Tuesday September 2nd: The first entry in my golf diary! I’m keeping this for my own benefit as much as anyone else’s just so I can track how my golf handicap is doing, and as a nice reminder to look back on when my mates start giving me grief over how rubbish I am.
Played golf with Andy P today. He’s off 18, bandit, so I gave him the usual 6 strokes on the Woosnam Course at Dale Hill (Flimwell, Kent, England). A really strange round. It’s been 2 or 3 rounds since I even lost one ball, yet alone 5 as i did today! But conversely, I equalled my all time “birdie best” with 3 of the critters and hit 6 pars on top of that, so in the end, much to Andy’s disgust, I won 1-up. It went down the 18th as we were all-square until I won the 17th, but thankfully the pressure didn’t get to me, and lunch was on him…again 
Sunday September 7th: Played against “Bod” over at his course, Kings Hill in West Malling. Nice course all year round because of the excellent drainage. He said it was a “free” round, but the voucher ran out in May so £30 it was to be. Had some lunch first and whatever was in the all-day-breakfast got me off to a fantastic start – 1 under par after 6 holes including 3 birdies. Was 3 up. My main aim after that was to try and get one more birdie to beat my all-time best.
Bod plays off 10 at the moment, so he was giving me 2 strokes. Trouble is, after the first 6 it went a bit haywire – no pars in 5 holes and he parred them all, so I went 2 down. However a nice 12 foot putt at the 14th gave me the elusive 4th birdie, so despite going down 2 and 1, I went home happy. Actually we flew round, teeing off at 1.45 and getting in at 4.30 – very unusual for Kings Hill!
Friday September 19th: First day of the Ryder Cup so arranged to meet Ads at Dale Hill for 9 holes on the Old Course prior to watching the fourballs in the clubhouse. Awful start…duffed off the tee…and found myself 2 down after 3. Thankfully, Ads went a bit tits-up after that and I put in a few pars to win 3&1. We played the 10th on the way back to the clubhouse. “You can’t reach the water off the tee Ads”. Oops. Sorry. No shots worth remembering, apart from Ads’ tee shot on the 5th straight into a tree about 50 yards off the tee, but the chilli pizza in the clubhouse was very memorable and highly recommended (£5.50).