Rain was forecast, but as you can see it turned out sunny when the Level Play team hosted Budleigh Salterton. As a club with 11 (perfect) lawns and over 200 members, Budleigh have lots of talent to choose from and they came with a strong team of six with handicaps of 0, 2, 2, 2, 2 and 3.
After the first round of games honours were even, but we had then had a disastrous round, losing all 4 games. We then traded blows with them pre- and post-lunch before they finally pulled ahead to win 13-7.
Notably, four of the games we narrowly lost on the golden hoop 6-7. Budleigh showed nerves of steel to run the 13th hoop from the boundary and attempt (successful) long jump shots at hoop 13 too. The golden hoop lesson for us to learn is to go for it if you have the chance.
Gerry Williams lines up his golden hoop attempt – Charles looks on
The only oddity about Budleigh is their end-of-match hand shaking technique. Here we see Charles and Des on the left engaging in a traditional face-to-face, arms slightly bent gesture. The opposition, on the other hand, go for the outstretched, over the shoulder, no eye-contact pressing of the flesh.
CPCC team : Colin (capt), Phil, Charles, Des, David and Andy