HOUSTON NATIONAL - THE MAGNIFICIENT SEVEN:

That’s what we feel like calling ourselves.  10 people originally signed up to play. That itself was considered low. Then come the Tropical Storm Edouard syndrome, and some more chicken out.  Leaving the ‘magnificent seven’. 

It turned out to be a good decision for the Seven. I salute the courage and vision. A perfect day for golf you will say.  Temperature at 8:30 AM when we started was about 80 degF and at 12:30PM when we finished was about 90 degF. Yes! Subtract it.  It was 4 hours.  Cloudy throughout the game, keeping away the heat. No rain, no gusty wind! Even at Houston National. Can you imagine?

The course was in good shape and well maintained. Green was green and fairway was fairway. 18 holes of fun.  The 19^thhole was even better. It was burger and beer. This time around, served a la carte. Suddenly you feel like a VIP as your food is brought to you on the table. Driving back home to Sugar Land was also a pleasure.  No rain, no traffic and no stress.  At 3:00pm, long time after getting home, realized the Edouard was still at Port Arthur.  Not a treat or menace to anybody in metropolitan Houston yet. Kingwood included. The fear was just a ruse.

Anyway, just to make you fill you missed something if you didn’t make it.  All the same, it was a good day for golf.  I’m glad I made it. Next will be Cypresswood Tradition. That I know I will miss, for circumstances beyond my control. I hope it will also be another good day out for golf. 

Jide

Houston National

Iffy weather, but it looks like it might hold off west of town, where the course is. For that reason I hate to cancel but understand if some don’t make it. Where I am in Kingwood, storms are possibly moving in around noon which means driving home in a possible tropical storm. Kingwood is passing on tomorrow. If you’re west of 45 you may be fine, so I recommend checking weather before heading out.

I’ve talked with the course. They’ll hold a few tee times for us. You may have to organize when you get there.

If you can, let me know (Playgolftuesday@gmail.com) if you are playing so we can notify the pro shop and make sure the tee times are held.

Gleannloch Pines: Tee Time 8:00 AM

It seems the club tends to let the members play Pines/Gleann, so we are playing the Gleann to Loch!!!!

We have 21 players for tomorrow; thus, we will once again have the threesomes compete as one group and the foursomes will compete as the other group. We will pay two places in each group.  $6.00 per player in first place and $4.00 per player in second place.   

Format will be Modified Shamble on the front side and Scramble on the back side.

Two mulligans per player on the Front and No mulligans on the scramble side.

Gimme puts inside the leather. 

THE DRIVING RANGE DOESNOT OPEN UNTIL 10:30: THUS, WE GO OUT COLD TURKEY!!

Al’s team we put out the CTP markers and Terrance’s team will pick them up.

Let’s try and keep the pace of play up. 

  Pairings are posted under Members section

See you there in the morning!!

Doug