dbd33

I would have but the snow trousers are too awkward.

iaink

Clearly you are not a golfer

Souvy

One good thing about yesterday's storm was the wind. Much of the snow that came down ended up in my neighbour's yard.

magnumpi

Cold & snowy with days of sunshine or rain and mildly moist?

I did give this some thought last month and to be honest, I prefer it here in Canada. Take today for example, it's -10, everything is white but, it's blue skies and sunshine !!! I need that sunny day feeling, even if it via my double glazed window. :@)

dbd33

There are men who play golf in the next cubicle from me. I don't speak to them and I try to avoid looking over there as I don't wear sunglasses indoors but I do hear a lot about playing golf.

They don't seem to be inhibited by the winter except insofar as Cadillacs aren't good in the snow and, in winter, it's harder to avoid legislative restrictions on smoking while playing. They still go out a couple of times a week and waggle their sticks. It's just that in the winter they either do it in North Carolina or indoors with some sort of big screen projection of where they'd be putting their balls if they had actual balls. They still take it in turn to have a whack, they still get on a platform and practise firing real balls into the distance. They still drink a lot after the (virtual) round and drive their garish boats home agonisingly slowly.

To the disinterested observer, the playing of golf is less offensive in winter than summer; at least no toxic pollutants are discharged during the winter.

magnumpi

Scarborough Golf Dome is were they play here in winter

MarylandNed

http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/new...ince_December/

BristolUK

Obviously much depends on what it is you want to do and other circumstances.

But if you dress well and public transport is good or you do drive (I don't) then you still get out and about.

If it really does stop you doing what you want it may well not stop you doing what you want any more than the rain does with a three year old or not.

dbd33

I don't know where they go because, during their Monday morning conversations they say things like:

"Good weekend?"

"OK, 93, 97 and 84 at Augusta. Tom broke par".

"27 for the front nine on the usual course. Did you see Tiger at the 14th?".

At first I wondered how they could be Georgia one minute and Scotland the next but, in fact, it's just a projection of whatever course they're talking about.

I tune them out when they get on about choosing checkered trousers and losing their Tam O'Shanter's.

BristolUK

That's shocking. I'm always complaining that we get plowed too much. There's plenty of space for the needs of the traffic - if one can call it traffic, it's such a quiet street - but they do it and then do it again. And again.

What's worse is that our side usually gets done first so we get two-thirds of the width across the front while the other side gets gets a third.

But we are near a hospital and school and just off the main road so we get done as a matter of priority.

Isn't that a bit cramped?

dbd33

I'll say, great bloated blobs they are, great bloated blobs in polymer; a constant violation of the No Scent policy.

AlliF

Nope, have to disagree. It borders on dangerous and nobody likes going out with a toddler in -50 wind chill, dressed properly or not when you have to wade through knee high snow, carrying them cos they simply can't walk through it. And she is crying because no matter how much you rug up some part of them is getting exposed.
Rain, well you can walk in that. You might get wet but you are unlikely to have parts of you fall off from frostbite.

Steve_

Rather that than endless rainfall. And in reality on the prairies it's actually very dry. Very cold though, but sunny most days. Manitoba this year has had a very unusual winter.

iaink

There are non flooded options, both my Brother and Father have played virtually every week this year. Often more than once

That isnt real golf. No walking. No weather. No putting trauma.
Cant say Ive seen any checkered trousers on a golf course for a while. Maybe a toronto / too much money thing perhaps.

colchar

This has been a particularly bad winter, the worst in twenty years, so no this is not the reality - it is an aberration.