Thursday, October 28, 2010

Seattle, Washington, United States of America

I'll warn you in advance, this post is going to be heavy on dorky golf talk.

Yesterday we got up from Portland and started getting ready for the day and then headed down for breakfast. Unfortunately for us we showed up 5 minutes late to a breakfast that concluded at 9am. We found alternative place for breakfast (Safeway) and headed up the I5 towards Tacoma. It was going to be a big day for me because we had a 1:44pm tee time at Chambers Bay Golf Course. The true golf dorks out there will know that this course hosted the US Amateur this summer, and the even dorkier know it's the venue for the 2015 US Open. I had been to the course before, but because of dreadful conditions I only got to play the front 9.

Going into the round, I had exactly zero expectations because I'm still in my 'early season' mode with this being my 3rd round of 2010 (sacrilege, I know). After discussing things with Kari and Riley I decided an appropriate goal for the day was to simply finish the round. I had no thoughts about it being a tough task, just a humbling one. It turned out to be both as we played in near darkness for the final two holes. I played the 600+ yard 18th hole completely by feel, but managed to keep finding my ball, stayed determined and finished the round.


After getting back to the car, Riley took the scorecard and added up the totals for all three of us. And that's where the humbling part came in. 104. Ouch. We played the furthest back set of tees we could find, and luckily for us most of the back tees weren't accessible so the course was 'only' playing 7300 yards instead of the potential 7600 (at sea level). What I do know now is that I will greatly enjoy watching the US Open in 5 years, and I'm just hoping I get another shot at the course before then.

After the round we hauled from Tacoma to Seattle to our last hotel of the trip. Upon arrival to the hotel we discovered that there is a free shuttle to the market so we headed to one of favorite places in the whole world: Pike Place Brewery. It's pretty much on the list because of their BBQ Chicken Nachos. I over-hyped them to Kari and Riley for weeks and even with that, they were still impressed.

So to recap, 18 holes and best nachos in one day. And that was followed up with a soak in the hot tub. 'Twas a great day.

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