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Winter Golf Tips

Enjoy A Round Of Winter Golf

Simply because it is chilly doesn't mean you can not play golf. Several of my more enjoyable golfing moments came whilst playing cross-country or wintertime golf. I lived in Indiana for about 12 years. For 10 of the years, I lived in West Lafayette, just a hundred and twenty miles from Chicago, IL. For most, a particular golf season ran from April through early October. The sole month I did not enjoy golf was The month of January! Many of the local people ventured south to escape the winter for a couple of weeks but I never did.

I was a member of the Elks Country Club in West Lafayette. The Elks Members had a comparatively short but pretty tight course with treelined fairways. We played with a regular foursome. We generally played on Thursdays and Saturday as well as Sunday. We had a most enjoyable time. One of the group had a three handicap, I had my 10, another guy had a 12 and our senior statesman was relatively higher. We golfed together quite a bit, and afterwards went home to carry out our yard duties or honey do's.

But I digress...Back to winter season golf. During the early part of fall, we had the actual "leaf" rule. Because of so many leaves having fallen to the ground, locating your drive could be problematical, so in order to be fair, we declared a ball dropped in the simply leaves a "leaf ball" as well as incurring no penalty strokes.
After the temperatures dropped into the 30's and 40's, frequently we would be the alone on the course. After waiting (on the insistence of the Expert), for all of the actual frost to disappear from the greens, we would play off on hole number 1. We played the first 3 holes straight, that is in the typical way. On number 4, we would go tee off the other way, that is over the tenth fairway for the 11th green. We all used no fairways on this 1. Over the timber, across the #10 fairway, over the creek and trees to the 11th green. It had been a 7 iron for me and the others adjusted their club selection consequently. Usually one of us at least were able to hit the green. About the rest of the holes, we zigzagged forward and backward around the back nine. We failed to use the golf tees in most cases, produced par 5's out of some par 4's and some some other creative moving around.

A very interesting thing I learned when going back see our friends for a visit several years after moving away, I discovered they had changed the 17th hole to conform to the way we had used it in our winter golf rounds. #17 was a lengthy par 4 and the tee box was obviously a good walk from #16's green. Rather than wander all of that distance, we would stop well short of the conventional tee and then tee off making old #17 the dogleg hole and very difficult. I found as it turned out, they had relocated the tee box to approximately wherever we had played our first golf shot.

My days living in West Lafayette concluded in 1982, when IBM transferred my family and me to Louisiana. However I still keep in mind the golfing days there with a fond moment of recollection. It was there I had a hole-in-one but it was also there we rerouted the normal path and played our brand of winter season golf. For those of you stuck in the freezing blasts of the northern states, don't just sit around observing golf tournaments from California, get the sticks out and try winter season golf. You just might find you enjoy it. I know this lefthanded golfer did!

My name is Rick Blackmon and I am (Or was) a left handed golfer. I played with the same foursome for most of my 12 years in West Lafayette, IN. We played in good weather and bad. Our most interesting weather was in winter. We used our imagination and created our own path while playing our own brand of Winter Golf.

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