Dineen - Actual Play, Not Just Rumors

Okay, it's not as bad as Ben described. There are a lot of holes just outside of my driving range (holes over 350') but quite a few are downhill and there are probably about 8 or 9 potential birdie holes. I shot a -1 and Ben shot a -7. (There are that many holes inside his range and outside of mine, darn it.)

In the hotel, as we were leaving, I met Steve Timm and his wife Nancy, from New Orleans. Steve joined Sheila, Ben, and I at Dineen, since his hotel room was not quite ready and he could not check in. (That's me on the left, below, with Steve, in the Sheraton Four Points lobby.) Steve is running for the PDGA board and you have the rest of July to vote for him, if you have not yet voted.

Several holes into Dineen, we caught up with the Brakel family (below, lined up on the hill, approaching a pin downhill).
A few holes later, Joe and Steve Kozlowski, from Wyoming, caught up with us. We invited them to join us and we finished out as a 6-some, but the folks behind us were also, so we weren't in anyone's way. Below is Ben, Joe, Steve Timm, Steve Kozlowski, and Sheila, on Hole 18.)
Joe Kozlowski has got his learner's permit for driving and the tension mounted on Hole 18, as their competition deal is - whoever wins gets to drive (the car). Steve overthrew the hole on the drive and also overthrew his approach back (I had the only birdie.) and had to make a long come-back putt from under a tree to tie Joe.

They then played a safari hole to a practice basket and each got a 3; the last we saw them, they were headed over to Hole 1 to play it out until they could figure out who got to drive back to the hotel!

We're fixing sandwiches now and getting ready to head over to Dretzka for the EDGE Skill Shot competition. Ciao.