Well it may have taken a lot of posturing and quite some brow-beating but Saturday saw a continuation of the improvement in the speed of play!! While it is too soon to relax at the end of the field I played in 4 hours 20 which given winter conditions I believe is minimum to be both acceptable and achievable in the longer term. The heavy frost caused a delay until 9.30 so effectively there was a semi shotgun start which will require us to continue to monitor progress.
By way of comparision take into considersation on Sunday playing in a five (Andrew & Mitchell Vincent, Liam Cumberpatch, Paul Needs and me) we were able to navigate Shirley in 3 hours 50 indicating what can be achieved if "ready golf" is played and you do not muck about!
Many thanks to Marcus Annan who although injured turned up on Saturday to act as a starter and then as a marshall for the afternoon field. For the committee this provides a different perspective on what is happening on the course and gives the players another opinion on "who and what" may be hindering play.
By way of an aside when hearing that Marcus had suffered an injury by way of a pulled muscle John Dickson was heard to sympathetically inquiry "Is it his tongue??!!" (enough said - so to speak).
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