Dramatis Personae

Now that this blog has got going, time for a few introductions.

We started playing golf five or six years ago, four of us that is. We don’t always play together (see below re work commitments), but we have a tradition of going on golf breaks, preferably the cheap Sunday night variety, though lately we have moved up to some quite posh hotels. We also take ourselves abroad from time to time and have terrorised the natives in various bits of France, Ireland and Scotland (where I am actually a native myself).

The Girls

Victoria and Winnie. We play off the same handicap (on principle) which at the moment we are calling 28. This keeps it friendly though we often find it even friendlier just not to score. Winnie’s sanity has recently been tested by a course of golf lessons that might have been called ‘how to forget the things you knew without improving the things you wanted to learn.’ She also has the disadvantage of a real job, whereas I just potter around doing part-time this and that along with chewing my pencil or keyboard while writing novels and blogs.
The Boys

Mo (where did I think that one up?) my Lower-Handicap-Half is now retired and plays most days. He’s off 16 at present (though we think that should be a lot less). Where Mo’s golf has a solid dependable look about it, Reg has more of an artistic temperament and hits either (a) wildly or (b) with astounding flair and accuracy. His temper(ament) depends on how much of (a) is mixed in with (b) on any given day. Think of him as 25 (handicap, that is, though we can all dream).
An interesting aside? Winnie is a left-hander who plays right-handed, Reg is of the opposite persuasion (right-hander playing left). Is this a unique combination?