Scenic Golfing

Dairy Creek Golf Course is one of the public courses in San Luis Obispo County. It is relatively new, created on property that was once a dairy farm. It's fun to play, and has great views and wildlife. You nearly always see wild turkeys. The following is a link to a beautiful slide show of the wildlife at Dairy Creek and surrounding areas.



http://www.photoshow.com/watch/Eg9hu5Yx

PInk Pig Party

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Drive for Show, Putt for Dough

If you three putt, you pay the pink pig every week. Over the course of a year, this little piggy gets very fat, so in June we take the proceeds and throw a party. This year, Rene'e Rahilly opened her lovely house for the eagerly awaited "Pink Pig Party"! We had lots of good food catered by Cahoots, a delicious cake, and enjoyed visiting, soaking in the hot tub, and a spirited game or two of Catch Phrase. The following video shows some of the party.

Golf Outing

I had a fun couple of days. Some of the ladies I play golf with went up to Monterey for a couple of days of golf. Here's our gear for only 4 gals for 2 days, one night away! Those golf clubs take up a lot of room!On Sunday we played a lovely resort course in Carmel Valley called Quail Lodge. We joined up with 8 ladies from Chalk Mountain golf course for 3 foursomes and had a great time! Pam and Chris are posing on the 10th green. And Clare and I on the same hole.

This hole was on the back nine - don't remember which hole, but there was a lot of water!

Here's a par 3 on the front nine - more water!

We had a grand day, and capped it off with dinner at the club restaurant. We spent the night near Monterey and got up early to arrive at the Pacific Grove Golf Course for a 8:00 shotgun start. The course at Pacific Grove (show below) is a muni, and quite popular. If you can't afford to play Pebble Beach near Carmel, you can play Pacific Grove!



The back nine has ocean views from every hole. Hard to keep your mind on golf!

And the Pacific Grove Lighthouse is right in the middle of the course! Chris and I are posing in front of it!




There are deer everywhere, and lots of different kinds of birds.

We ended our day with a late lunch at Tarpy's Roadhouse on the way home.

Some April Photos

I played golf on Wednesday at Monarch Dunes, a relatively new course down in the south part of San Luis Obispo County (near Nipomo). It's a beautiful links type course - very difficult. Lots of water, dunes, blind shots, tricky greens. But we had a great time. It's only a mile or so from the ocean, so there's usually a lot of wind. In fact, you can see the Guadalupe-Nipomo dunes area and the ocean from a couple of spots. A pastoral scene close to Paso Robles. You can see how the hills are beginning to lose their green and take on that California summer look! I think these are some of those "Happy California Cows." It's nice to have such bucolic scenes so close to town.

We Played!

Yesterday we drove up to Carmel to play golf at Rancho Canada Golf Course. The day before had been a scorcher...100 degree temps up and down the coast, but yesterday was foggy and cool, actually not bad weather for golf. The course is beautiful, laid out along the Carmel River, which we crossed several times. The cottonwoods were "cottoning" and it looked like snow on some of the greens and the Pride of Madera and rhoddies were in bloom. After golf, we drove "up valley" to the very small community of Carmel Valley Village and had dinner at a great little cafe. Then the 2 hour drive home. A very nice day. That's such a beautiful area.

A beautiful pink rododendron

A par three over the river... I made it over!

From the 1st hole




Pride of Madera

DAnna and Tom at #18

Golf Tuesday

Today was our ladies day at the golf course. It started out sunny, but became increasily cloudy and by the 10th hole it started to rain. We toughed it out and finished our round surviving wind, rain and a very slow foursome in front of us. My golf bag blew over twice and I lost my cute kitty head cover, but we finished! (I went back for the headcover....kitty is soggy, but safe!) Did I mention that only 2 of us finished!! I guess the rest of the gals had better sense! :-)

DAnna and Linda

Miss Kitty doesn't like being wet!

Golf Tournament

Yesterday and today I played in a golf tournament - my partner, Marjorie and I won 3rd place in the 1st flight! Just braggin' ! DAnna and Marjorie