58 Holes of Golf…In One Day

Ever since my dad turned 50, we started a tradition where we play one hole of golf for every year of his age and today we played 58 holes. It was three rounds, plus 4 extra holes.  For those that don’t know, one round usually takes about 4 hours, so we were in for a marathon day. It was a lot of fun.

We have had as many as 25 to 30 people play with us in the past and that has extended the length of time that it takes to play, so the last few years we have slimmed the umber of people that come to a more reasonable number and today we had 10 people that played. It allowed us to play in two threesomes and one group of four. The last round, someone had to leave so Jaris and I played it with just the two of us and really played fast, in about 3 hours. In all, it took us about 10.5 hours.

We started at 6:20 and were done by 4:45 or so. The weather was mostly pleasant with a breeze most of the day. There were not a lot of clouds so it got pretty hot, but we tried to stay in the shade as much as we could. Another good thing was we found a few holes where they had just mowed or the water level had decreased so we found a bunch of golf balls, but we also lost a bunch. I am not sure, but we might have about broken even. It that sense, it was a good day.

We played at the Mad Russian, in Milliken. It is a treacherous course that has tons of hills  and uneven  greens. We spent a lot of time three putting and looking for lost balls that seemed to be safe when we hit them. For the most part, it is not that good of a course, but they let us play for $1.00 per hole, including the cart. It is a great deal and we cant beat it anywhere else. They seem to be doing some upgrades to the course, but it still has a ways to go.

Here are a couple pictures.

This is the first shot of the first hole of the first round.

2nd round, 16th hole

Here is the whole group.

For more pictures, see the Flickr set here.

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