If I don't get some sunshine and soon I will go into withdrawal... I have been in New Jersey for two days now and the only sun I have seen is on the weather channel... I may have to go to a tanning salon just to get a "fix".
Wednesday was the annual grudge match between Vic, Walter, Bob and myself at Walter's country club in New Jersey... (after finally getting to Vic's house at around 3am--thanks, Amtrak!--I got a solid 4 hours of sleep and up and off we went). We have been playing golf together since we were in high school... (do the math, that's a long, long time). Golf with these guys brings out the competitive monster in me and the insults and ribbing get pretty intense but I wouldn't miss playing with them for the world. Walter and Bob reclaimed the title from Vic and I with a 3 and 2 win in the match. (The series was on hold while Vic had a hip replacement, but he is coming along and is able to play again). We stayed and had dinner at the country club and were joined by Billy, another friend from high school...(old friends are great)...Billy remembers a lot of things I don't remeber and we laughed and reminisced and had a great time. Vic and I had to cut out early because we had to get up at 4am Thursday to drive to Long Island for the US Open...
Thursday dawned...(somewhere, there were so many thick grey clouds I could not see the dawn). We were on the road by 5am and made pretty good time until the line for parking at Jones Beach. By the time we were on Long Island, the misty rain in New Jersey had become a steady rain in New York...(we had umbrellas, change of clothes and waterproof windshirts--thanks Vic). We shuttled from Jones Beach to the golf course and stepped onto Beth Paige Black for the first time in many years...(I was so pumped to be back there, so many memories from playing there and watching the 2002 US Open there). The course was lush and brilliantly green and we were determined to walk all 18 holes...(the course was the "star" I wanted to see most, any other golfers would be just gravy). The golf course was packed with spectators and from the sound of the conversations I overheard, they were from all over the world... Tiger Woods was going out at 8:06 (yes, they sent the players out) so we walked ahead of his group because the crush of people surrounding him would block out our views of the course... So we stayed about two holes ahead of him and walked the golf course...
Sorry to cut this blog short but I have a tee time this morning and need to get on the road. I will get more in depth about Thursday on Long Island in my next blog (keep the readers in suspense, good literary tool)... If I start a rant, and I will be ranting, I may miss my tee time...See you later...
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