Saturday
I headed into the office this morning but couldn't get in. I was lucky to get into the building at all but someone was moving office so the front door was open. However, although my electronic pass was set up for access over the weekend, the front door of the office was physically locked and a key was required as well.
I hadn't organised golf as I was expecting to work at least part of the day. I called one of the courses I was interested in but they were busy and so I called Cypress Lakes and was able to get a tee time about 90 minutes later. There was an on-line slot available about an hour after I called but there was no way I would have made that time.
This is the third Cypress named course I've played here. Cypresswood is also here in Houston and Grand Cypress was in Florida.
This course was what I'd call a parkland course, some thing like Collier Park and similar courses in Perth. It was pretty much mown grass from edge to edge although this was that Velcro grass which I was told today is Bermuda Grass. (No wonder they have it in Florida). There were occasional clumps of reeds and a lot of conifers but again no rubbish underneath those tress.
There were however a number of Lakes, living up to the course name. I lost 2 balls on the 2nd hole which did not bode well if it had continued. Fortunately there were only a couple of others later in the round and I did find 3 or 4 balls so more or less even on that score.
Speaking of score, I was reasonably consistent with bogies today but had a few pars which more or less compensated for the few doubles to finish with 89, my second round under 90. I played with 2 friends (ex workmates) off the white tees which were the second longest on this course. The course boasted that it had been voted best greens in South East Texas and they were pretty good and quite fast.
We got around the front 9 in 1:50 but were held up a bit more on the back 9. Still, 4 hours after tee time I had loaded the gear in the car and was heading out the carpark, so it was a good time.
The route from the tom tom to get there was reasonable but there was a lot of roadwork so I tried one of the google suggested routes on the way home. I avoided the road works but we seemed to go all over the place until I recognised the main road to the Woodlands mall.
I wandered through Macy's, some mall shops and finally Sears where I bought a dress and 2 pairs of slacks for under $70 in total. The slacks will work for golf or the office.
Picked up some more crab clumps for dinner, this time the Dungerness variety.
