Best golf game ever

Today Jay, Sean, Ed and I had a 6:00 p.m. tee time at Cedarholm golf course. A very nice three par course we've played often. Today, however, was different.

Maybe it was the impending storm clouds on the horizon. Maybe it was the cloud to cloud lightning flashing overhead. Maybe it was the rain. Maybe it was the tornado sirens in the distance.

Whatever it was, I golfed my best game ever.

I shot a 36. Par is 27. Pure bogey golf, baby!


The photo above is courtesy of the Kare11 website, but we saw this exact same cloud pass overhead as we finished the round, with tornado sirens blaring.

Sean, Jay, and I tee'd off the first hole at 6:00 p.m. as we heard tornado sirens in the distance and were poured upon by the time we reached the green. Luckily there was a shelter between the first and second holes, so we waited out the rain for about 10 minutes. As you might imagine, the rain slowed the greens a bit, but they dried up quickly and ran pretty well.

Ed was running late and joined us on the fourth hole. On the way to the course, he had heard on the radio that Plymouth was using snow plows to clear the highway of the large amount of hail from the storm. Plymouth is only a few miles south of where I live.

The skies cleared, the sun shone, and the humidity was high. The gnats swarmed above our heads as we played through.

Then the second round of storms came through. The sun disappeared. The wind whipped up. The tornado sirens blared.

We had one hole left and were determined to see it through. The course sounded the horn indicating everyone was to suspend play due to weather.

Nah.

We had to finish, and we did. That's when we saw the cloud pictured above pass over us.

For the first time ever, I tied Sean. And Jay beat me by only two strokes.

What was the difference (besides the weather)? My drives were good and my chipping and putting were much improved. I picked up a chipping tip while up north last weekend and it has really helped.

Then we all went to Ol' Mexico and had food and beer.

Just an awesome Saturday evening.