Running 2022 Golf Thread

Yeah, that's a Florida specialty, since so many courses are also housing developments. You're also right that walking is preferable to cart path only. Cart path only makes for a long day's round.

 

I played last Friday when it was high 40s and sunny. Plenty warm enough when you're walking. The Saturday we played in Alabama in November it was like 38 degrees, windy and cloudy but I didn't want to turn down free golf. We bundled up, ordered drinks and ended up quitting after nine. That's about as cold as I'll ever play in.

 

It has snowed (briefly) during more than one of my early and late season rounds in Massachusetts. In general, if it's sunny and not windy, I can be reasonably comfortable playing down to the mid-40s. But it's almost never not windy on Cape Cod.

 

Cart path only golf sucks. Hauling 4 clubs back and forth defeats the purpose.

Ah when we were in our 30s buddy and I would walk every time even if course was a cart course. Stupidity at its worst. We refused to be old.

 

The course where my parents used to live in Florida is one of those developments with a long way between holes. My son, my nephew and I walked it when it was technically closed on New Year's Day many years ago. We made nine holes. I figured we walked about 24 holes worth.

 

My house is between the 16th and 17th greens of a course.

Judging by the amount of balls in my yard, there are some really crappy golfers out there.

 

One of the guys in my senior league lives to the right of the first fairway of Chatham's golf course. OB is the road where he lives which goes downhill as the hole does. Now, his house is not hard by the fairway or anything, but every season he collects over 1000 balls from his yard. In August he asks us "what are you playing these days?" and gives away like two dozen of whatever you say.

 

As much as I love golf, I’d rather have my own backyard than be on a course.