LAST HOORAH MINUTES
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Venue: Addington
Date: 15 April 2008
Event: #3 of 2008
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Present:-
HO, PB, DA, NM, PE
Plus guests ....
MD, CB
AF, PK
(OR WHAT A CURRY ON!)
And so to Addington, home of the Spring Cup for the third event of the
year and a chance for Barnesy to defend his title (well I think he won it last
time but no Minutes were traced for 2007).
A good turnout included Chris Bantock – a developer from Henfield and a
mate of Squadron Leader’s aka The Ninja Food Thrower. We were also joined again by Mike “Bonecrusher” Davis who has
since gone over to the dark side and become a fully-fledged member of The Last
Hoorah Golf Society. Hoorah! Congratulations Mike, glad to have you
aboard. I hope you don’t mind all the
carousing and incessant chatter about golf.
At the rate membership is increasing we are on schedule for HO’s AGM
prediction of 26,354,795.19 members by the Year 2052. We were regrettably without the latest members, i.e. Pat “Notesy”
Kneath and Anal Fry-up.
Easto has to be congratulated for choosing one of Spring’s finest days
as all sallied forth to pit wits against a course which has definitely had the
better of one or two of our esteemed members (no Pimms for me, thank you). The course has been improved since our last
sortie (see photographs) and met with approving murmurs with the exception of
the ¼ “ aggregate in the bunkers and one or two trampoline style mats (well,
trampoline from Easto’s viewpoint).
Glad to see they still serve tea in their finest glassware and they have
retained the commuter special seats (but no overhead shelf for brolly and
briefcase).
HO, DA, CB and NM went off in the first buggies with the rump end
comprising MD, PE and PB. The first
group featured neither the winner of the first 9 nor the second 9 and not
surprisingly the overall competition and yet the golf seemed good enough. Most notable was a run of back-to-back
birdies on the tenth and eleventh by DA whose wheels fell off thereafter
quicker than Charlie Caroli’s clown car.
HO struck a personal best 9 greens in reg but failed to convert most
even to pars, far less birdies; a moment of respite from his putting demons saw
him win a £1 for his birdie on the devilishly difficult par 5 sixteenth –
hoorah! NM made a turbanful of pars on
the back nine.
Yet the first nine went to PB with 18 impressive points whilst our host,
PE, pipped NM with an even more
astounding 20 points on the back 9 (although NM does have form for “chucking
the last” if he thinks his HC is taking a battering and duly treble-blobbed the
18th for his 19 points). So PE picked up the back nine and overall
the competition with his re-vamped swing and jaunty approach to the game. He has already stolen the lead in the HOOM.
The Society’s tailor has been put on notice to make some drastic alterations to
the Red Jacket.
Afterwards, on the terrace where Plum (PG Woodhouse) and his chums,
Gussie Finknottle and the Hon. Freddie Threepwood would sip pink gins, the
mounted glass golf ball that is the Spring Cup was awarded to the homeboy,
Easto. Congratulations from us all
including the members of the licensed victuallers’ Golf Society. Their Captain sidled up to us and started
making overtures to join forces with our royal and ancient society. One drunken
obsessed Golfer can recognise quite clearly another, who knows, but we wish
them well.
And so we turn to what has to be the finest curry the esteemed Society
has ever enjoyed after the heat of battle.
The wee laddie, Easto, had been “larging up” the status of this place
and a few old curry lags in the Society were, to say the least, a little
sceptical about his claims but as we all rolled out of the restaurant at around
10 o’clock and attempted to get home there was no equivocation, we had found
the Everest of Everests, the Raj of all Raj’s and the Taj Mahal of all
overblown burial monuments. My
recollection of events is a little bit squiffy but I seem to recall that we all
turned Indian, judging from the photos.
