San Marcos Golf Course  -  Feb 18th, 2008 11:14am

I got an invite on Friday to go golfing with Brandon, Nick, and Adam.  These are the guys I went to Bougainvillea Golf Course with about a month back.  I had enough fun last time that afterwards I went out and bought a set of clubs off of Craigs List.  I was hoping that the clubs plus a few trips to the driving range would help me embarrass myself less... lets just say the results were mixed but the course was amazing.

The San Marcos Golf Course starts off taunting you by placing an extremely nice office building just to the right of the first tee, followed shortly thereafter with some ritzy appartments.  I replied to this challenge by smashing a ball into the roof of this office full force.  Then bouncing 2 more balls off of the apartments and making my way to the hole via the gully running along side those buildings.

Fortunately the rest of the course is more forgiving and actually works back and forth upon itself like folded paper, each hole reverse the direction of the previous one.  It really is a beautiful course with huge well kept fairways, a few water hazards and big old trees designating the borders between holes.

I can't say my game got much better throughout the day, but I settled down a bit after the first 2 holes and even shot a few bogies.  One of these days if I can fix my short game I might even make a par :)  In the end I coughed up a 129 and lost to Adam by 5 strokes (I beat him last time but he's apparently been practicing.. that bastard!)  Can't way to go back.