Grinder House

I can't believe the weekend is over already. How does it go so quickly? I swear to god the summer feels like it's almost over and I'm spending every minute doing something and still I don't think I'm getting anything done. I finish one thing and there's 12 more waiting to get done.

The weekend started Friday with golf (ok, so I'm not actually getting things done because I'm golfing all the time but hey, ya gotta have some "me time", eh?). Played 18 at Yahara with King Erik and Retro with Dr. Mike joining us for the back 9. I came out firing with an eagle putt on the first hole (missed but got the birdie) and ended up birdieing 3 of the first 7 holes, the first time I've ever had more than 1 birdie in a round, but I also threw a double and triple in there and ended up with a 42 on the front. I followed that up with a 45 on the back for 87. Erik played awesome and shot 84. Retro, well, he's Retro... 103.

Saturday I had to replace a couple shrubs that had bought the farm. Didn't do much else, even though I felt guilty for not getting other chores done.

Sunday morning we were invited to play the course that Grinder built his house on. It's an interesting course, but there are definitely some oddities. For one, it seems to have been carved into existing farm land and some of the course is still being farmed. Secondly, there are no trees on the course, which makes it a little confusing as to where the holes actually are. Third, the layout is strange, especially on the back 9 where you seem to have to go 500 yards between holes, including crossing a highway to play the last 4 holes. Plus, there are no par 5's on the back, so it's only a par 34 (36 on the front).

We went by Grinder's house on the 16th hole. You'd have to hit some sort of god-awful shot to hit his place. It's set back a ways and is less than 100 yards from the tee box. We all managed to miss it. The 18th hole is definitely the hardest. A ravine runs down the entire right side so you can't miss there. But on the left side houses come within 20' of the course so you can't miss there either. So basically, hit it straight or pay. Plus it's 410 yards so you can't just hit an iron off the tee. The green is tucked back behind the ravine so it's pretty hard to get there. I managed to hit what was called for, a 5 yard fade off the left bunkers and somehow landed in a fairway that was about 10 yards across. I hosed my 5 iron shot and went towards a barn where it stopped under a couple of boulders.

I ended up shooting 86 (45/41) with 1 birdie, 3 pars, 3 doubles and all the rest bogies. This time I beat King Erik by 3 so we ended the weekend even. Hopefully we can continue to play decent and win the 2nd half of golf league.

Afterwards we were invited to Grinder House for burgers, brats and beer. The house is quite nice and the basement is huge with enormous potential. Amazingly, he has almost the exact same layout as Dr. Mike's house, only Mike's basement is finished and the kitchen set up is a hair different.

So anyway, back to work today and tomorrow then I'm off until Monday. Not sure how I'm going to spend my time, I guess probably golfing most of it. I still have some work around the house I should do but you know how that goes...

Have a nice Monday.