As a mark of respect to our birthday boy, PB, all donned the Tamasha
turban. From then it went all Bollywood
with the two Pauls confessing their man-love in downtown Bromley in the form of
a touching duet in front of a captive audience that bayed for more. Indeed, two of the audience seemed anxious
to get to know a little more of the love that the two Pauls share for each
other over a bottle of Champagne. And
so the bill escalated but we weren’t done there for there were cries of
“Brandy!” whereupon several fish bowls arrived of the finest XO. Bone Crusher and Co., knocked these off with relish over the finest curry
any of us had eaten. It was at this
point that Easto overstepped the mark by finishing off a red hot curry that DA
was incapable of finishing. The look on
the poor boy’s face will haunt me for many years as he appeared to melt before
my very eyes. Had we finished there? No,
for we had to witness the traditional Tamasha coffee which is a pantomime in itself
involving the reduction of Brandy, Cointreau and all the rest of the top shelf
into a sticky messy affair, smearing it around the glasses and igniting an
orange peel before setting the whole lot on fire. The result was a glass licking good experience (I am sorry that
Paul had to witness me tonguing my glass – what a pleb). And so ended an evening with a bill of
around £600 – ouch! Enjoy the photos in
Snap Fish – follow the link ....
Addington photos posted here
Next Up
13 May 2008 - Hayling Island
11 June 2008 - Hardelot Les Dunes
8 July 2008 - Wimbledon (Common & Royal)
The Vital Statistics ...
|
Addington 15/04/08 |
|
HO |
PB |
DA |
NM |
PE |
MD |
CB |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Front 9 (stableford) |
|
14 |
18 |
13 |
14 |
17 |
16 |
13 |
|
Back 9 (stableford) |
|
18 |
17 |
14 |
19 |
20 |
16 |
11 |
|
18 holes (stableford) |
|
32 |
35 |
27 |
33 |
37 |
32 |
24 |
|
Position (HOOM) |
|
4 |
2 |
6 |
3 |
1 |
5 |
|
|
HOOM points |
|
5 |
7 |
3 |
6 |
8 |
4 |
|
|
Gross score (Par 69) |
|
86 |
85 |
90 |
86 |
82 |
91 |
98 |
|
3’s gross (6 holes) |
|
+8 |
+6 |
+7 |
+3 |
+3 |
+8 |
+9 |
|
Putts (18 holes) |
|
40 |
32 |
34 |
33 |
33 |
|
|
|
Eagles / Birdies |
|
1 |
- |
2 |
- |
- |
|
|
|
FIR |
|
8 |
7 |
5 |
6 |
5 |
|
|
|
GIR |
|
9 |
3 |
1 |
7 |
6 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addington Winnings |
|
£1 |
£14 |
£2 |
£3.5 |
£17.5 |
- |
- |
£4 birdie pot held over plus previous £4 (NM now holds £8 in pot)
Note that our new "countback" system came conveniently into operation as HO pipped MD into 4th place by virtue of his birdie!
Player
|
Exact H/C
before
event |
Meddle
Score Today (Par 70)
|
Adj To H/C (max +/- 2)
|
New Exact H/C
|
New Playing H/C
|
HOOM Before Game
|
HOOM Points Today
|
HOOM
After Game
|
|
HO |
13.0 |
+17 |
+1.2 |
14.2 |
14 |
13 |
5 |
18 |
|
PB |
14.9 |
+16 |
+0.3 |
15.2 |
15 |
5 |
7 |
12 |
|
DA |
12.8 |
+21 |
+2.0 |
14.8 |
15 |
13 |
3 |
16 |
|
NM |
14.0 |
+17 |
+0.9 |
14.9 |
15 |
4 |
6 |
10 |
|
PE |
14.1 |
+13 |
-0.3 |
13.8 |
14 |
15 |
8 |
23 |
|
AF |
16.0 |
Dnp |
- |
16.0 |
16 |
6 |
- |
6 |
|
PK |
20.0 |
Dnp |
- |
20.0 |
20 |
3 |
- |
3 |
|
MD |
17.0 |
+22 |
+1.5 |
18.5 |
19 |
4 |
4 |
8 |
|
CB (g) |
18.0 |
+29 |
+2.0 |
20.0 |
20 |
g |
g |
|