shootinthebreeze

Hello again!  Yes, it has been a while since I had the opportunity to blog with you all.  Patty, I and two of the children went to Virginia for vacation.  Patty and I bought a time share in 2006 at Myrtle Beach.  As an incentive, we received an additional week to use anywhere in the world.  We had promised the kids a vacation.  So, when we received our week, we decided to trade it and go somewhere.  We ran into a little problem when we could not get anything booked until the first week in September.  This caused a problem when Elizabeth, my oldest, was supposed to start college in late August and Rebecca, Daniel and Nathan were suppossed to start school after labor day.  Elizabeth coulsd not go and Daniel, who wants to be a surgeon, decided he just could not afford to miss the first week of school and chose to stay home.  So Patty, Rebecca, Nathan and I set out for Williamsburg, Virgina bright and early September 1st.  We got a villa at Ford’s Colony in Williamsburg using our bonus week. 

After arriving and setting up house keeping, we went out and did a little grocery shopping, came home and had dinner.  We then hit the pool and hot tub.  When we woke up the next morning, we went over to the front desk after breakfast to make some tee time.  As an owner, you get an owner’s card and as part of the Ford’s Colony package an owner gets 6 free rounds at Ford’s Colony Country Club.  All you pay is your cart fee.  Patty and I were set up with a Tuesday tee time of 1:27 pm and I had a Friday tee time of 1:57 p.m. Ford’s Colony is a rather affluent retirement, resort area in Williamsburg and the club manages three 18 hole courses that run throughout the area.  The three courses — Blackheath, Marsh Hawk, and Blue Heron — are fairly short courses but not all that easy.  There is wood, water, and sand on all the courses in good measure and the fairways are not really wide.  To top it off, the course has bermuda greens and rough.  the rough is about an inch deep and you ger a lot of fried egg lies in it.  Also balls do not roll well in it.  However, the courses are beautiful and marvelously maintained.  All 3 courses have 4 tee boxes — Black, Gold, Silver and Bronze.  Each presents its own challenges.Patty and I teed off Tuesday on Blackheath.  Since Patty only plays about 2 or 3 times a year, we decided to play “best ball scramble” from the silver tees.  For those of you who are not sure what a best ball scramble is, it is where every player hits a shot and the best shot is chosen and all players move there ball to that spot and hit from there.  Patty and I shot a 111, 52 on the front 9 and 59 on the back.  The reason the score is higher than I would have liked is I 3 putted the first 5 holes on the back 9.On Friday, I played Marsh Hawk from the Gold tees and shot a 103.  I had a number of par puts and even got to look at 2 birdie putts on 2 of the par 3 holes.  In a future post, I will give a more detailed look at Blackheath and Marsh Hawk.