9 Keen Instanta Golfers enjoyed a great day of golf yesterday at Fishwick Hall near Preston. The day started with 12 holes practice followed by lunch and then the important 18 hole competition played under Stapleforth rules. The winner was welder Darren (Daz) Rodwell who scored 34 points to win by a good margin against Sales Manager Peter Brindle on 28 who just pipped Assembly Worker Craig Mercer on 27.
Daz celbrates sinking a put to seal his victory
And pictured with his tropy
I am sure that all who took part wll join me in thanking Peter Brindle (the only Instanta golfer with a hole in one to his name) for all the hard work and effort that he put in to organise the day. God will thank you one day Peter with a win.
Which reminds me of a golfing story.
There was a priest who loved golf. He was pretty good at it and had two nuns as an entourage who would follow him around and watch him play. One Saturday the priest was having a great round, when he came to the eighth hole. He started off with a beautiful drive to down the fairway, and a nice chip to the green. When he goes to putt the ball it rolls straight for the hole, swerves, misses rolls down the hill and into the lake. The priest enraged by this setback in an otherwise perfect round takes out his sand wedge, bends it over his knee, and hurls it at a tree screaming at the top of his voice:
"GODDAMNIT, missed!"
The two nuns are shocked and berate him saying, "You shouldn't swear or GOD will get you."
The priest, a little embarassed decides to continue his round. Amazingly, he finds that his game is improving. However when he gets to the thirteenth hole he drives a wicked slice into the water hazard, takes his penalty and winds up on the green one under par. He putts the ball, it rolls straight for the hole swerves rolls down the hill and into a rabbit hole. The priest, red with anger, takes his favorite driver and bashes it on a nearby rock screaming:
"GODDAMNIT, missed!"
The two nuns stare at him and say, "We're warning you, curb your swearing or GOD will get you."
The priest ignoring them continues with his game and manages to turn things around so that by the time he is at the eighteenth hole he is almost as good as his personal best. He drives the ball from the tee on a par four to within two feet of the cup. If he makes his next putt he will beat the clubhouse record. He lines up his putt, swings, it rolls toward the hole swerves, hits a rock bounces towards the lake where just before it hits the water, a fish leaps up out of the water swallows the ball and dives away. This makes the priest so furious that he takes his entire bag and hurls it into the lake, screaming after the fish:
"GODDAMNIT, missed!"
Suddenly, dark clouds begin to gather, thunder booms, and lightning strikes the two nuns dead followed by a loud booming voice
"DAMNIT, missed"
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