Steve Cook, Norm Arnott and I played 18 holes today at the Northbridge Golf Club. A very pleasant excursion on a warm, sunny Sydney spring day, well worth taking the day off work. Northbridge is spectacular, as its website explains. “Northbridge is a lush bushland course. During a round golfers experience the delights of varied Australian wildlife. In addition to many golf holes along Middle Harbour it also provides views of the Sydney City skyline.” The birds were indeed very active – lots of magpies and kookaburras swooping around.
Steve invented a complicated scoring mechanism that only he understood. Because I was the worst player it gave me lots of shots, which was encouraging. Steve won, of course, because he was doing the scoring. It helped that he played much better than Norm and I. I had a good time because I played a lot of good shots on a very difficult course. I lost lots of balls. It was a good job I didn’t play with the special souvenir ball Steve brought me back from Alice Springs Golf Club!
The course is very hilly, so it was a good workout as well, which helped to burn off the hot chicken and gravy roll we had at the halfway stage.
