some Freens to avoid double booking themselves and having to leave after one round or not appear at all!

4. More specifically the Freen who proposed the venue to actually arrange a holiday and leave the country - see below!

BW	ID	LM	DL	DP	BM	JL	TT	JM	JR	IA	PH
21	35	20	28	29	30	31	25	25	15	27	29
	25		25	20	34	22	28	29		28	22
	60		53	49	64	53	53	54		55	51

Unseemly practising by certain Freens before play

Juggy still thinking there might be a point available at the 3rd

A Freenly greeting from Freen who proposed venue and who, on the day, was in meltdown in Czecho!

….but the course had lots to recommend it

….it was wet!

Tain

29th September

Weather: A glorious Autumn day. Perfect conditions

AO	BW	CW	Runc	DL	DM	DP	DR	GM	IA	IS	JG	JL	JM	JR	LM	Pad	Phi	Psy	RK
25	29	26	18	34	31	25	21	25	19	29	31	23	33	17	29	25	34	36	24

Winner: Psycho

AO	BW	CW	Runc	DL	DM	DP	DR	GM	IA	IS	JG	JL	JM	JR	LM	Pad	Phi	Psy	RK
28	29	23	26	41	24	34	28	26	33	34	27	21	29	25	21	29	38	28	26

CW	DM	DP	DR	GM	IA	JL	JM	LM	Pad	Phi	RK
26	28	30	25	22	31	25	24	25	32		26

Highlights

1. An excellent venue in great condition on a beautiful day. What more could we ask for?

2. The answer to the question above is, the return to action of our bionic man - Wardrobe Wood - see action photo below.

3. Return of full complement of Canucks including, in particular, Richard, who has been away too long.

4. Great effort by Paddy Hart (or was it weakness in the face of Muir threats?) to make the numbers up to the perfect twenty.

5. This was actually in Brora in the evening, but Psycho’s instant correction to JM’s assertion in his “speech” that “Tomorrow starts at 9.30” with the statement - “No, it doesn’t. It starts just after midnight.”

6. Last, but assuredly not least, Allan’s celebration of his Golden Wedding away from the bosom of his family. How did he do it?

Lowlights

1. Having achieved the, not particularly taxing, goal of reaching Tain without apparent mishap, Dave Runciman’s subsequent extreme and time consuming difficulties in finding his way out of the Asda car park.

2. It is believed there was an unseemly argument on the 1st tee, but the details remain elusive. Any better memories?

1. Richard being the first to discover the the information he had been given to the effect that it was impossible to lose a ball at Brora may have been defective.

2. Imposition of a Texas scramble in the afternoon just as the webmaster was running into form.

3. Unusual occurrence of a penalty shot for webmaster’s team in said Texas scramble on account of failure to remember existence of burn on the 11th hole.

1. The weather is worth a mention here, but competition for first spot is fierce and the piece of golfing land that is Brora and the course condition have to claim first place here - a magnificent venue in great condition.

2. Excellent winning round from David Lindsay.

3. I know that some might consider this a lowlight (but not Mrs. P.), But the notable absence of the waitress encountered on our last visit cannot go unmentioned

1. The only purely Fortrosian lowlight was the fact that eight of our number did not play. The East Lothian Four scuttled off home in what seems to be starting to become an established weekend habit. Psycho left with passenger DL in order to see daughter. Johnny Gill decided that a mad dash home in order to try to see the Toon snatch a home draw with Liverpool while Allan was marched off to participate in Golden Wedding celebrations refrred to earlier.

2. This is not Fortrose specific, but a mention has to be made somewhere of the unfortunate incident on the A9 in relation to which reports differ in certain subtle respects, but all agree that the incident culminated in Phil being nicked for speeding - dear, dear. The missing Johnny D. Could have shown him a thing or two when it comes to speeding. Speaking of whom, his absence should also be recorded as a weekend lowlight.

3. A major lowlight, not known at the time, was that Jock was apparently working in lowlight on account of having a detached retina. The latest news is that this has been treated successfully and the great man has since been spotted back on the golf course!

1. Guest appearance by Mrs. Oliver, taking a brief break from her Golden Wedding celebrations.

2. Positive outlook and obvious moral fibre shown by the doughty dozen who chose to ignore the slight precipitation before play commenced and so had a fine day to round off the weekend

3. Comment by waitress who had just served a fine dessert to one of our company and who, on being asked by Colin Wwhat has he got that we haven’t got?” Answered “A tart” - quick and accurate.