Day 2 - 2017 Links Championship Tour

And so on to the 'fun' day... a three-a-side team event at Machynys Golf Club.

Teams were decided according to performance on day 1, as follows -

1st + 15th + Random draw from 6th to 10th
2nd + 14th + Random draw from 6th to 10th
and so on..... all clear? Good.

11th Green From The Tee

Unfortunately the forecast rain turned up just as we were about to tee off and persisted for the whole round... well it was Wales!!

Anyhoooo, it turns out the winning team was Mike Steward, Angie Bassett and Dave Williams with Rod Rapley, Steve Miles and Andy Wright hot on their heels in second place.



Of course no one is really interested in that old tosh, what you really want to read about is my first ever 'Hole In One'.

"Really, hole in one?" I hear you all gasp, "Please tell us all about it."

The 'Fiendishly Difficult' Par 3 2nd

Well OK, if you insist... it was the fiendishly difficult 2nd hole, it measured 156yds to the flag and it was it was straight into the teeth of a 'stiff breeze'. As you can see from the photo there was water and a bunker in front, the flag was just to the right of the guy in the red jacket.

As we were waiting for the group in front I had plenty of time to do all the necessary calculations and concluded it would need a well struck 5 iron.

And strike it well I did! But as I could hear the group behind approaching the tee I didn't hold the pose and admire the shot, instead I picked up the tee, put my club away and headed off to the green.

On arriving at the green I was rather surprised to not find any balls on it, after a bit of head scratching Bob Kirkwood suggested looking in the hole... and there she was, luvvly, jubbly, 1 for 5 pts, thank you very much!