On Sun 21 May, Heydon
Grange held its annual Men's Shoot-Out for a field of 10 players invited
by the current Captain Malcolm Knobel-Forbes. The 'elite' field of
10 - all playing off scratch - started on the first hole of the Essex
course with one player being eliminated hole by hole leaving two to
contend the 9th hole for the Shoot-Out honours. In what is always
a tense affair, par golf is difficult to acheive but matters were
complicated this year by weather which started bad and got progressively
worse. Finishing in a howling gail and driving rain, Steve Lang
just managed to hold off Ian Brushett both bogeying the final hole but
Steve winning the sudden-death decider.