It was ages ago now I sit down to write this, but the 2025 Trinimonionial was memorable for a couple of things – the Sponsor brought his “mates”, and said mates played in a fourball with the Red Queen.
In the post round sunshine, with the heaviest garden furniture known to humankind, the Captain recorded all the scores and relevant details – comfortable after posting a good score, even with a slight wobble on the final couple of holes. Then the Copt Heath card was dropped on the table, and the Red Queen had him by a point. Bugger. They were all extolling how well he’d played. Fair go to the lad – probably explains why they were about 3 holes behind the Captains group.
Having been burned before, the Skipper checked the winning score – and lo and behold – too many points allocated on a par 3. They’d both finished with 40 points for the day. Both had 17 on the front and impressive 23’s on the back – solid par golf mostly. Countback went to back six, and the Captain snatched a victory to defend his title and win another bottle of port – and let the sponsor off on his offer of beers in Dorridge. With an ex-drinker. Still, this bottle of non-tawny can become a decanter once drunk…
The track was pretty decent, a bit weird. Several Rob baiting wooden aviary statues dotted around the course, giant giant mansions course-side, excellent nose bag. The pork baps were top notch, and the bacon rolls so good that Pickle ate three to combat his 5am hangover. Weirdest thing was, on a sunny Sunday afternoon – no one was on the course but us. Ghost town.
Society Notables
We saw three birdies today
- Gregs hit a “shit” iron to 4 feet
- Wool holes out from the fairway
- Copters birdied 5th
The Cat won a very underwhelming Dog up the 18th. Miller converted his Shark.
And Copters won the Stein, but isn’t in Newcastle – so was able to nominate an attendee to steward it for the weekend
Results
- Pres 16 with 8 blobs
- Chris 19 with a bird and 5 blobs
- Noz 25 with 3 blobs
- Pickle 26 with 4 blobs
- Jay 26 with 2 blobs
- Catto 27 with 5 blobs
- Woolly 27 with a bird and 4 blobs
- Idiot 29 with 4 blobs
- Al 30 with 2 blobs
- Copters 32 one bird and 2 blobs
- Miller 40 with 1 blob
- Donk 40 with 7 pars and 2 blobs
A Word About the Sponsor
Clearly losing his marbles a little – this was the first outing for his bougie new bats. He played dreadfully with them – having his seven iron rubbed over the single testicle of the Red Queen can’t have helped. He was contemplating further purchases, and someone from the society should really have taken him up on the sale of his former set, and his wedges – the bloke keeps his shit tidy, even if it is sometimes bent to a weird angle or bounce.
This was, as usual, a singular track – announced way too far in advance, and with too many Copt Heath lads, but I won the memorial again – so all is good.
