Windy Weather Blows

I am not sure if windy golf means you will have a bad time. Definitely the extremely high winds on Wednesday made it interesting. On Men's Night we had 50 km/hr winds gusting to 70 km/hr/.  It affects shots, balance, putting, and conversations. But as is always the case, it was the same weather conditions for everyone. One interesting indicator of how the effect of the wind was no one recording a score on the ringer board.

There's a line from a classic song that says "you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows". That was clear on Wednesday. It was a straight west wind...until it became a northwest wind...before it changed to a north wind.

It was so windy that wedges were going an extra 30 yards with the wind and 30 yards less into the breeze. It was so windy that on some holes Gorrell didn't have a slice. It was so windy that most of the birds were walking. It was so windy that if Milt actually played you would have seen his hair move.

Despite the gusty conditions, twelve golfers still made it out for the evening. Unlike last week, several skins went with winners on five holes.  They included Scott Maynes / Norm Verboom ($20 on #1, $21.25 on #7), Robin Kimpinski / Kendal Koroscil ($60.63 on #4), Brad Benton / Phil Ostash ($60.63 on #6), and Wes Arnfinson / Shane Kimpinski ($21.25 on #8).

Closest to the holes were Wes on #5 and Neuf on #9. There were no deuces. Robin had the low round with a 37.

We are certainly looking forward to this coming week. The forecast looks fantastic with a high of 28 Celsius and wind only 30 km/hr gusting to 50 km/hr. Compared to this past week that's almost calm. Also, as of tomorrow restaurants are permitted to have people inside so we will be able to do the prizes inside after our round.