Bruntsfield 26th April

This was an afternoon for heroes.........and men with waterproofs. The auspices were not good, Mr Enos using his phone in the club house leading to apologies being made and explanations that he was a beneficiary of the 'Make a Wish Foundation' being given. The round started with the first bathed in sunlight and ended with the four horseman galloping their way in from East Lothian and up the seventeenth. By the 3rd, the hail had arived, greens were slow and bumpy then flat and slippery. Lesser 8s would have turned in, this 8 were the only golfers out come 7.30. Shot of the day, in the opinion of this correspondent, was a Murray 3 wood from the fairway of the long 14th, soaring and majestic. Ultimately Enos and Mair shared the medals (on order), but no one would claim to have made an unequivocal statement in the battle for the Summer Tankard (on order), particularly with two of our biggest guns, Lowe and Bryce, taking to the tee for the first time tomorrow.  Appleson and Enos had 2 taken of their handicaps, and Mair 1