The Golf Trip

What a trip. What heat. What exhaustion. What great golf. I think I did better this year than in the past although -- I lost the banana split tournament again, and brought home the alligator once again. I did find out that I can hit the heck out of a 4 iron though. Time to put away the driver, or find one I can hit. It just doesn't feel right getting up on the tee box with an iron when everyone else has these clubs with humongous heads. Oh well, it is the results that count. I'm gonna try a 3 iron, then a 2 iron and see what I can do.

The guys were all great, but we all struggled a bit with 36 holes a day - especially with the hot weather. We'll be modifying that next year. Mostly 18 hole days and 1 or 2 ( at most ) 36 hole days. There are a few courses where we could do 27 holes. Some of the layouts, like Heather Glen and World Tour are made of 3 9's. We could probably do that.

I started the week of a winner, ended up down a few bucks. BF - man can he hit a ball - when he is on. His game was looking really great the last couple of rounds and he came out the big winner.

GG had his stuggles, threw a club or two - all in frustration -- all in all, though, he was driving the ball pretty good and putting - well in ordinantly well.

MT - Always in the fairway - consistent drives, couldn't hit an iron to save his life. For the more statesman guy on the trip he done great.

Now for me LF - I don't get too down on myself, but.... I did have a lot of water balls (statistics to come). For some reason, if you put a pond in front of me, or beside me, I find it -- even though others would say the water isn't even in play!!! I'm committed, absolutely committed to being a better golfer by our next trip. Yet another reason to think more about retirement.

We played some really good new courses. The thing about Myrtle is there are a lot of really neat layouts, pretty courses, and lots of different kinds of trouble to get into. Caladonia and Heritage are still tops -- just absolutely beautiful. I'm already looking forward to next year! See you on the links!