You play 36 in San Francisco. A morning round at the Alister Mckenzie designed California Club. Then an afternoon round at the Olympic Club. Olympic will host the 2012 US Open in June.
All four of us played well this morning at the Cal Club...amazing considering how late we stayed out in downtown San Fran the night before...drinking root beer. The Cal Club was a terrific layout and it definitely reminded us of Augusta in the way the green complexes were designed.
This afternoon was a different story. I think our favorite part about Olympic was the hamburgers we had before the round. Olympic hamburgers are famous because they are skinny and on a hot dog bun. Delicious!!! Then we started to play golf....and our caliber of play declined extremely quickly. Three straight days of playing 36 finally caught up with us. Only sleeping about 3 hours a night for the last few nights didn't help either. It was great to see an Open venue course though. Olympic stretches to 7100 yards and plays at a par 71(most likely par70 for the open). 7100 yards doesn't sound long but I promise it is. Even though we were all deliriously tired, we had a blast.
After golf, we headed to the Beach Chalet restaurant for dinner. The restaurant overlooks the Pacific and we got to see a fantastic sunset. Following dinner and a 1.5 hour drive, we arrived at Mayacama Golf Club in Santa Rosa. Our friend Andrew is an assistant professional here and he hooked us up with two of the casitas for the next couple nights. Tomorrow will actually be the last round of golf for us on our trip. It is sure to be a great last golf day. Forecast is for 65 and sunny. Ted, the pro here is scheduled to play with us and a few Mayacama members will play with us too.
So as we all sit here drinking beer and wine, some very tired eyes look back at all the pictures I have taken on the trip. We all have to pinch ourselves over this week and this trip because it has been so amazing.
Anyways, more tomorrow night. Thanks as always for reading.
Reed
Olympic pictures tomorrow night...my iPad camera thing wasn't working for some reason tonight.
Oh and by the way...Mike almost had a hole in one on a par 4 on # 7 at the Cal Club today. One of the best shots of the trip!
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