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.
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.