Big thing and pink shaft?!

19 mongrels, all with brand new handicaps, eagerly awaited the 'off' on the 1st Tee box on Saturday. The new but 'proper' handicapping system was introduced for the first time using a programme obtained by 'the girls' and which has created some interesting handicaps !! These will, of course, be 'normalised' as time goes on and more cards are entered onto the system. In the meantime, we have generally got much better scores to report.... in fact some are darn right brilliant !! Gone are the days when you could come into the club with points in the mid 20's assured that the 'smelly thing' belonged to some one else that week !!!

There was an awesome array of power displayed at the start.... the lads showing off their newly acquired weapons of mass destruction. Gus with his enormous new lump of metal trying to compete with Bill's newly acquired 'big thing' that had the most revolting pink shaft !!! Yuk !!!

But to the results...... there was a spot of controversy about the tail end but a bit like 'Darrell Hair' (for those cricketer's amongst us), once Top Dog has taken a decision it stays !!! The issue at point is that one dog limped off injured after playing 13 holes. I worked on the basis that the injury had been sustained in the process of the playing the game and therefore discounted his card and awarding the Doodoo to Leo who came in with 22 points. However, it was pointed out by several that I was showing signs of inconsistency as in the past I had awarded the doodoo to someone who had limped off without completing the course. This is quite true but on that occasion the 'chappy' had arrived feeling 'sickly' and therefore was prepared to play despite the way he was feeling. It was then pointed out that Mr Jones had arrived limping at the start of the game !!! So now it is up to Mr Jones to come clean and state whether he arrived with injury and therefore should be the Doodoo of the week or whether the war wound happened on the course and therefore leaves the trophy with Leo !! Oh, and by the way, Rob you owe Gus a ball and the kitty Tk100 !!!

Now to other 'ballsy' end.... Paul Rogers was nearest to the pin on the 12th. In 3rd place we had Teb on 33 points, Gus had a staggering 38 points off his 33 handicap.... !!! And Leader of the Pack this week was Dingo Kate with 40 points off her 21 handicap.... She played a great game and was absolutely deadly around the greens. Well done. Kim will release the latest version of the handicaps shortly.

In the meantime have a good week. We meet at Kurmitola at the usual time next Saturday. Those who are interested in playing at Savar on Friday let me know... a few of us will going out there and teeing off at 1 o'clock.