Where's The Sun?

It only seems like last year that we last saw the sun. I thought last Thursday we were finally going to see the beginning of Spring. Wrong again. The rain returned and gray skies are again the norm (just when the course was beginning to dry out). I've got a lot of catching up to do in posting the golf news so I'd better get started.

Thursday was a good day to play and a lot of you showed up. TZ really showed up and had 7 pars with a boat load of strokes. I guess he carried his team and coupled with the new young gun - Rocky - they walked away with all the loot. The rest of the crowd tried to to recover some dignity by winning the SOTD. We had a couple of really close calls, but alas no winners. I've got to conduct another audit but the pot is north of $160.00.

Friday night the rain returned and saturated the course. The GWH had returned from his Spring Fling in Hilton Head and need to replenish his gas fund so we teed it up after waiting out the morning shower. TTS bailed and didn't even showed for coffee so I had to play by myself. After a lot of debate we settled on a skins game. Didn't make any difference though the GWH was in rare form. He must be on the same program as TZ because he had one of those days where things went his way. I was able to minimize my losses and escape with losing the same thing I do when playing with you sandbaggers during the week. Just five bucks!

Monday saw me being a Marshall at the US Open qualifier held at BCC. Talk about wet. Remember the USGA doesn't believe in lift, clean and cheat. So 47 teed it up and slogged their way around our marsh. To top everything off it never got above 48 the whole day. I can honestly say that was as cold and miserable I've been in a long time. I was dressed like TTS plus a full rain suit. While I stayed dry my feet and hands did go numb after a couple of hours sitting in a cart in the rough on #15. No player even attempted to go for the green in two. In fact I saw a few players taking four shots (it warmed my heart). Scores were generally above 80 with Mike Stone having the low score of even (I believe). Considering the talent playing I'd say the weather was the real winner. The only positive to was I didn't catch a cold and my rain suit didn't leak.

The long range forecast doesn't look good for the next few days. If we get any golf in it will be a miracle. Keep the faith, and I'll see ya at the training table.