Fantastic Friday

Friday, July 22/16

"My Sharona" by The Knack - the guitars totally make this one in my mind.

So the new Star Trek Beyond movie was a total kick ass experience and has some pretty good music to boot, a double win for me since I do love me some good tunes.  The previews have me salivating as there are some pretty good movies coming out over the next month or so and now I've just got to find the time to take them all in when they arrive.

We stayed to the very end of the credits as I wanted to see the sign offs to Leonard Nimoy and Anton Yelchin, both of whom left us this year. As we left the theatre the new Rihanna tune for the movie came on and my son couldn't believe it was her, the voice was so strong and the lyrics moving across the spectrum.

He dropped me off at home before heading over to his girlfriends so I did my usual thing and grabbed my clubs and headed off to Pakenham to play 18.

I got lucky and was sent out on the Lake/Canyon nines and fell into a really good groove once I was able to play through the 2 dads and 3 sons playing in front of me. Somehow I managed to shoot a 45 on the Lake 9, impressive when you consider I put two into the lake on the 5th hole as I was trying to overcome the damn slice that has worked it's way into my swing mechanics. I finished Lake strong with a pair of par's on the 8th and long par 5 9th.

I was on fire on Canyon and can't tell you for the life of me why I was playing so well. I was 1 over through 5 when the storm started to roil overhead. I hit a massive drive on the 6th , had to be close to 280+ yards which is super long for me, and just as I headed down the fairway I could feel the first drops of rain coming down. Normally I'd try to play through the rain to finish a round, especially one where I had a great chance to shoot under 90 but overhead I could hear the thunder starting to boom and decided that discretion was the better part of valour and headed towards the club house.

Just as I was moving my clubs from the cart to my car I saw lighting flash by and knew I'd made the right call. I ran the cart back to the clubhouse and received a credit for the unfinished 9 and headed home. As I pulled out of the parking lot the clouds opened up and I swear it was like someone was standing on the roof of my car and throwing buckets of water on my windshield, it was coming down so hard my wipers going at full blast couldn't give me any visibility so I stayed put until the worst had passed and I could see out of the windows again.

As much as I love golf I'm also smart enough to know when it's time to vamoose as I plan on playing many more rounds and want to be around to see my son graduate and the birth of my grandchild come this December. It kind of sucks such a great round was cut short but once again I have more proof that my game is almost where I want it. One thing I've noticed is that my confidence is growing so that I no longer shy away from using certain clubs or dread a couple of the holes on the course like I have in the past.

I'm just getting ready to open a nice bottle of Pinot Grigio and enjoy this weeks episode of Suits and maybe a movie on Netflix.

Stay dry, stay warm, stay safe, and stay tuned for more weekend updates :)

Marcus