Golfing in January... and we're in Idaho!

Last year at this time we were waist deep in the white stuff and it was C*O*L*D! Fast-forward 12 months and here we are with our days in the mid to upper 40's and sunny. The snow is hard to find here at StoneRidge. What we do have is water, lots and lots of water.

Monday the forecast was for 45 and sunny, so we made an unofficial tee-time for 1pm. We had a 5-some of StoneRidge Guy and me with 3 of our StoneRidge Pals Mac, Dennis and Carol. Truth be told, I wasn't going to go until Carol said she
wanted to play. We all agreed that there were plenty of days last spring that were much colder.

Dennis teeing off on hole #10

Carol warming up

Carol and me

All of the carts are locked up so we had to walk. We decided to play the back side. So we started off to hole #10. I haven't swung a club for almost 4 months so I was a bit nervous. Last to tee off, I was pleasantly surprised at my first drive. It wasn't much worse than any other day on the course last summer.

This was the location of my 3rd shot, about 90 yards from the middle of the green. The reason you don't see a flag is that there isn't one. All of the pins were set at temporary greens, in the fairways about 50 yards in front of the greens. We were playing to the holes on the greens, which were filed with ice. Fortunately, Mac had played a day before and knew where they were.

Steve putting on the 10th green. The round thing next to Steve's foot is the cover plate for the hole.

 






























 Most of the bunkers were filled with water, ice or both like this one to the left.

 


























 Looking back down hole #11 from the green. Beautiful blue skys and not a spec of snow.

From the tee box on hole #14 you can see some snow on the mountains.

 Floating ice in the bunker by #11 green

Looking down the fairway from #14 teebox

 

Putting on the 18th green

It really was fun. Steve liked it so much that he played again today.