End of November, 2006: Here in New York City's pastoral
banlieu, November's last weekend was blissfully sunny and mild. So, after a rainy Thanksgiving...one of excessive eating, drinking and Twilight Zone reruns... we spent Friday and Saturday playing the kind of golf I just love; the really sensuous, relaxing kind. It's golf you can only play at this time of year when the masses of fair-weather golfers have put away their clubs for the season. There's no one behind you and you feel free to experiment with all kinds of crazy things: You try the shots you'd never attempt on a busy high-season course. If they don't work, you just grab another ball and do it the conventional way. You stop for cocktails after the first nine - and bring one out with you for the back nine. Then there's the impromptu putting contest on the most challenging green of the course. (Actually, that sort of sucks cause I always loose and have to be Nick's slave for the rest of the weekend) The thing is, it's a perfect way to say good-bye to golf for the season, and thanks to the weather gods we were able to enjoy it to it's fullest this year.
On Friday we played Gainfield Farms. As you can see, it was perfectly maintained despite the previous day's storm.
This is what the same course looked like in early October. Pretty much the same but with touches of gold and orange.
Saturday at Centennial: Blissed out in my fave
GirlsGreen shirt, I did some sunbathing...
...and sipped bloody marys. I played some pretty good golf too, though I have no proof of that.
Nick is always much more serious than I am. That's
his problem.
End of November, 2006: Here in New York City's pastoral banlieu, November's last weekend was blissfully sunny and mild. So, after a rainy Thanksgiving...one of excessive eating, drinking and Twilight Zone reruns... we spent Friday and Saturday playing the kind of golf I just love; the really sensuous, relaxing kind. It's golf you can only play at this time of year when the masses of fair-weather golfers have put away their clubs for the season. There's no one behind you and you feel free to experiment with all kinds of crazy things: You try the shots you'd never attempt on a busy high-season course. If they don't work, you just grab another ball and do it the conventional way. You stop for cocktails after the first nine - and bring one out with you for the back nine. Then there's the impromptu putting contest on the most challenging green of the course. (Actually, that sort of sucks cause I always loose and have to be Nick's slave for the rest of the weekend) The thing is, it's a perfect way to say good-bye to golf for the season, and thanks to the weather gods we were able to enjoy it to it's fullest this year.
On Friday we played Gainfield Farms. As you can see, it was perfectly maintained despite the previous day's storm. This is what the same course looked like in early October. Pretty much the same but with touches of gold and orange.
Saturday at Centennial: Blissed out in my fave GirlsGreen shirt, I did some sunbathing... 
...and sipped bloody marys. I played some pretty good golf too, though I have no proof of that.
Nick is always much more serious than I am. That's his problem.
Sunbathing in Conn in late November, you can't hate that.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe how nice the fairways look...
ReplyDeleteYou must spend tons of money on golf and drinks and stuff.
ReplyDeleteUmmmm...when you say "slave for the weekend", you mean like you have to pick up his dry cleaning and stuff, right???
ReplyDeleteI think we changed weather patterns this weekend - I played 18 in shorts yesterday, and had to attend to frostbitten extremities at the 19th hole...
We had our first rain of the season overnight, and now we're dealing with the frosty north-winds that blow after the front moves through...it's supposed to get down into the thirties at night this week, which you East-Coast toughies laugh at, but that's CCCCCOLD for around these here parts!!!
Nice pics, as always...lovely foliage.... =)
hi patricia,
ReplyDeletethe course looks great.thanks for the pictures.
i enjoy reading your diary. i like your insight.keep up the wonder work.
eddie
Exactly how many different styles of golf gloves do you own????
ReplyDeleteNails are lovely dear ;-)!
ReplyDeleteI thought you're suppose to have
ReplyDelete6 inches of snow on the ground in that area this time of year.
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