There was a time when PE teachers were looked up to, respected and revered. These days they pitch up at the golf course dressed for the winter (top half) and Barbados (bottom half), all self respect flung out of the window. To this end, this week’s video finds Scott Cameron’s wardrobe malfunction doing nothing for his golf swing as he dumps a straightforward 120 yard tee shot woefully shy of the new 13th green.
As for Saturday’s competition itself, it was a Stableford competition raising funds for Friends of ANCHOR – Aberdeenshire, Orkney and Shetland cancer charity and won in comprehensive fashion by Ross McAllan, posting a spectacular 43 points. That’s some achievement off a handicap of 4, his gross stroke play totalling a three under par 63. Some would argue this is a little fishy on several fronts. Firstly, he birdied the first hole and any Stonehaven golfer will tell you that’s normally asking for trouble, lifting one’s hopes to a level that will be dashed. It’s customary to follow an opening birdie with 17 holes of largely nondescript golf. Secondly we’re being asked to believe Ross birdied the 11th when history suggests that nobody birdies the 11th, it’s a beast of a hole, so I’m struggling to believe it for a second. But perhaps I’m being unfair and should in fact congratulate Ross for these two birdies plus his other three on the 7th, 10th & 15th. To win by such a convincing margin (5 points) was fine work indeed.
My own performance bordered on the farcical. I achieved pars on the first and final holes but stank the course out in between with some preposterous golf. I sometimes wonder if I should chuck it and take up darts instead. It was such a shame too because I was well up for a game having had the pleasure of recent knocks at Gleneagles and Murcar, but the class of those venues didn’t hold me in sufficient stead as I hacked my way to a pathetic 28 points. That said, I was leader in the clubhouse momentarily, albeit by virtue of being the very first player to finish his round having teed off at 7am. It took only thirty further seconds for my name to topple from the top of the leaderboard, my playing partner holing out to beat me. But before Scott Cameron crows too much about that, let it be known he himself was to end the day languishing in 67th place.
Results
- Ross McAllan 43 pts
- George Deans 38 pts
- William Meldrum 38 pts