Fat guy walking....in the south

[Mike_Young]

Seems everyone on this site is big on walking as am I.  and we walk as much as possible.  BUT in the South there is a huge difference when walking in 88 tp 95 degree weather and walking like today in 78 degree weather.  Keep in mind...I am a professional fat guy....underarmor to keep from chafing...large bag of peanut M&Ms carried for snacks...6 golf balls, small Ping moon bag.....
Just friday it was hard to walk 9 holes because of the weather and yet today 27 was no problem.....do other areas of the country actually realize this?  Summer in the south is a dangerous walk.....

[Adam Clayman]

Mike, How was it at 6 am?

[Mark Bourgeois]

Growing up, sometimes for fun we would crack an egg on the blacktop and watch it cook right in front of us.

So my advice is stay off the cart paths and you'll do fine.

[Tom_Doak]

Mike:

Up here in the north, it's just as hard to walk and play in the winter when there is two feet of snow on the ground.  Why don't you just move up here so you can stop finding reasons why golf in the south isn't so great?  

[Mike_Young]

Adam,
At 6AM prfessional fat guys are eating honey wheat bagels with peach/pecan cream cheese.....
we walked from 12 - 6:30 today and it was great....
TD,
I am going to spend 2 months in Harbor Springs this summer....
Never said golf wasn't great in the south...just said it was better in the north....
All this walking and now i get a bowl of Edy's double choc fudge ice cream for a snack...it is critical to carbo load when walking this much...

[Mark Bourgeois]

I am going to spend 2 months in Harbor Springs this summer....
Edy's double choc fudge ice cream ...

Sounds like you'll go for the fudge up there!

[Mike_Young]

I am going to spend 2 months in Harbor Springs this summer....
Edy's double choc fudge ice cream ...

Sounds like you'll go for the fudge up there!

Nope....Kilwins Moosetracks is the flavor for me there......AND their store is right under my place up there......BUT the fudge can be used for hors deovres.....

[paul cowley]

Where's Harbor Springs?

[Tiger_Bernhardt]

Mike I am with you. I walked Saturday and wow it was way too much like summer. I went ahead and reserved a cart for a 27 a day event this coming weekend. I love 12 month golf down here but summer is tough on us older guys. When i was a kid, i walked 36 a day in the dead of summer, then played 2 baseball games after golf. then  got up and did it again the next day. lol

[Mike_Young]

Paul,
Harbor springs is 60 mles N of Traverse City on Lake Michigan....google it...great town on the lake......

[Tim Bert]

Mike,

As someone that grew up in Memphis, lived in CT for several years, and then recently re-located back to the south I fully appreciate the difference of walking throughout the summer down here vs. up there.  Other than a week or two during an unusual hot spell, the WORST weeks were more like May down here.  This is coming from a guy that probably weighs about the same in as your moon bag, golf clubs, and 6 golf balls, so the issue isn't limited to professional fat guys.

The humidity/heat index down here is what further frustrates me when a club comes up with the bad idea of you can walk, but no push carts (an issue I didn't even no existed until this summer.)  Seems like an accident waiting to happen for someone that wants to walk just a little too badly in the heat.

[K. Krahenbuhl]

I walked 36 on Saturday while spending time in Illinois and had a tougher time handling nine holes after work tonight in Houston and it is only May.

[Bill_McBride]

Played couples golf on Mothers Day.  I walked the front, carrying my little Sun Mtn bag.  I was okay for a while but the 89* with 90%+ humidity did me in.  I rode the back and shot 39 after stumbling through a 44 going out.  On 7 and 8 I was pretty wobbly.

Oh yes - my birdie deuce on 18 won the match 1 up.  We were 3 down until I got smart and hopped on that cart!

I'm like Mike and Tiger - walking is fine for southern fat boys until summer arrives, then all those noble ambitions go right out the window.  Thank God for golf carts in the summer heat and humidity.

In Portland this summer I will walk every round like most everybody out there.

[Mike_Young]

Tiger, Tim, Kyle and Bill,
Would you agree that walking in the south in mid summer and playing golf is extreme......I don't think most of the country understands the humidity.....I can walk in the desert at 100 easier than walking here and playing at 90.
Mike

[Jeff Shelman]

When I lived in Raleigh for a year, I had a friend who was a 90-degree cart rule guy.

If it was 90 degrees, he was in a cart.

[Bill_McBride]

Tiger, Tim, Kyle and Bill,
Would you agree that walking in the south in mid summer and playing golf is extreme......I don't think most of the country understands the humidity.....I can walk in the desert at 100 easier than walking here and playing at 90.
Mike

Without a doubt - and worst thing is you don't really realize you are losing your grip (sometimes literally) until you get on the bogey/double train!  

