Here we are again
 Its been a busy couple of weekends for me and the wife, me with my golf
and her getting new handbags. Well one actually but I dont mind she does a
lot of my golfing things with me which is great. Anyway back to the golf so
on Sat the 9th  June we heading up to play at the West Midlands Golf Club
for the twentyfifth Show-Am celebrity classic. I was really looking foward
to  see all the gang team captain Mr Ian Halliwell and his wife Karren and
the Skitts Chris and Steve we allways have a great time when we meet up. So
after a couple of drinks in the hotel we head off up the road to the pub for some
food which was lovely. Back to the hotel to get our heads down. Sunday we are
rearing to go so we head of up the golf club to meet our 4th member for the
day none other than Bobby The Dazzler Thomson the Ex Aston Villa and
Wolverhampton player. Loveley man if you can find it, have a read of his book
a real eye opener.  Back to the golf we were all doing our bit and scoring
well apart from one player mr Halliwell who was playing out of his skin, he was
on fire, ive never seen him play so well as he did. Well done mate keep it going.
 Back in to the club house with 99 points so we thought we must be in or around
with a shout. As we were walking across the car park Willie Thorne says are you
 the group with 99 points, as hes having a giggle with us. Glad rags on sat down
and waiting to see how we got on yes! we done it. We won another nice bit of
crystal wear for the mantel piece and a big cup. Well done to all the team and a
special thanks to our captian Ian for the invite it was a loveley weekend.

Here we go again another cheeky weekend away with the wife back up to the Midlands but
this time where heading for Telford not one of my favaorate places, as when I was last there
in 2005 I had a heart attack, so hoping lighting dosn't strike twice lol.
We are all up here for one of my good mates Tony Lloyd  another disabled golfer has
arranged for a load of the disabled guys to go and play some of his members. As usual really
looking foward as this. Its the first  time this year that I have seen a lot of our guys and meet new
ones in the form of Dave Standing lovely guy and a fair golfer. Nice to of met you Dave and look
foward to seeing you again. Saturday was just for us guys to have a bit of stabbleford with the
members so we could see the course and a bit of practice for Sunday. It was chucking it down
so me and a lovely guy called Steve Carpenter {carpy} decide that after 9 holes we would rather
get wet on the inside, so we headed to the bar and had one or two while the others went back out in
the rain. After they has all done we had bit of food then back off to the hotel and then the pub. We had a lovely
evening with all the below knee amps taking their legs off and saying, well this is the one ive got
there must of been 3 or 4 legs getting passed over the table, it was so funny. Goodness knows what people
must off thought. Sunday back off to Horsehay Golf  Club pairs are done im out with Tony which was
great as its always nice to get a game with him. We were also out with Carpy and another Horsehay
member Clive two great guys to play with. Thanks guys . Me and Tony  got beat but a great game
 We lost a few more as well and lost to the members 4 and 1. I would  like to say it was great seeing all the disabled guys and see you all soon. I would allso
like to say thank you to Tony Lloyd for organising  it and to all the Horsehay members for having
us there and making us feel so welcome. Hope to see you all next year. Also a big thanks to the staff
for bringing the buggies up and the bar staff and any one else iv forgoten. Just one last thing its a
great course to play so if your up or around that area I recomend you give it a go, oh and your know who
Carpy is as your here him sorry mate your not that bad great playing with you

Another hectic week
Its been a week that iv been looking foward to for a while on Wednesday the 30th
I was asked to play up the East Sussex National to do a bit for the disabled
British Open. This will be held there on Aug 24,25.26 so get yourself up there we need all the support. 
Anyway this was with a journalist from Golf Monthly Fergus Bisset, great
chap plays off 2 also with us was Paul Cunninham who is a one arm player
and Pieta leroux a blind golfer. We had a lovely day the sun was shinning and
my golf was good. only two bad holes for me but not that bad. Anyway it should
be in the August Edition of golf monthly so keep you eyes open for it.

Friday the 1ST june
is another day of the year I look foward to the TSG day which stands for The
Social Golfers championn ship. We play for my good friend Ian Halliwells
cup where we are in our 3rd year now. Last year I came 2nd so this year I was
looking to go one better and get 1st but sad to say i didn't get it, I had a bad start
and only scored 9 points on the front 9 but faired a lot better on the back 9 where
I scored 19 points to make me 28 points on the day.I got to play with 3 great guys
that I hadn't met before Steven / Patrick Jongbloet and Andy Parker who got 3rd
place on the day. Well done Andy it was great playing with you all thank guys, great day
and the winner on the day was Paul Langford who I had the pleasure to play with in
this comp last year. Well done Paul and to everyone who helped with the organization
and everybody that played, a great day and thank you Ian Mullins for your hard work
on this day

Sat 2nd June
This was going to be a busy day for me we had our 3rd round in the Exclusive which
is a comp for the little bit higher handicap players in the club we were playing Beauport
golf club from nr Hastings. We had some good games me and my partner on the day
Ray Sargent lost our game and so did the rest of the team unlucky boys ,always next
 year.  Well done Beauport and good luck in the next round. I had to shoot straight off from
the golf as I had to get over to Biddenden for a Memorial football match in memory of Pat
Finnan who was our Manager from when I was playing as a boy and then on in to the mens
side. As you can imagine I was looking foward to this as it was a chance to have a beer or
two and catch up with people i havn't seen for over 15 years. It was great I was so pleased
to see so many of my old team mates and other friends there that i havn't seen for so long
it was a great day and a late night