As I mentioned in my last post about drinking and golfing, this wasn’t the first time I teed off of a beer can. I did the trick a year or two ago as well. My form was much worse than this last video, but the drive actually worked out a lot better. I hit that one dead center of the fairway. I also managed to sink a putt while drinking a beer. This putt wasn’t a gimme either, it was a 6 footer! Another thing I noticed is that I seem to wear the same outfit golfing no matter when or where I am out! I think it’s time I picked up a new shirt. It is also pretty clear that I don’t age. I didn’t take any videos of that adventure from the past, but I did snag some good photos. Here they are.
*The best tee ever…empty, of course
*The setup for this is tough… after chugging the beer to make the tee
*An ugly follow-through, but the can is still upright!
*I needed to sink a 6 footer…but I also needed a sip of beer. Why not do both?!
I mentioned yesterday that I had a messy round of golf with Johal on the weekend. We decided to hit up Hockley Valley once again. The course kicked our asses. Maybe it had something to do with the massive amount of beer we drank. Maybe it was…wait…no…it was the beer! I threw together a quick little video of our day on the course. There are gaps in the video that match up with the gaps in my memory. Isn’t golfing the best?!
We FINALLY had some good weather this week and as a result, my blogging was almost non-existent. I am sorry about that. I do have a great excuse though - I was golfing! I finally got the clubs out this week and proved that I really am not a great golfer. That’s OK, I always have fun (fun = get drunk). The first round of the year was at Humber Valley in Toronto which was just a glorified practice round. We played 9 holes at twilight. Hockley Valley Resort in Orangeville, Ontario was the real deal. Johal was able to hook us up with an amazing deal so it was a no brainer. Under $50 for greens fees and that included the cart. We were also lucky that we were playing after a shotgun start tournament finished up. The course was empty and groups started to line up at the first tee. The starter was nice enough to let Johal and I run up to the third hole and start from there. That meant we never had to wait to tee off! Any golfer knows what an absolute dream that is. The weather was perfect and the course was challenging. You spend the first 10-11 holes going up hill and then you spend the rest going back down. It really makes club selection on the par 3’s tough because 150 yards can play like 180 going up and 120 going down. If you hit into the rough just forget your ball. You aint finding it! I ran into that problem a few times. For the most part Johal and I golfed pretty clean. We did much better than we expected to. In the end he edged me by one stroke. The bastard. This really was a perfect Friday. We had the sun shining, we were out on a golf course and we had plenty of beer. I love it when I get the chance to get out of the Toronto area to golf. It is nice to see nature all around the course instead of roads and buildings. And, when you golf as wildly as I do, it is safer for me to be out in the woods! If you get a chance I definitely recommend you check out Hockley Valley Resort for a round of golf. Here are a couple of the pics from the round. I really am sorry for the poor quality. I forgot the camera and had to take these with my blackberry.
Hell week is finally over for me! I just finished writing 5 final exams in 4 days. I have to admit that I was completely burned out. I had absolutely no desire to do any studying and I am pretty sure my marks on those exams will reflect that. I walked into most classes with anywhere from a 90% - 95% average. I am pretty sure those numbers will drop into the 80’s once they have added everything up. Oh well. When you are as awesome as me you can find it hard to be motivated. I still have one major exam next week in my medical class. On that weekend I have to go in to do a practical exam. It’s kinda cool, they have actors come in and they create a scenario that I will have to be the first responder in.
In other news it’s about fucking time that the weather started to warm up! I checked my archives and I was golfing on April 14th last year with Johal. Then on the 19th it was hot enough to wear shorts and we went golfing at Nobleton Lakes. Tomorrow looks to be really nice and I am dying to do something summer-ish. I might get some swings in at a driving range when I am done my morning class. If I do something cool I will be sure to get you more details. To be honest, I am looking forward to some boring days with school winding down for the semester.
Since I always try to bring you something fun, here is a comic from Explosm. It is a little old because it is about Easter, but it is good enough that I really should have featured it much earlier. Enjoy!
I recently posted about golfing with Johal at Horseshoe Resort. I started to think about golfing and how we could crank the sport up a bit. When I golf it usually involves a lot of drinking. So golfing with me is awesome enough. Maybe golfing needs to be taken off the course. How about we move it to the top of some crazy mountain in Alberta? These guys in the video below tried it out. It didn’t work out as planned. Maybe they should have picked something more stable to rest the ball on.
This is the end of my vacation week. I only managed to get one trade in. Sorry if you have been coming on here everyday looking for details about a Forex trade. I did manage to do some other cool things though! On Thursday I went golfing at Horseshoe Resort just outside of Barrie, Ontario. My friend Johal and I found a last minute deal and we jumped all over it. It rained earlier in the day so the course was empty. I was cool with that as it made our round very quick. Conditions were awesome for most of the day. The rain came down hard around the 16th hole, but then it quickly went away and we got to finish up. Johal took a massive 7 stroke lead after the front 9. I came back a bit on the back 9 but I still ended the day 2 strokes back. The course was challenging as hell. Lots of bunkers and narrow approaches. The distance on all the holes kept us honest as well. On most of the par 4’s we were still looking at a long club as our 2nd shot even after a good drive. Hell, I once pulled out the driver on a par 3! Once we did get on the green we were met with extremely tricky breaks. These things were not easy to read. Check out some of the shots below.
