SOS Golf: Stableford

Caught practising!

Not the biggest of fields, but the right day to play if you wanted to improve your standing in the consistency stakes - a score of 34 get's you fifth place, that doesn't happen very often.

Definitely going to have fun today

A warm one, and the breeze didn't come in until the 17th hole.

But a pleasant day and the groups moved along pretty quickly.

Must get those new glasses

Welcome to guests Max and Jake.

Just going to teach Phil a thing or two

Someone was mentioning that the girls have been letting us down fashion-wise recently. Here's a bit of guidance for you:

Recommended wardrobe for spring and autumn golf

If Audrey Hepburn can look this good on the range, so can you.

Doesn't have to be complicated, something quite simple and tasteful like this usually goes down well

And here's an interesting rule you may not be aware of.

Are you only allowed to putt using a putter? Or, when your ball is on the putting green, can you use any club you want to play the stroke?

The Rules of Golf allow the use of any golf club to play any golf shot. If you want, you can tee off using a putter and putt using a driver. Wouldn't be very smart! But it's perfectly permissible under the rules.

In fact, sometimes you have no choice but to use a club other than the putter when on the putting green.

For example, if your putter breaks during a round and you are unable to replace it, you'll have to putt using something other than putter. In that situation, many pros prefer to "putt" with a wedge, striking the golf ball at its equator with the leading edge of the wedge (blading it, in other words).

Another scenario you occasionally (rarely) see on the pro tours: a green with severe slopes and an odd shape, where the break on a long putt is so great that the golfer would have to putt off the green in order to play the proper break. Some pros, in that situation, will play a chip shot or pitch shot from the putting surface.

However, you won't make yourself popular if you start taking divots out of the green.

Planning to burn up the course today

Good to see Stan back after a few weeks lay off, trust you've got that roof on now before the cyclone cuts through.

And a get well soon to Richard Osborne, who came down with something nasty yesterday and had to pull out.

And thanks to Thomas for his sponsorship today. We gather you had to ping off to Denmark unexpectedly, so missed you too. (Not sure which Denmark, if it's the Scandinavian one stay away from the awful Surstromming - that fermented herring is disgusting)

Congratulations to Phil who managed to birdie the index 1, which wins him the coveted prize of two golf balls. Being a pretty classy club we general make sure they've been washed and cleaned up a bit before we give them back as prizes.

No great competition on any of the novelties this week. Looks like if you just got your name on the card, you got the prize.

NOVELTY	HOLE	CONTENDERS	WINNER
NTP	2		Ross
NTP in 2	9		Glen
LD	12		Max
NTP in 2	15		Derek
Golden Hole			Jackpots

So, given that most of us seem to be off on holiday or still hung over, here are the rather meagre results this week. A very creditable 35 for Max, Jake seemed a bit coy about putting his card into the ring. As for the rest: