Since our internet connection was down for most of the day, it seemed like a good opportunity to golf (!), so off we headed.  Today was the first day that our clubhouse was open at the new Aliso Viejo Country Club.  We checked in, got our locker numbers (we're official) and then we were out on the first tee, for the first time.

For the past month or so, we've been starting on the 9th hole and finishing on # 10...so this was quite a change.  My first lesson from golf today is that there IS te order of the holes does make a difference to the difficulty of the round.  If you start on hard holes and end on easy holes...the experience is somehow smoother.

When you start on relatively easy holes and progress to more arduous holes, then golf seems more like...well...

Life.

Such was today's round.

I also learned that you can't always finagle a round with the parties you desire.  Dan and I hoped to be a twosome...but being that two other pairs went off in front of us--and being that the twosome behind us were gregarious?  We were a foursome. 

The life lesson?  It's not a disaster when other's crash your party.  The guys we played with were very low-key.  Let's call them Walt and Steve.  They were happy to be on a golf course this Monday afternoon instead of in an office or on a trip somewhere.  They didn't care about anyone else's golf except their own.  They were polite.

I'd like to think that Dan and I were much the same for them.

My third lesson?  

Even when it feels like everything has gone to hell in a handbasket--like you couldn't hit the side of a barn if you were two feet away and the ball was a watermelon...

Your score is probably better than you think it is.

(And here's the kicker...your score doesn't matter to ANYONE else.)

....silence...

(letting that sink into my brain)

Ah.

It's not about me.

Golf is good for the soul

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