Did the earth move for you honey?

Although the big earthquake was in nearby Iran, only a slight tremor was felt here in Bahrain. Personally we never noticed it but some tall buildings were evacuated as a precaution.
All safe and well here. The hotel next to Ashley's shop was one of those evacuated but she was in the shop at the time and I believe, like us, felt nothing.
David

Prizegiving

Here is the picture I promised of me getting my prize from the King's son His Highness Shaikh Nasser Bin Hamad Al Khalifa.

That's me with the green shirt on. We were not looking at the club camera because our cameraman had been ousted to a side position by the paparazzi there for the Royal visitor.

On the first tee (first day)

Me and my caddie waiting to start.

David

19th Hole, 19th Place

I am delighted to say that in very windy conditions today I played magnificently and despite a triple bogey 7 on the 15th carded a gross 76 to finish in a very creditable 19th place in the Bahrain Open ahead of many professionals and other very good players. I won the prize for the best gross score on day 2 outwith the main prizes so that brings our total for the Festival of Golf week to BD200 (about 320 GBP) vouchers for the duty free shop. Not a bad week. Prizes were presented by His Highness Shaikh Nasser Bin Hamad Al Khalifa son of the the King of Bahrain. I will post a picture once I get it.
Off now to the Gala Dinner.
Take Care
David

There's silver on tham thar fairways!

Its the second day of April 2013 and the sun is splitting the skies as normal. Its very hot and the players take to the course for the Bahrain Mixed Open. Its a shotgun start and David and Sheila Spittal are starting on the 16th Hole so we have a way to walk to our first tee. The format of the competition is Greensomes. That means both players drive a ball and you choose the one you like best then the other player plays the second shot and you then play alternately until the ball is in the hole. Our plan is that I will drive the ball up the fairway, Sheila will hit it as near to the green as possible leaving me with an easy chip on and Sheila will hole the putt for a par. Does that happen? Amazingly YES. And not only did it happen there but it happened again on the par 5 18th, and then the 1st, and the 3rd and so on. We played great, Sheila holed some great putts and for the very first time we played to our joint handicap. To make things doubly enjoyable we came in second overall and won BD100 in Duty Free Vouchers to go with the BD50 I won on Sunday.

This is Captain Andy (Ace) McAlpine having just presented us with our envelopes. You can see all of the gallery pictures from the event on the club page here and if you want to follow live scores from the Bahrain Open on Friday and Saturday you will find the link on the same page.

I am having a day off today in my preparation for the Open. I will play a few holes tomorrow and then the big one starts on Friday. There are 120 players entered so its a full field with a cut after Day1. Let's hope I am still playing on Day2.
David