Sunday was our group golf outing for the Memorial Day Weekend for this year. We chose to play Lawsonia this year and based on recommendations we chose to play the Woodlands course (they also have a Links course).
The course was very nice, though some of the greens were still showing signs of aeration, mostly around the edges. They were definitely fast and I really struggled getting the speed right. Nothing like blasting a putt 20 feet past the hole to make you leave everything else short. Once again my driver was psycho, not really doing what I wanted it to. Wish I had a little more time before we played to get it in synch.
As for the golf, pretty ugly. I got off to a horrible start and took forever to recover. I went double, triple, triple, triple to start. Pretty damn hard to have a good round when you're 11 over after 4! I recovered a little to finish the front at +16 for a 52. I played a little better on the back and shot 45 for 97, which was good for 3rd place out of our 2 4-somes. My putting and short game in general really let me down I thought. I had 38 putts, 22 on the front nine alone when I 3 putted 4 times. I did manage 3 1-putts on the back which helped a lot.
Comparing Lawsonia to Wild Rock which I recently played as well, I would have to give the edge to Wild Rock. It has more elevation changes, more ravines and canyons to hit over and crazy 3-tiered greens that make putting an adventure (but also exciting).
Both courses definitely attempt to make you hit something other than driver off the tee. They both had strategically placed fairway bunkers just where you might want to land a tee shot. I thought there were more opportunities to drive the ball at Wild Rock while I could have played the entire 18 without my driver at Lawsonia.
Of course, Wild Rock, at $95, is $30 more than Lawsonia. Oh, and you can have a beer at Wild Rock while Lawsonia is dry, in case that factors into your golf outings. We drove about 30 miles to Kelly's Bar in the middle of no where off Hwy 73 to tip back a few.
Anyway, it's over, I survived...
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Burner
Well, I finally did it. I broke down and replaced my trusty Taylormade R580 driver with a brand spankin' new Taylormade Burner. Went to a demo day after my round on Sunday and just crushed that thing like no other. With my discount card at Door Creek I was able to get it for $254 instead of $299. I went to the range with it Tuesday night and just killed it. Couldn't wait for league on Wednesday.
And of course, league comes and I basically hit it like crap, never felt like I hit one on the nuts. First drive goes right and luckily doesn't go OB. 2nd drive I try to cut the corner on a dogleg right and drill it into a huge pine tree 30 yards in front of me (a little low, eh?). 3rd hole I got it in the fairway but it was a low screamer. 4th hole I finally hit it with the right trajectory but pushed it right into the rough at about 260. 6th hole I hooked the living shit out of it clear over to the 4th fairway. 7th hole I hit it pretty good, cut the corner and went about 280. But it still didn't have the trajectory I wanted. 9th hole I swung a little harder but pulled it and ended up under a tree by the green.
I ended up shooting 43 and it wasn't really the driver so much as I 3 putted 3 times. I hit some nice iron shots so I had that going for me...
Anywho, backing up to last week... Last Thursday was our 20th anniversary and Cdubya wanted to go to a Brewer game and then go golfing! God bless her... so we did that. Then Saturday she asks if we can go golfing on Sunday too. She's really getting into it and I think we're getting close to being able to take golf vacations in the winter/spring. That would be awesome. Give us something else to do besides Disney and Vegas. I ended up shooting 85 Sunday and hit 7/14 fairways. Guess that wasn't good enough as I bought the Burner the next day. Hope I don't regret the decision. Guy in our league bought one too and has gone through some adjustments with it but he shot 38 last night and was hitting it well, so hopefully that will be how it works for me.
We're heading to Lawsonia to play the Woodlands course on Sunday, I sure hope I can keep it in play most of the day.
Well, that's it for now, got a pile of work to do. Have a great weekend.
