Jun
23
Golf + Hail = Welts!
Written by Kate. Filed Under golf, photography, summer, weird
First golf game of the season, with pictures for added drama…
On the weekend Scott and I finally were able to head out with Erica and D for our first golf game of the year. There was a 40% chance of rain, but the sky was looking pretty clear during the day so we braved the weather and headed to our favourite free golf course ( free because, well our family owns it, pretty sweet!). Scott and I got there a bit early to practice our putting and chips, I was sucking pretty badly already! We got some fries before the game and headed out to the first tee to tee off at around 3:15.
Our first shots weren’t great (well except for Erica’s whose went perfectly down the pretty fairway), and I zig-zagged along the first hole and landed in a large bunker, from which I had a great rescue shot! However the sky started getting dark, and we began hearing lots of rumbles of thunder!
Look how pretty the aprons on this green are, I used to work as a greens maintenance worker at this course, so basically I know this course backwards, forwards and inside out.
Here’s where things start getting sketchy… Erica and I begin to see large things falling from the sky and bouncing on the ground. It’s hail! We told the guys, but they didn’t really believe us, so we continued at #2, teeing off.
We walked over the little bridge to continue the hole and it started hailing, a lot! We didn’t know what to do, run to the fox-hole (ie. place to get drinks/snacks in the middle of the course) or to run back the club house. We chose the club house and started running through the hail with our clubs upon our backs. It’s so hard to run with golf clubs on your back! Erica, D and I were slowing down, because of a combination of being so tired from running, and getting beat up from the hail. D decided the best idea would be to drop our clubs and run, and I was all for it because at this point I thought I was going to fall down on the course and die because of how hard the hail was hitting us! Scott being the gentleman he is drove out in a cart in the hail after we got back to the club house to get all of our clubs because he didn’t want to stick around after that. We were SOAKED and hurting like crazy!! The grass of the course was covered with hail while we were running back but I couldn’t concentrate enough to take a picture because it hurt so badly.
Here’s a picture of the rain after the hail stopped, and Erica soaked from the hail/rain.
I picked up some hail before we left to get a picture. Here are some of various sizes, after melting in my hand for a bit.
Okay now for the exciting pictures, so you want to see what my legs looked after getting stuck in the hail? Here you go, crazy right?
Right after getting inside:
And about 20 min later: WELTS
It is now Monday and I have all these little dime sized bruises on my legs. It looked like someone continuously poked me without stopping.
So hopefully next time we go golfing we get to play more than 1.5 holes, and don’t get pelted with hail. What is with the weather lately?!
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Wow. That would suck!
I hope you weren’t having a good game, as you got “interrupted” a quarter way through.
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I wasn’t aware of any hail hanging about but wow, you sure got hit (quite literally).
Hope you recover shortly.
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Yikes Kate!! I guess an umbrella wouldn’t really have helped either! Hope they go away soon!
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Amazing shots! Even the welts.
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Hey! Just though I’d let you know that you guys were featured in the Blogs section of the Boston Metro newspaper today. I saved a copy if you want me to send it to you!
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Wait a sec! You OWN a golf course! Did I ever tell you how pretty and funny you all are? I’m sure you smell great as well … please contact with complimentary tee time at your convenience. Cheers!
I have a couple of bruises on my legs now. They’re a great conversation starter!
Canucklehead, I might be able to get you some passes
Our golf course is The Fox on highway 7 - every played it?
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“Hey! Just though I’d let you know that you guys were featured in the Blogs section of the Boston Metro newspaper today. I saved a copy if you want me to send it to you!”
Is this for serious?!
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And Erica and Scott and Copy Boy now too!
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You should submit the pictures to the weather network. That’s all that they have been doing this week.