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The James Braid Golfing Society - ContinuedI dropped a couple of balls, took out my 9 iron and prepared to chip. Once again, I was interrupted by a tap on the shoulder. “Of course, you know this is the finest course in the world?” I motioned to my Royal Dornoch member’s bag tag, nodded and fluffed another chip. The group was gathering and the match was about to start. Our Society Captain, journalist Malcolm Campbell, and his partner David Skinner led the way against Roly Bluck (Captain of RDGC) and his partner. Despite a stiff breeze blowing directly into their faces, they all hit impressive drives down the middle. Three more groups followed with similar results before it was our turn. Given the honor by my partner, I pulled out my 3 wood (Jack admits to taking his on these occasions) and started towards the tee.“Of course you know this is the finest...” I stopped him in his tracks this time with a severe glance and a firm tap on the bag tag and proceeded to pull my drive into the first patch of rough on the left side of the fairway. The other three were irritatingly long and straight. A couple of hacks up the left side rough got me to the green in sight of a bogey, and my partner, God love him, made the only four to put us one up! No one hit the green at the 2nd, made especially difficult from the back tee into a strong breeze. Gordon Lawson, vice-captain of RDGC and one of our opponents, made an unlikely four by holing a long putt after taking two shots to extricate himself from an impossible lie in the left front bunker. Embarrassingly, that was good enough. Everyone bogeyed the 3rd and the 4th was halved, when Mike Thomas, Gordon’s partner, and I both holed long putts for par. My first contribution; Robert visibly sighed with relief. Some outrageous putting by both Gordon and Mike left us two down after seven holes, but Robert and I had the better of the drives at the 8th, both getting over the ridge, smack in the middle of the fairway. From the tee, they had looked to be perfectly placed, but neither shot had the momentum to run through the semi-rough and down onto the fairway. With awkward downhill lies we both found bunkers with our second shots and suddenly we were three down. On the long 9th, Robert was bunkered with his second shot once again. Mike and I halved in par and we moved on to the par 3, 10th. The flag was on the front of the green and the hole was playing downwind. Gordon’s ball landed on the green and ran right through, a fate which must befall many players in these conditions. My ball hopped onto the front edge courtesy of a lucky bounce on the shoulder of one of the front bunkers and we got back to two down, which became one when we took the 11th as well. Foolishly, I mentioned to Robert that we would now at worst lose 4 & 3, so he carved his third shot into a greenside bunker on the 12th, and, although on for three, I could not match Mike’s two-putt, also from at least 100 feet. His birdie on the short 13th added insult to injury and, when they also won the 14th (Foxy), we were four down. Gordon holed a monster on the 15th to match our par so we played the 16th and repaired to the bar. |
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