Foreplay not allowed....

"Foreplay not allowed" was what the starter said before we teed off at the Industry Hills Golf Club at Pacific Palms in Los Angeles. Known for its long, gracious fairways, Industry Hills counts itself as one of the oldest and most prestigious public courses on the West Coast. I was quite excited to play this course and compare it with the courses I am used to playing in the Philippines.



I remember not too long ago why I had picked up the sport. For the longest time I kept joking around that I would learn how to play golf so I could finally see my husband (Alex) more often! I could never understand how he could leave so early in the morning and spend all those hours under the sun golfing. Then when he would go home in the evenings he would still spend more time watching golf on TV!!##???? Aaaargh!!!! That's how I felt..... until I learned how to play golf ….. and realized I should have taken up the game a long time ago!!!! That was 4 years ago. And today, I am still as passionate about the game and still as determined to bring down my handicap. My goal is to at least be as good as Alex who carries a single digit handicap. He has been playing for 15 years now so thats quite a head start. But I figure it wont be too long before I catch up.....



So now, my husband and I can play golf all day and when we come home, no one has to to feel guilty about turning on the TV and watching..... GOLF! Isn't that great? No need to argue over what channel to watch! While we both have our own golf buddies that we regularly play with, we do make it a point to include a round as our "date day" and we have golf vacations like the one we had at Industry hills in Southern California. This course had 36 holes of championship golf spanning 650 acres. The unique layout included 160 sand bunkers, eight lakes, and a seemingly endless horizon of large undulating bent grass greens. Pure bliss. Never mind that "foreplay" was not allowed....