Muffins were down to a fourball for the 20th April outing, with Mr. Grumpy on a pre-tour scouting mission to Scotland, Turbo checking out what a true camel terrain looks like, and DJ and Tate at Villa Park watching the noses prepare for the drop. 

Fat-boy had allowed Cutie-Cutie to play on this one occasion, presumably because we'd have been an awkward 3-ball otherwise.

The top-tosser decreed that it would be Cutie-Cutie and Brett to take on Nance and himself, and from early on this looked like a good team selection. Nance shows signs of a potential return to form, and Fat-Boy always looks good for a high score off his dodgy MONGU shot allocation.  An inevitable £4 loss was identified by Brett from as early as the 4th, and quality wittering from well before that.

Cutie-Cutie was scoring like he hadn't played for weeks, funny that ? Big shouts of Fore! from the 7th tee greeted his drive towards the
13th green.

At the turn Fat-Boy and Nance were well in command, 3 shots clear of Cutie-Cutie and Brett.  Hopes of a recovery started with Nance thinning his approach to the 10th green into the gardens off Dove House Lane, though usual service was resumed with Fat-Boy getting another 4 nett 3 on 10.

Though the match was all over well before the 18th, Cutie-Cutie and Brett still had hopes of taking the back 9 going down the final hole.  Concentration on the match result was predicatbly hampered by an understandable focus on the camel count.  With Nance and Cutie-Cutie both finding the fairway bunker on 18, nervy approaches to the 18th were predicted.  The camel count was now in double figures. Cutie-Cutie duly obliges and takes a round dozen camels.  With a duck and the lost match, it's been an expensive outing for Cutie-Cutie.  Maybe he should have stayed in bed.

Fat-Boy secures the victory for the good guys on the 18th and in doing so chalks up a fine 39 stableford points, and the 10 points in the race for
the Summer trophy.  The astute among us noticed a bit of handicap protection, with a few important 3-foot putts missed, though a 1.2 cut will still be coming his way.

Less than 2 week to tour, and counting.