Nevada Golf This Weekend

I’m so psyched. Every year our club goes on an away trip, and I always have a great time on it. We’re headed off to Nevada for a two-day tournament of partner best ball. Greg and I have won it two of the three times we’ve competed in this event at this location. Previously, we had different formats each day so we only won one day. The second day format used to be a modified Pinehurst alternate shot format (at which we sucked as a team) but somehow in the best ball format we have managed to pick up each other’s slack more often than not. This year we are both playing from the white tees which means I will be getting a few extra strokes but losing the distance advantage. We’ll just have to see how that works out.

As I mentioned in my last post, I only just rediscovered how to swing a golf club and I can only hope that carries over for this event. I promise I will write more about when, how and why that happened!

Since Greg went on “our” last trip without me, he was prepared to stay home with Vito this time if we couldn’t find a suitable alternate circumstance for our sweet Great Dane. I really didn’t want that to happen because we always have such a great time golfing and gambling together on this outing. Thankfully, my parents (and sister who is visiting them) agreed to take wonderful care of him in our absence. It has been just over a month since we adopted him and while I’m still reluctant to exacerbate his abandonment issues by both of us leaving him for the weekend, I also think it might be good for him to be without us for awhile and have us return. I hope it will help him understand that we will always come back to him.

So we’re in for a big weekend on several levels as you can see. Regardless of the results of the golf or the gambling, I know we’ll have a wonderful time and I’m sure I’ll tell you more about it when it’s all said and done.

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