Alice is keen to get the season started. After a half joking comment from LT about when the season will start folling the Slamma.. Alice has already booked a tee time at international 2000! Montreal's legendary course that leads the opening of the season down near the Champlain US border crossing.
Enthusiams is light, the weather looks to be not too friendly. Alice puts this in perspective;
"I'll be wet.. I'll be cold... but HEY.. I'll be golfing !!"
LT , Dagenator and Alice, meet at an early hour, and with LTs car on autopilot, race to the course, getting there at 7.20am when the tee off is not until 8.00am ! The course is open.. the flags are fluttering on the gree... ah... umm.. maybe not quite green..
No practice range.. no putting.. straight on to the course.. who needs a warm up.. well.. We do apparently (LT and Dagenator anyway). Alice opens up with a couple of pars, this after the chaps decided that their second shots into the gree... brown on the second didn't count, as we had mistaken the 18th green for the 2nd.. Alice discusses a great statistic.. he had hit 3 greens in regulation on the first 2 holes!.
The game was.... fun.. with extra points being made for the largest splash-down in the fairway. Casual water rule was abandoned for the game, as this would have meant moving the ball to somewhere south of Pittsbugh to get a dry lie.
Dagenator demonstrates his new 3/4 swing, which is actually a full swing. Regardless, he's playing well. Alice picks up a skin on the first hole, then LT and dagenator take over, with around 5 skins each going into the back 9. it looks all over for Alice.. but NO.. the gritty player shows the determination of his Maple Leafs trying to skate without falling over, and puts in a back 9 worthy of a champ.. stealing the last brace of skins to win the match. LT is upset , leaving his game somewhere on the 14th fairway after playing out of a stream (successfully!) . Dagenators AWESOME drives left him wondering what he has to do to win. Alice reverts to the smug smile we know so well.
Mug of hot tea and a snack at Tim Hortons on the way back, and only then did it start to rain. The opening game a success, and excellent practice for playing through water hazards for the season to come!
No comments:
Post a Comment