Sometimes in the fall we like to go and watch the Cougars play a football game in some nice place. This year we decided to follow them to Florida, where they got trounced by FSU and we roasted in the bleachers at the game. I sweated so hard that the money in my wallet was stuck together after! Fotunately we made up for that disappointment with 4 days of fabulous golf at the world-class Sawgrass resort. I can hardly imagine a more beautiful place and we had a ton of fun.

Almost every hole is a breath-taking vista like this, and very challenging.

We went with the Thomases, Overtons and Zumbrennans.

This is the famous 17th hole. It's island green makes it one of the most famous holes in the world, and according to a Golf Digest survey is by far the most popular hole in the world for TV fans to watch when they have the "PGA Players Tournament" there.

I had been worried all week about whether I would be able to hit that green, but somehow got lucky.

Sylvia played too and was even luckier. Her ball skipped off the water and up onto the green!

This is the 16th green; also very picturesque and challenging. The PGA Golf magazine says that these three holes; 16, 17 and 18, are the best finishing holes on the entire PGA tour. The highlight of the trip for me was that I managed to par all three of them!

Here's the 18th hole with the fantastic Sawgrass clubhouse in the background. It was patterned after the 18th hole at Pebble Beach.

Another great memory!

This weekend we went overnight to Midway with our friends the Coons and played the fabulous Wasatch Mountain course. The trees are starting to change color and it was just gorgeous. This hole was one of only two that I bogeyed on the back nine. With one birdie I shot a 37, which for me is pretty rare these days. We have a membership kind of deal that lets us stay and eat for less so it was a pretty good deal. the friday night seafood buffet was wonderful.