100 HOLE CHALLENGE
Waiting in the car park of Ross on Wye Golf Club at 330am Saturday 23 June, I began to wonder about the sanity of the task ahead.
It began a few months ago when my friend became Lady Captain and thought it would be a great idea to play 5 rounds of golf for her chosen charity, Guide Dogs. Somewhere along the line 5 rounds changed into 100 holes, as it has a ‘nicer sound about it’! Myself and two other ladies were approached and asked if we wanted to take on this challenge, bizarrely, we all said yes.
A few weeks ago, we started to think about what we’d actually said yes to. With little training, except one of us who goes on holiday to walk 130 miles!, I’m sure we were all secretly thinking we might be the weakest link, maybe that’s what kept us going?
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| Kerry at silly o’clock |
It was 10 degrees centigrade at 4am, dawn broke with birds singing their little hearts out, LC took a drive to test the water-no one saw where it went, so we waited a bit longer, probably about 2 minutes as we were getting restless and wanting to get on with it. Then LC took another shot and whether we saw it or not, we were off- in two balls. Stroke play for a medal is a real mind game, but as we were pretty buoyant and up for the challenge, no one really thought about the format, we just did it.
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| 12th hole par 3 |
For those of you that haven’t played the fantastic Ross-on-Wye, you won’t know that there are plenty of trees lining the fairways, the first is one such hole, and whilst it seemed pitch black as we drove those first balls, once we walked 500 yards to our drive (yeah right!) it seemed much lighter for just being out of the trees. Rob and his green keeping staff at Ross should take all the credit for the course- it is in very good condition.