[Tommy_Naccarato]

Adam,
At 6AM prfessional fat guys are eating honey wheat bagels with peach/pecan cream cheese.....
we walked from 12 - 6:30 today and it was great....
TD,
I am going to spend 2 months in Harbor Springs this summer....
Never said golf wasn't great in the south...just said it was better in the north....
All this walking and now i get a bowl of Edy's double choc fudge ice cream for a snack...it is critical to carbo load when walking this much...

I will back the honesty of Mike's breakfast menu. He had that same thing almost everyday we were there with one exception, When we went to the Waffle House and the old box car place the morning I got there.

The man knows his honey bagels and cream cheese. So muchin fact, he was the leading man to have the City of Athens change their name to Carbo City....

Bulah, more grits please......

[Jim Nugent]

Playing golf to around a scratch handicap...eating honey wheat bagels with peach/pecan cream cheese each day at 6 a.m...getting paid to travel the country/world designing great golf courses...

...Damn!  Do professional fat guys have more fun?  

[Rich Goodale]

I'm an amateur old fat guy and walked 36 on Sunday in a tournament in a two-club wind with constant drizzle.  The longest 6000 yard course I have ever seen.  Wow was that fun!

Memo to self:  Now why exactly did you move from Ponte Vedra to Fife?

[Tommy_Naccarato]

Rich,
Listen, your far from fat. That right belongs to us chunkers and lite eaters.....

And as far as the title of this thread.... Picture  a prison guard leading a chained Mike Young from the dining room of the clubhouse, just after devouring a lower then usual carb breakfast of Honey Bagels, honey pecan cream cheese, biscuits & gravy, grits mixed with sugar and cheese and to top it off, two pieces of cheese cake with some sort of chocolate syrup to disguise the flavor.

Lookee' here, we got us a fat guy walkin'! Fat guy a walkin' here ya'll! See what we got here, we got us a fat guy a walkin'!--Subtlety plagiarized from Steven King's The Green Mile

[Brent Hutto]

Professional fat guys may be required to play in the afternoon but for me it comes down to playing early or having to use a cart. I'd rather skip breakfast than skip walking so that makes me an amateur fat guy I suppose.

There are maybe two or three times a year that it's too hot to walk 18 if you can be finished before noon. But there are probably two or three times a week during the summer that it's too hot to walk 18 if you start at noon.

[A.G._Crockett]

As time goes by, I mind the heat less and less, and hate the cold more and more.  Generally, with Gatorade and a towel, I'm o.k. with the Georgia heat in the summer.

However, I have made the concession of adding a push cart for the really brutal days and/or when I am playing three or four days in a row.  I also wear a wide brim straw hat that makes my son cringe because I look like a maintenance worker.

I also firmly believe that the absolute worst time of the day to walk during the height of summer is around 10:30 a.m. to a little after noon.  That's when the relative humidity is highest and you suffer the most.  When the temperatures get higher in the afternoon, it is easier to breathe.

All that said, bring it on!  I'm a schoolteacher, and I have less than two weeks to go until I have my annual two months in which the biggest decision I make is whether to play in the morning or the afternoon!

[Rich Goodale]

Tommy

I was fat, before I played in a USGA Mid-Am qualifier at Marsh Landing in Ponte Vedra, and permanently lost 20 pounds.  A track less conducive to walking could not be built, unless its name was Pasadera, but that course is rarely if ever played in 100/100 temp/humidity.  Marsh Landing in the middle of August plays like that every day.  Which is why it was designed with cart paths.  Of course, the USGA Nazis made us geezers do our own version of the Bataan Death March that day, for which I am eternally greateful.

Rich

[Steve Lang]

 

Mike,  I feel your pain.. on the north side of Houston.. but its really just like first day of _______ (enter sports training), when mid-May comes to the ~30th parallel and golf coast it means no more dry north winds and you really feel it and know what's coming as we head into summer..  

we look on the bright side, we only went to the thermals once this winter.. when it got down to frigid 40's ... for a couple of days.. needed nothing more than a sweater and pull-over all winter

we just hydrate well, take the three wheeler...  we find its not so much mileage as time... more than 4 hours becomes a death march as stated.. but then we're on pretty flat topography..

we'll be at Blue Lake 40 miles east of Traverse City in NE corner of Kalkaska County enjoying summer golf at its finest in July/August.. I agree that's the best way to deal with southern heat!

[john_stiles]

Mike,

As an aid,      I use a cool wet towel around the neck to help when you kinda get stuck walking on a hot day.    It helps cool the blood going to the noggin.          Better yet,  wet a towel,  put it in a cooler in the car,  and then put that around your neck at the turn.   Amazing.

You can also probably buy one of those  'neck pouches' in any decent  'sport shop' in the soiuth.  Put in some ice and water.

A cool wet towel around the neck helps on the worst days.

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