One More Day for St. Andrews
Today again was quite chilly and windy. The weather is changing towards winter. Dick did some errands at the R&A Clubhouse. He got his report on the closure for the Autumn Annual Meeting as follows:
Mixed Foursomes 2010 Report
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In Friday's Mixed Foursomes played at The Duke's Course, the winners of the competition were Mr and Mrs Stephen Proctor (10 and 20), who returned a score of 33 stableford points. They were declared the winners of the competition, after count-back against Mr Peter Kelley and Mrs S M H Kelley (7 and 21), and Prince and Princess Braganca (16 and 15) from Brazil. The Runners-up after count-back, were the Kelleys.
The other Mixed Foursomes competition on The Old Course was won by Mr and Mrs Denis Lenagan (5 and 26) from Australia, with 42 points. This was the Lenagan's fourth triumph in the Mixed Foursomes! They won on the Torrance Course in 2006, and this year completed a hat-trick of wins, following victories on the Devlin Course in 2008 and The Old Course in 2009. The Runners-up were Dr T B Hazlehurst and Camilla Hazlehurst (7 and 27) from America with 38 points and the better last 9 holes in count-back against Mr and Mrs R H A Clark (Scr and 10).
Friday saw the curtain come down on the end of another Autumn Meeting, hopefully leaving all who played in the various competitions, or who simply visited the Club at some point, with happy memories of new acquaintances made and old friendships renewed. For the Staff throughout the Clubhouse, Forgan House and Waldon House it is always a busy three weeks, but the kindness and appreciation shown by the Members makes us all feel immensely proud to work for this Great Club.
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The Staff does such a wonderful job. We tried for a last tee-time tomorrow on the Castle Course, but all 3 of the buggies had been reserved and it would be too much for Dick to walk. So tomorrow we will play at Eden Course again.
When we played Castle back in August our camera battery was dead. Dick wanted some pictures of Castle Course so we drove out to take some today
The 18th green is shared with the 9th green and is an infinity design. Really a fun golf course. Sorry we won't have the chance to play it again.
great views of the old town.
the building in the background is the clubhouse for The St. Andrews Bay Club at the Fairmont Hotel. Up the road about another mile. We thought we might get views of the upper area of the Castle Course (but it was not to be).
This is one of the courses at the Fairmont Hotel, St. Andrews Bay.
We have heard bad reviews of this course. Dick said he counted 217 holes including St. Andrews to Crail!! That's alot of golfing.
This is the 17th hole which use to be a huge iron fortress to protect the east and west from invasions.
Back into St. Andrews to run some errands. OF COURSE....NAY PARKING SPOTS ON A SATURDAY!!! Driving around looking for one made me crazy. Finally back to our flat on the main road and park on the sidewalk.
From the flat we walk into the village and do some errands. Dick has been extremely cold in the last few days. We went to Reiths....what a great store. bought him a turtleneck. Then on into the village further to go to The Centurian where I was given a "sawazilan" coin which looks like a pound but is NOT. They graciously took it back and gave me a BP coin.
Got to see some cute FRIENDS FOREVER while their mommy and daddy had coffee outside.
I wanted to be at the place where Patrick Hamilton was first martyred in St. Andrews. It was at St. Salvator's he was burnt at the stake after many tries for being a heretic. What a great saint Patrick Hamilton was.
Throughout St. Andrews the martyers initials are in the cobblestones. This one is Patrick's
While standing there, a student came by with another new enrollee and pointed out this stone above the gateway in St. Salvador, look up 5 rows. This is said to be the face of Patrick Hamilton. All students are instructed never never step on the cobblestone intials of this man!! He was burnt several times as the fire kept being blown out...what christian can stand to this task of faith!
St. Salvator
Last stop was to get some "minced beef" aka ground chuck. But the students in Tesco were lined up throughout and halfway down the aisles. I said no way. Let's just go over to North St. to the butcher and get our beef for the chili which I planned to cook tonight. The butcher is just across the street from where Dick got his hair cut. Can you see WHY!!!
Ya got it! And only 3 bp as I recall.
