Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 22:38:25 +0000 From: bhutto Subject: [RSG-OHIO] Re: January, 2005 Winter Golf in South Carolina To: RSG-OHIO@yahoogroups.com Terry and Dave just left town after a brief winter golf outing that ended up quite a success after a rough start. The course we wanted to play when they got to South Carolina on Saturday ended up being closed all day due to cold, rainy weather. So that ended up being a day completely lost to travel with no golf. The drive to our Sunday course, The Links at Stono Ferry, was rainy and dark. Our 7:20AM tee time came and went before the course opened but we were allowed to tee off right at 8:00AM and completed our 36 holes before dark with plenty of time left for a leisurely (and very satisfying) hot lunch. Beautiful course and very walker-friendly. Monday was 27 holes at Legend Oaks in Summerville, SC. Maybe Dave or Terry can say more about the fact that the back nine of that very fun course was in the process of being destroyed to make room for 250 houses. Finally, we played at the University Club today. We teed off about 9:45AM, finishing four for four with one day cancelled and three days delayed due to weather. Monday and Tuesday were played under sunny skies and brisk, dry breezes after the initial morning holdups. I just have one funny story to share. All afternoon on Sunday I was joking that every shot was played from my morning divots. I ended up shooting 102/104 with perhaps 12-13 holes having the exact same score as a few hours earlier. On Monday afternoon Dave and I replayed the front nine (while Terry took a nap in the sun on the clubhouse porch) and it was the same story. Finally, on the sixth (twenty-fourth) hole the inevitable happened. This is Par 5 with a "Cape" style tee shot where you play to a fairway along the length of a water hazard, with the direct line to the hole over water and you have to aim right and decide how much of the water to bite off. I hit a nice drive the second time around, fading perfectly along the curve of the hazard and landing in the left edge of the fairway. It was exactly, precisely the same length and trajectory as the tee shot five hours earlier. In the morning I had cold-topped my second shot with a 5-wood, ending up in a small puddle in the middle of the fairway. When I got to my ball the second time around it was in my divot scrape from the morning. I had literally hit it into my own divot. I moved the ball out of the divot and proceeded to cold-top a 5-wood. When I got to the ball it was about six inches short of a tiny mud puddle and sitting in a wet spot. In fact, that was within an inch or two of the same spot as in the morning but the puddle had almost dried in the mean while. From there on I played the hole slightly differently but I've certainly never done that before. __________________________________________________________________ Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 23:16:20 +0000 From: bhutto Subject: [RSG-OHIO] Re: January, 2005 Winter Golf in South Carolina --- In RSG-OHIO@yahoogroups.com, gary hayenga wrote: > See what you get for rolling your ball. If you hadn't moved it you > wouldn't have cold-topped it again :) Believe me, by that point in the festivities all thoughts of keeping score or finishing out holes was gone. My scores for the two rounds Sunday and the morning on Monday were 102, 104, 102 and I may not have had the highest score in the threesome for any nine holes. It looked like rusty winter golf at its ugliest (notwithstanding the fact that I've played 20 rounds since Thanksgiving). > Sounds like you had a good time. Our foot of snow has just started > melting and it's supposed to be 40* this weekend! Fine company as always and actually we played quite well today at the University Club. We're supposed to get some ice or snow later this week. Go figure...