Where are you playing tomorrow - Chicago (Round 3)

[VNutz]

17 hours ago, TheBear95 said:

 

Without a doubt. Some of my favorite rounds that I have played are the ones that occur early and late in the season when only the diehards are out there.

Same. Just sucks with darkness closing in on 5 now. Anything after 1:00 is a roll of the dice depending on who's out ahead of you.

[TheBear95]

33 minutes ago, VNutz said:

Same. Just sucks with darkness closing in on 5 now. Anything after 1:00 is a roll of the dice depending on who's out ahead of you.

 

Yeah. This is why I prefer the early spring part of the season more than late fall. More daylight.

[cpeck12]

If anyone is playing in the Iron Man Open this Sunday at Village Links and plans to use a cart cover, just a heads up that the “typical” universal cart cover is an extremely tight fit on their new Yamaha carts. You may need some bungee cords, zip ties, S hooks, etc. to make it work.

[DavePelz4]

20 hours ago, cpeck12 said:

If anyone is playing in the Iron Man Open this Sunday at Village Links and plans to use a cart cover, just a heads up that the “typical” universal cart cover is an extremely tight fit on their new Yamaha carts. You may need some bungee cords, zip ties, S hooks, etc. to make it work.

 

Wait..."Iron Men" ride?

[Argonne69]

3 hours ago, DavePelz4 said:

 

Wait..."Iron Men" ride?

 

Lol. Well, Tony does wear a climate controlled suit.

 

 

[ldchristopher]

5 hours ago, DavePelz4 said:

 

Wait..."Iron Men" ride?

You beat me to this DP4. Well done. 

[m052310]

Ended the season on a personal best round at Buffalo Grove yesterday. Just about had the course to myself. Good day. 

[B-Man]

On 11/10/2022 at 11:43 AM, cpeck12 said:

If anyone is playing in the Iron Man Open this Sunday at Village Links and plans to use a cart cover, just a heads up that the “typical” universal cart cover is an extremely tight fit on their new Yamaha carts. You may need some bungee cords, zip ties, S hooks, etc. to make it work.

 

We had a few groups originally planning to play this but the forecast and the 6 holes of "foursomes" put us off. If they made it 9 holes scramble and 9 holes best-ball they might attract more players. Especially at $135 a pop.

[chisag]

... A picture from the 18th yesterday at my home muni to keep you company with the weather changing in Chicago. Yup, that's me in a sweater and long pants because it was only 65* yesterday. Don't hate the player, hate the game.  🤪

[TheBear95]

Myself and the deer out at Pine Meadow this afternoon. A little brisk for the first couple of holes, but after #3, I was good to go. There's nothing like a quiet peaceful course. No carts, no cart speakers, no maintenance guys, just you and the course. Can't beat that. And, Pine Meadow was in pretty decent shape too.

 

Getting out with LD tomorrow for round #100 on the season.

[ldchristopher]

Highlands of Elgin today with Bear. As he said, this was round 100 for him. I’m at 73. I want to get to 75 but we’ll see how much snow falls on Tuesday and how long that accumulation sticks around. HOE was in great shape tee to green but the greens hadn’t been rolled in a long time. I get not rolling when it’s 35° but I don’t think they had been touched when it was 75° last Thursday either. The punch marks had healed but putts were bouncy and slow. Classic HOE though. There were maybe 20 people on the tee sheet today but two people worked the pro shop. Ball striking was good with 12 greens. Only one birdie (13) but only 3 bogies. Just not a lot of course from the gold tees. If it was 10° warmer I would have played the combo but not today. Hopefully this isn’t it for the year. 

[Wolfhammer]

Weather is looking bleak this weekend. As long as the snow melts and it's somewhat dry, I'll still try to make it out somewhere. My last round last season was December 10th. NOW WAY this season can be a whole month shorter. Right? RIGHT?!

Edited November 15, 2022 by Wolfhammer

[cpeck12]

On 11/12/2022 at 4:49 PM, B-Man said:

 

We had a few groups originally planning to play this but the forecast and the 6 holes of "foursomes" put us off. If they made it 9 holes scramble and 9 holes best-ball they might attract more players. Especially at $135 a pop.

 

It was blast though. With a cart cover and a heater it was actually pretty comfortable. Definitely was chilly at times when putting since you weren't just in and out of the cart when on the greens, but it was never freezing. I will say though that we started on alternate shot last year and it sucked, but the weather was also horrendous last year.

