Paulette

We played golf today at Les Ruisseaux in Mont-Tremblant with Jean & Helene.  Les Ruisseaux is a nine hole course.  It is perfect for me.  It has wide enough fairways but with streams and hills it stays challenging.

I kept track of my score for the first time this season.  I got a 62 on the first 9 and a 58 on the second.  My putting just wasn’t working today.

I have a benchmark for the rest of the season now.

We played golf at Le Geant in Tremblant with Jean & Helene.  The weather cooperated and we had showers for just a brief time.

I had a couple of good holes and putted amazingly well.  I was “Mrs. Two Putt”.

Some days the putting works, some days the irons work and some days the driver works.   One of these days I’ll string a few of those together.

We played golf at the Irish Hills course after work today.  It was a warm sunny day and hardly anyone was there.

The course is on Carp road not too far from my work.  It is for sale.

It’s an “up and down” course.  It was fine for me.  I managed to loose a few balls seemingly out in the open.  I am hitting a few more good shots but for the most part I am not where I was at the end of last season.

We played just the two of us and until hole #14 we were moving at our own pace.  Then we got bunched up and had to wait a bit.  We managed to finish the 18 holes before it even started to get dark.

We played golf at Madawaska in Arnprior.

It was a very windy day and that’s not ideal for me.  The course was nice.  There are many big trees including a beautiful Willow at the beginning.

The course runs along the highway and this makes for background noise even on the furthest holes.  It isn’t quite as relaxing as it could be.

They added someone to play with us at the beginning and another joined us on hole #10.

It was a good day.

We played our second round of golf today at Nationview in South Moutain. I have never played there before. It’s a very nice course for us. We took the scenic way to get there. We went through small towns that I have never heard of before. It was a beautiful drive on a sunny morning.

It is in a nice small town and feels like a community golf course. Everyone greeted us with a big smile and a nice hello - the people who were also golfing today, the lady at the counter, the young girl in the restaurant, everyone.

The greens weren’t in great shape because for the first time ever they had mold on them because of the huge amount of snow they had received this year. That’s fine by me. I know it is still early in the year. The fairways were in excellent shape.

Again there were few people on the course. We had no one with us and just played at our own speed. On one hole we caught up to 2 guys and actually hit into them not realizing they were in the trees on the side of the hole.

We apologized but they were very friendly and without hesitation told us to play through. No kidding, I wouldn’t want me behind me either!

I hit probably my best shot of the day as they are watching me. I really do need an audience.

We had open holes ahead of us the rest of the way. Again we finished in just over 3 hours. I like speed golf. I really enjoyed that. We were home just after lunch.

We had a beautiful sunny morning with a breeze that helped keep the bugs down. It started raining a couple of hours after we got home. We sure timed that well.

We played our first round of golf today at Poplar Grove. I have never played there before. Brian asked us “Are you bringing your helmets?”. Hmmm that’s a strange thing to say.

We arrived to an almost empty parking lot. There were few people on the course.

Once we started playing I could understand what Brian meant. The holes are close together and if there had been a lot of people playing we may have felt like we were targets.

The greens weren’t in great shape and the sand traps had no sand in them but this is my first time out and it fits me just fine.

We had no one with us and just played at our own speed. On one hole we caught up to 3 guys but they without hesitation let us through. I hit probably my best shot of the day as they are watching me. Maybe I need an audience?

We had open holes ahead of us the rest of the way. I have never played golf in under 4 1/2 hours (for 18 holes that is). Today we finished in 3 hours. I like speed golf. I really enjoyed that. We were home just after lunch.