The Matches - Match 2
2008 Greensomes - Troon Lochgreen
Davidson/McGill (Team Tonner) beat Rush/Thomson (Team Rush) 2&1
It was a good morning for Team Rush in the first ever Beve Trophy. They cruised to victory in 3 of the 4 matches and all was well in the camp.
But the captain wasn’t happy.
And this was the reason. It started well enough for Captain Kev and Scott as they won the first hole with a solid par. The Team Tonner boys were in receipt of a stroke on the first hole, but as they holed out for 7, Captain Rush was already thinking about what he’d have for his lunch.
Big mistake.
A lost ball on the 2nd let Team Tonner back in and the match ebbed and flowed for the next 10 holes. The most memorable hole (for all the wrong reasons) came at the par 3 6th. McGill and Davidson both found the sand on the left of the green. Thomson put his ball out of bounds, but Rush found dry land just to the right of the green.
McGill was first to play from the wet sand. “Boom”. Nothing. The ball wasn’t for moving. Team Rush to play. With a bunker in his way, and his opponents deep in wet sand, Thomson wisely elected to putt round it on to the big part of the green.
Except he decided to putt straight into it.
Team Tonner to play. “Boom”. Deeper.
Team Rush. Same result.
Both teams took it in turns to fail to get out the increasingly hacked up, soaking sand before finally halving the hole in quintuple bogey 8. Fuxake.
Davidson and McGill used their strokes to great effect on the back nine and moved one up at the 16th. One hole later and it was finished. The news that his team had won the other three matches consoled Capn Rush somewhat, but the pishy roll and gammon that awaited him would change that mood.