So today I went out to a country club course where scoring is not allowed. That is, they happen to be refurbishing all the greens, and in the meantime they've set up temporary greens. This means that the round’s score could not count toward my handicap because the course is under repair. On the temporary tee card, they even printed, "Don’t post this score!"
It's a beautiful golf course, and today was a wonderfully warm fall day. I really enjoyed the autumn colors. And the perfectly flat tee grounds. What a change from public courses, where sometimes the tee grounds are more like baseball mounds.
The fairways were neatly mowed in perfect cross-hatched diamond shapes.
The picture below shows how the temporary greens are set 20 yards or so in front of the real greens.
These temporary greens have huge holes, so putting was not much of a challenge.
After awhile though, I felt something was missing. When I looked at the hole below, I thought, "Pretty picture, but it would have been nice to try and go for this green."
I began to imagine what golf would be like if there weren't any golf holes. But a golf course without holes is like eyes without a face. Or should I say, a face without eyes.
Albert Einstein once said, “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” But a golf course without holes is a course without goals.
So tomorrow I will play a course with all the holes in the proper places. I will play a round I can post. And I will hope it doesn't ruin my handicap.
