Time flies when you're having fun. And fun was what we had Monday afternoon at Cottonwood GC in El Cajon. Turn out was small enough that we decided to take off on Ivanhoe course and played a few holes of real golf instead of the usual range and short game practice.
It was the first real round of golf for some of our youngsters (and the first one in a long while for both coaches manning the clinic). Our LUGGers were reminded of a few golf rules:
- Honor and order of play: The player who shot the lowest score on the previous hole gets to tee off first. And the player whose ball is further away from the hole get to hit their subsequent shot first.
- Teeing area: On the tee box the player can place the ball anywhere in the rectangular area extending from the line between the tee markers two (2) club-lengths backward. You can stand outside of this area, but the ball has to be inside it.
Coach Mary was in a good mood and joined in on the fun playing along with just her pitching wedge, effectively wowing the crowd (a whole clan of acorn woodpeckers and what seems like a bustling population of ground squirrels included) with some creative shot-making.
Our next clinic will meet at Cottonwood GC from 3:30-5PM on Monday September 20th, 2010. We look forward to seeing you there!
