Golf Season Is Here
After a long winter, I finally got out, but only because my son had been bugging me all weekend. I couldn’t take him because my girls were also screaming for attention; thankfully we found an out and took it.
My son is just learning to play golf and I’m his teacher; he hasn’t broken any neighbors windows yet, but he has knocked the ball off their garage a few times…
We drove over to a friend’s house near Madison Golf Course’s back nine and teed off on #12. It took about an hour to play two holes on a course that usually takes an hour to play nine.
Hanging out and teaching him how to play was fun, but I also pointed out the calm, the beautiful sunset, and the peacefulness that makes golf special, especially during my favorite time- the evening when the courses are empty.
We don’t have our golf passes yet, so until we do, we’ll keep parking at our friend’s house and walking on over as I did when I was young and sneaked onto Northmoor Golf Course every night.
Native Peorians tend to take golf for granted, but I’ve met many people, my wife included, who thought golf was only for the country club crowd. Not here.
Peoria is a great golf town and the Park District deserves alot of credit for the fine job they do in not just maintaining the courses, but for keeping the greens fees amazingly cheap.
April 2nd, 2007 at 8:53 am
Usually my posts about golf fall on deaf ears, so I figure I might as well respond to my own post.
I’m also assuming a blogger-bash golf outing wouldn’t go over too well.
April 2nd, 2007 at 5:27 pm
Blogger-bash golf outing! When where! Count me in !!
April 2nd, 2007 at 6:31 pm
No offense but I still subscribe to what Carlin said about golf.
April 2nd, 2007 at 9:18 pm
I have my first golf lesson Tuesday night!
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April 3rd, 2007 at 11:17 am
Not to be a dick, but aren’t you also teaching your son to steal? You talk about how the greens fees are so low, but then choose to play for free. WTF?
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:30 am
Walking on a golf course at 7pm to hit a few balls when the clubhouse is closed and the only cars in the parking lot are patrol cars waiting for the next shooting is hardly criminal.
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:47 pm
After we get our passes, I’ll be sure to take him out in the middle of the day and with any luck “Just Some Guy” will be behind us screaming about slow play and that I should be playing with him late at night when no-one’s around… as I did.
By the way, if he does pick up on golf, he will learn invaluable lessons about values, honesty, and respect which will greatly overshadow the ’sin’ of practicing after the course is closed.
So, no, it doesn’t bother me one bit.
April 3rd, 2007 at 3:12 pm
Sorry, I didn’t realize it was after the course was closed. You did mention getting on after dark later on in the post. I actually don’t care one way or the other, just thought it weird you were extolling the virtue of getting something for free. I play on the public courses rarely (I golf rarely), but when I go with my brother-in-law (not a PPD tax payer), he always claims the resident rate. He’s a dick, too.
April 3rd, 2007 at 3:14 pm
One of our close friends is the assistant greenskeeper at Madison and Rob helped him out for a summer. Let’s just say that it isn’t uncommon to find very strange things scattered about the course. I personally love the course and feel less intimidated when I golf in the evening. Course, we haven’t had time to golf in a couple years, but there’s always this year.