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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Hermitage Golf Course, Nashville, Tennessee

My second golf outing while in the south was at the Hermitage Golf Course







Our youngest son, Shane, and I got lucky and on the day we had a tee time the rain stopped.





The humidty was so thick it looked like fog "Pops, when it heats up it'll burn of" Shane told me.

The course is so beautiful, lots of trees, sand traps, water opportunities, more green grass than all of Amarillo, Texas, but very little breeze. A little breeze would have been welcomed, to say nothing that a wind of 10 or more miles per hour would have helped.

My past experience with heat and humidity was heat caused humidity to acellerate, not burn off.

After five plus hours and 12 holes it had burnt off so much we gave up and went to look for air conditioning, something cold, with lots of ice, shade, no heat and no humidity.

By the time we agreed to call it quits I looked like a drowned Grandpa.



The course is extremely beautiful and challenging. Which I don't need at this point in my attempt to learn the game of golf. I'm enough of a challenge to contend with.

So much water (trying to figure out how to pipe it to West Texas without it costing anything - water seems to have a magnetic pull on my golf balls), lots of sand opportunities, trees with targets on them and enough grass to cover all the yards in Amarillo.





































































The staff was great, especially the three Southern Gentlemen who prepared and took care of the carts.

We had a great conversation with them.



Two had severed in the Air Force (our Dad spent over twenty years in the Air Force, which makes my brother, Lynn, sister, Candy, and I AFB's - Air Force Brats).

We are proud of that honor.

The other gentleman wished he had been physically able to serve। He works with prison ministries.

That threesome show up as "Assets" to everyone they come in contact with.

Thank you gentlemen for making our Pops and Son golf outing an even greater experience.

John Madden

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