And of course, league comes and I basically hit it like crap, never felt like I hit one on the nuts. First drive goes right and luckily doesn't go OB. 2nd drive I try to cut the corner on a dogleg right and drill it into a huge pine tree 30 yards in front of me (a little low, eh?). 3rd hole I got it in the fairway but it was a low screamer. 4th hole I finally hit it with the right trajectory but pushed it right into the rough at about 260. 6th hole I hooked the living shit out of it clear over to the 4th fairway. 7th hole I hit it pretty good, cut the corner and went about 280. But it still didn't have the trajectory I wanted. 9th hole I swung a little harder but pulled it and ended up under a tree by the green.
I ended up shooting 43 and it wasn't really the driver so much as I 3 putted 3 times. I hit some nice iron shots so I had that going for me...
Anywho, backing up to last week... Last Thursday was our 20th anniversary and Cdubya wanted to go to a Brewer game and then go golfing! God bless her... so we did that. Then Saturday she asks if we can go golfing on Sunday too. She's really getting into it and I think we're getting close to being able to take golf vacations in the winter/spring. That would be awesome. Give us something else to do besides Disney and Vegas. I ended up shooting 85 Sunday and hit 7/14 fairways. Guess that wasn't good enough as I bought the Burner the next day. Hope I don't regret the decision. Guy in our league bought one too and has gone through some adjustments with it but he shot 38 last night and was hitting it well, so hopefully that will be how it works for me.
We're heading to Lawsonia to play the Woodlands course on Sunday, I sure hope I can keep it in play most of the day.
Well, that's it for now, got a pile of work to do. Have a great weekend.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Comic Wonder at Accelerate Madison
Accelerate Madison is a company that focuses on providing business support for IT organizations. They frequently have guest speakers and last night, Kelly Fitzsimmons, the CEO of ComicWonder, was one of the speakers. She got me in for free so I went and watched. It was pretty awesome.
The entire thing was also broadcast as a webcast and can be watched here. Kelly starts at about 35 minutes in.
The first presentation was by one of the founders of Sharendipity, Mark Gehring, and was quite interesting. Basically they are building a platform onto which anyone can do programming. Currently it's build onto Facebook's API and is mostly about games but it's got lots of potential. They'll be launching in July. They are a local Madison company.
After that Kelly took over. For those of you that want to know what Comic Wonder is really all about and who's working behind the scenes it really is quite interesting. One of the things she does mention is who her husband, Jeff's uncle is. I had no idea but it makes sense now. You'll have to watch to find out, but I'll give you a hint. He's a famous movie director.
The other thing that happened is that she pointed me out a few times towards the end, which was nice. If you really don't want to watch but want to hear my name mentioned, you can jump ahead to about 75 minutes during the Q/A (question about staffing).
Oh, and another thing I did not know that I found out before hand when Kelly was talking about a possible deal with Playboy for us to provide the audio component of their party jokes section, was that Kelly's mom was a Playboy Bunny! How funny is that? I had no clue...
Anyway, watch the webcast. I found it very interesting.
The entire thing was also broadcast as a webcast and can be watched here. Kelly starts at about 35 minutes in.
The first presentation was by one of the founders of Sharendipity, Mark Gehring, and was quite interesting. Basically they are building a platform onto which anyone can do programming. Currently it's build onto Facebook's API and is mostly about games but it's got lots of potential. They'll be launching in July. They are a local Madison company.
After that Kelly took over. For those of you that want to know what Comic Wonder is really all about and who's working behind the scenes it really is quite interesting. One of the things she does mention is who her husband, Jeff's uncle is. I had no idea but it makes sense now. You'll have to watch to find out, but I'll give you a hint. He's a famous movie director.
The other thing that happened is that she pointed me out a few times towards the end, which was nice. If you really don't want to watch but want to hear my name mentioned, you can jump ahead to about 75 minutes during the Q/A (question about staffing).
Oh, and another thing I did not know that I found out before hand when Kelly was talking about a possible deal with Playboy for us to provide the audio component of their party jokes section, was that Kelly's mom was a Playboy Bunny! How funny is that? I had no clue...
Anyway, watch the webcast. I found it very interesting.
