I normally do these things on a Friday so I hope this doesn't unsettle your week too much. It's a holiday tomorrow of course. Talking of which the golf course is back open and, whisper it ever so quietly, I've managed to sneak on a couple of times this week. The first time was Monday evening. You know me. I'm not one to brag, but I was only 2 over par standing on the 9th. Hadn't hit a bad shot all round. Of course I blocked my drive right out of bounds. So annoying.
I managed another outing too and this was interesting. I was paired in a foursome match with a German guy. Really good bloke and only the second German I've ever played golf with. I was continuing my rich vein of form, but slightly tweaked a long iron pin high left of the 8th green ( stop me if I'm losing you ) and he had a decision to make. He could either attempt a very tricky chip over a bunker directly at the pin which was just a couple of yards onto the green or the safer, dare I say, dull option was a putt onto the front edge but leaving us a long way from the hole. He chose the latter and though he had executed the shot well enough apologised for his temerity. "And that's why we lost the war" he added ruefully!
The other time I played with a German was in Bangkok on a golf course near the airport. Planes lumbered overhead in a steady queue so that in the end one barely noticed them. My German friend was lining a putt up, quite an important one actually, on the fourteenth I think it was, when he stopped to look at another jet coming into land and then checked his watch. "Lufthansa", he said, "Right on time". And stroked the ball into the centre of the hole.
I love April Fools jokes. Our Managing Partner Jon Macintosh played a classic this morning. Look out for it on my earlier LinkedIn posting. So good!
Otherwise have a great Easter.
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