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Date: 15 Oct 2006 16:14:49
From: Bear
Subject: Splork Golf
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Wet, windy and well wet is a good way to describe today. Just a little
too harsh to pick up the sticks, though I have and probably will again
play in weather more foul than this, I'll sit this the first of the
rainy season storms out. Got me thinking though about the end of the
good golf season and the start of winter golf or Splork golf.
Splork Golf? Splork is one of the sounds you will here as your ball
gets sucked deep into the muddy quagmire that will pass for some
fairways for 4 months or so. Good luck finding that sucker. No matter
how much drainage, and courses around here work on improving drainage
yearly, there will be areas from Novemberish to Februaryish that if
your ball lands in it is going to be gone more often than not. You can
reclaim your ball and many others if you are the first group off after
the next good frost. Easter egg hunt for golfers. Too bad most of know
better than to use good balls so you end up with a lot of...well
winter balls.
Most important piece of equipment for the challenge of Rainy season
golf is your footware. Lets hear a big round of applause for Oregon
Mudders. You have to be able to walk through some nasty boot sucking
muck to get to the rest of the course and your ball. Shoes don't work.
Finding dry ground for the ball can be a challenge and sometimes it
doesn't come with a corresponding dry spot to stand on...golf in
Wellies gotta love it.
Gone are the bump and run shots or any shot that hits ground before
the green. There is no roll. Ball hits ground, ball stops. One of the
few exceptions to this is when it gets cold enough and stays cold
enough that the ground freezes below the surface. Now there is a small
window of opportunity here where the water level drops, cold here
equals north wind and the north wind while cold equals no rain, so for
a day or two you have decent course conditions but dress warm and
bring antifreeze.
Most other times the ball seems to den. Sometimes it is just a little
tent of mud as a domicile and sometimes it digs a tunnel 6 inches
deep. If you don't approach the deep buggers at just the right angle
you can miss the opening and the small glint of ball. Hell even the
balls that just get a mud coat can be tough to spot specially late in
the afternoon when the sun is low. You just never know when a ball
will be lost.
Soon it will be time to play the wet weather games. Hopefully we here
on the wet coast of Canada will get another month or more of fall
golf. This year it has been some of the best late season golf with the
courses in great condition. Who knows it could be one of the El Nino
years where the courses stay dry and splork free all winter... or was
that a dream?
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Date: 15 Oct 2006 10:29:45
From: Bob Cotter
Subject: Re: Splork Golf
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In article <qjn4j2hse3argsr3a3bppbqfn1vc4vdvnf@4ax.com >,
Bear <bearlysane@XShawX.ca > wrote:
> Wet, windy and well wet is a good way to describe today. Just a little
> too harsh to pick up the sticks, though I have and probably will again
> play in weather more foul than this,
Stew and I have a 1 pm tee time and the weather seems to be breaking a
bit... only showers and not the major rain we had last night. The
furnace came on the first time this morning... kinda surprised me.
>
> Splork Golf? Splork is one of the sounds you will here as your ball
> gets sucked deep into the muddy quagmire that will pass for some
> fairways for 4 months or so.
Thanks for adding that word to my golf vocabulary. I now have something
I can use to describe that sound. LOL.
>
> Soon it will be time to play the wet weather games. Hopefully we here
> on the wet coast of Canada will get another month or more of fall
> golf. This year it has been some of the best late season golf with the
> courses in great condition. Who knows it could be one of the El Nino
> years where the courses stay dry and splork free all winter... or was
> that a dream?
Looks like it could be a 7/12 year for us. Oops... sounding like Ocho.
Cheers... Bob
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Date: 16 Oct 2006 15:12:48
From: Bear
Subject: Re: Splork Golf
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On Sun, 15 2006 10:29:45 -0700, Bob Cotter
<bob.remove@remove.educom.com > wrote:
>In article <qjn4j2hse3argsr3a3bppbqfn1vc4vdvnf@4ax.com>,
> Bear <bearlysane@XShawX.ca> wrote:
>
>> Wet, windy and well wet is a good way to describe today. Just a little
>> too harsh to pick up the sticks, though I have and probably will again
>> play in weather more foul than this,
>
>Stew and I have a 1 pm tee time and the weather seems to be breaking a
>bit... only showers and not the major rain we had last night. The
>furnace came on the first time this morning... kinda surprised me.
Last Sunday I went out with my buddy Keith and we timed it perfectly.
It rained Saturday night and started letting up in the morning. We hit
the in town 9 holer at 1 and the skies cleared by 2. Ended up a
perfect day for golf.
>>
>> Splork Golf? Splork is one of the sounds you will here as your ball
>> gets sucked deep into the muddy quagmire that will pass for some
>> fairways for 4 months or so.
>
>Thanks for adding that word to my golf vocabulary. I now have something
>I can use to describe that sound. LOL.
>>
>> Soon it will be time to play the wet weather games. Hopefully we here
>> on the wet coast of Canada will get another month or more of fall
>> golf. This year it has been some of the best late season golf with the
>> courses in great condition. Who knows it could be one of the El Nino
>> years where the courses stay dry and splork free all winter... or was
>> that a dream?
>
>Looks like it could be a 7/12 year for us. Oops... sounding like Ocho.
Looks like this week will have some decent days. Now I have to figure
out how to arrange this work stuff around them :)
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Date: 15 Oct 2006 23:22:06
From: Big Bobby Clobber
Subject: Re: Splork Golf
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Bear wrote:
> snip
With today's rain, we should be splorking now until next June. Got my
new rain gloves today and I'm almost ready to go. Next I need to see
Rudy the ball hawk and buy/rent my supply of used winter balls. Noodles
and Locos for 50 cents each.
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Date: 16 Oct 2006 15:17:51
From: Bear
Subject: Re: Splork Golf
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On Sun, 15 2006 23:22:06 GMT, Big Bobby Clobber
<farm.this@spammer > wrote:
>Bear wrote:
>> snip
>
>With today's rain, we should be splorking now until next June. Got my
>new rain gloves today and I'm almost ready to go. Next I need to see
>Rudy the ball hawk and buy/rent my supply of used winter balls. Noodles
>and Locos for 50 cents each.
Up here on the Mid Island it looks like we may have a reprieve. The
rain has stopped the sun is shinning and the good balls stay in the
bag.
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