On a camping holiday... luckily this was first good weekend of year.
With M. We started off with 25 balls each at Silk Willoughby. The practice facilities were the best I have seen. The mats were new and the driving range grass was as good as any fairway. The balls were rolling well.
The off to Stoke Rochford for 18 holes. We arrived in time to follow a 3 ball who were good enough to keep well ahead of us. We were followed by a three ball in buggies. Its never good to e followed by buggies as they can always catch up and seem to be waiting for every shot. We let them through after about 6 holes. The next 3 behind us were also good but did not seem to be in any rush.
M had a bad start by hitting 2 drives out of bounds from the first tee. I had a steady start over the first 6 holes. I messed up the 6th on the green with a 4 put... grr. M was erratic off the tee until the 8th. Then the 8/9/10/11(almost on green) and 12(on green) were great then it went back to erratic.
We had a bad time on the 7th across the river. I hit a good shot that seemed to go towards the golfers leaving the green. I shouted "fore" and never found the ball. M hit a duff that just made it down the hill. He then hit one into the trees/river. Took a penalty and hit one onto the green that bounced right and we never found it.
On the 8th I hit a duff, took my mulligan and hit one that bounced on the path and just made the other side. M hit a long shot right.. we thought it would be lost. I hit my ball with a perfectly good shot and I saw it land on the sloping fairway. I then went to help M find his ball. He did! When I went to find my ball it was nowhere to be found. So that was too many balls lost in such a short time. It unnerved us both and I took a little while to recover.
The weather was amazing tee shirts all the way round. We found it quite hard work. In the end I think I won.... just.
