A terrific turnout for the Millennium cup on Sunday with 23 of us showing. Well done to David for his excellent organisation and for rallying everyone to get out in this freezing Delhi winter!
A new tee slot of 1pm was organised which had everything to do with the recent foggy mornings and nothing at all to do with it being David's 40 something birthday bash the night before!
Scoring was high due to a slightly more forgiving course than usual and near perfect conditions. Where the results are usually announced in the following two categories:
0-18 handicap.
18-36 handicap.
I feel for the purposes of this blog it would be prudent to split the categories thus:
Those that went to David's party and drank their own body weight in alcohol.
Those that didn't.
The table of those that did looks like this:
David Taylor 34
John Tilley 34
Seelan Moody 34
Gareth Conde 33 (miracle after being cut 7 shots. No I won't stop going on about it!)
Trevor fitzsimons 31
Rajesh Bakshi 27
Those that didn't:
Dougie o'neil 40
Rob Lowe 39
Gareth Gillespie 39
Tomi Vuorenmaa 39
Paul Rust 38
Prateek Dabral 38
As you can see there is a pattern emerging that is fairly obvious to notice! Exception to the rule in the "those that did" category was Richard Downey with a respectable 37 points. Impressive stuff when you take into account he didn't sober up till the 9th and had 24 points on the back 9!
In the those that didn't category special mention must go to Tomi, who finished runner up for the third time in succession and Rob Lowe who only landed 10 minutes before tee off.
The longest drive was a keenly fought battle with big Gareth Gillespie eventually getting pipped by the length of a driver by Robert "not the film star" Lowe or Titanium bicep as he will from now be known, with a monster 295 yards. I am going to take 10 yards off both drives for 'Caddy kick' though.
Nearest the pin was an excellent effort from Rajesh Bakshi who made up for his near wooden spoon performance (he was pipped to the post by Mark Simkins 25) by putting one to 4ft at the 10th. The standing ovation from the caddies around the green was scant consolation for missing the putt!
With scoring and turn out on the high side, early competition for places in the Ryder Cup is keen. Lets keep the appearance numbers up (but feel free to lower your scores) so we can keep this fine Delhi institution running for another 50 years.
Pictured is Dougie recieving the Millennium trophy from club captain Trevor and Dougie (overall winner),Rob (Longest drive) and Rajesh (nearest pin)
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