Post by verdantgarden on May 1, 2024 4:01:28 GMT
It's been a rainy past few days up here in the Pacific Northwest. If it had been as wet and miserable this morning as it was yesterday, I wouldn't have bothered to go. While it was cloudy and cool but stayed dry until a few minutes after I got to the golf course and then it was only light, intermittent showers for a couple of hours before it cleared enough to stop completely.
After you get through the parking lot, you see the 10th on your left. When I arrived, Unlucky 5 and her playing partners were getting ready to start their first round. An old man was the announcer there and he was as sleepy as Trump in court. 5 actually had to walk up to him to get him to respond and even then his announcements were not about his normal speaking voice. I see the Golf Genius page with the results say 5 is based in Murrieta Calif. The announcer did say she was from South Korea.
I followed this threesome for a few holes before deciding to follow the group behind because it included Inky. Heck, who knows if I will ever see Inky on the golf course again in person?
Rainier CC was founded in 1919 and is extensively tree-lined. This played a factor when Inky hit her tee shot on the par 5 16th way right. She hit a provisional but her original ball was playable - in the right rough of hole 14. She contemplated hitting her second shot up the 14th fairway. However, her caddie failed to find any opening in the trees to approach the 16th green. So Inky pitched her second shot under the trees back into the 16th.
I followed them until the finished their first nine and watched a couple of other groups finish before eating the lunch I brought at about 11:30.
After lunch, I wandered over to the 9th green where I happened to catch eventual winner Jiwon Jeon finishing up her first round. Sorry, guys! I never did catch sight of Yealimi.
The rest of my time, I stuck around holes 17 and 18. Hole 17 is illustrative of the difficulty of the course. It's a dogleg left and the landing area is invisible from the tee. Hence, as a precaution, a periscope was constructed next to the tee to allow players to see if the coast is clear. Someone failed to take precaution while I was watching a group wait to play their second shots. A marshall yelled "Heads up!" as a ball flew over their heads. Fortunately, the drive was straight and deep and failed to hit anyone. The marshall had to at a place in the fairway to stop the next two tee shots from going off.
I got tired enough at about 1:30 and headed home.
Apparently Ssu Chia Cheng has lost the three-way playoff. It's Jeon, Pedersen and Inglis.
After you get through the parking lot, you see the 10th on your left. When I arrived, Unlucky 5 and her playing partners were getting ready to start their first round. An old man was the announcer there and he was as sleepy as Trump in court. 5 actually had to walk up to him to get him to respond and even then his announcements were not about his normal speaking voice. I see the Golf Genius page with the results say 5 is based in Murrieta Calif. The announcer did say she was from South Korea.
I followed this threesome for a few holes before deciding to follow the group behind because it included Inky. Heck, who knows if I will ever see Inky on the golf course again in person?
Rainier CC was founded in 1919 and is extensively tree-lined. This played a factor when Inky hit her tee shot on the par 5 16th way right. She hit a provisional but her original ball was playable - in the right rough of hole 14. She contemplated hitting her second shot up the 14th fairway. However, her caddie failed to find any opening in the trees to approach the 16th green. So Inky pitched her second shot under the trees back into the 16th.
I followed them until the finished their first nine and watched a couple of other groups finish before eating the lunch I brought at about 11:30.
After lunch, I wandered over to the 9th green where I happened to catch eventual winner Jiwon Jeon finishing up her first round. Sorry, guys! I never did catch sight of Yealimi.
The rest of my time, I stuck around holes 17 and 18. Hole 17 is illustrative of the difficulty of the course. It's a dogleg left and the landing area is invisible from the tee. Hence, as a precaution, a periscope was constructed next to the tee to allow players to see if the coast is clear. Someone failed to take precaution while I was watching a group wait to play their second shots. A marshall yelled "Heads up!" as a ball flew over their heads. Fortunately, the drive was straight and deep and failed to hit anyone. The marshall had to at a place in the fairway to stop the next two tee shots from going off.
I got tired enough at about 1:30 and headed home.
Apparently Ssu Chia Cheng has lost the three-way playoff. It's Jeon, Pedersen and Inglis.