Pleading insanity...

[limpalong]

18 degrees, this morning. Winds stayed in the 20 to 25 mph range all day. Temps did get to 30+/- by noon and the course opened. Wind chills stayed in the low 20's. But, the sun was shining and we have a winter cover on the cart.

Tee'd off about 1 p.m. For some unknown reason, my cart partner and I were the ONLY ones on the course. Pro shop told us we were nuts. Ran into a maintenance person cutting firewood for the maintenance shed. He said were were crazy. Since everyone had such high opinions of us... we went ahead and played 27 holes.

Getting almost impossible to get a tee in the ground. Supposed to get down to the teens again tonight. That should make teeing the ball on a wooden tee impossible. The greens were like asphalt. Had to use pitch and run instead of flying into the greens. If a ball came in high and hit on the green, it would bounce into the air and off the green.

Playing in winter gloves, stocking hat, and layers of clothes makes for a different game than we're used to during the warmer weather. There are advantages, however. When you're the ONLY group, you don't have to worry about running into a slow group. There's nobody else on adjacent tee boxes to see your bad drives. Hard fairways allow us old farts to see drives as long as the young flat-bellies hit in in the summer months. Makes us feel like we're on Viagra. And, since the pro shop felt sorry for us, they gave us free coffee between nines.

Difficult to understand wives. The same sweet ladies that enjoy soap operas, enjoy spending days walking malls, enjoy crochet and gluing garbage in scrapbooks... cannot comprehend why my buddy and I enjoy golf enough to play in all weather conditions. Senility?? Insanity?? Good Lord willin', we'll be out there again tomorrow in similar weather conditions.

 

[20 PAT's]

where are you?

 

[Grinder]

Golf like that with a buddy can be the more fun rounds. I've done it several times. Just the fact that it's so ridiculous, you don't care what you shoot. If it's dry and sunny and you can handle the wind, have at it I say.

 

[N.V.M.]

18 degrees, this morning. Winds stayed in the 20 to 25 mph range all day. Temps did get to 30+/- by noon and the course opened. Wind chills stayed in the low 20's. But, the sun was shining and we have a winter cover on the cart.

Tee'd off about 1 p.m. For some unknown reason, my cart partner and I were the ONLY ones on the course. Pro shop told us we were nuts. Ran into a maintenance person cutting firewood for the maintenance shed. He said were were crazy. Since everyone had such high opinions of us... we went ahead and played 27 holes.

Getting almost impossible to get a tee in the ground. Supposed to get down to the teens again tonight. That should make teeing the ball on a wooden tee impossible. The greens were like asphalt. Had to use pitch and run instead of flying into the greens. If a ball came in high and hit on the green, it would bounce into the air and off the green.

Playing in winter gloves, stocking hat, and layers of clothes makes for a different game than we're used to during the warmer weather. There are advantages, however. When you're the ONLY group, you don't have to worry about running into a slow group. There's nobody else on adjacent tee boxes to see your bad drives. Hard fairways allow us old farts to see drives as long as the young flat-bellies hit in in the summer months. Makes us feel like we're on Viagra. And, since the pro shop felt sorry for us, they gave us free coffee between nines.

Difficult to understand wives. The same sweet ladies that enjoy soap operas, enjoy spending days walking malls, enjoy crochet and gluing garbage in scrapbooks... cannot comprehend why my buddy and I enjoy golf enough to play in all weather conditions. Senility?? Insanity?? Good Lord willin', we'll be out there again tomorrow in similar weather conditions.

awesome! ...

 

[limpalong]

where are you?

Kansas! If you make one comment about Dorothy and Toto, I'll ..............

 

[EddieC]

Sounds awesome, you might want to "borrow" one of the driving range rubber mat tee's for your next outting, just incase the tee box is frozen.....I've also heard that lifesavers make a nice short tee substitute Stay warm.

 

[zaphod]

Sounds awesome, you might want to "borrow" one of the driving range rubber mat tee's for your next outting, just incase the tee box is frozen.....I've also heard that lifesavers make a nice short tee substitute Stay warm.

I've done this insanity too. I've used plastic champagne corks in lieu of a regular tee if the ground is frozen. Happy winter golfing!!!!!!

 

[FATC1TY]

Planning on playing Sunday morning. High of 45*, and the low tonight is 29* with them calling for flurries/snow..

Doesn't bother me. I've got a new drive and a new shaft in another drive to give a test run of!

 

[N.V.M.]

i'm off right now into the 1ºC weather. long johns and toe warmers, where are you!

 

[limpalong]

i'm off right now into the 1ºC weather. long johns and toe warmers, where are you!

We did go ahead and play this morning. Spitting snow. Temps stayed in upper 20's with wind chills in low 20's or high teens. Yesterday, temps got into the 40's. Today, they are predicting ~1" slush/snow by nightfall.

We've got a winter storm warning out for Monday evening into Tuesday. Weather people say we could see 4" to 8". It's a conspiracy just to get folks into grocery stores. Hopefully, like about half the time, they're wrong and we don't get squat. If we do get hit with winter, we may be shut down for a couple of weeks.

 

[SplooGe]

damn, I hope I have your resolve if I'm ever dumb enough to move to a cold weather state.

 

[N.V.M.]

had an awesome round today of playing, but scoring was not so awesome. no frost delays BUT greens were pretty frozen. putting was ok but approach shots, very difficult. could not land it on the greens or it would bounce straight up and way off the back. this is a city owned golf course,McCleery. short course, but you must be accurate.

 

[FATC1TY]

We had a frost delay for about 3 hours this morning. Got out there 'round 11AM.

Stayed around 38* or so, and pretty windy. Played pretty well, although scoring was tough early on, as the greens were pretty hard, and ran really fast. Rained a few days ago, and the fairways were really wet, balls were plugging the fairways, and getting really nasty.

 

[limpalong]

With nighttime temps dropping into the teens this week, our fairways and greens have really begun to "pavement up". Yesterday, my regular cart buddy hit the drive of his life. 430 yard par 4. He pulled his drive a little left. Hit the concrete cart path... and hit again... and hit again... and, then, hit the hard fairway and bounced almost as high as it had off the cart path. He was less than 30 yards out. 400+ yard drive!!! He normally works his behind off to hit it 220!! He was so excited, it took 4 to get down from 30 yards and he ended up with a bogey.

It's a completely different game. I pulled the lob and sand wedges out of the bag, today, to keep from being tempted to use them. Everything has to be a bump and run. If you try to fly anything in, you'll have zero control over where the ball ends up. Where I normally hit a lob wedge to a tight pin, I was bumping an 8 iron. Birdied 18 by bumping a 6 iron from 105 yards to 3 feet.

Snowing outside right now. Lawn is turning white. They're still predicting an inch tonight and 4" to 7" by Wednesday morning. Temps to drop into single digits Wednesday and Thursday night. That means the snow won't melt and we'll be shut out for a couple weeks. Can't imagine having to watch Price is Right or Judge Judy or As the World Turns. Have to replace a flush valve on one toilet and haul some tree limbs to the dump. Will be climbing the walls before the week is out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!