The cooler weather finds me back on the golf course more often this past week, with a few rounds at Hangman.  Even though I’ve griped about the sand traps, which by the way I still find unreasonable, I really love the course.   It’s in great shape right now.  I’m going to give the grounds keepers there special kudos for ensuring the forward tee boxes are as nice as those where the white and blue’s are located. 

This is not typical at many courses and a bit of an insult to those of us who often use the forward tee boxes.   While those who shoot from the white and blue tees often get to stand on level, nicely mowed ground, the forward tee boxes are often full of divots, lumpy and somewhat neglected. 

So I appreciate Hangman even more for being such a nice local county course with reasonable green fees, beautiful panoramic scenery, and well-groomed forward tee boxes.

I don’t have much to report from my golf experiences of late because even I have a heat tolerance index.  This past week, my motivation to go out and walk around chasing my little white golf ball just wasn’t there so much.   I realized this after we played River’s Bend in Thompson Falls, MT, late last week.   As if the first nine-hole round wasn’t hot enough, we decided we needed to try again to conquer the course and went for another nine holes.  With the Clark Fork running alongside the course, humidity added to the heat index.  It was a nice course to play.  I hope to get back there when the temperature isn’t quite so blazing. 

Since then, I have played one other nine-hole round at Hangman, where, I have to say that the whole new sand thing they have going on there is absolutely no fun.  You’d think after a few months it’d be settled and easier to manage, but not so for me.  Okay, so after all this griping, I’ll end by saying that I still love the game and with cooler weather in the forecast, I’ll be out there and actually enjoying chasing that little white ball.