{"id":11537,"date":"2007-08-06T06:31:27","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T13:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/08\/06\/fore.html"},"modified":"2007-08-06T06:31:27","modified_gmt":"2007-08-06T13:31:27","slug":"fore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/06\/fore.html","title":{"rendered":"Fore!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Went out and golfed yesterday afternoon for the first time in &#8212; well, probably a year.&nbsp; It was the parish golf tourney, competing foursomes playing best ball.&nbsp; We were at -1 going around to the back nine, but ended up +2 by the time all was said and done.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been very lax on the golfing, obviously.&nbsp; Doyce and I haven&#8217;t been out in ages, and my Dad and I haven&#8217;t played the last couple of visits out.&nbsp; I should really work to change both of those.<\/p>\n<p>That said, I played about as well as I have been (i.e., the skills haven&#8217;t deteriorated, they just haven&#8217;t improved from their low level).&nbsp; I lost a fair number of balls, but on the other hand had the &#8220;best ball&#8221; often enough to make me feel like I was pulling my own weight.&nbsp; I also sank a couple of really nice putts.<\/p>\n<p>We were playing at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.highlandsranchgolf.com\/links_index.php\" target=\"_blank\">the Links<\/a>, an executive-length course in Highlands Ranch, pretty much just over the freeway south of us.&nbsp; Despite having driven past it eleventy-zillion times, I&#8217;ve never played there before.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a nice course, well-maintained, with plenty of terrain hazards to keep things visually interesting.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a bit cheaper than South Suburban&#8217;s full-length course.&nbsp; The term &#8220;executive length&#8221; basically means its a par 60 for 18, not the traditional 72; there are a lot of par 3 holes, interspersed with enough long par 4s to keep the variety up.<\/p>\n<p>The weather was a seriously mixed bag.&nbsp; When we started, it was lightly overcast, but still warm and quite humid (for Denver).&nbsp; Later the cloud cover vanished, leaving it hot.&nbsp; By the time we were at 15, clouds were beginning to roll in, and on 18 it started to rain lightly &#8212; perfect timing.<\/p>\n<p>All in all a good day.&nbsp; I should really do that more often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Went out and golfed yesterday afternoon for the first time in &#8212; well, probably a year.&nbsp; It was the parish golf tourney, competing foursomes playing best ball.&nbsp; We were at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-golf"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39186,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/11\/magpies-like-breakfast-burritos.html","url_meta":{"origin":11537,"position":0},"title":"Magpies Like Breakfast Burritos","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 11-Oct-13 5:10pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, first time out on the golf course in ... oh, a year, I suppose. \u00a0In this case, it was the local office golf tourney, which was, as last year, loads of fun.We were out at Fox Hollow (http:\/\/www.lakewood.org\/FoxHollow\/), a course I haven't played in years. \u00a0It's still pretty nice.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9352,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/24\/golfing_on_a_su.html","url_meta":{"origin":11537,"position":1},"title":"Golfing on a Sunday afternoon","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 24-Jul-06 6:22am","format":false,"excerpt":"Made it out onto a course Sunday for the first time in (mutter mumble) months, for my church's parish golf tourney.\u00a0 We played at South Suburban, which is as close...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Golf&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Golf","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/golf"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2895,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/09\/07\/speaking_of_bro.html","url_meta":{"origin":11537,"position":2},"title":"Speaking of broken links","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 7-Sep-02 9:04pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Went Golfing for God today. 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