 

I agree the $135 isn't cheap... but you get 3 free drinks, unlimited dogs and chili during the round, and then a more extensive food spread afterwards. Plus you're guaranteed to get at least $10 off in the pro shop even if you finish last.

Edited November 15, 2022 by cpeck12

[B-Man]

15 minutes ago, cpeck12 said:

 

There were no 4some holes... it was 6 scramble, 6 better ball, 6 alternate shot all with 2 man teams. It was blast though. With a cart cover and a heater it was actually pretty comfortable. Definitely was chilly at times when putting since you weren't just in and out of the cart when on the greens, but it was never freezing.

 

I agree the $135 isn't cheap... but you get 3 free drinks, unlimited dogs and chili during the round, and then a more extensive food spread afterwards. Plus you're guaranteed to get at least $10 off in the pro shop even if you finish last.

 

Awesome!

 

FYI, they call alternate shot "foursomes" in the deep deep south. Deep. Scramble? Nah why call it that when Ambrose seems much more understandable. 

[cpeck12]

5 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

Awesome!

 

FYI, they call alternate shot "foursomes" in the deep deep south. Deep. Scramble? Nah why call it that when Ambrose seems much more understandable. 

 

Lol yes I actually edited my reply... I was like wait a minute, I misread that and now sound like an idiot.

 

We started on alternate shot last year and it was miserable. It does make it more interesting though, that's for sure.

[St Jimmy]

Winter is getting longer and longer.

Got out last Saturday.  It was cold... really cold.  I used to love being out there alone in the late fall or early winter, but now it just feels cold. 

[ldchristopher]

Played Skanktuary with Bear today. The colder it gets the better he plays. Truly bizarre. The course was covered in frost but carts were out with no restrictions. The pro shop jockey said, “It’s okay, we sprayed the greens.” With what, a giant hair dryer? A picture of the third green is below. This is why my window to play the Skank is late November to late February. Keep the expectations low. I had forgotten my frozen course approach to golf at first. Gotta land it short. Then take Sir Nick’s advice. No, not about having every new wife be progressively younger. On frozen and thawing turf, if one can putt, one should putt. Faldo said that about tour courses but it also applies to Midwestern late-Fall/Winter golf. One birdie on 7. A few bogies mixed in but overall I played well. 

[MountainKing]

Got out to Orchard Valley for one final round this year.  I thought maybe with minimal wind and sun out it would get warm enough for me. Nope, it was way too cold out there for me, but I survived.  I really don't know how some of you guys do it.   Course was in the best shape I've seen it in years, which isn't so much saying it's in great shape now, but more how bad it was when I last played it.  It'll be back in the rotation next year based on what we saw today.  Bunkers had sand, greens rolled well despite being shaggy and slow, and just overall the course was for sure kept up pretty well.  The only real negative is hole 13 remains as one of the dumbest golf holes in Chicago.  Pace was great at 3:45 considering the tee sheet was full when we went off.

 

I'm glad my buddies convinced me to give it one more go, I finally put up a round that's more what I'm capable of.  Had a lot of great birdie looks on the front between almost driving 1 and driving it pin high right on 4 and pin high in 2 on both par 5's.  On the back I had a bit of change of luck dropping 3 birdies on 11, 12 and 16.  Had a couple more looks on 17 and 18.  Unfortunately I did have 4 bogies in the mix on the back but ended up with a 75 on the day.  After a pretty rough stretch since Sept, it was nice to finally hit the ball fairly solid and put up a number.  Hopefully I can take this into next year.

[ldchristopher]

Bear joined me at White Hawk this morning. I was told they wouldn’t let people out until 9:00 at the earliest because of frost but people just started teeing off since there was no ranger or starter. We waited until 8:45 out of courtesy but didn’t want to get stuck behind the cart armada. More on them later. Tee to green, the course was in okay shape. Bunkers were inconsistent but tee boxes were fine and fairways were alright. Greens were pretty slow but it’s late November so that’s to be expected. 

