Golf At Lakeview G&CC

Score today: 87

Today Lakeview Golf & Country Club (in Soap Lake) hosted the June event for our Apple Valley Women's Golf Association. This is a fun, challenging and well maintained course. It was a beautiful, sunny, day after an unsettled week of weather.

Today's schedule called for my home club to play competition against the Wenatchee Golf & Country Club.

My playing partner from Three Lakes Public Golf Course today, was Ruth Toler (center). Ruth is a bus driver for our local Link Transit system, but tries hard to get these team golf days off. TheWenatchee G&CC players were Pat Terry (left) and Dellas Herring (right). Pat has had back, neck and foot problems over the years, but still manages to carry a 7 handicap at the very difficult Wenatchee Golf & Country Club. Dellas used to play with us at Three Lakes, but defected to the Country Club this year. When Dellas was at Three Lakes, she & I often played these team events as partners (not competitors). She used to love watching me use my lob wedge, but isn't so fond of it anymore. :-)

Considering I've only played golf once in the last month, I wasn't unhappy with my overall score today. I had some errant (hook) tee shots into the nasty rough. The good news is: I've gotten rid of my natural slice. For the most part, I played pretty decent... considering I have only played this course a couple of times.

My driving was the most inconsistent, but I had some boomers... "two bun-ers" as Dellas calls them. My putting was really quite good and the greens were fast! My iron game was o.k.

It was a very fun day. Next team event is in Leavenworth on July 14th. Not sure when my next play will be. Maybe next Thursday with the Three Lakes Ladies Club.

Finally... Time For A Game Of Golf

Today's score: 83

My playing partners: Chips, Mary, & Bev.

Bev has mostly played at Leavenworth but will be playing at Three Lakes now too. This was the first time I had met her and she is very nice and a pretty good golfer too. Chips and Mary both play regularly at Three Lakes and they're always fun to be around. But, I have to warn you... if you ever ride in a cart with Mary, I recommend a helmet (and more life insurance)! She's a little more exuberant with her driving than I am.

I haven't forgotten (or been ashamed) to post the last three weeks. My last post, from the Spring Fling at the Wenatchee Golf & Country Club, was truly the last time I played. I've been busy with work (selling houses, of course) and sticking close to home to be with my husband more. I had been playing poorly anyway, so a little layoff wasn't a bad thing. I didn't like that habit of shooting in the 90's on a regular basis.

Today, overall, my game was pretty good. I had one birdie (on the par 5 #13), a lot of pars and, obviously, quite a few bogeys. I was driving the ball pretty good but not totally consistent. My iron game was decent and my putting was pretty good. I'm still not hitting my fairway woods very well so I only used them twice (with terrible results). Gotta get out on the driving range with those. This is a problem that plaques me off and on. When they are working, it's awesome, but when not... aargh!

I didn't really have a lot of short chips. Mostly I was approaching the greens from 100 yards and further out. For that reason, I wasn't getting close enough to the pin to get many one putts, butI did only have 32 putts total for the day (including one 3 putt).

Today's team game was "draw for score". What that means everyone is assigned a number from 1-4 (determined by their position on the score card). When everyone has holed out, you draw a number to determine who's score to post for the team score. You, of course, want to draw the number of the person with the lowest score. That did happen a few times but, we also drew the highest score on more than one occasion. As it turns out, our team won low gross for $5 each. I don't remember our actual score. It wasn't particularly good, but the other teams must have had more of a problem than we did drawing the right number. It was fun to be back out and in the sun!

Carol@TopPropertiesWenatchee.com