This is a long-freaking-distance par 5. It felt like it was 800 yards.
Johal and I just thought this sign was cool. It echoed our thoughts of this one group we got caught behind.
This hole had a barn beside the tee box. I don’t know why I added this, I just think barns are cool.
This hole just looked awesome with the rays of sunshine coming down.
There is Johal playing a wood off the fairway on the pretty hole. His form actually looks pretty good!
Now here is my form. I have a very compact swing. It is ugly as hell but I still manage to get the job done.
The first Birthday of June is always a fun one! My friend Nik turned 29 this weekend and we kicked it up a little bit. I love celebrating his birthday because the weather is always amazing. So, we usually get to play some golf before we go drinking. This year we decided to play at Granite Ridge in Milton, ON. The round with a cart cost $61. That’s not a terrible price, but it also isn’t as good a deal as this place used to be. But, the place has two 36 holes and is maintained pretty well. One problem they have always had is the speed of a round. This Saturday was the worst it has ever been. It took us around 3.5 hours just to finish the front 9! Luckily a Marshall caught us before lining up at the back 9 and got us to play the back 9 of the other course. This allowed us to fly through the last 9 holes in about 2 hours. Nik was playing in the “responsible” group…while I was playing with the hooligans. I am trying to take more video clips of the things I do. So, I made a quick little film about my friend Ryan and his birdie putt attempt. This proves that you just can’t take golf too seriously.
So, golfing was a great time. After a stop to pick up some booze we headed back to Nik’s condo for some drinks and snacks. One of the snacks was an amazing cake made by one of our friends. She decided to stick with the golf theme. This is really cool. Check it out:
After the cake was demolished, the drinks really started flowing. We polished off anything that even resembled booze. I may have had a shot of nail polish remover. I finally bailed on the party around 2am. From the sounds of it, things were going strong for at least another hour after that. All in all this was a great day. Definitely an event to remember…if only I could!
Earlier this week I went golfing in Brampton. The course we picked was Banty’s Roost. I haven’t been to this course in a long time, and I didn’t remember much about it. I am sure that drinking beer while playing has something to do with that! The course was fairly nice, although there were quite a few dry areas of fairway and rough. Since the weather was fairly damp this week it shouldn’t have been that dry. It is kind of hard to hit off rock solid ground that has very little grass! This wasn’t too much of a problem though and the course did look very nice. The most challenging aspect of the course was the green speed and hole location. More than a few times I just missed and had my ball roll away down a hill. Now, we all know that I am so awesome some times that the universe can barely handle it. On this day I proved to be stronger than a golf ball. One of my mighty swings cracked my golf ball in half! Yes, I am sure it was my strength and not the fact that I hit a tree. Check out the pic!
With the temperature getting up to 24 degrees and the sun shining, there was no way I was staying at the office for a full work day. Johal and I cut out early and met our friend Eddie at Nobleton Lakes Golf Club. They have a great deal going on right now, where you pay $80 for a round, but you get a voucher for a free round later in the year. You can’t beat that! Considering we are so early in the season, the course was in fantastic shape! It was a little dry in some areas of the rough, but that is to be expected. The fairways and greens played amazingly though. It was definitely worth the trip out. Johal managed to stay out of the water for the most part this time around. I had my driver dialed in too. If I can keep that up all year…well…I will still suck, but I will look more impressive!
*This was the opening hole of the back 9. HARD!
*Johal teeing off with that fat driver
*Eddie gets into the game
* I get stuck in the neck-high bunker
* Johal killed a fish with his ball the one time he found water
April 13, 2008. It was a sunny Sunday, but probably only around 7-8 degrees outside with the sun starting to set. What better time to get out for the first golf outing of the season? My partner in crime was my buddy Johal. Now, neither of us had time to hit the driving range at all this year. So, we were very rusty. We only played 9 holes at an executive (mostly par 3) course in Toronto. We both had some good shots and managed a couple of pars. Other than that it was pretty much bogey golf. Now for the fun part. Johal, probably being dehydrated from drinking, seemed to be attracted to the water. Even on par 3 holes with the water right in front of us he still managed to get the ball wet. At one point he even took about 4 mulligans and kept knocking it into the water about 5 feet in front of him! I promised to keep his water related disaster a secret. So, naturally I took a some pictures with my camera phone and and writing about this on my blog! Sorry Johal, I couldn’t help it.
*Thats me…flashing my driver
*Johal struggling to find more balls to shoot into the water
