Matt had arranged dinner with a few other golf tragics after our game at Royal Melbourne.  Rich and Chris I had played with earlier in the week.  Terry I will play with next week in Adelaide.  Ben is manager of Metropolitan Golf Club, where I was playing on Frday afternoon and a member at RM and Brian joined us for the craic.  Once again (and I can’t blame Qantas this time) I forgot the camera.  I also made the mistake of turning up to dinner in Melbourne, with members of the very best Victorian golf clubs, in a New South Wales GC polo shirt.  I understand that some may have seen this as a social faux pas.  They should be very grateful I wasn’t sporting a Trent Bridge 2015 t-shirt.

We drank beer and ate pizza and talked golf and cricket for three hours.  Once again it was clear to me what a good bunch of blokes these are.  In much the same way, whenever the GCA (another golf architecture forum but US based, with many UK members) UK contingent get together we have a good time but we just don’t do it as often as the Victorian mafia.  Something to work on on my return.  During the evening I mentioned my visit to the SCG and we worked out that Victoria were playing a day/night warm up against the South Africans at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Saturday.  It turns out that Matt is a member of the MCG and he suggested that we might go along for some of the game, so that I could see the MCG.  More on that in a later post.

A really good evening with a cracking set of people.  Good conversation, good food and good beer.  What more could you want?

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