We started at Lakeside Golf Course in Jefferson, Greene County. This course was pretty flat, smaller greens, but not so challenging, except maybe the 9th green. It was a nice course and nicely landscaped, and looked like there were some places that were still a work in progress, so I'm sure by the peek of the season it will be in great shape.
Many mature trees but unfortunately they are 80% ash and with the Emerald Ash Borer Beetle approaching Iowa, this course could be in trouble. We will keep our fingers crossed.
After golf we had to grab lunch and went to Shirley's favorite go-to place when we don't know where else to chow down.
Onward to Audubon Country Club, Audubon Iowa, Audubon County. Did I say Audubon??
Humidity was setting in and it was getting hot by the time we were golfing here, and no breeze. We decided it was time to start packing the Frog Togs for future trips. This course had some challenging greens, very well landscaped with elevated T boxes. Very nice course!
Saturday the 7th, we welcomed my brother Jerry from Arizona to the club. We knew the rain was moving in and had to go somewhere East so headed to Traer Golf Course in Tama County. Well, can't say much for the golf course, but we always have fun. We were very annoyed with a helicopter that kept maneuvering from behind a wooded area. Don't know if we were more annoyed at the noise or the fact that we didn't know what was going on. Found out later there was a flight school in Traer, really?? In Traer Iowa?? Who would have known.
The golf course was really bad, I would say in the top 5 worst we have golfed on. Jerry made it interesting when he couldn't get one of his drives past the womens T box, but he did save his par so wasn't a total loss. Us girls, well we golfed like girls, beginner girls even. It was just a sad day of scoring. BUT IT WAS FUN :)
After golf we went to Maidrite in Toledo and we all thought it was great, none of us had eaten a maidrite in quite some time so was totally different for us. Heading home we hit rain but I would still say the day was almost perfect.
We are so looking forward to our next trip covering 12 counties in SE Iowa.
I play [golf] in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
--Joe E. Lewis
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