Finally, its Saturday again, this time the temperature went down to 46 deg F. My car is frozen in the overnight 29 deg F weather, which is mild. Milder when I arrived the Sunday before, which was 70 deg F. Can't play then though, after 27 hours flying and 6 hours transit without sleep, can't find golf balls and differentiate them from my eyeballs which can fall off anytime.
Paid for morning game after 120km drive to north of Charlotte from Forest City on that Chevy Impala given to me which had faulty brakes that wobbles when hit hard and does everything but stop on ice! Morning game, as sun sets about 4pm, took to the tees at 10 am, but cost US$87 along with Kakis from the Factory and IBM, rental clubs and buggies on track day. Shitty US$199 set with old 270cc Callaway Warbird steel head driver that I started off with in the late 80s, steel shafted, suffered tremendously for the whole game, but I must say, the best part was taking pictures of this course, which I am playing for the second time. First time being Summer of 2006. Highland Creek.....one of the most tough courses in Carolinas trial.
3rd hole where alot of people died. Pin on a reverse slope mount, speed of greens about 11. I one on, 9 putted! &$#@% can't believe, my second putt, missed a 2 footer, break and ran off the green 7m away! Par 3 down hill over a creek surrounding 3 sides of the green. 3 koreans behind showed great displeasure, typical of them. After we finished this hole, we did not see them for the rest of the 15 holes. I think their lowest score here might be 15! I was the lowest score for this par three on my flight at 10 strokes! Last time I played here, I had 1 on and 7 putted in Summer and the reindeer danced all over my green making putting hell, but, the melting snow was even more hell!
My favourite hole, nice eh? I siamed the bunker laid up my third for an easy wedge to 5 feet from the pin for a bogey. Happy on this one.
This hole we saw two Zeroes and one hero. I hit a fourth to 10 ft and got bogey six, am the hero. Here, our friend from IBM, Abraham hit 3rd shot to try for green end up in the rocks on the left due to wind high up above the mount. Spent the next 3 minutes digging ball out of the rocks. Can't imagine 65 year old mad dog doing that for a used Titleist ball! Then asked for Mulligan some more. Dropped ball at the bunker fringe, hit one more time, clipped the rocks, dropped into the creek and floated away! Hahahaha...got the whole clowning episode on HD video!
Houses in Highland Creek has taken a beating from the US crisis, now these are going for about 200K plus since its hey days last year at 599K. Me and Eunice may look into buying one these days once we closed the 70 million tender.
This one is going for sale, double brick, 599K, 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, 1 acre plot and 4 car out house garage. this type I like, bullet proof walls, plus I get to shoot who ever ass holes traspassing with a good 50m dash to the front door, so he can be sitting duck.
Cooking some grub in the hotel, my home for half a month. Never got the Jaccuzi room next door because kena grabbed liao. Every night the fat ass snored worst than a pig on slaughter, came through the walls, so I called his room every 20 minutes to give him hell.While he wakes up, I get to sleep. Went to Aldi, which is 50m from my room, bought myself 1 pound worth of Alaskan King Crab! Can cook 4 meals. Only US$12. Whack the shrimps, championions, mixed cauliflower and broccoli with milk and chicken cube. Then steal some bread from the counter outside and whack 5 packets of creamer....wow....CHOW down. Better than the Bojangles, Chillis, Wendy's, Hardees, KFC, Macdonald's, Denny's, Ryan's, Fatz and Waffle House.
Good Old CHING CHONG CRAB CHOWDER! Best in the WULAGUM.The food here in the South is cooked with 4kg of salt per litre of soup! Man! Instant kidney failure man after one month on this type of diet, any china man will become KIAM CHAI in no time.