Beach Party (24 May 2010)

Last Monday started off cool and cloudy enough to pass for a stray autumn morning, but luckily for us the sun showed up and brought the day back to the more comfortably beachy weather and the EC LUGGers were able to appear at Cottonwood GC in their Californian beach attire rather than in penguin suits (when we said 'beach attire' we really just meant stuff worn at beaches north of the Antarctic Circle!).
After signing in and demolishing Coach Mary's supply of healthy snacks, the LUGGers followed Coach Carol to the practice green for a hazardous afternoon in the bunker (also known as 'sand trap', though no golfer in their right mind would acknowledge the legitimate use of that jinxy word!).

The bunker, like bodies of water on the golf course, is, of course, an official golf 'hazard': one is not allowed to touch the sand with ones hand (testing the surface) or ground the club before one has played the ball completely out of the unfriendly place (Rule 13-4). Naturally, sand-castling, body-burrowing, sand-balls fighting, etc, were not in our play book, though that didn't prevent the resourceful LUGGers from having a very sandy blast in the bunker for much of the afternoon (after all, it really pays to really blow hard at the sand with the sand wedge to get the ball on top of it to fly right out of the mini Sahara while humming a Lady Gaga number to a crowd of enthusiastic audience).

By the way, did you know that 'bunker/sand trap' is trampa de arena in Spanish, ostacolo di sabbia in Italian, γκολφ in Greek, písečná překážka in Czech? (the French boringly just uses 'bunker' and the German dutifully calls it Der Sand)

Coach Pat was also on hand and presided over the putting green until the final half hour when everyone got together for a game of 'Freeze!' Coach Mary was everyone's favorite target though proved herself quite adept at evading incoming putts.

Our next event on Monday May 31st will be the Family BBQ Memorial Day 9 Hole Scramble Fundraiser at Cottonwood GC. Please contact Coach Mary at (619) 414-4495 or mary.paulson@lpgapro.com if you wish to attend!

PS: Just a reminder, of course, that athletic shoes (sneakers or golf shoes, my dears, not gymnastic shoes or softball cleats!) are mandatory in all future EC LUGG events.