A Small White Ball and Several Big Sticks: Sat 8 Mar 2014

First game with M after a long break. Looking forward to it. Boots and Sticks clean. The weather is even kind, warm and bright. Playing in the afternoon is 15 quid as its twilight. A bargin. For the record we paid for our own.

We started with a few holes on the par 3, we missed out several holes and repeated a few to avoid others enjoying the first decent weekend weather this year. I think I played the better shots but M won, thats golf.

We started on time with no one on first hole. I hit a nice shot onto the green, always a good start. M went left and we were off. We were followed by a 2 ball who played like good players (as we looked back they did some great shots). We were following a 3 ball, also good but there was a golf soc in front of them so it was slow.

The course was very wet and some fairways were very muddy but I think it will dry out quickly if the weather holds. There were no temporary greens or tees.

The first 9 went OK for me except for a few holes where the mud stopped the ball early and caused a few duffs. On the back 9 the mud also played a part but I had a real disaster on the 17th, losing a ball and getting stuck in a bunker. So on the back 9 M made a big come back and it was down to the last hole to decide the winner or force a draw. It was M's tee so he got out his "masher" and belted it into the sun and the trees. My 4i went 20 yds past the ladies tee (better than it sounds). M's second tee shot was a corker and landed 10 yds short and to the right of the green (best shot ever on this hole). I got to the green in 3 and down in 1 so that was that, I won by a single hole.

My score was pretty bad click here. I messed up 7 holes which is really crap, but I should be playing off 28 not 25 and I should never have got an 11 on the 17th. This was caused by being greedy at about 130 yds to the green when I used my 5W instead of my 5i. Still great fun and I am sure that I have learnt something!