D&A Captain Kay McColl welcomed the ladies to what proved to be a most enjoyable evening. Thanks must go to the catering and bar staff at Douglas Park Golf Club for the excellent food and service (even though our table did not get any rolls and we tried to get a double brandy instead!!!) £400 was raised by the raffle and this money goes to our Juniors - many thanks to those who donated prizes.
The floral decorations on the tables is well worth mentioning and thanks go to the lady who did all this hard work.
The Guest Speaker was the very well known Jenny McGahan and she proved to be informative and entertaining, telling us of various things that she has experienced while on duty and how at a very young age she was brought up talking about golf and golf rules.
I did like her story about the two Irish men playing a match - they got round to the 12th hole and discovered that their drives had landed side by side and they were not sure which ball was which - they had NOT marked the ball). After much discussion Mick told Paddy that he would just play the yellow ball and he could play the white one!!!
Jenny also told us of playing in a mixed foursomes at Douglas Park, she was not happy with how she had played and apologised to her partner and told him that she had never played quite so badly. He told her that he did not realise that she had played before!!!!! Obviously a very good sense of humour since he is now her husband!!
Another good story about Belle Robertson playing with Anne Laing at Douglas Park - when Anne was just coming through as a top player - Belle drives off at the 4th tee (dog-leg) she has used her three wood and is in perfect position - she then tells Anne that when she was her age, she would have used her driver and cut out the dog-leg. Anne duly takes out her driver and plays a great drive which ends up in the trees - she looks at Belle and Belle then tells her that when she was her age there were NO trees!!
Lots of interesting things to do with being a referee - hours of boredom interspersed with moments of Sheer Panic - she also told us about attending the Rule School at St. Andrews and of all the interesting people she has met - one American invited Jenny and her husband to Augusta - so this Rule School at St. Andrews sounds like a very good place to be.
Well done Jenny, I can assure you that listening to you was a lot better than watching paint dry!!!
The evening finished with Vice Captain Jennifer Kinloch giving a most amusing vote of thanks.
Thanks go to D&A Webmaster Jean Campbell for the report