My weekend highlight while she was moving was to watch and engage with the USA Walker Cup golf team who practised at Wallasey on the Saturday afternoon. The conditions were tough so it was good to see the best amateur golfers struggle like members do.
I then played Bromborough badly, West Lancs pretty well and knocked it around Wallasey again on the Friday when the R & A had a guest day there. I met ex US Open champion Jerry Pate who also found the going tough.
On the Saturday and Sunday I was marshalling at the Walker Cup proper and unfortunately GB & I got well beaten. I did meet the world, including a group of ladies who I enquired as to whether they were the WAGS of the US team! It turned out it was the Captains lady and their family! Now when I say the Captain was Nathaniel Crosby, son of crooner Bing Crosby, these WAGS were golfing royalty.
I was also approached by a lady to have a photo taken with her husband. It turned out he was the nephew of Jack Rowell the ex-England rugby coach and they thought I looked like him. No change there then.
The weekend was not all golf though. On Saturday night SWMBO and I attended a concert by the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in Birkenhead Park which was great fun. On the Sunday we went again to the park to see China Crisis and the Christian's who were both very good. The concert was headlined by the Lightning Seeds who,sadly, were a bit flat and disappointing. Heyho, and all good to Wirral Council for setting it all up and running it, may there be more of the same next year.
Still things did not calm down. Tuesday saw me play Southport and Ainesdale golf course and on Wednesday my old mucker Ray Dudman turned up to play Wallasey en route home from Edinburgh. I beat him on the 18th green, just as the 5th stage of the Tour of Britain cycle race flew by the golf club.
A hectic start to September indeed.
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