good weekend of hecticness
I'm tired. And what's up with this 15.3 point font for the typing of a blog? Anyways, if this is a sign of things to come for the weekends ahead, sign me up. It was a good mix of busy, heat, and lots of lots of fun.We were signed up for the 4 man scramble golf tourney this weekend. In case you didn't know, a scramble is a format in which each player hits a shot. Then you choose the best shot and all four hit from that spot and continue on until you put the ball in the hole. The team consisted of our three core members of Timmy, Chris and myself. Our normal fourth Jyo, is tanning down in Costa Rica. Anyways, Chris had a buddy who filled in. He was a perfect compliment to our team. Anyways, we were rather bummed because there were only nine teams in this tourney. Pretty sucky turnout, but we said, we'll go ahead and play anyways.
We knew that there would be a couple of teams in the mid to upper 50's in score so we were hoping that there would be two flights. We ended up shooting 63 (8 under par) and we were undecided about our chances because we thought we could be either the tail end of championship flight and be royally screwed or we could be towards the front of first flight. We got to the clubhouse and saw that our 63 was rather low compared with the other scores. At that point we were starting to be dejected about our score. However, the remaing five groups all came in under us by at least 3 strokes.
So after the golf in the heat, (98 degrees in May is flat out scorching) I went to softball practice while already sporting a sunburn. Only five of us showed up and we took some cuts because our first game is Wednesday. After about an hour and a half of that, I decided it was time to shower. Back to the house I went, after running an errand to take Mindy's dog out to where the horses were. I finally got showered and loaded up the Exploder with the stuff for the cookout where the riders were headed. We had a good time at the retreat center but our food (mainly the taters) didn't get quite done, but I learned a little bit about cooking the hobo dinners. We also fished until the lightning cut that out right before dark. I came home and was almost dead on my feet. So I went to bed at 11 because we had the second day of the tourney at 8.
Today we went in leading our flight by 3 strokes. We ended up shooting 61 (10 under par) and running away with the first flight money by 10 strokes of our nearest competitor. With about four holes left we realized that we could be shooting too low, so we started dicking around. On one hole we all hit 7 irons with no chance to even put it on the green. We were laughing and having a good time. After we finished up by receiving our prize money, I came home. We ended up running down to Walmart for some stuff, mainly allergy meds for me and some food. I snuck a quick nap in before our softball game this evening. We got beat 10-8 while minus some of our better players. I was probably on the verge of dehydration/overheating before I took a shower. Two 32 oz. bottles of Powerade helped though.
If this is what's going to happen for all of my summer weekends, I'm golden. Bring it the heck on, and let's Git-R-Dun!!
posted by Rusty @ 6:38 PM
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