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Warning
The Montana State Department of Fish and Wildlife is advising golfers to take extra precautions and be on the alert for bears while in the Gallatin, Helena, and Lewis and Clark National Forests golf courses.
They advise golfers to wear noise-producing devices such as little bells on their clothing to alert, but not startle the bears unexpectedly.
They also advise them to carry pepper spray in case of an encounter with a bear. It is also a good idea to watch for signs of bear activity.
Golfers should be able to recognize the difference between black bear and grizzly bear droppings on the golf course.
Black bear droppings are smaller and contain berries and possibly squirrel fur.
Grizzly bear droppings have bells in them and smell like pepper spray.
| Stories (all true) Below
will be some golf stories and/or events going on in my world of
golf.
Here is the link to
a golf web site that is great for avid PGA fans. it has unbelievable
content.
Also, our friend Scott Martin (PGA Caddy) is on assignment taking pictures for this web site and some of his pictures are strating to show up. Great job Scott! insidetheropes.com. |
Statistics Below
you will find statistics produced by my intelligolf software. They will
be of me and guys I play with a lot.
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Scorecards In
these links you will find my last game played and any other games
worth mentioning. The stats in each score card belong to the guy with
the lowest score of the round (hopefully me). When only my name appears
on a score card, it is because I don't know the people in my foursome
enough to ask How many putts?
I use Intelligolf software on (version 6.50) on my Sony Clié PDA and hot sync all games to my pc. |
| 19-04-04 - First
game of the year using my Golf Signature membership. Shot 91 same
score I shot one day later last year at the same course. This year it
cost me $20 instead of $60 because of the $400 paid to Golf Signature,
Check out their website,
Forget about Golf Signature. They changed all the rules for 2004 and
2005 looks worse than ever. Some people 's greed just never stops, 23-04-2003 Played Le Victorien on Thursday and Friday both days shot 81. Both days we had very high winds. Thursday from the west (prevailing) in 18 degree temperature. Friday from the east (unusual) with a starting temperarture around 2 degrees. As an example of how wind affects your ball . 1st hole Thursday with the wind just past the 200 yard stick, Friday against the wind 40 yards short of the 250 stick. I will hex myself with this statement: In my 12 lifetime rounds at Victorien, I have never bogeyed the par 5 11th. My average score is 4.5 (1 eagle, 4 birdies, 7 pars). Knowing that, yesterday I had to chip to within 2 feet to save par. The other hole that treats me this nice is the par 15th at Quatre Domaines #2. In 11 rounds my average is 4.8 (2 birdies). There, I have jynxed them both. (see below) The reason I know this is that my software figures it out in what they call a dream round. The best (and worst) score on every hole. Check out my dream round at Victorien. The jynx is on. The next time I played #15 at 4 domaines I bogeyed it. Now all that is left is the 11th at Victorien. We'll see how long that remains. 30-05-2004 Mont-Tremblant Golf Weekend. 72 holes in 46 hours. Piedmont on Friday, Manitou Saturday am, Le Geant starting at 4:00 Saturday wihich we finished (8:45) and the fianle at Gray Rocks La Belle. Great weekend. Shot 85 with a moose (10) on 6th hole. 12 putts on the back nine. More info later. 02-06-2004 The choke of the century. I can't really explain my late day game at Cardinal. I wasn't even going to play golf today, but since getting rained out at Victorien the day before, as I was driving home from work I decided to stop in at Cardinal to see if I could get off. At 4:10 from highway 13, I called to see if there an opening, they said there was room at 4:30 for 1. I got matched up with three young guys. I hit a perfect approach on 1 and birdied the first hole. I thought not bad for an unplanned golf game. Then I bogeyed 2 with a bad drive. I sand saved 3 with a 25 foot putt that dropped in from the side. I bogeyed 4 with 2 missed approaches. I birded 5 with a 8 foot putt. Par on 6 Birdie on 7 with a 18 foot side winder. Parred 9 by missing a 12 foot putt for a 34 (-1) front 9. Then went par par par par birdie par par bogey and TRIPLE bogey. Both drives on 17 and 18 were right and behind trees so I had to waste a shot. On 18, I guess I choked, because I missed my third shot and left my chip way short and 3 putted from 60 feet. On 16 I was looking at a 69 but went 4 over on my last 2 holes to shoot my personal best of 73 for the third time. I hope this is not my last good game of the year. 28-06-2004 I guess it wasn't. At the beginning of the year, my goal was to shoot par for 18 holes. Today I did one better and shot 1 under. Albeit it was from the white tees at Deux-Mantagnes Patriote course. This was my best game ever. My new goal is to shoot par on a course from the blue tees where I (and all single digit handicappers) should be playing. 20-09-2004 After a poor showing at the Sean Magill Memorial where we failed to defend our tittle by shooting -2, 7 strokes behind the leaders, I managed to win a tournament with Gary Nixon and John (Brother Love) Dobbs at St Andrews (Quebec). The three man Vegas where teams are randomly selected was Mike O'Neil's annual fall tournament. We shot a bogey-free minus 9 or 63 (31-32). The team playing with us came in a tie with 2 other groups for second place at minus 5. They eventually won on the 3rd extra hole. It was fitting as Jim Major had been robbed of a birdie on 18 when his ball went into to hole but somehow came back out and stayed on the lip. It was a great tournament, especially the $1200 first prize for the team. Now only the Kessler tournament remains and my Thanksgiving tournament. The days are too short and the weekends are too busy. |
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Latest Score Card Tartan Pub Spring 2004-05-23 Breaking 70 Le Manitou 2004-05-29 My Choking 73 2004-06-02 Lowest Score Ever 71 2004-06-28 Tartan Hot Dog 2004-07-20 Mike O'Neil Vegas 2004-09-19 |