- Can’t say I enjoyed my visit to
Sherfield Oaks on the 12th September 2007
although the day started well and the drive up to the
club wasn’t as bad as expected, even arrived before
any of the other players turned up. Waiting in the club
house I sunk myself into one of the sumptuous leather
sofas with a cup of coffee unbeknown to me this was the
start of my problems for the day. After the bacon rolls
and the coffees had been devoured and everyone had
registered I tried to get out of the sofa only to find
my back would support my weight to lift me out, the
consequence was a pulled muscle in the lower back. I put
a brave face on it and in pain made my way to the first
tee of the
Waterloo
course and after several swishes and swings of the club
I felt a little better and thought I would be able to
play through it.
- The fog in the morning was very low
and you could just about make people in front who were
on their tee shots waiting to play the second to the par
five 1st green. Because of the fog I
couldn’t remember too much about any of the first
four/five holes as it disguised most of the details. I
do remember the first was reachable in two and was
followed by a fairly long par three with a ditch to the
left and the third and fourth were fairly short par
fours. In fact I would describe the course as fairly
bland with plenty of room to be wayward and rough that
didn’t cause any issues. The course was only broken up
by a couple of holes that stand out from a slog in a
field a harsh comment you would say but if it had been
foggy all day I think it would have added a little bit
of a challenge! I walked of the eighteen feeling I had
played badly and in pain with 35 points and I think most
of the players found to be the same. The scores from the
morning round were usually high for a tee1up day with
only three players retuning scores with less than 35 and
six player with 38 points or more.
- I shouldn’t have attempted my
round in the afternoon as my back had stiffened up over
lunch and wasn’t showing any signs of easing up
needless to say I didn’t complete my round in the
afternoon and walked off after playing only five holes
to spend the rest of the time hanging around at the club
house while the others completed their rounds.
- The course in the afternoon was
similar to the course in the morning nothing really that
grabbed the attention of the players and when I asked
them for comments afterwards all I got was it was
ok….. However, one of our players certainly enjoyed
himself on both the courses Stewart Rennie managed to
mass 42 points in the morning and repeated his score in
the afternoon on the Wellington Course to take The St
Cross Cup with 84 points over the 36 hole competition.
Second place went to Steve Dunn with 75 points and Roger
Marsland scored 74 to take third place.
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