A March Round At Washtenaw
Temperatures in the fifties and a lengthening day gave me the opportunity to play eighteen yesterday at Washtenaw Golf Club (course link).
This round marks the 109th consecutive month in which I have played at least one round in Michigan. The steak continues.
It has been a strangely warm winter. I played several times in January and a half dozen times in February, always enjoying weather where the temperatures were pushing fifty. Southeast Michigan had a seventy degree day earlier this month, but due to work obligations, I was unable to tee it up that day.
Fortunately, Washtenaw Golf Club has been open throughout the winter. If often is walking only, but as I always walk, that has not been a problem.
On March 7, I was playing well and finished the eighteen (walking) in two hours twenty-two minutes. Golf is a lot easier and faster when one is hitting fairways and (at least getting close to) greens in regulation.
Heading into the round, I was not certain that I would be able to finish. For the previous several days, I been suffering from constant lower back pain. The pain is a chronic condition; I am laid up for several weeks a year when the disks slip. By the third, hole, however, it had loosened up, and this morning, I am pain free.
Golf is good medicine.
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The truly amazing feat was not the 109 streak but playing Washtenaw in under 4 hours. There are so many slow groups there that I finally decided to limit my play there.