Fore… o’clock in the afternoon…
We normally do a write up of our ‘tours’ around the UK when we visit a few uni’s at once, however Ali and I had a cracking afternoon we would like to share with you…
I’m sure you can (water) hazard a guess by the pictures… yes we found a crazy golf course to play on! We had a presentation to students looking for a placement at Brunel Uni at lunch time then another presentation at 5 at Portsmouth Uni, however we arrived a good hour early to Portsmouth. After locating where we needed to be at 5 we decided to go see the sea and we found a Pirate styled 9 hole crazy golf! Ruddy brilliant it was. Pretty fast greens for the overcast conditions and time of year but that didn’t stop me elegantly striking the ball to go two up after three holes. Ali then decided to pick his game up and pulled it back to three all (two holes were shared) with one hole left…
Cue a tense finale that would rival anything The Open has to offer. It was a pretty straight hole but there were cumbers, obstacles and pretty much anything and everything in our line of vision. Ali went first… his backswing was gentle and precise like Van Gogh on a blank canvas and he gradually elevated his putter back and then like an impatient kid in a sweet shop he snatched his shot and dragged it left. Phew. Up steps Sidwell, calm and chilled, ready to knock it down in one… yeah, it went wide right. Whatever. The green moved.
Second shot for Ali, he’s no further than two foot from the hole and he slots in bang in the middle. Shame. No pressure, no pressure Sidwell… come on, you can do it. I carefully place my feet a shoulders width apart, feel the club grip nicely in the mitts and I line up what must be a 3 foot putt, slightly left to right past the wooden barrel towards the flag pole. All confident after his two, Ali pipes up, “Tiger Woods would do this with his eyes closed Sidwell, get on with it”. He didn’t phase me at all. Nothing was going to phase me… I held my breath, brought my club back slowly and gently swing through the line… and missed by a good inch. “Woo hoo!” shouts Ali as he raises his arms in the air - he won. Gutted.
Not wanting to ruin my day I decide to try my luck on the amusements. Now the RateMyPlacement team certainly don’t encourage gambling in any way, but when you lose a round of crazy golf to someone who’s almost half your size, your principles go out of the window.
20p in, Pingu out 1st time! Needless to say, I had the last laugh. Cheers! What a good half an hour.
