Speed Golf

[Jwat381]

Had a funny story I thought I'd share. The course right by my work offers a sprinkler special - all the holes you can play after 6 for 13 bucks - and I've been neglecting to do it as often as possible so I made sure to go out and play a few yesterday evening. The last time I did it I played 13 before dark, and that was early May. Now that it stays light until well after 9:00, I thought I could damn near get 18 in.

As my luck would have it, I got stuck behind a guy and his wife who looked fairly new to the game (although not too bad for a beginner couple). But while they may have been better than most hackers at navigating the course, they had obviously never heard of pace of play or course etiquette. They played very slow, and never paused on a tee box long enough to let me play thru, or for me to even ask for that matter. Finally, after the 8th hole, I was able to skip the 9th and go jump around on the back 9. By this point I'm pretty antzy after waiting on tee boxes and in fairways so I'm just trying to move from hole to hole as fast as possible and get in as much golf I can with the remaining sunlight. I was damn near jogging between holes! I lost a few tee shots - which I didn't have a problem with since I was aiming for quantity. My second tee shots were always doozies haha

Anyway, it was fun and I felt like a dork racing between holes, but I didn't care. I braved a hot humid rain halfway thru too, which is typical for Oregon this time of year.