It’s fair to say the Easter Bisque Par event at Cooktown Golf Club went about as well as this duffed tee shot from Brent Hetaraka. Photo: Cape York Weekly.
If you can picture Fawlty Towers and Monty Python teaming up for 18 holes of golf, you will have an accurate idea of how Cooktown Golf Club’s Bisque Par day played out on 19 April.
The event was scheduled to be a fun hit-out for members over the Easter long weekend, however, golfers forgot the cardinal rule of any game – work out and agree on the rules before you get under way.
In normal Bisque Par play, golfers decide after each hole, and before teeing off on the next, how many of their handicap strokes they want to use on the just-completed hole.
Unfortunately, every group that made its way around the Walker Bay course on Saturday played and scored differently, with no one realising the mistake until they got back to the clubhouse to tally the cards.
As a result, no one claimed the Easter winner’s chocolates, and there were no Race to the Bay points awarded for the on-course shemozzle.
One club source, who was quick to mention he was not in town for the golfing glitch, said it demonstrated most of the field needed to be supervised by a responsible adult at all times.
“You couldn’t make this up,” the source, the Cape York Weekly has chosen to refer to only as SGR, lamented.
“They had one job, literally one job, and they turned it into Bisque-pocalypse.”
