David Letterman’s Top Ten Reasons Why Golf Is Better Than Sex
#9… You can stop in the middle and have a cheeseburger and a couple of beers.
#8… It’s much easier to find the sweet spot.
#7… Foursomes are encouraged.
#6… You can still make money doing it as a senior.
#5… Three times a day is possible.
#4… Your partner doesn’t hire a lawyer if you play with someone else.
#3… If you live in Florida, you can do it almost every day.
#2… You don’t have to cuddle with your partner when you’re finished.
Golf And What It All Means…
- Golf! You hit down to make the ball go up.
- You swing left and the ball goes right.
- The lowest score wins and the winner buys the drinks
- Golf is harder than baseball. In golf, you have to play your foul balls.
- If you find you do not mind playing golf in the rain, the snow, even during a hurricane, here’s a valuable tip: your life is in trouble.
- Golfers who try to make everything perfect before taking the shot rarely make a perfect shot.
- The term ‘mulligan’ is really a contraction of the phrase ‘maul it again.
- A ‘gimme’ can best be defined as an agreement between two golfers ..neither of whom can putt very well.
- An interesting thing about golf is that no matter how badly you play; it is always possible to get worse.
- Golf’s a hard game to figure. One day you’ll go out and slice it and shank it, hit into all the traps and miss every green. The next day you go out and for no reason at all you really stink.
- If your best shots are the practice swing and the ‘gimme putt’, you might wish to reconsider this game.
- Golf is the only sport where the most feared opponent is you.
- Golf is like marriage: If you take yourself too seriously it won’t work, and both are expensive.
- The best wood in most amateurs’ bags is the pencil.
Prep Before a Round
A few years ago I was playing around on MSN Maps (Bing Maps) and discovered a new feature on there called Bird’s Eye. Bird’s Eye is a collection of actual photos taken from the air. It is very similar to Google Earth, but I feel that MSN provides a better visual of the land since it uses actual photos instead of satellite images. After playing around on it for a while, because it is addicting, I stumbled across a golf course. This was the best aerial shot of a golf course I had ever seen before. This prompted me to come back to this map regularly before I play a round of golf to get a lay of the land and see what the course looks like. I recommend that before you play your next round to go to MSN and check out the course first. Please note that not all courses will have a perfect view. See examples below of a couple aerial shots of some courses most of us would never really get the opportunity to play….it’s pretty amazing how close you can get to the course, and I’m not even zoomed in all the way.
Pine Valley Golf Club, Pine Valley, NJ – #1 Golf Course in the World
Augusta National Golf Course, Augusta, GA – Home of the Masters
Pebble Beach Golf Links, Pebble Beach, CA
Golf Course Queue
The following courses have been on my radar for a while now and I am hoping to play them soon (in no particular order):
- Stonewall Orchard GC, Grayslake
- Makray Memorial GC, Barrington
- Oak Grove GC, Harvard
- Whittaker Woods GC, New Buffalo, MI
- TPC Deere Run, Silvis
- Aldeen GC, Rockford
- The Course at Aberdeen, Valparaiso, IN
If you recommend a course that I have not played or that is not on this list, please post a comment, so I can add it to my list.
Bowes Creek Country Club
1250 Bowes Creek Boulevard
Elgin, IL 60124
Phone: (847) 214-5880
Website
HOLE BY HOLE REVIEW AND PICTURES COMING SOON!!
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