Easter golf competition

It was the final day of the Easter golf competition at Paque da Floresta, traditionally an AM-AM(team of four) with 2 scores to count.

As I stood on the 18^th tee, the clubhouse in the distance was as usual full of noisy golfers who had finished their rounds. Some of them believe they are talking but are in fact nearer to shouting with the conversation mostly about the one or two puts that they had left on the edge of the hole. There was none of that in my team, we sunk everything, in some instances from 40 yards. There was no on course leader board, if there had been, I knew that we must be up there amongst them, just one more hole and we would know for sure.

We were all away safely and arrived at the green ready for another handful of points to finish the job off.

A 20 foot putt went straight into the hole and I stood over the ball knowing that 2 putts would be a good finish.

That was it, job done, we had all played well and contributed to the team score.

There was no emotional breakdown, no blubbering or shaking of shoulders, we just congratulated each other on playing well with plenty of smiles and laughter, confident of at least being in the prizes. Then of course I remembered, there are always the holiday bandits to contend with, with a bit of luck they could already be on EasyJet on their way home.

After checking our scorecard 3 times, our final score of 92 points with 5 teams left to come in.
As we entered the clubhouse the results so far were listed on the board, with a best score of 91, we were leadersw in the clubhouse.

We then spent a nervous 30 minutes on the balcony, a deserved beer in hand, watching the final matches finish,each time assessing the teams body language and skill to guess how they had done, they don't look happy, that was a crap putt, cross them off.

The prize giving presentation later that evening confirmed that we had become outright winners and whilst there was no green jacket, we instead all received yet another golf bag for our ever growing collection, nice Nike bags though…………………. you’re the man!