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	Welcome To all SROG members and those simply interested in what we get up to. This is a website devoted to the Strict Rules of Golf Society who play for the Honey Ryder Cup every year and attempt to organise as many other frivolous social gatherings as possible veiled as excuses to play golf or enjoy a beer or two together. Sound like a mission statement? Could be. Interested in joining us? Read on.

Next Competition - Summer 2011

The 10th Anniversary

STRICT RULES OF GOLF
How did it all begin ?

17th Hole at St Marks Golf Course, somewhere near Southend on Sea, England. Arch-criminal Auric Goldfinger is playing a match against James Bond, a British Secret Service agent.

Goldfinger: "Two holes to go."
Bond: "Yes, and all square."
Bond plants his ball on a tee.
Goldfinger: "Then you have no objection to increasing the stakes?"
Bond: (addressing his ball on the tee) " No. What do you have in mind?"

Goldfinger: "The bar of gold you have with you, naturally."
Bond: (looking up) "It's worth five thousand pounds."
Goldfinger: (laughing it off) "Oh, I'll stake the cash equivalent."
Bond: "Naturally." (he looks nervously down at his ball)
Bond raises his club to swing.
Goldfinger: (suddenly, in Bond's mid-swing) "Strict rules of golf?"
Bond: (freezes in mid-stroke and lowers the club) "But of course."

Goldfinger's drive is wayward and he searches the tree-lined rough desperately.

Bond: "Strict rules of golf, Goldfinger! Five minutes are almost up! A lost ball will cost you stroke and distance!"

Goldfinger keeps looking through the rough. Meanwhile, his caddy and bodyguard Oddjob wanders across the middle of the fairway with his hand in his pocket. A ball rolls out of his trouser-leg and onto the turf. He raises his arm and calls to Goldfinger.

Hawker, Bond's caddy, is contemptuous.
Hawker: "If that's his original ball, I'm Arnold Palmer."
Bond: "It isn't."
Hawker: "How do you know?"
Bond: "I'm standing on it."

The hole is halved but whilst retrieving Goldfinger's 'ball' from the cup, Bond switches a Slazenger 7 for the Slazenger 1 that Goldfinger has just rolled-in.
18th green, Goldfinger putts. His ball rolls into the cup. Bond's ball is equidistant on the other side of the hole.

Goldfinger: "Down in five."
Bond: (preparing to putt) "I'll have to sink this to have the game, right?"
Bond putts. The ball curves away from the hole, just missing it.
Bond: "Ugh! You win, Goldfinger."
Goldfinger: "It seems I am too good for you."
Bond reaches into the cup and takes out both balls. He looks at one.
Bond: "Hmm. You play a Slazenger One, don't you?"
Goldfinger, who has been leaning triumphantly on his club, approaches.

Goldfinger: "Yes. Why?"
Bond: (holding Goldfinger's ball up) "This is a Slazenger Seven."
Goldfinger takes it. Bond holds up the other ball.
Bond: "Here's my Penfold Hearts."
Goldfinger looks in shock at the ball in his hand.
Bond: "You must have played the wrong ball somewhere on the eighteenth fairway. We are playing strict rules, so I'm afraid you lose the hole and the match."

Goldfinger glares up at Oddjob. Oddjob looks back without expression.
Goldfinger hurls his ball to the ground and walks off as Bond smiles. Hawker approaches with the flag, grinning broadly, and plants it beside the hole.

The SROG Committee would like it clearly understood that we do not condone cheating on the golf course.
Even against fat German master-criminals.

Click Above if you want a musical version of this - Courtesy of MC Del Coulson

	The Strict Rules of Golf Society was formed in 2003 and plays for the Honey Ryder Cup every year

	SOME IMPORTANT SROG RULES The Committee is always right. A SROG member must never refuse a drink offered by another SROGger. Any contact with home other than in a genuine emergency will be met with extreme prejudice from the Committee. Refusal to take part in any Committee-endorsed activity will result in a ½ point fine being imposed on the offender's team. Early retirement from the bar and excessive utilisation of lavatories are punishable offences. In the event of doubt at any time, refer to First Rule of SROG.

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