Had the golfing "itch" that I had to scratch today. Found a $15 (plus .99 cent reservation chg) on Golfzing.com for an afternoon twilight rate at FGC.
Decided to clean all my clubs (plus a few extra ones) before heading out for my 3pm tee time!
Hooked up with three guys (who I thought might have been band members from ZZ Top - you know, past their prime long hair and long bearded guys or Harley Davidson motorcycle guys). Actually they turned to be very nice guys who are great golfers. Randy, the senior of the threesome had an awesome game: a few eagles, a couple birdies and some pars! It figures that he's a regular on this course and plays the "Skins" game for $$ here!
I got my own cart for the $15 rate (same feeling as when you get solo seating on a commercial airline flight - SCORE!!!). Here I am by the #4 greens.
I also kept my own score as the other guys were a set three some ... it was nice just to play with other folks and have extra sets of eyes help me find my lost balls (which happened pretty often today)!
Here we go racing thru the fairway toward #5 greens!
We finished up #9 at 4:54pm; less than two hours after our 3:12 tee off.
On the back 9 holes, I hit a really good drive on #13, with about 220 - 30 yard tee shot just past the 100 yard approach marker. I missed my birdie opportunity but got atleast a par.
So we finished our 18 holes by 6:44pm, a little less than 2 hours. It was still alittle light so we played on three more holes before quitting for the day. I did manage to redeem myself on my encore play on #1 but was losing balls due to darkness on #2 and #9. I did alittle better on my score from last week at this same course but not that much better. I really need to practice before coming out to play on these longer courses. Still fun though!
-DB-
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