On the sixth hole of Silver we caught a group. Okay, that’s an understatement. We caught a 20some. 15 carts with two different cart speakers blaring white trash death metal. On the seventh tee, I just kind of announced we were playing through and was heckled with Caddyshack quotes as I stuck a five iron to a back flag. Then one of the guys in the mega group told me, “They really shouldn’t have let you go off Silver first. We had this set up a week ago.” I told him we played Black first because we’re a twosome and not a 20some. So in the time it took them to play 6 holes we played 15. And that was at White Hawk, which involves a one mile walk from the ninth hole on Black to the first on Silver. I’m sure those dummies did book that a week ago. I’m also positive they didn’t say all 20 people would be in one group. 

 

Anyway, I hit the ball very well and really drove it well. 11 fairways and 9 greens. Pretty decent wedge play when I didn’t hit the green but only one birdie (5 Silver). 76

[mci711]

On 11/23/2022 at 1:19 PM, ldchristopher said:

Played Skanktuary with Bear today. The colder it gets the better he plays. Truly bizarre. The course was covered in frost but carts were out with no restrictions. The pro shop jockey said, “It’s okay, we sprayed the greens.” With what, a giant hair dryer? A picture of the third green is below. This is why my window to play the Skank is late November to late February. Keep the expectations low. I had forgotten my frozen course approach to golf at first. Gotta land it short. Then take Sir Nick’s advice. No, not about having every new wife be progressively younger. On frozen and thawing turf, if one can putt, one should putt. Faldo said that about tour courses but it also applies to Midwestern late-Fall/Winter golf. One birdie on 7. A few bogies mixed in but overall I played well. 

 

Super must have taken the day off. Walking on a frosted green is so bad for it 😂

[TheBear95]

1 hour ago, mci711 said:

 

Super must have taken the day off. Walking on a frosted green is so bad for it 😂

 

The maintenance crew was out changing the hole locations right behind us, lol. They just don't care. 

Edited November 26, 2022 by TheBear95

[@_the_crook]

played what will likely be the last weekend round of the year on Saturday morning  at SV.

the frost has mostly dissipated by 9am, and I had the place to myself, as the next group didn't start until I was on #5 fairway.

they hadn't placed any tee markers, but the pin flags were up and course was groomed enough for good shots.

the friday late players left some bunkers kind of gnarly but it didn't affect my round. quick rake here and there took care of the nastiness.

melancholy walk up #18 thinking about the season ending.

might try to get out there tomorrow before the cold front hits.

 

 

 

 

 

[Holy Moses]

Played Blackstone on Saturday. Teed off right in front of the owner who had a golf cart enclosure…and was wearing shorts. Golf is weird in that you can warm up nicely and play terrible and then you can run right up to the first tee and play one of your best rounds of the year. 
 

2022 was fun. Missed a 69 by one shot. Off to X-Golf for the winter.

[ldchristopher]

I’m sorry, when did 40° become unplayable? Sunday looks plenty decent. And it’ll be 50° on Friday for the retired crowd. 

[mci711]

11 hours ago, ldchristopher said:

I’m sorry, when did 40° become unplayable? Sunday looks plenty decent. And it’ll be 50° on Friday for the retired crowd. 

 

<50 I'm out. 😂 

[Argonne69]

36 minutes ago, mci711 said:

 

<50 I'm out. 😂 

 

 

[MountainKing]

12 hours ago, ldchristopher said:

I’m sorry, when did 40° become unplayable? Sunday looks plenty decent. And it’ll be 50° on Friday for the retired crowd. 

 

I've made a few exceptions, but under 60 is generally unplayable for me.  I don't enjoy wearing layers of clothing to be outside and don't enjoy being cold.  My last round at Orchard was pretty miserable for me to get through and I only stayed out because I was playing good.

[VNutz]

40 isn't unplayable if you're walking, but 40 and anything more than a brisk wind can be rough.

[chisag]

5 minutes ago, MountainKing said:

under 60 is generally unplayable for me.  I don't enjoy wearing layers of clothing to be outside and don't enjoy being cold. 

 

 

... Exactly! The older you get the more this applies. To be fair, I was raised in the south and moved to Chicago when I was 25 and never got used to the cold. 

[MountainKing]

4 minutes ago, chisag said:

 

 

... Exactly! The older you get the more this applies. To be fair, I was raised in the south and moved to Chicago when I was 25 and never got used to the cold. 

 

Born in Chicago and all my grandparents came here from Scandanavian countries.  I'm basically a disgrace to both things.  I never did like the cold, now that I'm north of 40 with a back surgery it's even worse.  Unfortunately I'll probably be in this area for another 10 years or so.