The Coffee House

[jcdeboever]

Well shot 44 out of 36. Not bad for me. No lost balls. One bad hole, 7 on a 4. Really helps having someone there guiding you.

The best I ever did was a 74 . . . on nine holes.

It's a frustrating sport to say the least. I have no idea why I like it. I almost quit six weeks ago but that guy I golfed with today, really helped me out.

I keep playing because of these moments that happen interspersed with utter horse apples...

the hole that I hit my 5 iron off the tee because my driver swing is broken, and stick a 7 iron to 4 feet for birdie on my second shot,

or the par 3 that I miss left, chip/pitch to 12 feet and sink a long par putt

or the hole where I top the ball off the tee and hit the green with my 4 iron on the next shot to save a chance for par.

You know, those holes where I sort of look like I know what I'm doing.

That guy fixed my driver off the tee. This how. I brought out a bag of tees to the driving range. Place ball on tee. Put one tee about 6 to 8 inches behind ball, and one 6 to 8 inches in front of ball. The goal is to knock down tees. If you miss any of them, it will hook, slice, top, or ground head before hits ball. I must have hit 10 large buckets over a course of a week or little more before I got it fixed. Also, the new over sized grips helped a lot.

 

[Gary A.]

In high school, for one season Gary tried out for the golf team. Made the squad. Haven't played golf since then.

Now if golf was on a timer ... or there was contact ... or both, now you have a sport. I can see a pair of competitors running towards the green beating each other with clubs.

Speaking of time. Gary covered Steve Scott, the indoor miler, on a run he made for the quickest 18 holes. Gary thinks it was about 45 or 48 minutes. Guinness was there to oversee the event for the world record books. At the end of the day he set a new world record for completing 18 holes. Gary signed the Guinness book as a witness and Scott signed a ball for me. After he finished signing the ball, he looked at me and said "... Hey, this is my first outdoor world record...".

 

[Gary A.]

Inside page headline in today's Los Angeles Times, "Sessions is not high on marijuana".

 

[limr32 1]

Happy Saturday, hosers.

I played golf once. It was okay. Made it over the water trap. Didn't hit into the sand traps. That's all I remember.

 

[snowbear119 50]

Golf was invented by the Scots to help keep the English at bay.

Heading down to the local Amish/Farmer's market to look for some wedding reception room decor. Hopefully some photo ops will present themselves.

 

[vintagesnaps]

How about posing a cow? Local PBS station is showing sale of champions from the state fair... they were trying to do a group photo with the winner of champion market and it was taller than the girl trying to lead the thing. It just kept on going across the stage, she'd turn it to go the other way and it'd just keep on going... lol this went on for several trips back and forth across the stage and finally the thing stopped so she smiled and they got a picture! whew I wouldn't want to be the official photographer for that. That little girl trying to get that cow to stop was priceless.

Had it on while I've been checking laundry and what not because I wanted to see a local kid who won champion barrow (hog) and the dadblasted thing sold in the auction for $41,000! Wooh, guess that'll help the college fund.

And where are these guys with cowboy hats any other time? Once in awhile I see a guy in a pickup wearing one but mostly here they wear caps with some farm logo on it. They do all walk alike, too many hours on those big tractors, the ones with AC... that's the way to do it! lol

 

[vintagesnaps]

And... local hockey season starts in a month!!!!!!!!

 

[Frank F.]

Came home from another week in the middle of nowhere with horses. My daughter loves horses. I took a lot of photos of chickens and pigs and horses and my happy daughter on horses. For me it was a week as her personal assistant. Driving cooking cleaning playing cards reading books to her. A rather rainy August here in Germany....

 

[SquarePeg39 1]

I used to golf every Sunday with my ex and his dad. Then I had a child. No mom with a child and a full time job has 4-5 hours free on a weekend to play golf! Haven't played in 15 years. Don't miss it at all.

 

[jcdeboever]

Playing in scramble today, just about every Sunday. Church, breakfast, scramble. I keep my Holga 135 in the cart. I have about 15 exposures left to take. I have mostly flowers on it. Wife let's out a big sigh every time I pull it out. Lol

 

[SquarePeg39 1]

Wife let's out a big sigh every time I pull it out. Lol

 

[Frank F.]

Here is a dog called "Tobi" chasing water from a hose...

 

[Frank F.]

a flower in fading light...

 

[Frank F.]

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[Frank F.]

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