The Martin County Golf & Country Club has two courses, the Gold and Blue course built in 2005 and the Red & White course dating back to 1925, architect unknown. Because the men's league was playing the newer course, we ended up on the Red & White. The course is poorly maintained, the fairways looked like they had suffered heavy wintering which would be unprecedented in Florida. Even the rough is patchy. The greens, however, were in good shape and, as we have come to expect, fairly fast.
This being said, Brenda and I still had a good day out there. The front nine went by fast and the conditions were ideal. No wind at all for the first hour and a half. For a while I imagined a really good game. My brother-in-law, Jean, had forwarned me that 13 would be difficult. I am not superstitious but the wheels still came off the wagon on the back nine. The wind showed up as did my bad habits. Brenda was also having an off-day. After 18 holes we ended up All Square, not only in Match Play but also in stroke play where we were perfectly even after deducting the handicap differential. Quite amazing in fact. We enjoyed the day and the wildlife and we both were happy we did not have to go fishing for our balls. We did not see any alligators but did take the sign at face value. So far we have not seen a single Canada goose which is surprising. We always saw them in California. Maybe they don't like Florida. Today, however, we saw some Egyptian geese, at least this is what we were told. You can judge for yourself.
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