Life’s a beach for Frodsham captains despite the practical jokes

Jan 13 2009 Liverpool Daily Post

MANY club golfers will recall countless challenging golf shots – but maybe few compare with those by Trevor Meech and Viv Bondi, the new captains at Frodsham.

Imagine standing on the first tee with a golf club with a wood with two heads. One is fitted at the end of the shaft as normal, then a second wood head is fitted a few inches higher up the shaft.

Meanwhile, on the tee one ball is placed low to the ground and a second ball, to be hit with the higher-placed club head, is placed on an extraordinary high tee.

The trick club, made by Frodsham professional and clubmaker Graham Tonge, was handed to Meech for a fun moment during his captain’s drive-in ceremony.

The challenge was to hit both balls with the same single swing. Meech reports that he hit one of the balls and missed the other.

Meanwhile, lady captain Viv Bondi was given a wood with buckets and spades halfway down the shaft and, with the ball on the ground, played a fresh air shot the first swing but, with the ball teed-up, hit a solid second shot.

Relief all round.

The captains have an Australian theme for this year, welcoming people to ‘Bondi Meech’.

The vice-captains were given hats with handing corks but when the fun moments were completed the two captains played the usual drive-in ceremony.

Meech played soccer and squash and caddied as a boy when living in Hampshire. He began playing golf when in America as a computer salesman with IBM and on his return to England and moving to the north west, joined Frodsham as a founder member in the early 1990s.

Bondi, who worked in information technology for Plesseys, the electronics company, for 20 years, played hockey, netball, tennis and badminton before, encouraged by her husband, she started to golf. After lessons at St Michaels, they played together at municipals before both became members at Frodsham.