Golfing with Grandpa Dale

First round of the season with Dale. We did 9 this afternoon at Whispering Hills in Hanover...it was in pretty good shape. I was quite happy with my play, I drove fairly well off the tee, i only 3 putted twice (which was still bad), my most used club was my pitching wedge which means that i did fairly well from far out. no complaints...my touch was poor around the green but that's a recurring problem. lots to build on. weather was good...it was light last night until about quarter to 9 so i think me and Dad may start my adventure of doing 9 holes on Thursday nights after the kids are down...and work is doing something on June 16th at Sauble so i think there will be more golf than last year. 2012 Totals
Holes : 9
Yards : 3085
Pars : 0 (0.0%)
Birdies : 0 (0.0%)

It was a good night of golf

me and Chrystelle made the trek out to Whispering Hills tonight and had a real good time. We got there late (about 6 pm) and did the back 9. I hit some good shots, I hit some bad shots. I was much better with my driver and my long irons than i was with close shots. First hole Chrystelle hit it off the tee and got about 20 feet from the pin...i thought she was hustling me :) Second hole you have to hit it down a hill and over the water. First shot, right in the water, there goes my streak of not losing a ball. I did okay after that. On 13 you shoot down a hill, then over a moat and then up a big hill. My chipping/putting was terrible but I was on the "green side" of the moat and mostly up the hill after 3 shots which is about all you can ask for. I hit some real good shots off the tee but got tired I think. My best shot was with my 6 iron on 16. second shot, 150 yards or so. put it about 3 feet off the green. it felt real good. We got some good news from London as well so all in all it was a good day. No pars, but some close calls. i am getting a little more consistent so hopefully that will bode well come August :) There was also a club cleaner which we went to after our 9 holes so it will be like new clubs. I was going to go golfing with Dad and Dale this weekend but word is snow on Saturday(!) so we'll have to see.

2010 Totals
Holes : 18
Yards : 5323
Pars : 0
Birdies : 0

Whispering Hills and wings

So today, after missing out on at least 3 rounds because of Mother Nature, me, Brad and Chrystelle went to http://www.whisperinghillsgolfclub.com/ . We played the back 9, which was about 2500 yards and took us about 2 1/2 hours to play. I thought that the back 9 was a lot longer than the front 9 but it turns out that I was mistaken. It was fine until about the 14th hole, when the mosquitos almost ate us alive. I played...okay. I sucked at the beginning, hitting into the water off the tee twice on hole 11, but after that I was good off the tee. On hole 13, i killed it off the tee, and then you have to hit it over the water and up at least 50 feet in the air to the green. I must have put 4 balls in the water there. It was funny...it was so steep that even the birds, which left all kinds of "obstacles" on the greens, couldn't walk up the hill properly, reminding me of the Simpson's episode where Homer was trying to climb Mount Springfield and the mountain goat fell off the mountain. I was pretty good off the tee, decent on the green, 1.5/2 with the hybrid (although one of them was out of the sand trap) and crappy with short irons. I definitely need practice. Then we went for wings. It was a lot of fun for me, I was glad to get out again and I'm pretty sure that the practice is starting to pay off. It's a long drive to Hanover though for 2 1/2 hours of golf...but as Jane reminded me, she makes that drive to her work every day so I can't complain.