Hitting Balls

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

August 4, 2013 

After an exciting final round in Indiana that saw the winner post a 63 to take the title, we headed a little further west to the Detroit area. The ride was not bad, only about four hours to get to the motor city. Once we got to the area we headed straight to the course.

The course is Forest Lake Country Club in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, which is an extremely nice suburb of Detroit. The course looks fantastic and the building is enormous. This is probably the biggest country club building I have ever seen.

I also got a pretty nice tour of the city when I had to pick up Brian from the Airport. My first thought was that it did not look like an American city. My second thought was that Ford Field is huge.

Detroit may have a shortage of economic stability, but Michigan does not have a shortage of lakes. It seems everywhere we have been there has been a lake. There are a couple lakes right by the course, and a few more on the road to our host house. Then our house is even on a lake. I love lakes so it’s nice to see a lot of them again.

Speaking of host houses. This week our house is once again amazing.  With the Orchard Lake as our backyard the outdoor portion of this house is outstanding, but indoors may be even better. Paul, Brian and I all have our own rooms with bathrooms. The basement is one of the best of all-time. Downstairs they have a huge TV, full-size bar, pool table, and a golf simulator with a 12 by 9 screen.

The golf simulator is ridiculous, I’ve never used one before but I was glad to give it a try. After a summer filled with watching plenty of golf, it was nice to hit some balls of my own! The first night we were there we played a few holes on the legendary Oakmont course. The simulator has 14 loaded courses, some of which are the best in the world. Staying at a house like this makes me wish we had more free time.

Paul and I took some whacks on the golf simulator with host Devon who is playing in the tournament 

Last night we were done fairly early and we were able to go to a cookout at a member’s house. Go figure this house was also on a lake. This time we were at Square Lake. All of team five had a great time at this cookout. We went swimming, tubing, and ate exceptional food off the grill.  It was real nice to get in a lake for the first time this summer. This cookout was awesome and definitely made me miss the lakes in New Hampshire.

The sunset over Square Lake after our cookout. 

We had a good weekend. Tomorrow will be busy, and the tournament starts Tuesday.