I don't know about you, but I know that golf season has officially arrived when The Masters is played. The first major of the year, and the only one that is always played at the same place each year, The Masters is a unique golf tournament played on an even more unique course. More wide open than a US open course, the 18 holes of Augusta National Golf Club were built in 76 working days in 1932 and 1933 at the location that was once an ornamental tree farm. The course has got to be one of the most beautiful places on earth to play golf on. The only trouble with that is that 99.99999999% of us will never get the opportunity. Heck, that many of us will never even get to see the tournament live such is the difficulty of getting duckets to the event. So I will have to be satisfied with watching the event on TV. It is very beautiful in HD, and with DirectTV's coverage of Amen Corner, and the 15th and 16th holes, I will be more than satisfied. The ESPN coverage was more fluff pieces than golf so I would opt only for the network coverage at the very end on Sunday in order to see the final groups go up 17 and 18. Other than that, if you've got your laptop plugged in, you can keep track of the leaderboard and all the other activity on the course without having to get up and change channels. It should be a wonderful weekend ahead.
And I need the weekend to heal. I played my first 18 holes last Saturday at Wellshire in brand spanking new golf shoes that hadn't been broken in. After 5 holes I was in pain, after 10 I tried to slap on a bandaid, and if it weren't for the beers I wouldn't have made it. Add to that, despite a good warm up, my second shot from the practice tee I pulled a muscle in my back. It must have been the pain in my back that kept me from noticing my heel beeing rubbed raw. At the time of this writing on Friday, I still can't put on a shoe over my left foot. But all is healing now and I am hopeful to get on the course next week. Oh, by the way, I may have been in pain, but I saw some definite improvement in my putting and ball striking by the end of the round. I recorded my first birdie of the year on 17 and managed to finish the round with a par on 18. Overall I shot a 107, and given the pain and the lack of playing recently, I feel it was a good score. Now to get out more often.
To that end I do have a tee time for this coming Thursday, April 17th at 5:00 PM at Wellshire. As always, first come first served, and let me know by 1:00pm on Wednesday.
I also have the first Wellshire Mens Club Tourney happening on Saturday so it should be a good week for golf. I just think I'll break in the new shoes at home a little bit more and stick with the old comfy Addidas AD Comforts.
The website for the week is http://www.digitaldivot.com/ a website that will track your handicap without you having to actually join a club. Not a bad little site, and the service is free!
So if you don't play golf this week, at least watch The Masters this weekend, it will make you anxious to get out and play!
David
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