Another Captains weekend reached, performed and completed, having experienced about 20 of these events I can confirm it maintained the A. N. G. S. standard of fun, action, characters and drama. But who would accept anything different, the players of whom there was plenty, Windy Ways chancellor, to name but one complete with bucket and story board, the only way to avoid loss of sanity from his story of animal life at the kennels was to part with the folding stuff the bigger the value the further away you could retreat. His persuasive hounding managed to claw an amazing £ 400 from the lads over the course of the weekend. Alex the fines master was never too far away looking for any excuse to put some money value to any misdemeanour you may or not have committed, not forgetting my good lady flogging football cards to add to the money grab. Stupid me I thought I had come for a game of golf.
Mr Captain yes that’s the one with the patch led the field away (after group photos had been taken) and straight down the fairway he was off encouraged by plenty of banter from the gallery surprisingly for Blackpool every one managed to get away fairly impressive. The course was a stiff challenge with a very windy 35-45 mph wind buffeting the golfers. The diamond polisher otherwise known as Burt managed an impressive 10 ( I think) balls lost to water thickets grass or what else there was waiting for him, I’m sure he increased this tally by 8 more the following day, the later could be excused by the amount of liquid (booze) imbibed Sunday evening.
Some fairly good scores were carded on the first event “Captains Trophy” the honours being taken by Mark (41) closely followed by Alex (39)with the Rich man Dave Mac adding to his coffers by taking the two’s pot. The bar was the next event where England were performing on the tv very rowdy couple of hours enhanced by the ever present mullet man with his bucket.
Now it’s an unwritten rule that what happens on Captains weekend stays on the weekend I shall not break this rule other than to say Patrick Swayze has a notable contender of whom he should be concerned about, I don’t think the excuse I can’t remember is a valid reason for maintaining Alfs stalwart reputation of decorum,nudge nudge know what I mean.
Monday brought a dramatic change to the weather but onwards and upwards lads after a dubious pipe dream of a different putting comp mr Captain found an old tramp to caddy for him
Very smart
There were a few of the gang who called it a day by the halfway mark, dressed for summer but feeling like winter cold wet and disillusioned hot showers and a couple of beers brought the temps back to normal,
And so on to prize giving star of the show was Mr Rowley sweeping the board clean by taking Trophies for Masters comp the par 3 comp and the overall two day winner trophy
very well done Mark plenty of polishing to do there then
Well done one and all great weekend and lots of laughs roll on next year
Almost forgot the “Crapper”
Cheers Eddy