Wente makes wine (the wifi password for the guest account is cabernet! But you didn't hear it from me.) they also have a couple of restaurants on the site and a golf course that winds its way through the local hills.
It has a slope of 123 for the tees we played today, 124 for our usual set.
Rain threatened again and aside from the tiniest two spots of pseudo-drizzle, the weather was grand; cool and overcast and not much wind. The wind can blow there through the hills.
I decided that if you are playing well, golf can be quite the treat. I would have gladly gone another 18, but lunch and some wine was the agendum.
I shot a smooth 40/39 to romp home with a 79. I've played the course maybe 4 times and I think the best was an 88 or so. No doubles, which are easy to get on this course. Only once in the sand on a 390 yard hole, and I managed the up and down neatly.
I only missed one green badly, ran though a few others and 3 putted a bunch. The greens are undulating and seeded with bent, which make for tough putting if you don't know the breaks. There is usually a very fast direction and a slow one based on the grain of the grass.
My driver never let me down -- we'll ignore the "breakfast ball" on the first tee - hooked into the grapes. I reteed and hit it 260 in the fairway.
Lots of 105 yard shots to the greens and this is a comfortable number for me, usually a gap or sand wedge depending on wind etc.
I didn't think much about taking the club back inside and rerouting; that didn't seem to matter much. I was staying looser a la Freddie Couples.
My distance seems to be improving. I smacked one three wood just like Freddie, nice long backswing and a delicious hit complete with a whoosh noise and a direction that cut the grape vine corner to setup a short iron to an elevated green. Just like it was planned. Ah, the joy of a number of shots, well struck, and in sequence.
I widened my putting stance and that helped with my distance control and accuracy. I'll test this some more tomorrow.
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