It’s still September, so leave me time to golf

My friend George has a good mind. He wouldn’t let this entire golf season go by without us getting out there for a round. The bridge between summer and fall turned out to be perfect, he with the boys back to school and me with a mid-week morning I could free up from freelance and…

The sun sets on our little golf league

Two threesomes completed all nine holes in our little golf league that could Wednesday night. DJ, Amy and I got around first. The final foursome from the league in front of us made us wait, just a little, on a couple of tee shots. I think my iPhone 6 caught Amy’s shot in the greenside…

Just one more week remains for the our little golf league

Yes, we have become familiar in our little golf league that just switched to Wednesday night for the final three weeks of the season. Look at this string of texts. They say so much more than I possibly could. And so we played the back nine, five of us in one group, after DJ arrived…

It’s beginning to feel like fall golf, and that’s fine

For the last three weeks of this season for our little golf league, the owner at Northern Pines suggested to Commish that we switch from Monday to Wednesday night. All eight of us gave the move the thumbs up. We could start at 5:30, giving us an important extra 15 minutes of the waning daylight.…

We’ll come back again anyway we slice it

I made a good call back on Father’s Day, deciding that rainy lunchtime did not look promising enough for us to continue onto step three of our plan: Having George Two meet us our annual nine-hole round of golf together. I told my wonderful daughter Elisabeth and her terrific boyfriend George Three that Sunday would…

Clubhouse, games under construction at Green Lakes and PGA

This hasn’t been the busiest golfing season for KP and I. My great friend and I got off to a great start, with Tater and our discount coupons from the winter Syracuse Golf Show in hand to play three of the nicest courses in the area before mid-June. Since then, though, we’d squeezed in just…

Sublimely, the seven savor the 6 p.m. sun …

Enough about the slow play and the waiting and setting sun and my grouchiness about all of the above. This week the little golf league got off on time, both foursomes from the first tee at Northern Pines on the northeast outskirts of Syracuse. Yes, there was a bit of a bottleneck at the second…

The best course in America for $20

Halfway through the back nine at Foxfire Golf Course in Baldiwnsville New York, I made a declaration to KP, Tater and Netti. This could be the best golf course anybody can play for twenty bucks, I said to my great friends as we waited for our turn to hit on the tee. Gorgeous scenery cut…

Splitting up, we all play 9 holes

When last we checked in on our eight-golfer league, dark was dampening our spirits on Monday nights at Northern Pines in Cicero. So Commish ended last week’s shortened play with a talk with the higher-ups at the course just outside of Syracuse, N.Y. They suggested the best route was to separate our foursomes, each to…

Sunny golf day, and a wait at every tee

There was happiness and there was discontent this week at the Little Golf League That Could. The sun was shining as I returned from our week at the Happy Cottage in Cape Cod to rejoin our two foursomes that now make Monday night home for a weekly round of nine holes at Northern Pines Golf…