Well. Great afternoon of golf yesterday. The golf itself was not of the highest order but the craic was. Got off to a good start with a par on the first at Pebble Beach and I won with the best gross and after Adie’s handicap had been applied. Jezzer took the longest drive being the only person on the fairway. We were an eightball. At two hours it was the longest three holes of golf I’ve ever had the pleasure of playing. Yes it took two hours to play three holes. We did manage to tee off on the par 3 fourth just to have a nearest the pin competition but ran out of time before we could finish the hole. Several of the lads went off the course and onto the beach.
Beer was £7 a pint. Afterwards we went next door to the Square Sail (Wetherspoons) where beer was £2.35 a pint. Neither were particularly good and in fact I didn’t finish the £2.35 job. For convenience we went for dinner at Zizzi’s. Wouldn’t bother again. The high point was when they brought Simon’s prawn skewer starter whereupon three of us consumed a king prawn each before he had noticed it had arrived. When his eyes did alight on it he complained to the waitress that he only had two prawns which he thought was a measly portion for the nine quid or whatever it was. We gave her a good cash tip.
THG came and picked me ‘n Adie up from the end of Lucy Tower Street whilst the others moved on to Molly O’Briens or whatever the new Irish bar is called that is now installed in place of Patisserie Valerie. At home I watched the Imps beat Barnsley and some of the Luke the Nuke game but as I was falling asleep by then I went off to bed before the end of it.
There ya go. In the middle of all this the golf committee took an unanimous vote to elect Rory McIlroy as our new honorary Life President and I was tasked with writing to him to tell him the good news and to invite him to come and play a round with us next time he is over. I wonder if he has ever played in an eight ball.
Thassit. Need to drop our John off at the stayshun for his return trip to Berlin. He has a gig on New Year’s Eve and needs to get back. We will be seeing him again in Seville next month so no sad tears of farewell as he is waved off from the door.
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