Heading down to the cove

Low tide in the cove

The point

Low tide in two hours

steaks tonight

we're in.

Zach's cove. Water is calm. Sun is out. Life is good.

Overlook on cutback above Jenner

Break at Washoe House

need to settle my nerves after battling 101 traffic.

Traffic on 101

Live blogging abalone hunt

packing up

Testing new TREO 700

The View Tonight. Bigger and better pics.

Daylight pic

A better back 9

Final:
MW: 109 (57,52)
BP: 92 (46,46)

Par putt on 18

Draino!

Nanook of the north on ...

approach on 18. It really was not that cold.

Not enough clubs

Apparently I left my wedges at Chardonnay.

At the turn at Presidio

and another crappy round underway.

An evenings entertainment.

Kathleen Turner in the lead role.

San Francisco Golf History

ESPN Article on San Francisco's rich golf history:

"San Francisco has a long, rich golf history predating Woods' riveting duel with Daly (ultimately decided on the second playoff hole, when Daly missed a 3-foot par putt). The city's board of supervisors took a significant step toward prolonging the heritage Tuesday, approving an agreement with the PGA Tour to bring the 2009 Presidents Cup and four other tournaments to Harding Park.

This means Woods probably will stroll along the picturesque fairways again, trying to keep his ball away from all those towering cypress trees. But it hardly means he is the first elite player to ply his trade in the City by the Bay.

Ben Hogan won a tournament in San Francisco in the 1940s, as did Byron Nelson. The Lucky International, an annual PGA Tour event held at Harding in the '60s, churned out an impressive list of champions with familiar names, from Gary Player, Gene Littler and Billy Casper to native sons Ken Venturi and George Archer.

Venturi, Archer, Johnny Miller and Bob Rosburg -- all major champions -- grew up in San Francisco, cutting their golfing teeth on the same Harding layout where Woods subdued Daly. Across the lake, no farther away than a Long John drive, the Olympic Club has crowned four U.S. Open champions, often in unexpected ways.

Hogan fell in an 18-hole playoff in 1955, stunned by unheralded Iowa club pro Jack Fleck. Arnold Palmer squandered a 7-shot lead on the final nine holes of the '66 Open, ushering Casper toward his playoff victory. Tom Watson had his chance in '87, only to lose by 1 shot to Scott Simpson. Lee Janzen won his second Open in '98 by edging Payne Stewart, who unforgettably stewed after a missed putt on the quick, severely sloping 18th green.

So even if San Francisco has not been a regular tour stop since those Lucky tournaments in the '60s, and even if other cities have collected more attention in the past year for their rich golf histories -- Chicago and Washington (before Woods put a tournament there) bemoaned their places in the rearranged PGA Tour galaxy -- there also is history out West. Woods and Daly merely resurrected it, allowing fans to release years of untapped exuberance."

Don off the 18th tee- Meadow 9th at Chardonnay

I pressed on three skins and lost with a 9 on the final hole

Final Score
DH 101 (50,51)
MW 110 (50,60)

Chardonnay at the turn

Don and I both shoot 50 on the front - Lake 9

PGA Events in San Francisco

From the SF Chronicle:

"Finally, the calendar is filling again.

Tuesday's decision by the Board of Supervisors, to approve the city's revised agreement with the PGA Tour, cemented a tantalizing stretch of elite events on the horizon. It starts with the U.S. Amateur in August at the Olympic Club (OK, so those are the finest amateur players) ... then the Presidents Cup in 2009 at Harding ... and the U.S. Open in 2012 at Olympic ... and back to Harding for the PGA Tour's semifinal playoff event in 2013 or '14.

That's not even counting the U.S. Open down the road at Pebble Beach in 2010, or the U.S. Women's Open promised to Pebble sometime after '10. Or the LPGA event now held annually in Danville. Or the Champions Tour's season-ending tournament in Sonoma, which will move to Harding in 2010 and '11.

The newcomer on the scene is the Presidents Cup, now officially set for Harding Park in October 2009. This is not the customary stroke-play event in which a cluster of players can steam down the stretch with a chance to win. The Presidents Cup matches 12-man teams -- one from the United States and an international squad comprised of non-European players -- in a three-day, match-play format."

Drinking a beer within 4 hours of the tee time

Final Score:
MW 108
BP 94

Bob tees off on signature 18

Mike tees off on 18

Surprisingly, the shot leaked righht.

I crushed bob's tee shot on 17

Then hit the approach to 20 feet for a 2 putt and par.

For the bird on 15

Which I missed. But I got the par

All the pins are back

Tee box on the par 3 15th

14th tee

10:00 weather is perfect.

Bob says it is too early for beer

So we are drinking coffee. I don't know why and I am out of balance.

Bob likes the sand

up and 2 putt for a bogey

At the turn in under 2 hours

Bob slices off ninth tee

But ball stays in bound by one foot

Bob misses par putt on 7

shortly before missing the short bogey putt I should have given him

Admiring my drive on 7

Wé were shot for shot on 6

Until bob chipped in for 3rd par in a row

Bob tees off to 30 feet on 3

And 2 putts for par

Bobs first attempt out of the trap on 2

He did get out on the next shot.

Live blogging Presidio

Slicing off of the 2nd tee.

Funding of City Courses...

... is a hot topic. Pat Murphy wrote an interesting post in the San Francisco Sentinel on city golf course funding, and a recent article in the Chron explored the same topic.

Not a bad round...

... for bad golfers:

MW - 95
DH - 91

Settling up...

Lost four skins on last hole.

Don in tree trouble at 18 ...

...again. But he still beat me by a stroke on the hole.

Martin hits one into the Pacific...

... While we were waiting on 17.

I did not tell them about the $300 fine for this activity.

Richard tees into the Pacific on 17

Don sinks the putt on 16

For his triple bogey

Sunday stackup on 16

Two groups waiting on 16.

Martin tees off on 15

Don leaves bogey putt 3 feet short

Then misses it.

More tree trouble on 13

After a crappy tee shot.

Don tees off on 12 ...

... into the tree on on the left.

Don is killing me on the skins

Live blogging Lincoln

Picking up the action on the 10th tee.
Richard and Martin are drinking your beer.