Mainly down to generosity of Pedropower and the innovative format devised by the Prof, the masters sees more money changing hands than would please Jesus.

Unfortunately, this year’s event saw Ron take a resounding win and quite a few quid for his backers.

I managed to clear £40 from an inspired gamble based on the unique format of the day. My only question was which of the members would buckle the most under the pressure of specific challenges not to miss a putt or not go in the water. The overall results will follow but suffice to say that getting the pres at 8/1 was too good a price to miss.

Sure enough, 4 shots into the drink on the last covered my costs for the day. Thanks Doug.

From the Captain:

• No on line course guide so no opportunity to decide fine holes yet, or draw a dodgy beard. 4rse.
• Pedro Power will award £5 for each nearest the pin within the final fourball. This is £25. Prizes roll over if no player on the green.
• The final fourball is contested by Pedro and the three persons who have bet the most with Pedro Power on the day. These bets will be private and no person will have a view of how much other people have bet, although no doubt they will be able to determine where the bets have gone by the odds board. Betting period will be time-bound
• Pedro Power will further award £20 to the bogeyman (or split between the bogeymen). These are the people with the most net bogeys (1 pointers) on their card (hence the bogey column on the totals sheet).
•  TD – Roll up standard prize money for second & first place all to winner, but if this totals more than £40 cap it at £40 and split the rest between nearest the pin & longest drive.
• Pedro Power will donate cash on the day, this is not to be included in earnings totals for the year (Donk). All other money, including fines, to be collected by TD for Payment at AGM. Should hopefully give us a bit of shrapnel for splitting the cash at the AGM.

Our esteemed TD chipped in with  “Remind people to bring pound coins”.

Following this prompt from Rob/Idiot –

Have I missed any communications on the PEDRO Masters? I am so keen to attend, but am a bit nervous after not playing in a Society event for a while. Ideally I’d like some refresher lessons from your good self beforehand. I do want to play better golf – I do, I do, I do.

Will it still be full stapleforth, (no multliball)? I also heard you were thinking of applying obverse mulligans – is this true?

Please, Please, Please can you let me know before I wet myself in anticipation.
 
Yours frenetically,
Idiot   

The Captain has now released the eagerly awaited details of the 3rd Major of the tour.

Dear WHVGS.
 
As you all know, when the much-anticipated Players’ Rep’s Skins tournament finishes this Saturday, it will very much be a case of looking forward to the the PEDRO Masters. 
 
May I remind you that the PEDRO Masters is:

 THE money event of the tour; with it’s unique, patented, fines-for-second-place formula. Plus the donation by Pedro Power to fund the par 3 competition for the ‘final fourball’: those who have bet the most money on the event on Saturday having a chance to win £5 per par 3 on the course. And this year, incredibly, Pedro Power are funding the entire event by a further £20 – as they did the Captains; and twice the amount they funded the Brizzle. What a great sponsor Pedro Power are.
The LAST Major of the 2010 tour before the WHV Open. Absolutely ESSENTIAL to earn those ranking points in order that there is no mountain to climb in order to lift the Claret Jug.

So I need to know your availability in order to book tee-times. This year the event will be:

• Held in or near Cambridge on Saturday 11th September
• with tee times starting after midday to enable travel time
• Course fees in the region of £30 for 18 holes of championship golf.
• £10 entrance fees, plus a fines liability which will be a guaranteed maximum of £5 for those playing really badly.
• Optional night out in Cambridge

 Please reply ASAP to tell me if you are

• Up for the PEDRO Masters
• Up for a night out with stay-over

Cheers, Captain
 
p.s. Rob – obverse mulligans will not be applied at the PEDRO Masters. Sorry.

As orginally communicated:

£10 Pedro Power “spot the ball” prize applies to this tournament. For those of you playing Saturday, can you print off the below picture and mark with an X where my tee-shot will finish. And a dotted line to describe its original trajectory. I will endeavour to play the shot from the exact position where the chap that looks like Bruce (but has a far better swing) is playing his from, local tee positioning allowing.

Showing some possible trajectories.

The Idiot has stepped up to the plate and offered to print off a big copy of the picture to support the society attempting to win the money. How the trajectory will be recorded for posterity has yet to be addressed – we can only hope that Idiot/Ron/WD are in the Captain’s group to capture the detail on their phones. If he’s playing with Noz and/or Bacon, then we’ll be down to relying on just the Prof’s word with no technical recording or reliable eye witness who isn’t distracted by squirrels or off having a slash, again.

In typical Pedro-fashion, the prof has compounded the complexity by suggesting a collection of additional gamble factors.

Any chance you can arrange the sheet so persons can indicate:

1. Swing-plane

2. Contact (face, top, bottom, toe, heel, shaft, airshot)

3. Shape (power draw, draw, straight, fade, power fade)

4. Height (grubber, low, normal, high, rocket)

5. Initial Trajectory

6. Final Position

Rob has offered some standard answers (and I’ve tried to illustrate using google images):

I’ll save you all the trouble of ‘guessing’ the correct answer and fill this in now. Please feel free to amend where you see fit?

1. Swing-plane

All over the place

2. Contact (face, top, bottom, toe, heel, shaft, airshot)

Yes, there will be contact – amusing that your first option was ‘face’., and that ‘shaft’ was also an option.

(this is obviously not the club of preference for the Prof, but it does demonstrate the range of possibilities)

3. Shape (power draw, draw, straight, fade, power fade)

LMAO

4. Height (grubber, low, normal, high, rocket)

Grubber – genius.  Looking forward to the pedro masterclass on the ‘Rocket’ prior to the tee off.

(this doesn’t show the full range…)

5. Initial Trajectory

Up?

6. Final Position

Is all we needed to guess.  (does he mean him – or the ball?) WD – Looking at an R4

Not long till the Rocket.

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