Return To Main Blog Page Football, Frost and Fall Golf Sun Oct 15, 2006 at 9:45 PM
Charlie, Lyle and I were supposed to play golf today. I’ve been able to get the Swing Setter to snap properly most of the time and it was a lovely, albeit cold fall morning. Lyle wanted to play a new course. I just assumed it would be easy to get on but silly me.

Charlie called ahead and found out frost on the fairways and greens pushed back all tee times to after noon. Since we were going out to play while Jonah played fall baseball (double header) we’d either have to kill a couple of hours and play nine holes or find another course.

Last week the municipal course in Joliet was almost empty so we really didn’t think much about tee times. Plus, muny courses are often less fussy about frost on the greens.
But, we didn’t count on the Bears game.

Bears game! What Bears game? The Chicago Bears play Monday night this week.

Well, there were TWO outings playing on the Joliet muny course when we got there. I didn’t find out who would schedule an outing this late in the year or why there had to be two of them, but bottom line was we weren’t playing golf. All we could figure out was the outings were scheduled that day because the Bears were not playing.

So, I will have to remember football and frost before scheduling fall golf.

I saved this funny story from a Readers Digest (courtesy of my mother-in-law) that sorta goes with this entry:
During an intense discussion about ethics and the nature of human conflict, a teacher posed this question to his 12-grade class: “Sports are a reflection of our culture. What would sports be without conflict?”
A student raised his hand. “Golf,” he said.

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