[speaker001:] uh I guess I've always kind of liked golf I I worked on a golf course at at one time and that's how I picked up golf and uh I don't know it's just a kind of a challenging game
[speaker002:] it sure is I play at least three times a week
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] I'm on it
[speaker001:] I haven't gotten the chance lately though to play I'm trying to get back into it uh so uh I got to start all over again it's not like riding a bicycle you do tend to forget
[speaker002:] no well I'm one of those rare left handed golfers
[speaker001:] oh yeah
[speaker002:] and I do enjoy playing
[speaker001:] what's your handicap
[speaker002:] right now it's three
[speaker001:] okay yeah I was down at about four or five quite awhile ago it's probably up there to twenty now if if I was ever to start again
[speaker002:] well if you play with some consistency though you can get it right back down
[speaker001:] yeah yeah I got to try and get out there I I know with uh our long winters I I enjoy watching it I don't know if it's just because I like the game or I just like to to see the warm weather
[speaker002:] uh well we can usually play here year round sometimes in January it's not too comfortable to play
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] but there's usually two or three days in the week that you can get out there and play and I'm pretty much addicted to golf so I get out there one way or the other
[speaker001:] yeah that's the problem out here with the long layovers with the winter you almost have to relearn every spring to to get back out
[speaker002:] it's a good game though it's very challenging and the reason I like it so much is because I'm essentially playing against myself
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] that's the way I look at it I I play in in lot a lot of groups and but I don't they keep score and between themselves but I really don't care um I go out and each shot I say well this is what I'm gonna try to do and then I see how close I can come to that
[speaker001:] um-hum right yeah you always work on trying to improve each day and
[speaker002:] yeah and inevitably inevitably one facet facet of my game isn't working at one time or another either I'm not driving very well or I'm not hitting long irons very well or I'm not putting well or but sometimes it all comes together
[speaker001:] yeah yeah I I know what you mean I when I used to golf out there I'd putt well but I I wouldn't uh chip well one of the two uh or something would go wrong but I always managed to to get near par anyway
[speaker002:] well we just had the tour championship here in Pine Hurst
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] and I went to that and Craig Statler won in the play-offs
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] but we uh this is a big golf area
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] we have a lot of uh I'd say we probably have within fifteen miles twenty golf communities built around courses that are pretty well designed and then of course Pine Hurst and we still have the Greensboro Open here every year
[speaker001:] um-hum do you have uh long waits uh to get on the course
[speaker002:] yes we do as a matter of fact it it uh it's only been that way in the last five years but now you uh most of the courses have a uh
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] two day advance tee time you have to call
[speaker001:] yeah okay yeah I just moved into this small community so I'm gonna try and get in one of their golf courses here and I'm hoping it won't be quite I was from the uh twin cities area
[speaker002:] that's some cold golf too isn't it
[speaker001:] yeah are you sure you guys aren't having the bad weather
[speaker002:] we have cold
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] usually January and the first two weeks in February
[speaker001:] well I wish that's all we had
[speaker002:] but um last week we were in the seventies and something's coming through now so it's like in the low forties right now
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] but uh it's supposed to leave early in the week and then be back in the sixties we have very windy winters
[speaker001:] hm
[speaker002:] and very cold
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] but we don't get any snow anymore I don't I don't know what changed that pattern we used to get four or five inches a year now we get nothing it's been probably five years since we've had any measurable snowfall
[speaker001:] oh I see well at least it that doesn't uh get in the way of golfing so
[speaker002:] no but I have played golf in the snow before
[speaker001:] that
[speaker002:] yep get out my orange golf ball and go out and
[speaker001:] yeah yeah now that's what they do here sometimes you hear about it where they'll take the orange ball out there but if you got