Two Days - Two Competitions

As it was a Bank Holiday here last weekend there was a competition on both Sunday and Monday last. Sunday's was a strokeplay while Monday's was stableford.

I was out early on the Sunday morning with two of the lads, Ronan and Brian. I had been up town for a few quite pints the night before and was feeling a little bit tired to say the least. It acutally turned out to be a good round. I opened with a par and followed it up with three bogies and a couple of pars. I was keeping myself really in the competition with pars and bogies. I even had a birdie. A couple of double bogies kept me from running away with it. As I had 19 shots wasn’t hurting.

I was about 10 over for 9 holes. I went on to bogie 10 and 11 and par the 12th. After a bad drive and a not so good 2nd shot on the par 4 13th I was still off the green after my third shot. I then proceeded to chip it in, to my obvious delight. I was now 12 over for 13 holes.

As I drove off on the 14th I was feeling rather happy. It was then that I got a call from Donal. He owns a share in a sailing boat. In the pub the night before we had discussed the possability of going sailing on Sunday afternoon. He rang to say everything was sorted and to head straight to the mooring after my round. Just before he hung up he asked “How ya getting on?”. I then had to say that I was going well. As soon as I utttered the words I already felt my luck changing. I went on to duff my second shot and only managed to knock it to the front of the green with my third shot. I chipped it in close and took a bogie, which wasn’t too bad.

It was then that Ronan and Brian said if I could manage to play the next four holes in 3 over I’d probably win the comp.

Needless to say, I took an 8 on each of the following 2 holes. Both are par 4s. Game over. What’s worse is that I parred the next 2 holes.

I’ll think twice before opening my mouth again.

As for the Monday comp - Same Bat Channel.