Category: 2016
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Vacation golf in South Africa, East London Golf Club : The Real MOTB Experience
The body unfolds slowly from 23 hours of sitting in an airplane, but the Bear firmly believes he can tee off without a trip to the practice range of even a practice swing ! A herd of Impala (South African antelope type animals), grazing peacefully in the presumed safety of the shade of the ladies’…
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Devil’s Triangle, Boys a Team : Sure Can Scramble
Devil’s Triangle Parent Junior Club Tournament – the boys played as a team – mom and dad not playing, even though its billed as a Parent Junior tournament. It’s either going to be very pretty or a complete fiasco…… Holes 1 through 3: Shamble (both drive, take best drive and play own shots in). Rob rescues Bear off…
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Season 4, End of Season Championship : Even Rob
With an early 7:57 AM tee time, 1.5 hours from home – Rob, with Dad on the bag, rocked the round with an Even Par 36 – his personal record and a well earned medal at the local tour Season Championship. Much later I was on Bear’s bag. Well not really. I drove the cart…
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Season 4, Tournament 6 : Cruising Under the Radar
We wait for 4 hours (Bear teed off much earlier) and still had to adjust the GPS watch half way up the fairway on the 1st hole ! (See last week). It was a shaky start with lots of blame being thrown around and it’s not fair and I’m playing so badly. I remind Rob that nobody…
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Season 4, Tournament 5: It’s the Watch’s Fault
It’s the watch’s fault ! This after a perfect drive up the fairway from the first tee box followed by an approach into the sand when he realized he had forgotten to set his GPS watch to the correct course during the storm interrupted warm-up and had to rely on my estimate of the yardage…
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Season 4, Tournament 4 : I Was Still Talking
So excruciatingly slow …… We tee off 1/2 hour late due, apparently, to the second group out in the morning taking 31/2 hours to play 9 holes and finishing an hour behind the first group. They were, apparently, penalized but the effect ripples down the field less sparkly than the ripples on the glorious lake…
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National Tournament: Best Bogey Ever Seen
This week Rob played in the Peachtree Junior Open presented by PGA Superstore. It was a 36 hole tournament and Dad was on the Bag as Bear and I were attending the GA State Social Studies Fair where Bear and a friend were State Finalists for a project titled, Planning for the Pros: Do You Need…
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Season 4 Tournament 3: # Be Kind
I was Mom on the Practice Bag today. Rob tee’d off at 8:26 am which means a 5 am weekend wake up to get the dogs walked and everyone up and dressed, bags, coolers, carts, Starbucks drive-thru ……… Mistake to give the coolers to Rob to walk from kitchen to car. They did not make it. A…
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Season 4, Tournament 2: Blaming inter alia March Madness
OMG! Coming off the fun and levity of an 84 (with a 10 on Hole 1) in last weekend’s 2 day 18 hole per day Regional Tournament, today was a horrible, whiny, angry 9-hole 49 (with a 10 on Hole 8). I’m blaming it on no Friday practice and a late night. Rob blamed it on ‘nothing going…
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Regional Tournament Day 2 : Great Day for Rob
The practice range is one of the most stressful places on a tournament day. It can set the scene for the entire round. The more you see Daddy Caddies making wildly exaggerated swing motions in the air the louder the arguments become and when the videoing begins and the swing stick comes out ……… it…
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Regional Tournament Day 1: Only An Out
We played a 2 ball and probably had a record round time-wise for a US Kids tournament which are often agonizingly slow. Rob and I played with a dad and son who were very experienced. Daddy Caddy was a great example out there – calm, methodical and knowledgeable. Even when his son lost his cool, Daddy…
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Regional Tournament Practice Round: Spring in our Step and a Lesson in Alligator Safety
It is a very peaceful thing playing a practice round with Bear. He knows what he is doing. He is not demanding of my time or energy. He gets out there and gets things done. We tee’d off later in the afternoon – less busy, 2 ball (Bear and a 14 year old) and quick…
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New Season Tournament 1: Red Letter Attitude, Black Mark on the Ranking
I was not on the bag today but did time doing what you do when your junior golfer moves beyond US Kids and begins tournaments that don’t allow caddies. I watched and smiled and ambled along beside or behind or behind trees ahead of Bear on Day 1 of the first Hurricanes tournament of the…
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Family Round at ChampionsGate : Good for a Caddy to Play. Sometimes.
Uh-oh, you’re playing. Maybe we should have planned to play the National Course. Max to me, reading aloud the description of the ChampionsGate International Course online : An extremely challenging golf course recommended for skilled and avid players …….. ChampionsGate International has the highest course rating in Florida, boasting a challenging 76.8 and a slope…