damn you mother nature!!!

foiled by mother nature again...oh well it's cheap at Scenic City again on Wednesday :)

"Best beer ever"

Me and Chrystelle went and did 9 holes after work today. It was a lot of fun. We did the back 9 at Scenic City and it was a beautiful day, about 27 degrees. We were almost the only people there. I laughed, it was really hot and since the place was dead the beer cart didn't come around. On the 15th hole I hit a great tee shot, overshot the green, chipped on to within about 7 feet and got my first par of the season. We were thirsty by that part, so the beer cart came by and my old neighbour was driving it. I was joking at the clubhouse after that it was the ugliest beer girl I had ever seen, beard and all :) Once again I was fairly good off the tee, terrible with the hybrid, worse than i remembered with the irons and decent with the putter. It took a little over 2 hours so I was home by about 6:30 which will probably work out better with my wife :) I didn't want to give up on my hybrid, but I did after about 4 holes. I am quite sore after golfing today and doing the driving range yesterday. Next time I will try and use more irons if I can, I can hit it far enough with the 5 iron. I literally almost killed Chrystelle on the 18th hole. She was standing about 45 degrees to the right of me at the tee box and I hit it off the toe and missed her by less than a foot. She said we were even because she almost hit me last week, but I think my tee shot was going significantly harder than her one that dribbled by me. In any case, it was a good time. Hard to tell if I'm getting better or not...i hope i am :)

I'm going to keep a little running total for how much golf I've played and how I've done. The idea is that eventually I'll get so many pars that it won't be worth keeping track.

Total Holes : 27
Total Yardage : 8020
Pars : 1
Birdies : 0

Driving Range with my dad

Me and Dad went out to Scenic City after work and hit a bucket of balls each. It was fun. I did about the same as every time, terrible with the irons, mostly awful but a couple good ones with the hybrid and consistently consistent with the driver. Dad mentioned I might want to put the ball further ahead on my drive so I will try that the next time out, which may be tomorrow. He mentioned that he would come golfing with me one time on a Thursday when I mentioned the $10.65 round. Yee hah!

Mix 106 Golf Tour

There's another radio station in the area and there's another cheap golf "tour" in the area on Thursdays...

http://www.mix106.ca/promotion.php?PromoID=33

Thursday, May 14th at Monterra Golf Course, Blue Mountain
Thursday, May 28th at Scenic City Golf Course, Owen Sound
Thursday, June 11th at Scenic City Golf Course, Owen Sound
Thursday, June 25th at Scenic City Golf Course, Owen Sound
Thursday, July 9th at Scenic City Golf Course, Owen Sound
Thursday, June 23rd at Scenic City Golf Course, Owen Sound
Thursday, August 6th at Scenic City Golf Course, Owen Sound
Thursday, August 20th at Scenic City Golf Course, Owen Sound
Thursday, September 3rd at Scenic City Golf Course, Owen Sound

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Thursday, September 17th at Sauble Golf and Country Club, Hepworth

It will be good to go to Sauble Golf for $10 :)

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Scenic City is just around the corner from my house so this will be great when a) i have a course on Wednesday nights or b) one of the Bull tour events is over an hour away. $10.65/round...very exciting.

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.

No golf on this beautiful weekend...

Me and Jane went to London this weekend, and we stopped and visited our friends Pat and Dawn. Golf was promised, but it was real wet Sunday morning and they were renovating their living room, so it didn't work out. Here is the course we were going to go to... http://www.bearcreekgolf.ca/

In any case, I went to the wonderful Golf Town in London and wow was it nice. I'm not good enough to spend $700 on a set of drivers (yet) but once I am I'm going back. I did pick up a nice set of tees for $2 though :) Also I checked out some golf shoes and I'm going to pick some up this week sometime.

We're potentially going golfing as a group on Thursday, weather permitting.

Bull Golf Tour

For the second year in a row, me and some people from work are going to take part in the "Bull Golf Tour"

http://www.945thebull.ca/events.php?area=spotlight&event_id=1159

The idea is that they let you do 18 holes for $9.45. I think it's a great idea as it let's you go to a bunch of courses you would normally never go to, and it's cheap :) I'm going to stick to the ones that are (relatively) close to Owen Sound, so no trips to Pike Lake or Listowel, but it still will be a lot of fun and a chance for me to go out regularly. I should get out to 8 or 10.

May 6/09- Listowel Golf Club
May 13/09- Pike Lake Golf & Country Club Resort, Outside Mount Forest
May 20/09- Woodlands Links Golf Course, Clinton
May 27/09- Seaforth Golf & Country Club
June 3/09- Scenic City Golf Course, Owen Sound
June 10/09- Sauble Golf & Country Club – Hepworth
June 17/09- Mt. Forest Golf Club
June 24/09- Walkerton Golf & Curling Club
July 1/09- Homestead Golf & Winter Resort, Durham
July 8/09- Pinewoods Golf Centre, Sauble
July 15/09- Northern Dunes Golf Club, Hepworth
July 22/09- Bucks Crossing Golf Course, Hanover
July 29/09- Listowel Golf Club
August 5/09- Chippewa Golf and Country Club, Southampton
August 12/09- Pike Lake Golf & Country Club Resort, Outside Mount Forest
August 19/09- Bluewater Golf Course & Campground, Bayfield
August 26/09- Wingham Golf & Curling Club
September 2/09- South Port Golf Course, Port Elgin
September 9/09- Ainsdale Golf Course, Kincardine
September 16/09- Chippewa Golf and Country Club, Southampton
September 23/09- Scenic City Golf Course, Owen Sound