After a one year postponement, the departure is drawing nigh. When I stop and think about it, time flies. A year ago seems like yesterday.
The recent 15 inch snow storm has severely delayed any opportunity to practice outside, and it seems like a round of golf before we leave won't be possible. I know that's not true, but my opportunities will be severely limited. You see I'm doing a training course to become a rider coach in the Motorcycle Safety Foundation scheme. By the time the snow melts, April at the earliest, I will be spending three consecutive weekends in the training sessions. These include four hours on a Friday evening, and eight hours on Saturday and Sunday. If you add that up, it leaves no time for golf on the weekends until the last one in April. Then I have to lead a field trip on Sunday the 28th. So before we leave, it's Saturday April 27, and May 4 and 5 as my only weekend options for warm-up golf. Yikes.
Of course I'll have time for some 9 hole sessions during the week and ample opportunity for "the range" where I'm a three handicap. A shank on the first tee of the Old Course will not occur and my plan is to not hit a ground ball.
The lodging is all booked, the vehicle reserved and most of the courses set. Hurry up and wait!
We can easily measure the number of "days before Scotland" but as you elude to, the number of "practice opportunities before Scotland" is much more difficult to measure.
ReplyDeleteWithout a car I feel a bit trapped in an urban jungle here in DC. Hopefully a couple of trips to the driving range and a round or two (optimistically) of golf will suffice.