First off, props to all the music fans who got the reference.
I just like that song
I love that album too. We also got a huge bonus next year when PS put out a live DVD/CD of a full live show where he played the good songs off Graceland with a long line of his old hits.
But I did feel like I went to Graceland:) It was a pilgrimage of sorts. I also feel like I studied, and I also felt like I went to church.
And I froze. I brought a change of EVERYTHING because I was 44 and rainy on the weather report and treated it as though it were St. Andrews or County Down...I was gonna play through it come hell or high water...and there wass high water
But it's the cold that got me in the end. The rain suit stayed waterproof (wish I had a matching waterproof hat) and the zero gloves let me hang on to the club without slipping. Problem with them - no feel in the short game and yesterday was so cold and so wet I didn't want to take them off. Still, even in that downpour, the club didn't slip.
Fave holes: 2, 3!, 7, (I got out of the Road Hole bunker to eight feet and made the putt. That made the day). 11, (The Principal's Nose was cool), 12, 16, and 18.
Man that must be the hardest first green in creation.
Three things that resonated with me: first, the severity of the fairway movement. It was the wildest playing field I've played. We dont play golf on terrain like that any more, but we should. Even courses that are "severe" according to mainstream standards pale in significance to the National. Second, does any one get that same feeling that they get at Garden City? You know...being out on the windswept plain in the multi-colored fescues, with all those uninterrupted views of the course. Third, do the rest of you feel that no matter howe great the stories, the pictures, and the expectations are...that when you see it, it surpasses them all, no matter how high they were.
Jeff, we ate lunch at noon...were you the group coming up 18 around then? We went out after that and got in right before the rain turned into a total downpour.