Dorset County

Having started the season with high hopes we lost three of our better players within less than three weeks of this match, two with unavoidable business commitments and one to health problems. Thus we travelled to Chislehurst the day before for a practise round with a weaker team and to make matters worse during the night John Nash our number one man was taken ill and could not play. That meant that as the only one left I had to fill that last spot. I would like to thank Phil Addis, Brian Hansford and Mike Mudford all of whom stepped in at short notice and performed very well.

Chislehurst is a very strange quite hilly little golf course being only 5,119 yards long with several holes criss crossing each. There are two par fives and eight par threes. The sun shone and the condition of the course was excellent with good greens, fast downhill and rather slow uphill. Kent as usual had a very strong side and although several of the matches were close they were too good for us this time, in fact they made it very clear that they were still smarting from having lost to us last year and were determined to get their revenge. Afterwards we enjoyed a sociable meal with some very nice roast beef and probably the best bread and butter pudding that I had ever had.

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