Protestant versus Catholic

The day started as usual with Michael up at 6:30 breakfast, bus and gone by 8. Colene in bed until 8:30, gym , breakfast and taxi to club with other wags at 10.

Interesting trip to club with Michael being informed that the road they were travelling on divided the catholic and protestant areas. You could see the protestant areas by the union jack flags on poles and the high wire fences.

The competition was a day to forget for the men but a day the ladies rallied. The ladies having been soundly beaten in the fours came out in the afternoon and won both the triples and the pairs. This added to the singles win and gave them a 3 wins 1 loss record.
The men had a day to forget. In the morning both the singles and fours got off to a terrible start as they could not come too terms with the slow green and an opposition that loved and played like machines on the long ends.
The afternoon didn't fare any better, however the men were very competitive in the early stages only again to have a couple of bad ends which gave the opposition the confidence to run away with a win.
0 wins today.
Irish comment of the day
The ditches at the clubs are not filled with sand but river pebbles. One way of stopping driving the jack into the ditch. You can also see on the photo a slope into the ditch. Also no line markings so there is always a lengthy ritual to get the mat aligned properly.

M