Tuesday 5th of March

 Ben had a zoom golf club meeting for most of the morning.  In the afternoon we played golf at Manatee County Golf Club.  We have played here before but never seen it as busy. We teed off at 2.28 pm and finished at circa 6.30 in the dark.  We were buddied up with 2 young men -Jonathan from Venezuela and Shaun from Columbia.  Their English was very good but they chatted in Spanish.  They only had one set of clubs which they shared and their golf was pretty wild! One of them had been to a university in the US with Cameron Norrie and had trained with the same tennis coach. he told me that Norrie had been the number one tennis player for all his time at the university and was a very good player.

Better view from the Condo

We ate in and as still acclimatising had another early night.

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