The day started badly for the heroic golfer Macky Harts. On the evening prior, his partner Roy Morgan had been at his weekly ballet class. Doing his stretching exercise, one leg atop the barre his whole nervous system seized up and the body locked. At the time of writing, he is still in this agonising state lying in bed with right leg pointing to the ceiling. Ouch, don't laugh, his pain is excruciating. It can even be felt in Carmarthen and yet he lives in Saundersfoot. Ooh, ouch. This small tragedy is only mentioned because on current form the Harts/Morgan team are sharp and would have gathered two points last Sunday, and started to clinch the table at last. As it was, Derek Farley and Anthony Allen took the points on walk over. Two very relieved players indeed. Saturday had been truly miserable with torrential rain from dawn to dusk, but that nice TV weather forecast announcer had promised sunshine and summer for last Sunday. She was right. A little frost on the car windscreens at first, but as the sun rose in clear skies it became warm and mediterranean. The Tenby links were majestic, a fitting backcloth for the Rabbits. Dave Moran and Bill Beynon were out first against Richard Caley and Brian Dooley. Twice Richard and Brian held the lead but the remorseless, relentless Morgan/Beynon combination ground on to a comfortable four and three victory and sit proudly at the top of the league table by one slender point. They are a formidable team. John S. Murphy had Philip Carpenter as his partner this week and they were confronted by Dave Morgan and Paul James, a pairing which up to the week prior had been locked at the top of the table pursuing silverware. This was a very competitive game and things were very close until, on the 17th, Phil Carpenter, put his six iron drive just two inches from the hole, a marvellous effort. John Murphy gained his first win of the campaign with big Dave Morgan and partner in amazing free fall. Away third was Rabbit captain Stephen Price and partner Mark Edwards, both walking on air after their headline making victory of the previous week. They were up against Colin Smith and Rees Davies, and these challengers took the match, four and two, in what the players described as a fantastic match with pars, birdies and albatrosses the norm. Readers must be careful how they interpret this "Tiger Woods performance." There were no witnesses. Fred Adlam and Dorian Thomas are climbing the table fast and their victory over Simon Evans and Stephen Harries puts them in contention for big big prizes at season's end. On the other hand, Marsden and Jason Rolfe are very much in freefall as they suffered another heavy defeat, this time from those two golfing thugs Ron Murphy and John Hunt. Things are not always fair in golf. Marsden and Rolfe are golfing artistes. Little jinks here, lots of spin, delicacy and artistry all-round. A joy to watch but then they come up against Ron Murphy and John Hunt who, with no refinement whatsoever, played their sledgehammer, game. Each crashed the ball off the tee. Didn't stroke it, just beefed it. Then one or both would bulldoze the next to the heart of the green like mad savages in fever. A win for the blitzkrieg against pure golfing refinement. Pity, really. Last away were Peter Watkins and Chris Smith who overcame Steve Watkins and Mike Munro by a slender two and one. They did well to win for it could not have been easy against M. K. Munro a snappy dresser if ever I have seen one. In canary yellow hat, canary yellow trimmings on his jacket and a sponsored custard shirt, he was a total distraction. I am told he is wanting to go on television. It will be awful if he takes over from the lovely weather announcer. He found 15 balls today. But still lost. The Rabbits captain, in his speech, talked about Albert Einstein whose death was 50 years ago. Evidently, Albert had a huge sympathy for the Tenby Rabbits, though I think the captain really meant empathy. Whereas his appearance, rangy, lean and thin had the appearance of a Divot, particularly with his mad professor hair style, his mind was that of a Rabbit. Indeed, S. Price suggested we should award him a posthumous life membership. The proceeds of the day's Rabbits raffle were awarded to the Indian Ocean Relief Appeal. We must all count our blessings. The match results were as follows: D. Moran and W. Beynon bt R. Caley and B. Dooley 4 and 3. P. Carpenter and J. S. Murphy bt B. D. Morgan and P. James 3 and 1. Colin Smith and R. Davies bt S. Price and M. Edwards 4 and 2. F. Adlam and D. Thomas bt S. Evans and S. Harries 4 and 2. R. F. Murphy and John Hunt bt C. P. Marsden and J. Rolfe 6 and 4. R. Morgan and M. Harts w/o D. Farley and A. Allen. P. Watkins and Chris Smith bt S. Watkins and M. Munro 2 and 1.