Monday, May 12, 2008
Oops, sorry
Just realized it's been 2 weeks since I've posted something... and probably 2 years since I've posted something interesting. ba dum dum.
I can rectify the former, not promising anything on the latter.
Where to start... Our insurance covered the sump pump malfunction and I think we've determined what we're going to do for the basement floor. We found some vinyl flooring that "looks" like wood flooring only I won't have to rip it up next time we get water on it. This will allow us some piece of mind. We'll be getting it installed from Drexel Interiors, but haven't ordered it yet. Some time this week.
My new lawn mower works great. What a difference key start and being rear-propelled makes. Nice to just walk behind instead of pushing, especially on the hills.
In golf land, we started league last week. I shot a 43 but I gave away a stroke on each of the first 5 holes due to incredibly bad putting. I feel like I'm getting closer. I'm driving the ball in the fairway consistently (slowed down, lost a little distance but more under control). My irons are just not doing the job right now. I need to go to the range and work on them.
Saturday we played in a charity scramble at Wild Rock in the Dells. Wild Rock replaced the Wilderness golf course at Wilderness Resort. We finished at a whopping +5, good for 2nd to last. None of us could putt, not really good for a scramble. I did win a hole prize and a 50/50 prize for closest to the pin on the par 3 4th hole. I got really lucky. It was about 180 yards, water along the right the whole way and the pin tucked back in the corner over the water. I just happened to hit a 5 iron just left of the pin and it rolled right down to about 10 feet or so. Of course we all missed the birdie putt. I picked up a Wild Rock windshirt and $44 for my $3 entry into the 50/50.
As for the course, it still needs a little work but it's a really cool set up. Massive elevation changes and the greens... well, there's not a flat spot on them and every one has at least 3 tiers. You definitely need to hit to the right tier or you're looking at a near impossible 2 putt.
Thursday marks Cdubya and my 20th wedding anniversary. Hard to believe it was 20 years ago when two young kids travelled to Kauai and got married in a beautiful setting. It still makes me laugh to look at our wedding pictures. Thank god I cut the mullet off...
Well, I better get to working. Catch you all later.
I can rectify the former, not promising anything on the latter.
Where to start... Our insurance covered the sump pump malfunction and I think we've determined what we're going to do for the basement floor. We found some vinyl flooring that "looks" like wood flooring only I won't have to rip it up next time we get water on it. This will allow us some piece of mind. We'll be getting it installed from Drexel Interiors, but haven't ordered it yet. Some time this week.
My new lawn mower works great. What a difference key start and being rear-propelled makes. Nice to just walk behind instead of pushing, especially on the hills.
In golf land, we started league last week. I shot a 43 but I gave away a stroke on each of the first 5 holes due to incredibly bad putting. I feel like I'm getting closer. I'm driving the ball in the fairway consistently (slowed down, lost a little distance but more under control). My irons are just not doing the job right now. I need to go to the range and work on them.
Saturday we played in a charity scramble at Wild Rock in the Dells. Wild Rock replaced the Wilderness golf course at Wilderness Resort. We finished at a whopping +5, good for 2nd to last. None of us could putt, not really good for a scramble. I did win a hole prize and a 50/50 prize for closest to the pin on the par 3 4th hole. I got really lucky. It was about 180 yards, water along the right the whole way and the pin tucked back in the corner over the water. I just happened to hit a 5 iron just left of the pin and it rolled right down to about 10 feet or so. Of course we all missed the birdie putt. I picked up a Wild Rock windshirt and $44 for my $3 entry into the 50/50.
As for the course, it still needs a little work but it's a really cool set up. Massive elevation changes and the greens... well, there's not a flat spot on them and every one has at least 3 tiers. You definitely need to hit to the right tier or you're looking at a near impossible 2 putt.
Thursday marks Cdubya and my 20th wedding anniversary. Hard to believe it was 20 years ago when two young kids travelled to Kauai and got married in a beautiful setting. It still makes me laugh to look at our wedding pictures. Thank god I cut the mullet off...
Well, I better get to working. Catch you all later.
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