MICHAEL BRODIE AND I MAKE A WINNING START IN THE GENTS FOURBALL 2013

Playing past Junior Captain Rory Tinker (now a scratch golfer) and his dad Mark we halved the first 3 holes before taking the lead with my 3 nett 2 on 4, and went 2 up when Michael had a nett eagle on 5. We lost 7 but got back to 2 up on 8 with my 4 nett 3. Turning 2 up the other 3 all hit the green on 10 with their tee shots, from 66 yds I knocked it pin high and the hole was halved in 3's. Mark won 12 with a another nett eagle but Michael nearly had a hole in one on 13 his pitch mark 2ft in front of the hole and his ball finished 6 inches behind the pin which was good enough to put us back to 2 up. Rory reduced the lead to 1 with a superb 2nd to 15. 16 and 17 were halved and Rory squared the match on 18 with a great birdie. Up 19 we went and after a hitting my approach to 5 ft I managed to hole out for birdie and win the match. Michael's short game has improved tremendously and combined with his length off the tee and his consistant putting stroke his all round game has become very solid. We finished runners up in this event last year and look forward to hopefully going one better this season.