Rain-Out

Ellensburg Golf Course was the location for this month's Team event. Unfortunately, the weather was very bad and we suspended play (ultimately cancelling) after playing only three holes. Three holes in one hour was shaping up to be a 6 hour round!

It was impossible to keep us or the club grips dry... and when clubs started flying further than the ball, I decided it was time to call it a day. As Executive Secretary of the Apple Valley Women's Golf Association, it was my responsibility to make a decision. I did take a quick poll of the ladies within a 3 hole radius and it was almost unanimous. Out of the 48 ladies playing, only 4 wanted to continue playing.

I was disappointed with the need to cancel because this was my first chance this season to play as team partners with my friend, Kris Bates. I always enjoy playing at Ellensburg. It's only a 9-hole course (twice around) and it's not the best physical course we play, but the ladies are really nice and they always serve a really good lunch. In spite of cancelling play, we did stick around for lunch and enjoyed one of the best tomato bisques ever and a nice salad bar.

Huddled together in the picture above is, from left to right: Kris Bates and our (intended) opponents from the Leavenworth Golf Club, Marlys Sides and Bev Peer.

Next (and last) team event for the season:
Wenatchee Golf & Country Club - October 6, 2006

-Carol

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A Day At The Highlander Golf Course

Today I had the unexpected opportunity to play golf with Greg Grahn, the financial analyst for Liberty Financial Services. Greg spoke at a real estate investment seminar in Wenatchee last night and asked for a golf course recommendation. Well, I had to do a little better than that. I generously offered to take time off work and play with him.

Since it was seniors men's day at Three Lakes, I made an 8:30 tee time at The Highlander Golf Course in East Wenatchee, directly across the Columbia River from my home course of Three Lakes.

As described on their website, "The Highlander Golf Club is a classic Highlands Scottish golf course true to the land and heritage of Scottish links style golf. The club, open to the public, truly sits atop a cliff edge nearly 900 feet above the famed Columbia River as it winds its way through canyons and gorges to the Pacific Ocean nearly 450 river miles to the West."

Greg & I got matched up with a very nice retired couple from Juneau, Alaska. Pictured above are, from left to right: Tim, Greg & Barb.

It took me the first nine holes to figure out the speed of the greens, which were very fast. I knew I had to score no worse than a 5 on the par 4 18th hole in order to break 90... and I did get a bogey 5, for an 89 for the day. Greg beat me with an 86.

Putting For Sight

The Annual Wenatchee Sunrise Lions Club Putting For Sight tournament was held today at the 18-hole, par 72, championship putting course at Desert Canyon Golf Course near Orondo, Washington. The Puttermeisters fielded a team, but one of our regular team members, Karen Madison, could not play with us because she was one of the tournaments organizers. So, here is the team as it was today, from left to right: Donna Regan, Lisa Schmidt, Kris Bates, and Carol Williams. Kris is a good friend of ours and was a very worthy Puttermeister substitute.

This is definitely a fun course to play, but it played way slower than it usually does. Desert Canyon was recently repossesed by the bank and I think they are scimping on grounds maintenance. Don't get me wrong. It wasn't bad, but just not the usual. This is really a fun thing for two couples to do together. It takes less than two hours and is worth lots of laughs.

We left before the results of the tournament were in because Lisa needed to get back to work this afternoon. Our team had the low score posted at the time. This was the cumulative total of each players score (280). To the best of my knowledge, I had the low score of 67 when we left... but there were still several teams to come in. I'll report back in when we get the final results.
-Carol

Late breaking news: The results are in. The Puttermeisters won the team title (for the second year in a row) by quite a large margin. I, indeed, did win the individual division honors again this year... defending my title from last year. This is a lot of pressure for next year! Way to go Puttermeisters!