So, one of Jacqui’s school friends, Sally, is coming up to visit us from New Jersey with her husband, Brett. Brett’s a PGA Professional, so naturally we’re all heading out for a round of golf. Well myself, Tom and Nathan are. The girls are going shopping or something.

Brett’s decided he wants to play Nicklaus North, which suits us perfectly as we’d been talking about trying it out. Now that we’re finally committed, I decided to check out the web site to see what’s in store – turns out that it’s got a rating of 72.2 and a slope of 133! Even before I tee off I’ll be losing 6 shots compared to the normal courses I’ve been playing, with rating around 66, and then it’s got a slope 10 higher than the hardest course I’ve played before!

My usual round is about 101, so I’ll be hacking around for hours! My only consolation is that Tom’s usual round is about 95, and Nathan’s is 97 or so, so I doubt they’ll be too far ahead. We’ll have to come up with a handicap system for Brett though ;-)

The game’s not until the first Saturday in October, so I had better spend some serious time at the driving range before then.