Sad news reached me today as I learnt of the untimely passing of Terry Le Carre, affectionately known as El Tel. I had just completed a round of golf at Rockleys Golf Club here on Barbados, a course El Tel probably played when he, too, visited the island.
El Tel was always the bookie when we were on our boys tours to the Algarve and it was his City trader influence which got me involved in the black art of spread betting and the dealing room language associated with it.
He won the Algarve Cup one year, from nowhere, and his joy and elation are emotions that stay with me still to this day. He also cleaned up on the book as he was probably 1-3 to win going into the final round!
We all gathered in Jersey for his fiftieth birthday not that many years ago and, as ever, he was the life and soul of the party. Little did we know that would be the final, final round. He became ill some while ago and fought stoically to the end.
He will now be reunited with Moose, and together they will make a formidable betterball in God's own global Open Championship. it does leave us short on characters here on the ground, El Tel, you will be hugely missed.
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