My stat tracking showed we only found 14% of the fairways, but got onto 75% of Greens in Regulation and took 1.4 putts per hole.

If you click here you can see the whole round, shot by shot – they might not be the relevant clubs, but you can see how we tore the course and the opposition to pieces. Because of poor planning and sponsorship, there were no team photos, no presentation and indeed not a whiff of a trophy, but the winning team were Hopalong Mike, Bombing Baxter, Demon Donk and Parading PK (who had to leave early to get into his chaps for a gay pride parade in Leamington).

I’ve written a proper match report, I will add it shortly.

The Power Fade (3rd, probably)

Power Draw (4th)

Helping Rob  (5th)

Feather Fade (7th)

Improvising (9th)

Devil (13th)

Shark (18th)

Pete Helps Rob (not sure where – front 9 I think)

Of much more interest to everyone who knows him, and remembers the handicap updates at Porthmadog, let’s have a #helpingrob moment.

Rob has expressed continual amazement that his handicap hasn’t gone up to reflect how abject his game has become – so I did a little Donking.

The current amazing handicapping system is based on your best six rounds from the last twenty – simple.

Rob’s last 20 rounds show that the played to the following handicaps

16, 2o, 21, 32, 14, 17, 19, 12, 15, 17, 26, 19, 20, 29, 37, 25, 25, 20, 26, 28

The rounds in bold are the ones we need to focus on – and that 16 will drop off as soon as we get another card from Rob, but it will only be replaced by one of those 19’s – taking the average up to 15.6, so we should see another shot added #helpingrob

Incidentally, that 16 comes from the Sunday Jug round in 2010.  The 12 and 15 are from the 2012 Jug where Rob was in the final four – he clearly isn’t playing enough golf for his handicap to go up to where he might ever be competitive again.

Best of Luck at the Brissle Robert

A couple of us were witness on Saturday to the beginnings of a great campaign – you may have read on our WhatsApp group that local golfer Rob Hall hasn’t booked in for the Jug On His Doorstep because…he’s worried about running out of golf balls across 54 holes.

The estimable Pedro has been #helpingrob for many years with many golf innovations – trying to help Rob Hall play better golf. Now it sounds like we need to work together to get Rob Hall to play any golf.

He reckons he could lose three balls a hole, which sounds excessive, even for him, but a very reasonable target for us.

The Captain had a eureka moment on Saturday night, that was endorsed by the President immediately, and not totally rejected by the charity case, so we’re going to do it.

#helpingrob this year will focus on making sure Rob Hall has more than  enough balls to tackle the Jug Weekend – so at least 150 #balls4hall

We are proposing that all members on or off tour can donate found balls to the #balls4hall collection that will be administered by the Skipper. You don’t have to donate the Pro V’s you find following Gregs around, or Millers special bloody 88 TaylorMade gay balls, but Rob only needs 150 Top Flites, Pinnacles and NXT types to get him to the Jug. We don’t want many joke balls (unless you’ve got exploding balls), and none of the really dirty or chopped or cut balls some of you pick up.

I reckon the TD could find 150 at thePresident’s Classic if he put his mind to it.

I will procure a suitable receptacle to store the #balls4hall, and will try and get a stamp made to confuse the errant golfers of Devon in mid October who will wonder why so many #helpingrob golf balls are in the hedgerows, car parks and back gardens.

If we collect more than 150, or if he doesn’t lose them all, we can donate the remainder to a proper charity or a school or something.

I will keep you all updated via the website on the status of our #balls4hall campaign, your board thanks you, the society thanks you and most of all Rob thanks you.

#helpingrob