(Crossposted at my other blog.)
Last fall, around the time it got too cold to golf anymore, I was feeling pretty discouraged about the game.
It seemed to me that after a year & a half of playing I should have been getting better. Ha. I was as close to breaking 100 at the end of 2006 [...]

Rochester’s got three municipal golf courses, and Genesee Valley Park is the one that’s closest to my house. For that reason it’s the course I’ve played the most since I took this game up in the middle of last summer.
I played a couple times there this week now, too. Sunday I played my best [...]

When I went to the Rochester LPGA in June, they were offering free 10 minute lessons. Fortunately they were booked solid that day, so instead I got option B: take a lesson with golf pro Darlene Sommer at Play Better Golf.
So a few weeks later I set up an appointment and went in.
It blew [...]

Because I’m A. on a budget, and B. too much of a newbie to right about investing country club dollars into my game just yet, I’ve mostly stuck to the municipal clubs. Today I played Durand Eastman.
It was my first time on that course.
Only nine holes — I played over lunch — and I [...]

As a warm-up to the US Open.

So I can take pics when the tour hits Rochester the week after next.
I’m pretty excited! Stay tuned, I’ll post an update if my application is accepted. Or rejected. LOL

On a short par three at a municipal park that is 10 minutes from my house.
Came within inches of my first birdie ever . . .

Last Sunday’s Rochester Democrat and Chronicle included a feature section: Golf Guide ‘07. Here it is online, although fair warning: the D&C puts their stuff behind a firewall after awhile.
The cover story is a compilation of peoples’ favorite holes — i.e., a fantasy course built out of 18 holes from local courses, each nominated by [...]