Greg dons the winners headgear for the first time
It's a crazy, crazy world but with a small band of Titans losing on average 5 balls each on this tricky golf course, it was a hell of a surprise to discover that Tod only managed to lose one, but still end up winning Magni. Tod's ball striking was magnificent at times, with one beautifully struck 4 iron drawing gently round a left hand dogleg only to bounce hard on the rock hard fairways and travel 230 yards+ into the cross ditch! Unlucky.
A very proud winner
But it was a round for the Journeyman to shine as Greg laid out a strategy of losing multiple balls on the blobbed holes yet managing to get a lot of pars on the non-blob holes! Graham gave him a run for his money with a strong 18 points on the back 9, and he also won LD, NP and the £ hole. Keith was in 3rd place with 26 points and he also picked up the LD and NP2 Prizes. Tod won Magni. So the top 3 places and all of the minor prizes were won by the first 4 ball - suspicious?
Tod winding up to smash the ball to the back of the 9th Green
Pyrford was in a very dehydrated state yet the lakes were still full and the rough was very rough having been left long for the club championships. The very friendly starter reminded us that the vast array of sand in front of the par 3 6th hole was not in fact a bunker but was instead a "sand shelf" and so your club could be grounded in it. However as can be seen from the photos, it was extremely difficult to distinguish the sand from the fairways, or indeed the rough. The second 4 ball found the going tough. They even got lost at the 12th hole and were playing the 15th instead when the first group shouted that they were playing the wrong hole. This was a real shame for Wren who was holding a superb finishing pose after having smashed his drive almost to the green but yet was being verbally assaulted!
"Sandy" Holland - Titans Bunker Supremo
This 4 ball also included Chris "Sandy" Holland who moaned that the fairways were not lined to see his wondrous display of bunker shots. He was having so much fun with these shots that on one hole he just started showboating by hitting his drive into one bunker, then splashing his second shot into another bunker, splashing his third into yet another bunker, but then showed that he was human after all by missing the next bunker by inches. Good attempt though by a true sand specialist.
 Charles enjoying a day out by the river .... |  ... fishing for his golf balls! |
And finally - we were very well received by the Pyrford club who provided decent bacon baps (7/10) but won brownie points by putting out iced water in the clubhouse for us to refill our bottles at the 10th. Nice touch and much appreciated in the 30 degree + temperatures.
Robert Redford demonstrates the right way of exiting a bunker following tuition from Sandy Holland. The secret is to play it really slowly.
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