Glen played hooky Friday afternoon so after lunch we drove out to Cochrane to play 9 holes of golf at the local course. We have played this course before with Meg and Mike as well as with the Bacterial Pathogenesis Research Group but always playing to the best ball. This day we were going to tackle it with each of us playing to our own ball.
As you can tell by the title, neither of us had a great game score-wise but both came to the conclusion that we had a wonderful afternoon together. Mark Twain said that golf was a good walk spoiled but I believe it can be a good walk challenged.
We had plenty of challenges on our walk around the golf course. The afternoon was sunny but a stiff breeze made it a challenge when hitting the ball. I got a mouthful of sand from one of my shots out of the bunker which was a challenge to get rid of--it's amazing how grains of sand get into the crevices of one's teeth. We were both challenged finding the ball of Glen's best drive. We think a black squirrel skulking in the trees made off with it because even though it hit the fairway, we could not find it. As always, the greens in Cochrane are a challenge.
We felt we had good drives on 7 of the 9 holes but Glen struggled with his iron shots while I had trouble with my hybrids. Glen missed par once because his ball lipped the cup and mine hit the pin on a nice little chip shot but it took me two more strokes to sink it.
We had the course to ourselves and played as a twosome which was nice. We feel all the avid golfers were in Priddis watching the LPGA.
The 'Tenth" hole is a lovely restaurant called The Tin Cup where we enjoyed a beer, corn chips and black bean salsa while we tallied the score. It was a great day spent together playing a fun game.
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