Welcome to another week

Welcome to another edition of the Square Leg Files. It was a very big weekend locally with Legacy day down at the “Royal” and what a day it was. Let’s get on with it.

92 players and the winner is…….

92 golfers and varying ability, shapes and sizes graced the “Royals” spectacular fairways in the traditional “Legacy Day” (sometimes known as Legless Day). Correct me if I’m wrong but it would have to be the biggest crowd for sometime and I’m sure the WGC will hand over a sizable cheque to the Legacy organisation. The winner for the day was a team that consisted of the Lang boys David and Stuart, Christopher “Tangled” Webb and SLF Hall of Famer Norm “Guru” Duxson. Well done to them.

Visitor aplenty

Teams from the opposite end of the state converged on the Royal, there were teams from as far South as Warrnambool and as far North as Yarrawonga and all point inbetween. Probably the most misbehaved were a couple of the teams from Warrnambool and the Yarrawonga guys weren’t far behind.

Work it out Robbo

I bought our first ever Yarrawonga team for legacy day and these guys had a ball. All three are competent greens players but the scraps created somewhat of a challenge. Former professional Brad “Bear” Forrester adapted very quickly and Glen “Wally” Brear had some experience at the previous Corporate Cup but Rob “Knob” Browning is a very slow learner. It took him 15 holes to put the sand and pitching wedge away and use the chip and run approach……..

The trip home

I made the wise decision to drive the Yarrawonga boys home on Sunday. It all started with a Masterchef like breakfast that Ben “Glendemar” Duxson cooked and then it was on the road about 8:30. A couple of our learned crew decided that 8:30 was the time to take the new ball (have a beer) and I knew from that point on that it was going to be a funny trip. About 15 pubs later we arrive back at Pistols Tavern in Yarrawonga with a couple of blokes a bit worse for wear.

Who won the belt…

Everyone was in pretty good touch and I’m not going to hand out the belt this year as I would consider myself in no state to make a judgement on someone else……

Bent again

Former Callawadda native Sandy “The Know All” McGregor has hit the jackpot again with his sensational stayer/jumper Black and Bent. Black and Bent is a half brother to his other million dollar jumper Some are Bent with the former saluting the judge once again to make it 6 wins on end. Apparently the horse was some 25 lengths in front at the closing stages with the jockey virtually pulling the horse up about 50 meters from the line, he then turned around waving his hands at the other jockey’s as if to say “come on boys, where have you been”. The official margin was 15 lengths.

Larry wows em in Adelaide

News out of Adelaide is that our very own Gary “Larry” Cameron entertained the masses at his old footy club Marion’s 10 year premiership reunion. I’m told Larry turned up to the breakfast in the full chefs kit and cooked the boys his famous signature dish “bacon and eggs”. I’m then told that the lads headed to the SANFL game Glenelg v’s Sturt that afternoon and the word from the street is that the Marion boys lead by our very own Larry (in full chef kit) were seen doing a lap of honour (to spirited applause from the crowd) with the old premiership cup at half time in the main game. I’m not sure what security did!!!!!!

Lost keys

As you do when you are at a footy reunion, you make sure you put your car keys in a safe place so that you can find them the next day. Well tell this one to Larry as he thought he did. He left his trusty machine and gave the keys to a friend midway through the day and thought nothing of it until the next day when he went to pick up his car. After some time he remembered who he gave them to but couldn’t contact them so he decided to get some keys cut, $250 later the bloke who had the keys rang to give the keys back. Oh well all is not lost he now has two sets

That’s enough