The question is am I risking further injury to my heel by continuing to play golf? I suppose I'm not helping it to heal, but I have had it wrapped each day that I play and I wear the boot when I am at work or out in public. I don't have the boot on now, but I have been sitting on the couch all day watching football and napping. I am not kidding myself that I'm not slowing down the healing process, but honestly I can heal the ankle once the rainy season gets here.
The pictures above are of the home of the pre-invitational party that I attended on Tuesday night. The home is owned by one of the members at Serrano Country Club and is nothing short of fabulous. The home includes a four hole putting green, a 69 yard chipping green, a garden chess set with three foot tall chess pieces, a bocci court, a tennis court, a shuffleboard court, a pool house with three stories and includes a full kitchen, screening room, a second floor exercise room and a third floor outdoor patio with a fireplace in the center with 360 degree views of the country club and grounds.There is also an Olympic sized pool and a 12 person hot tub. The cherry on the sundae is a 3/4 mile two lane go kart track that was officially built as a running trail as the building department denied his request to build a go kart track. The owner is about 62 and has been retired for about 14 years since selling his successful dental lab business that he built up using talent from the Philippines to craft dentures. He became well known on the west coast for his perfect fit dentures and eventually sold out his business for 29 million dollars. He has since taken on a couple of more businesses, but still has plenty of time for golf. He had a putting contest and we put in $20 when we checked in and I was able to win 4th place and take home $100.
Gary and I struggled in the Invitational for the second time and decided that we will not play in it again. The big problem for both of us is the 6 and a half hour rounds of golf. I am a "tempo" golfer and play my best golf in about 3 1/2 to 4 1/2 hours. The 30 minute wait on tee boxes just ruins my momentum and destroys my continuity. I shot 85, 88 and 84 over three days and Gary and I finished 9th out of 12 teams in our flight. Gary shot 89, 92 and 90 and is a 9 handicap the same as me. Our club has a slow play rule and we enforce it by using time clocks and holding our golfers to 4 hours and 40 minutes OR you must finish within 15 minutes of the group in front of you. If you don't, you are penalized 2 strokes per player. At SCC, the owners are GOD and the pro and his staff have no control over the owner members, who can hire and fire him at will. IF I had played in the Invitational as a prelude to joining the club, I wouldn't. I told Gary to tell them that I was considering joining the club, but when the rounds were so ridiculously long, I backed out. By the way, don't ask me to explain the picture of Gary with the coyote. I just took the picture and who am I to judge him? It was taken on one of the holes where there were five groups backed up on a par three.
Work is going well and I'm off to the Manager's meeting next month in Detroit. Matt will join me this year as he is one of the Management Program participants and they have all been invited to the meeting this year. He asked if he had to sit in on the Sacramento review with Alan this year. He won't. Matt called me on Friday as I was playing in the Invitational. One of the employees had accidentally pushed the button on our coffeemaker twice and it overflowed and kept running. The shut off valve for the water is under the counter behind the built in dishwasher (well designed, eh?). They ended up calling the property manager and they came up, pulled the dishwasher and turned off the water. The coffee service came out and reset the coffee maker and the water was turned back on after the overflow was extracted and cleaned up. At that point, the property manager couldn't get the plug for the dishwasher plugged back in and the message for me was that the plug was too short. Really? It's all plugged in, they unplug it, pull it and then the plug is too short when they go to put it back together? I told them to have the TIB contractor come back out if they couldn't get it fixed and magically, they were able to get it to work. That HAD to happen while I was out.
We are still waiting for the part for our hot tub and Darla, who was off Friday, went over to the spa service and raised some noise. They promised to get on their suppliers this week and we'll see. As soon as the weather cools, I will be ready for the spa, so they better get on it.
I agreed to one more year on the golf club board as the handicapper. Neil was asked to be Tournament Director again next year and he agreed on the condition that I continue on as the handicapper.We were asked to serve by the Vice President. This was all a bit premature, but the Vice President of the club was elected President on Thursday night for next year and we are now on the hook for this again. I enjoy working with Neil and vice versa.
Darla was gone for two nights Monday and Tuesday in Pasadena for her job with Alta. She was able to have dinner with Daniel's girlfriend, Becky on Monday night. She was home by 7:30 on Wednesday night and I got home shortly after as I had to go sign in over at Serrano for the Invitational. I received $175 credit with Titleist as a tee prize and bought two shirts, a pair of shorts, a dozen Pro V1s, a golf glove and a pair of socks for my money.
Darla and I did go over to the Country Club on Saturday night for the final dinner and awards and we only stayed about an hour. We don't know many people at the club and Gary didn't show for dinner. The women were over dressed and the men were over served and we had a drink, enjoyed dinner and got out of there. I don't think we are country club people. Neither of us are particularly self important and don't really fit in with the crowd.
Well, that is it for this week. I hope you are all well. I'm back to the boot this week and hope to have this cured by mid October. be well. Ciao.
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