Wow - this was a great day at work! I LOVE my job. I got to drive a golf cart where ever I wanted on this final day of the Championship. I had a blast!!!!
We were to arrive by 7am as they wanted to start golfing earlier to avoid the approaching storm front which was due to arrive at 3 pm. Ha ha - Mother Nature fools us again. At 5:45am I was awoken by a total deluge of rain. Followed closely by flashes of lightning. I jumped on the computer with the satellite showing a wide band of approaching yellow and orange rain clouds. The fringe was just touching east Maui and it stretched west beyond Oahu. Now way, no golfing today.
I arrived at the Plantation Course in Kapalua at 7:30. Everything was on hold. As we all sat under a large tent waiting as it got cooler and cooler. Surprisingly the mountains cleared and they set a start time for 10 am. At 9am I asked if I could have my lunch box - I was starving. So I ate my lunch. It cleared some more so my partner and I decided we better wipe down the golf cart seat and do some pre-planning. That's code name for "joy riding". Off we went with map in hand.
Our first leg was a steep downhill run. S---t there are no brakes... I can see the headlines "Paramedics speeding, overturn on first bend" My partner is saying they need seat belts in golf carts. No wonder we go on the occasional call to overturned golf carts. Now I know why.
Dang someone zips past us too!
This course is huge. Lots of up and down and through gulches. You get your exercise if you walk here. I have visions of galloping across the green's. The Eventing in the Hong Kong Olympics was on a golf course. Every riders dream!
They started on time. You could hear the cheering. As the day wore on we parked by the 10th hole. We were people and whale watching mostly. Watched a little golf. You really got to pay attention, one ball plopped down right amid the spectators and about 15 feet from us.
Spectators would walk by and say "we are being careful.... heel-toe, heel-toe"
Just when I was getting hungry at noon I scored a hot dog and some mango from a film crew guy. All set!
We gave out 4 band aids, 2 pepto bismal and one evaluation of a film producers laryngitis.
Whew - we like it when everything goes well and nobody trips and breaks something, has a heart attack or stroke and the grandstands which are 3 stories high and packed stay up.
Woooh home free - or is that hole in one! The day ended under beautiful clear skys and a warm sun. Maui No Ka Oi !
We were to arrive by 7am as they wanted to start golfing earlier to avoid the approaching storm front which was due to arrive at 3 pm. Ha ha - Mother Nature fools us again. At 5:45am I was awoken by a total deluge of rain. Followed closely by flashes of lightning. I jumped on the computer with the satellite showing a wide band of approaching yellow and orange rain clouds. The fringe was just touching east Maui and it stretched west beyond Oahu. Now way, no golfing today.
I arrived at the Plantation Course in Kapalua at 7:30. Everything was on hold. As we all sat under a large tent waiting as it got cooler and cooler. Surprisingly the mountains cleared and they set a start time for 10 am. At 9am I asked if I could have my lunch box - I was starving. So I ate my lunch. It cleared some more so my partner and I decided we better wipe down the golf cart seat and do some pre-planning. That's code name for "joy riding". Off we went with map in hand.
Our first leg was a steep downhill run. S---t there are no brakes... I can see the headlines "Paramedics speeding, overturn on first bend" My partner is saying they need seat belts in golf carts. No wonder we go on the occasional call to overturned golf carts. Now I know why.
Dang someone zips past us too!
This course is huge. Lots of up and down and through gulches. You get your exercise if you walk here. I have visions of galloping across the green's. The Eventing in the Hong Kong Olympics was on a golf course. Every riders dream!
They started on time. You could hear the cheering. As the day wore on we parked by the 10th hole. We were people and whale watching mostly. Watched a little golf. You really got to pay attention, one ball plopped down right amid the spectators and about 15 feet from us.
Spectators would walk by and say "we are being careful.... heel-toe, heel-toe"
Just when I was getting hungry at noon I scored a hot dog and some mango from a film crew guy. All set!
We gave out 4 band aids, 2 pepto bismal and one evaluation of a film producers laryngitis.
Whew - we like it when everything goes well and nobody trips and breaks something, has a heart attack or stroke and the grandstands which are 3 stories high and packed stay up.
Woooh home free - or is that hole in one! The day ended under beautiful clear skys and a warm sun. Maui No Ka Oi !
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