(Ed. Note: If you click on the pictures, they will be blown up for you so you can better see the action. then use your "go back" arrow to go back to the article.)In the first article, I talked about the course conditions and weather in hopes you might take some measure of pity on us for those scores. Now, however, I want to write about some of the good shots.
Take Dave's tee shot on #12 at Oak Valley (picture right - 351 yds./uphill/slight dog-leg right). Now, Dave is a lefty and hits the ball right to left about 75% of the time, so in order to hit this tee shot and keep it on the planet, he should have had to take it through the bathroom window of the house on the right and hope the patio door was open so the ball could gently fly to the center of the fairway out by those traps. Well, old Dave fooled us all (including himself) and hit it straight down the middle. Nice shot. He had several of these the first day and didn't do too bad. Putting deserted him, but he also had a good day playing from the sand.
Chuck's second shot on #4 at Oak Valley (334 yds./fairway sloping left to right) was a very good shot which ended up about two feet off the front of the green. This was a good shot considering there are about six real deep traps surrounding the green (see picture below). The hole was uphill to where he was and then went downhill and back up to the green. 
Oh, yeah, the ball you see in the trap in this picture is mine. This led to the shot you saw in the first picture in the other article. Unfortunately I hit that shot to the trap (the deep one) at the right front of the green.So even though there were obstacles in our way, there were some pretty good shots made. Take this hole -- #7 Oak Valley (486 yds./par 5). There is water on both sides of the fairway which slopes left to right. You can see the green WAY out there, and guess what -- it has a bunch of traps around it too. I hit my third shot which cleared the creek in front of the green by about 8" (saw the ball mark) and rolled onto the front of the green. I missed the putt but thought that was a fun hole.
Well, as you see, we had fun and thoroughly enjoyed the trip in 
spite of the weather. Oh, by the way, there were a couple hundred junior PGA and LPGA hopefuls there that weekend for some sort of qualifier for a national junior tournament. A lot of them were staying at this hotel. Do you suppose any of them wondered who or what the Bennett Golf Group was? Do you suppose any of them cared?One last confession I think needs to be made -- we did play from the senior tees (5,672 yds - Oak Valley, 6,014 yds - Tanglewood)! Believe it or not, we're all old enough to do so; besides, the first rule of the early spring golf trip is that it is supposed to be fun. And this falls in line with the old adage: build it (senior tees) and they will play from it.
I'm not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced. (Attributed to both Miller Barber and Lee Trevino)
Hooah
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