The GBI team pulled out a victory for the 7th straight time to take home the William Harvey Trophy. Â The US team, led by Captain Magnus Ohman, rallied to take 2nd place. Â For the statisticians in the crowd, what is the chance that in a 3 team match, the home team would win every match for 7 straight matches?
Everyone left with a renewed appreciation for:
1. Â the importance of personal comaraderie in a profession such as cardiovascular medicine
2. Â the need for continued commitment to compare and contrast across boundaries to learn from each other
3. Â the amazing history and traditions of sport as it has been incorporated into the culture of a country; the stories, poems and speeches go back many decades related to these courses and the British Open.
Now its back to work time!
PS: Â Andrew McCleod, former Duke cardiology fellow offered the following spoof on the Seaside Golf poem. Â Andrew is a member of the Scottish Medical Golf Society:
It hit the dry-stone wall
And plunging, disappeared from view
A shining brand new ball –
I’d hit the damned thing on the head
It made me wish that I were dead.
I mourned my gloomy plight;
I played an iron sure and strong,
A fraction to the right
I knew that when I reached my ball
I’d find it underneath the wall.
And thinned it past the pin
And to and fro, and to and fro
I tried to get it in;
Until, intoning oaths obscene
I holed it out in seventeen.
They really get me down;
In-coming tides, Atlantic waves
I wish that I could drown
And Sloane Street voices in the air
And black retrievers everywhere.
