Bunker Mulligan "Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." ~Mark Twain

Well, the weekend finally ended. I played two rounds of golf and spent the remaining time with the in-laws at their annual Super Bowl Party. Actually, very few actually sat and watched the game, but there was a lot of drinking, singing, and conversing going on. To my knowledge, nobody even saw the “Janet Jackson thing.”

I played pretty badly. Pasatiempo was fun, but overpriced. I had one birdie, two pars, and a complete variety of other scores. The fairways were soft, and all distance came from carry, which made it play longer than the 6500 yards listed for the back tees. Greens were very deceptive, as you would expect from Alister MacKenzie. I sympathize with players at the Masters. Many times I putted downhill, thinking it was uphill, and left myself an even longer return putt.

I played the Bayonet Course in Seaside Sunday. It is an excellent course. I shot 97 for net 81. I placed third in my flight. There were a handful of scratch golfers in the tournament who were also trying to qualify for the AT&T Pebble Beach. The lowest gross score was 71, and lowest net: 71. The greens were tough to read here also. I played this course regularly 25 years ago, and think I could score well once I adjusted to the greens with some experience, but the breaks are really hard to see…until you putt!