Summer of Travel Blog

Agnes Scores a Hole in One at the K Club

July 9th, 2007

These last two days have been crazy!
The rain!!!!!!!!! completely wet from the morning
to the evening!
yesterday was terrible, couldn’t do anything. I wanted to visit a manor, it was closed… and this morning, went to a beautiful garden and farm in the middle of nowhere, got completely wet, and muddy… then my mobile broke down, the screen went completely white…couldn t find the way back, and ended up in a field in front of a big bull. I ran away until I found a road, and thumbed a lift. the man who gave me a lift was going to Maynooth (where i wanted to go), but he had something to do in Straffan first.
Once at straffan, I got out of the car, as I saw a man with a guinness umbrella looking at the river, and I wanted to take a picture of him. After a photo we started to talk, he was here for the european open in the K club, and gave me a free entry pass. I spent my afternoon watching the golfers (still under the rain).
It was the first time I attended a golf competition. To be completely honest, I hadn’t even heard about the Smurfit European Open before, and yet I still got a chance to get in to photograph the event. Then I saw a crowd around a man, I thought It might be somebody famous. I asked somebody in the crowd who told me it was the legendary Ian Woosnam, the winner of so many championships.
I decided to approach him. He very kindly obliged and honoured my request for an autograph. Still feeling a little brave, or cheeky, I asked him if it would be ok to take his picture with me for myguideIreland. He was really friendly with me, and showed as much interest in where I came from, and what I was doing here, as I had for him. A Hole in One, on an otherwise wet day.

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