The Golf Season 2011 is Now Open!

Finally, the 2011 golf season is under way, for now, anyway. There will be interruptions as there are every year.

We got the call from owners around 9 in the morning that course will open at 11:00 AM. When we got there at 10:30 3 foursome and one twosome groups were already out on the course. What a bummer! I wanted to continue tradition of last 3 years to be first one out on opening day but I was too late. It doesn’t matter, we had a good game and great time.

The course is in great shape even though the greens are a bit slow but that is to be expected. Once they are rolled and cut they will be fast enough. What I was very pleased with was how many pars we had despite the bumpy and slow greens and the fact that we didn’t miss a single fairway, not once!

Tomorrow (Sunday) I will go to driving range to work on my iron play.  

New post on Pottery Blog

There is new post on Pottery page featuring my clay Golf Shoe and Glove.

Have a look and leave some comments.

First Golf Shot of 2011 Season!

Ok, so it wasn’t a real first shot of the very first game of the season but I did hit a tee shot on 200 yard par 3, 1st hole, at Tillsonview Fairways. I hit it straight down the middle to the front of a green and all Marjo could say was: ”Wow!”. Then few more shots with same results. Ben, the owner said that maybe they will open this weekend. Now, as usual, it is up to weather.

The clubhouse at the Club got a big facelift and entrance ramp and deck is being rebuilt. Also, they are replacing all the Adirondack/Muskoka patio chairs with similar chairs made out of cedar. This course is improving every year.

Ben will be hard at work for a while yet.

Golf Season 2011 is slowly creeping up on us!

Note: This is really last cross post where I post an article in dedicated blog, in this case “Our Golf” and then upload same post to main blog (this one). But, golf is special so it does deserve a special treatment. I think J.

This afternoon we went to see our favorite local golf course, Tillsonview Fairways, and even though there is still a lot of snow on the ground with only few clear patches showing green grass and a promise of things to come, the owners, Ben and Janet were there. Well, we don’t really know for sure but there was a car right in front of clubhouse side door. It won’t be long now! Time to start cleaning the golf bags, check spikes on shoes and clean the shoes, something that should have been done last fall L. Then I have to check and change the grips if necessary, groove the wedges, check lofts and lies of club heads…what a busy time it is going to be for me: flower seedlings, spray and prune peach tree, start veggies, golf equipment, etc. And I’m loving it!

Golf Season 2010 is over

Well, as far as we are concerned the golf season is over for now. Mind you, if the weather warms up I’m sure that Tillsonview Fairways will reopen. When we moved here in 2005 we played day before Christmas Eve, so anything can happen. But, for now, the bags were moved from garage to basement for cleaning, re-gripping and general look-over off all pockets, etc. I usually empty whole bag and then flip it upside down. All in a sudden you find things that you lost months ago J! Of course, shoes have to have spikes changed, white shoes will have to be washed and leather painted, shoe laces checked and if required, changed. Once I broke a shoestring on my backswing. Not a good thing, almost fell on my kisser. Anyway, in 3 weeks days are getting longer and in February there are Golf Shows to go to…

I just realized that this is my first golf post and I wonder when the next one will be. I should have posted last week when we played Tillsonview with our neighbors and friends and I have done something that I have never done before. Since Tillsonview doesn’t book tee times it is first-come-first-play thing. We had six, SIX, slow and I mean slooow, groups ahead of us. But, it was likely last round and we didn’t play alone so we waited and passed time by yapping with other eager golfers.

See you next year! March? April?...