Hibernian Golf Association

Fellow Hibernians,

A couple of important Club Championship matches were played in the last couple of weeks, and they were doozies. 

It was a damp and dreary day at EGB for the match between former champs Noel McNamara and Eric McDonald. McNamara was up one striding onto the sixth tee box when he hit a fine drive but, as often happens on the sixth, his ball wandered onto the second fairway. Noel tried to save himself by going over a tree, but his ball nicked the top of a branch. 

This did not seem like a problem because, as every Hibernian knows, a McNamara ball that hits a tree always lands safely on the fairway. However, the ball was not on the fairway, or anywhere else, as far as the boys could tell. After much searching (of course within the allotted three minutes), Noel went back to his original spot ready to hit another. And that is when he saw this:

There was his ball, on the opposite side of the tree, mocking him. Reeling from his bad luck, Noel lost that hole, and then the next. 

On the eighth tee box, still shaken, he pulled his tee shot onto the twelfth fairway. He went to retrieve it, and his bad luck continued. The ball was nowhere to be seen. There was a group of sketchy looking golfers playing multiple balls on the twelfth, but they denied any wrongdoing and, despite suspicions, were released by the authorities. Noel, dropped another hole.  

McNamara fought back, and managed to tie the match on 17, but McDonald’s steady play won out as he parred the eighteenth, and McNamara, well, he didn’t. 

Congratulations to Eric McDonald. 

The other important match was slightly less eventful, but still quite impressive. Our club President Martin King defeated Ian Duggan 5 and 4 by shooting a 70. You don’t see a lot of under par rounds in our crowd.

There are only eight players remaining in the Club Championship. Now things get really interesting.