The spin instructor didn't say "No". Yet. I did an initial inquiry by email, and her email response was more favorable than not. Additional discussion face-to-face to follow. My pal Cal is interested as well. This could be a hoot. Core training and wine on Maplecrest!
I came across some dirt in the DM Register yesterday that is almost too hard to believe. The gal who had been the head of the Des Moines public schools the last several years (and who had accepted a similar position in Omaha beginning in July) found herself in the soup when "sexually explicit" emails were discovered on her school email account. I'll leave it to you to research the details (query "Des Moines schools" on Google News), but the incredible part of the story is that she used her school email account for the correspondence.
The financial cost of this brain-dead loss of clarity exceeds two million or more. She was making $250,000 annually in DM, and was scheduled to get $300,000+ in Omaha (including benefits). Do the math. A $629 iPad with a $25 monthly fee doesn't even register on that scale. And she'll be lucky to get a job of any sort in education administration in the future. Those FOIA searches are a beach.
That new Ping G20 driver that I wrote about a week or so ago could be the real deal. I played 9 holes with Roy last night at Geneva, and my drives on the three hardest holes were long, in the fairway, and lead to much easier second shots. Two pars and a bogey. Technology is currently suggesting that my target of a 12 handicap by the end of the season is a definite possibility. Not that I have a problem with oxymoron's.
An article in a recent SI that had a round table discussion about the status of golf in the USA made an interesting point. Most people focus on the total score for the round. And keeping score like that leads to more time on the course. In contrast, many Saturday morning "games" among friends at a club are done on a match-play basis between two-man teams. In match play, total score really has no meaning as each hole is either won or lost. So in many cases, when a guy on one team hits a great shot that leads to an easy birdie, the other players may not even finish the hole if they obviously can't beat that birdie. Similarly, a guy who puts one out-of-bounds, or a couple in the water, may just "pick-up" and concede that he can't help his teammate on the hole. He's being "carried" by his partner.
Match play can take less time...usually. And one bad hole won't take a golfer out of the picture for the match, as the next hole is really a "do-over", and everybody has a clean scorecard. Golf is supposed to be about fun, and keeping score can be a possible inhibitor to the fun factor. Just a thought.
Another choice that average players make that can make for too-long of rounds is the choice of tees that they tee from. Most course offer a variety of distances with tees going back to "the tips", or up to the "super seniors". (We usually play something in the 6300 yard range.) When Average Joe's feel their testosterone and go back too far on the tees, they make the course too long for their games. Balls get lost. More strokes are required. And the round goes on too long, time wise. Not to mention that they probably hold up the entire course for other golfers. Just another thought.
Now off to the yard and house duties. I may try to jump back on later.
BCOT
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