what a day

@ Madge Lake Golf

Golfing has been out of my radar for a long time. For more than the last 7 years since I moved to town from Toronto, I played golf no more than 10 times, I guess. I used to play golf at least twice a week when I lived in the city back then. However maybe because there are other things to do for fun such as fishing, kayaking, or shooting, or certainly because there ain't any buddy to play with willingly, golfing was out of my interest such a long time..

However this time, I strongly felt that golfing might be back to me again as it used to for last 30 years ever since I started golfing in Korea and enjoyed the sport a lot in other countries as well. So I went through my own petit ritual by cleaning all of my clubs and even soaking my copper iron set of Ping Eye2 in a basket full of coke to remove all the dust over night and to make them glittering like gold under the sunshine. :p

Yeah I was about to golf with Jimmy, my new friend. The day before Jim and I went for golfing he brought his son & daughter to my shop to say hello. Actually I met his son already long before I came to know Jim. And I did remember Jayden was very nice young man. Anyway all three of us, Jim, Jayden and myself came together to play golf in here in the morning on Sunday!

Mother Nature welcomed us with a nice breeze and warm sunshine till hole no. 8 and even till in the middle of lunch time.

Here we go with Jim and Jayden. Jayden is now taking 3 summer classes in his 3rd year in unversity under mechanical engineering program and he was about to take midterm exam on Monday so he needed to leave early.

Playing golf with somebody else is more than just following the rule of game as a sport. Unless you have a room to appreciate sharing your appetite or professinal experience in life with proper level of communication protocol, it is not easy to enjoy the full delicacy of playing the game, isn't it?

As we are getting old or, rhetorically, as we become more matured throughout time, it is getting more difficult to make any 'new' friend. We become more conservative and stubborn in making any new relationship.

Nonetheless it is also true that the tiny window of opportunity comes to you all of a sudden and knocks the door. Then you just see him stand firmly in front of the door and you find yourself no other choice but just let him in. So we start building a new relationship again with excitement!

So we just kept moving on with our clubs of different angles for distance and direction hole by hole. But you know the game of golf. You try hard planning and calculating all the things like how far, how high, how windy, how rough the ball is sitting on, etc, etc, and more etc.. But in the end the ball has its own destiny NO MATTER WHAT.. :p :p :p

You see how open & wide fairway we have in this hole though it doesn't guarantee us to hit the ball straight. Sad..

Jayden had a nice swing form and I liked to play with him together with Jim.

Brown dirt road to the Wizard of Oz!

When I came to town 7 years ago my hairs were all just black, but now.. as you see..

Geese never pay anything but they own this place at all time. :p

Vital ingredients of sunshine kept being injected each and every single cell of uncountable number of leaves of trees making them more vivid & hilarious as real forms of life. Praise earth, sun, solar system, cosmos, and the Creator, or the probability of being formed as any kind of living organ..

Dad and son.. No more comment we need. Just good to see.

Jayden left at hole no.8 to Regina. Jim and I had a good lunch break with a couple of Heinekens.

Ducks were floating in the pond.

And geese family were on their picnic.

The black clouds were coming toward us.

Then we had a powerful shower followed by 5 min of hail session!

You see the white green? Those are all the small pellets of hail. Cool!!

We were just sitting in the cart with windshield up-right watching the very moment of lighting and kept hearing the roaring sound of thunder. Phenomenal!!

What a scene!

We kept playing as if there were nothing on the green. :-)

Left side of my pants got all wet.

How refreshing!

Back to sunshine. Back to normal again.

Lots of fun today.