Cheers.
Mixed Foursomes 2010 Report
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In Friday's Mixed Foursomes played at The Duke's Course, the winners of the competition were Mr and Mrs Stephen Proctor (10 and 20), who returned a score of 33 stableford points. They were declared the winners of the competition, after count-back against Mr Peter Kelley and Mrs S M H Kelley (7 and 21), and Prince and Princess Braganca (16 and 15) from Brazil. The Runners-up after count-back, were the Kelleys.
The other Mixed Foursomes competition on The Old Course was won by Mr and Mrs Denis Lenagan (5 and 26) from Australia, with 42 points. This was the Lenagan's fourth triumph in the Mixed Foursomes! They won on the Torrance Course in 2006, and this year completed a hat-trick of wins, following victories on the Devlin Course in 2008 and The Old Course in 2009. The Runners-up were Dr T B Hazlehurst and Camilla Hazlehurst (7 and 27) from America with 38 points and the better last 9 holes in count-back against Mr and Mrs R H A Clark (Scr and 10).
Friday saw the curtain come down on the end of another Autumn Meeting, hopefully leaving all who played in the various competitions, or who simply visited the Club at some point, with happy memories of new acquaintances made and old friendships renewed. For the Staff throughout the Clubhouse, Forgan House and Waldon House it is always a busy three weeks, but the kindness and appreciation shown by the Members makes us all feel immensely proud to work for this Great Club.
**************
The Staff does such a wonderful job. We tried for a last tee-time tomorrow on the Castle Course, but all 3 of the buggies had been reserved and it would be too much for Dick to walk. So tomorrow we will play at Eden Course again.
When we played Castle back in August our camera battery was dead. Dick wanted some pictures of Castle Course so we drove out to take some today
The 18th green is shared with the 9th green and is an infinity design. Really a fun golf course. Sorry we won't have the chance to play it again.
great views of the old town.
the building in the background is the clubhouse for The St. Andrews Bay Club at the Fairmont Hotel. Up the road about another mile. We thought we might get views of the upper area of the Castle Course (but it was not to be).
This is one of the courses at the Fairmont Hotel, St. Andrews Bay.We have heard bad reviews of this course. Dick said he counted 217 holes including St. Andrews to Crail!! That's alot of golfing.
This is the 17th hole which use to be a huge iron fortress to protect the east and west from invasions.Back into St. Andrews to run some errands. OF COURSE....NAY PARKING SPOTS ON A SATURDAY!!! Driving around looking for one made me crazy. Finally back to our flat on the main road and park on the sidewalk.
From the flat we walk into the village and do some errands. Dick has been extremely cold in the last few days. We went to Reiths....what a great store. bought him a turtleneck. Then on into the village further to go to The Centurian where I was given a "sawazilan" coin which looks like a pound but is NOT. They graciously took it back and gave me a BP coin.
Got to see some cute FRIENDS FOREVER while their mommy and daddy had coffee outside.I wanted to be at the place where Patrick Hamilton was first martyred in St. Andrews. It was at St. Salvator's he was burnt at the stake after many tries for being a heretic. What a great saint Patrick Hamilton was.
Throughout St. Andrews the martyers initials are in the cobblestones. This one is Patrick's
While standing there, a student came by with another new enrollee and pointed out this stone above the gateway in St. Salvador, look up 5 rows. This is said to be the face of Patrick Hamilton. All students are instructed never never step on the cobblestone intials of this man!! He was burnt several times as the fire kept being blown out...what christian can stand to this task of faith!
St. Salvator
Last stop was to get some "minced beef" aka ground chuck. But the students in Tesco were lined up throughout and halfway down the aisles. I said no way. Let's just go over to North St. to the butcher and get our beef for the chili which I planned to cook tonight. The butcher is just across the street from where Dick got his hair cut. Can you see WHY!!!
Ya got it! And only 3 bp as I recall.Cheers.
That's a beautiful shot across St. Andrews Bay. Hey I finally got to go golfing! Still too hot, 106 when we finished. Me no likey.
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