Waldorf - greens and nuts

Thursday

At last some sleep - to about 6-30 this morning. My Game isn't till noon so I have been able to stitch together the panorama shots from the last 2 days and have added them to the earlier blogs.

The recipe above applies equally well to the salad or the golf.  Staring at midday had us out in the hottest part of the day. This course was just a bit posher. When I arrived at the bag drop, I in fact got out the car and got free valet parking. After I checked in, the bag was already loaded downstairs, complete with 2 bottles of water and ice in the cooler and 2 wet towels to clean your clubs or your self. There were iced towels for us when we finished as well.

I was told I was by myself again. However, by the time I'd hit some balls on the range a pair had turned up - 2 local guys who were neighbours and played together regularly. We were started on the 10th and that was a great choice since we did not wait all day and were finished in about 3 hours 45. I played of the second longest blue tees today and the guys off the whites which were the next shortest. Consequently, they appear in a number of the photos taken from the tees.

Scores were a bit artificial today since there were a lot of  drops out of the rough, a handful of mulligans and so forth. I lost a number of balls but managed to find more than enough to replace them. Sometimes balls were lost even after hitting straight, just disappearing into the soft grass of the second cut. Even allowing for the dubiousness of the score it was another 95, so still not fantastic. I did par the first 2 par 5s and bogeyed the other 2 but stuffed up some par 3s.

We had a similar GPS to the Disney courses. The course was again very scenic with a lot of water. In fact there were a lot of greens that sloped down to water at the back and you were punished for being long. The rough was artificially planted with spiky bushes in a lot of places as well as the natural rough of trees and brambles. If you got in there , it was generally unplayable, even if you found it.

I had passed Downtown Disney on the way to the course so I stopped in on the way back. Talk about tourist oriented commercialism. Lots of Disney items on sales for Mum, Dad and kids - clothing, toys etc. Also lots of food outlets, some exhibitions and so forth. There was also a Lego store, which had 288 bins of different, individual Lego pieces as well as shelves full of different sets throughout the store. There were a few places for the kids to build models and some very large Lego  Statues - St George and the dragon, several from Toy story and even a large Loch Ness monster in the lake.

I had fish and chips in an Irish pub, a small but expensive serving. I then headed to the outlet malls just across the interstate from the hotel. I wandered around there for a while but didn't buy anything. I would have bought some trainers in the Nike store but they didn't have my size.

By the time I got back to the hotel it was around 6 o'clock but still warm, so I had a short swim to cool off. I put through a load of washing, so I can pack all clean clothes for the next stage of the trip. I packed everything I coiled and headed out for something to eat after 9. There is a small strip mall across the road from the hotel with a lot of restaurants. In the end , I finished up at Hooters, because they had snow crabs on the menu.