I thought that you might enjoy this snippet from a recent East London Golf Club newsletter.

Captain, Alan Hawkins recorded the event:

Two of our more esteemed senior members seemed to enjoy the recent Seniors Christmas lunch more than others. They both (separately) reported their grips had been stolen from the Grip Room, even showing our GM where the bags had been placed, accurately describing the contents of these bags. As it turned out neither of them had played golf on the day nor had they brought their bags and were both recalling where they had placed their bags the previous day. The GM has subsequently informed me that he has struck a deal with a tracking company to place tracking devices in these bags for interested members.  I would like to add that one of these 'esteemed' gentlemen' is a young senior, playing off a 2 handicap!

Pat 

Dale replies…Lovely story!

What a terrific tournament in East London!  Great that Louis won with another 3 South Africans hot on his heels.  Amazing how many world-class players come from such a small pool.

Two bits of criticism meant positively though:

The distances of the holes were reflected in "meters" instead of "metres" and for some strange reason we continue to talk about yards, feet and inches.  It is time that the commentators were told that we now live in the metricated age and the suggestion that we grew up in the era of the stupid imperial system is getting a little long in the tooth.  If we all took that attitude we might as well go back to the 1800s.

Piet

Dale replies…The TV feed that we watch in South Africa is what is called the “world feed” which is fed through to all countries around the world except for the UK. That obviously makes it quite difficult for the commentators most of those countries still use yards as a measure on the golf course.